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from the Atlantic. Thank you very much. That's it from us. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Hello and welcome to South Today from Oxford. In tonight's programme: | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
The Prime Minister sees the effects of the floods first`hand. | :00:10. | :00:11. | |
David Cameron's been meeting people who have had to move out of their | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
homes in his constituency. 20 people have moved out of the spark because | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
of water levels. Meanwhile, residents elsewhere are longer able | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
to wash at their homes. The flooding means they now have to use portable | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
public toilets. Also in the programme tonight: | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
Jailed for five years. The town councillor who stole more | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
than ?150,000 from an elderly friend and then gambled it away. | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
And later on: Journey's end ` the last cruise ship built in Britain | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
returns to Southampton after her final ever voyage. | :00:41. | :00:52. | |
Good evening. The Prime Minister David Cameron has been visiting | :00:53. | :01:02. | |
flooded parts of Oxfordshire today. He says that Government is doing | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
everything it can to help people affected. Flood waters reached their | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
peak in the county today before finally starting to recede, but | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
families have continued to suffer another day of misery and | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
disruption. Commuters have also endured road closures and delayed | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
train journeys. In a moment, we'll be meeting some of the families | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
affected. But first, Tom Turrell has been looking at the impact on | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
businesses. For people living at Bablockhythe | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
Caravan Park, near Witney, the rising water level has left them | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
isolated from the outside world. But they weren't alone today. One of | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
their neighbours paid a visit. Hello, nice to see you. But despite | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
the scale of the flooding, the Prime Minister is pleased with the rescue | :01:43. | :01:50. | |
effort. West oxygen District Council's a small District Council | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
but they did a great job getting sandbags out, helping people, | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
coordinating the response. They are doing a good job, but there is | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
always more to do and lessons to be learned. But in Oxford itself, | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
business owners like Mr Afzal aren't so happy. Running out of stock, he | :02:04. | :02:17. | |
says more needs to be done. We are losing about 2003 in sales. `` ?2000 | :02:18. | :02:26. | |
a day in sales. This furniture warehouse in Witney is a family | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
business. They were flooded only a year ago. Stock levels here aren't | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
the problem, their insurance could be, though. Because of the flooding | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
claim before, and excess is now ?20,000. They were the only company | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
who would offers insurance at all. We had to take it. | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
The Environment Agency is warning the water level remains high, | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
meaning it may still be too soon for businesses to start counting the | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
costs. The floods have caused disruption to | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
families across Oxfordshire. Some have been evacuated, whilst others | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
have been living without running water or electricity. Adina Campbell | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
has spent the day on one of Oxford's worst`affected roads. | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
A simple domestic task, complicated by the ongoing flooding problems. | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
Rajiv is living in this house near the Abingdon Road with ten other | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
family members. He says he's not confident using his main water | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
supply so is choosing bottled instead. But sanitation is also a | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
major issue which means using portable toilets around the corner. | :03:26. | :03:34. | |
We cannot use the toilet. We cannot wash dishes. We cannot watch the | :03:35. | :03:43. | |
kids' clothes either. `` wash. But his story is a similar one for | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
hundreds of others in this area. We have sandbags in place. The water | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
did come up to the sort of level. It has been quite hectic. My daughter | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
has not been able to get to school. My son goes to college. It took me | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
about one hour to get into college. And for others who have chosen to | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
evacuate their homes, a hotel is their only option. The fire brigade | :04:11. | :04:18. | |
had to come and we had to get into a dinghy which took us across the car | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
park. For five days, Oxford's Abingdon Road, which leads that way | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
to the city centre, has been closed off, even though people in this area | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
say they what has receded, until this disappears, it will be a hard | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
job getting back to normal. Well, joining us in the studio now | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
is Heather Shepherd from the National Flood Forum. | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
David Cameron says spending on flood defences has increased under the | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
Coalition Government. What else do you think needs to be done to | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
prevent a repeat of the scenes we have seen? We need better management | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
of flood water generally and look at catch with areas to see how this can | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
be done. Also, although we have investment, we need ongoing | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
investment. We see flooding increasing all the time and we need | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
to make sure investment continues. Some of the bigger projects are a | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
long way off, aren't they? Yes. There is quite a long way to go in | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
regards to protecting people. I think we need to make sure that is | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
kept a focus. You see lots of houses that had been flooded and properties | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
are built on flood plains. How bigger problem is that? This area is | :05:32. | :05:40. | |
no different from nationally across the country. The biggest issue is | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
built. In urban areas, we have ageing infrastructure. It is a huge | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
concern for the majority of flood risk communities across the country. | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
We need to see that floodwater management act is quickly resolved | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
or developers need to take part in managing surface water. For years | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
this has been in consultation, and people are still suffering. This is | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
legislation that could control how houses are built? Exactly. It is at | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
loggerheads at the moment and we need to move that on quickly to stop | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
people suffering. But we need to take care of flood plains and look | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
at those as good assets to manage water and stop building on them and | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
let's look at how we can again manage water bed in `` what better | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
throughout the catchment and leave the flood plains to do the job they | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
were meant to be for. Well, we've been asking you to send | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
in your pictures, and here are some of the many that have been e`mailed | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
in. Peter Haslehurst sent us this picture of Binsey under water. | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
This is a very atmospheric photo taken by Melisa Osman in Hinksey | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
Park. And these rowing boats in Abingdon | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
are quite at home with their new situation. This one taken by Marcus | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
Nurton. And finally, it hasn't been misery | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
for everyone ` Shadow the dog enjoying the water in Stadhampton in | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
this picture. Thank you if you took the time to | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
send in a picture. And the Sunday Politics this week | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
will be looking at the floods and asking whether the Government's | :07:13. | :07:14. | |
compensation scheme for local councils is adequate or whether | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
council tax payers will end up picking up the tab for the clear up. | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
A former Conservative councillor from South Oxfordshire, who stole | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
more than ?150,000 from an elderly friend with Alzheimer's, has been | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
sentenced to five years in prison. John Morgan, who served on the Vale | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
of White Horse District Council and as a town councillor in Wantage, was | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
found guilty of gambling the money away on slot machines in service | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
stations and Las Vegas. Jessica Cooper was in court. | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
He stole all of Beryl Gitten's money, leaving nothing for the | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
92`year`old's care bills, in her will, or for a funeral. Throughout | :07:43. | :07:52. | |
this case, John Morgan has not shown any remorse, insisting he was doing | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
what Beryl asked. But the judge said today he had total control over | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
Beryl's finances and in her view, there was no higher degree of trust | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
and power of attorney. And no gross breach of trust. `` and no gross | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
breach of trust. Morgan's been labelled a gambling addict after | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
spending the money on slot machines at service stations and in Las | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
Vegas. In 2006, he withdrew just under ?5,000 in cash and transferred | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
over ?20,000 to his accounts. About ?11,000 was withdrawn in cash in | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
2007 and more than ?25,000 was transferred. Almost two years after | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
realising something was wrong, Beryl's family welcomed the | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
sentence. I never trusted him from the word go, ever. I did my best | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
when I suspected things. I am pleased to dissolve. I think he has | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
got what he deserves and I have done my best for my husband and my | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
sister`in`law. Passing the five`year prison sentence, the judge said she | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
had taken into account the fact that John Morgan is 75 years old. His | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
years as a counsellor and charity work were also taken into | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
consideration. She said it was in stark and `` stark contrast in the | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
devious way that you dealt with Beryl Gitten's feels. `` Beryl | :09:17. | :09:24. | |
Kitten's feels. The idea of closing the A338 near | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
Grove for six months is entirely unacceptable. That's according to | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
local MP Ed Vaizey. He has met with the leader of Oxfordshire County | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
Council today to discuss the situation. He has spoken out since | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
Network Rail applied for permission to close the main road to carry out | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
bridge rebuilding work. Currently, a road diversion is proposed but Ed | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
Vaizey says it is not good enough. Now, if I told you to "stop | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
ganderflanking around", would you know what that meant? The word | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
"ganderflanking" is from old English and originates from Wiltshire, but | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
it's rarely used these days. However a new campaign launched by BBC | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
Wiltshire could see it being included in the Oxford English | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
Dictionary, as Lizzie Way reports. It is a red letter day for us on | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
this show. Ganderflanking is in The Times today. The BBC Wiltshire | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
campaign to encourage use of the old Wiltshire word has gone national. It | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
comes from two old wants, Gander, to ramble, and flank, which is an old | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
Wiltshire word. In effect, it is probably skiving. It is a word that | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
is beginning to capture imaginations. We would love to see | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
it used maybe an International Space Station. | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
We would like to get Major Tim take to see it. Maybe in the House of | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
Commons. I secured guidance in proceedings of the old Wiltshire | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
word, ganderflanking. So now it has made the Commons, but what about the | :10:47. | :10:53. | |
dictionary? It is going to need more unselfconscious usage, I would say. | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
I once `` instead of people telling people about the world, saying it | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
ganderflanking need less, it needs people to use it. Other people will | :11:02. | :11:09. | |
treat using it in everyday speech? It is like looking at something, | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
isn't it? I know what it is. It is something to do with geese, isn't | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
it? In 2011, he set out to run ten | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
million metres ` around 6,200 miles ` in a series of gruelling races. | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
Alex Flynn, from Goring, has had broken bones and torn ligaments. And | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
he is living with Parkinson's disease. Alex is now documenting his | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
incredible journey in a book, due to come out in the spring. He came in | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
earlier and I asked him how close he is to completing his ten million | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
metre challenge. I am 250 miles away. I will be doing | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
a 350 kilometre bike ride next week followed by the finishing off of the | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
Dubai Marathon in January. So you will finish a mission in Dubai. You | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
have been doing this for four years and it has been a big part of your | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
life. It has been huge and I do not want it to end but I know the | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
fundraising will go on. I have something bigger plan for the | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
summer. More on that later. He went across the United States as part of | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
your 10 million to mission, coast`to`coast. That must have been | :12:21. | :12:28. | |
a highlight of challenges? It was epic, across 35 days, four | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
disciplines, and became the first person to do that. It was life | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
changing for me. It showed it does not matter which of God, you can | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
always keep challenging yourself and that is a positive message. How does | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
Parkinson 's effect running and cycling? Cycling, if I am really | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
cold, it makes the handlebars difficult. Running wise, sometimes | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
my leg will do its own thing. I could give Michael Flatley and run | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
for his money in Lord Of The Dance. But normal and my leg resets itself | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
and I am away again. You mentioned the challenger have later this year, | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
tell us about that. Myself and a good friend of mine, Darren Taylor, | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
a firefighter from Oxfordshire, we plan to grow the Pacific starting in | :13:22. | :13:32. | |
June 2014. We are the only British per rowing in the race and we | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
definitely need sponsorship. You can do that through my website on | :13:37. | :13:46. | |
screen. He always inspirational Alex Flynn. | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
That's all from me for the moment. I'll have the headlines at eight and | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
a full bulletin at 10.25. Now more of today's stories with Sally | :13:54. | :13:55. | |
Taylor. planned for the grant reduction and | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
has been making savings. It's also recently secured millions of pounds | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
of funding from other sources. Still to come: Battling with the | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
fixtures ` the local football clubs hit by the bad weather. | :14:12. | :14:20. | |
Let's stay with that bad weather. We have more on the flooding. It | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
continues to affect the South of England and a river in Berks reached | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
its highest ever level last night. The River Thames could rise further | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
overnight in places, though it's not expected to exceed the levels of | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
2003. People whose homes are flooded are still living with neighbours and | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
friends, while others are moving upstairs. | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
Overnight, it has covered the step and it is approaching the next step. | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
A couple of inches. Most people living near the Thames here in | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
Purley are stoic about the floods. It has happened before and will | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
happen again. We deal with it. It's a beautiful area and this isn't an | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
everyday occurrence. It's happening more often, yes, but not enough to | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
make us move out. We have moved all the stuff that was on the ground | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
floor to upstairs and I think we've saved all the valuable stuff. We're | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
stuck on the first floor of our house. We normally go out and walk a | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
lot and we swim a lot so I think we need to keep the exercise up. Keep | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
the spirits up, as well! Once you go out, once you have the waders, you | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
might as well make the most of it. Traffic is heavy because this bridge | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
has been closed for days. These residents are supposed to be meeting | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
their local MP but he's on the other side of the floodwater. Here, the | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
flashing signs have been out of action since the electric sweat | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
underwater. There are plenty of other warning signs which drivers | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
are ignoring. I've never seen it as high as this and we are very worried | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
about the vehicle of `` behaviour of some of our drivers. This is what | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
happens when you ignore a series of signs telling you it's closed. The | :16:05. | :16:13. | |
road to the pub is not impossible. 2007 was the highest. This year, we | :16:14. | :16:20. | |
admit by three inches. But the fire service are using the floodwater to | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
AMP down this fire which has been burning for two days. This river is | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
covering the field after field. It has dropped a couple of centimetres | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
since last night but it reached its highest ever level then, a whopping | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
three metres deep. The flood warning here, as in places in Berks, is | :16:40. | :16:49. | |
still in force. Sarah will be here with the detailed | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
forecast later. Southampton said farewell to a grand | :16:55. | :17:05. | |
old lady today. The Saga Ruby was the last cruise ship to be built in | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
Britain, more than 40 years ago. Paul Clifton reports. | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
In recent years, Saga Ruby has specialised in older passengers. The | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
last ones went to show this morning. Over 100 nights, we think. Why have | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
you spent time here? It's a fantastic ship. Probably the last of | :17:30. | :17:36. | |
the real cruising ships, as opposed to cruising ferries that have been | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
converted. In her heyday, she had a different name. This ship offers a | :17:42. | :17:50. | |
classic experience. She was one of the world's top cruise ships. She is | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
well renowned for her well known on beyond. This shows how the operating | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
company targeted wealthy American passengers in search of European | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
style. She was the last passenger ship looked on the River Tyne, | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
launched at the Swan Hunter shipyard in 1972. The ship outlived her | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
birthplace. The last cranes have long since been removed. This woman | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
began her career as a junior officer on board. Today, she is Cunard's | :18:27. | :18:35. | |
only female captain. I remember seeing her and I thought she was a | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
really big ship. But since I been a captain on here, we've met her in | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
various ports, seen her alongside, and she's small compared to this | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
one. Worldwide, only a handful of trips like this are left. She's | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
quite an old lady now, over 40 years old. The equivalent is that she | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
should be expecting a telegram from the Queen, in shipping years! Of the | :18:59. | :19:07. | |
ship's future lies in Burma. She will now head to the far east, to | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
become a static floating hotel. There are similar plans for the | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
bigger, more famous cousin, the QE2. From today, this ship's cruising | :19:16. | :19:23. | |
days are over. On to sport now and the weather has | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
had a major impact on sports clubs during the past month. Tony's here | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
and we've dipped into the world of non`league football tonight, Tony. | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
We have, because the grassroots effectively flooded over the last | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
few weeks. The wet weather has decimated the local sports programme | :19:38. | :19:40. | |
in recent weeks. This was the scene at Abingdon Town football club this | :19:41. | :19:43. | |
week, as floodwaters swamped the surface. They don't plan on playing | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
again there for ten weeks, at a cost to the club of ?10,000. That's | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
perhaps the most extreme case of a club being affected, but I've been | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
to Wessex League leaders Sholing today to find out how they've coped | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
as more than double the average amount of rain fell on their pitches | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
last month coinciding with football's festive period. | :20:01. | :20:12. | |
The football club's nickname is the boatmen and at times in recent | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
weeks, a boat might have helped here. Thankfully, this is the | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
practice ground around the stadium but the pitch itself has had a | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
battering, too. I've been here for 14 years and this is the worst it's | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
ever been. I came up on Saturday and the whole pitch was covered with | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
water. I don't know if its climate change or what but it's not doing | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
our non`league foot will any good. The pitch has held out pretty well | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
during the recent bad weather but they still lost two matches to the | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
rain and that comes at a cost ` things like unsold programmes and | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
the time and effort of organisers and volunteers who put the games on | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
here. The main job for me is lining the pitch and if it is raining, you | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
can't do it. It would just wash away. You've got to wait until the | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
showers go maybe come back another day. Keep an eye on whether all the | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
time. There are more radical for clubs like this, and the future | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
could be in a new form of artificial pitch. The way forward, | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
unfortunately, will be artificial pitches in the future because of | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
climate change carries on, it's going to affect non`league foot all | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
and have a massive impact. It will be frustrating for everybody. For | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
now, clubs like this will just want to see a lot more of this. | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
It actually started raining about ten minutes after we shot those | :21:43. | :21:44. | |
pictures in the sunshine! Sholing take on Bemerton Heath | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
tomorrow, three o'clock kick off. Southampton are also at home | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
tomorrow as they return to Premier League action. Saints host West | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
Brom, who've appointed a new manager ` Spaniard Pep Mel ` in the last 24 | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
hours. He'll be watching from the stands. Saints are looking for only | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
their second win in ten games. Reading boss Nigel Adkins has | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
admitted his side has fallen off the pace as they prepare to face Watford | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
tomorrow. The Royals' promotion ambitions are being tempered for now | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
by ongoing takeover talks at the Madejski Stadium, which has cast | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
doubt on whether Adkins can strengthen his side, or see it | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
weakened by player sales. Elsewhere in the championship, | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
Bournemouth go to Wigan. Playoff`chasing Brighton are at home | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
to Birmingham. Both MK Dons and Swindon have home matches in League | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
One. Oxford host Portsmouth in League Two. BBC local radio has | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
commentary of all of those matches, while The Football League Show has | :22:31. | :22:33. | |
every goal straight after Match Of The Day. | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
With a month to go until the Sochi Winter Olympics gets under way, the | :22:40. | :22:41. | |
Southampton snowboarder Billy Morgan is back on the slopes in his first | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
major competition since recovering from a knee injury. Morgan, who's | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
thought to be the first slope style snow boarder to complete this triple | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
rodeo trick, was the top qualifier at the Breckenridge Grand Prix in | :22:53. | :23:02. | |
Colorado. I never tire of watching that! | :23:03. | :23:04. | |
Elsewhere this weekend, London Irish are in European Challenge Cup | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
action. After last week's Premiership win over Worcester, in | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
which James O'Connor scored all 22 points, Irish are home to Portuguese | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
side Lusitanos at Reading's Madejski Stadium. | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
In ice hockey's Premier League, Basingstoke Bison will be hoping for | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
some revenge over Telford Tigers this weekend. The table toppers lost | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
4`0 at Telford on Sunday. Guildford, in third, face Peterborough home and | :23:23. | :23:30. | |
away this weekend. The ice is a safe place to play | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
sport this weekend ` no doubt those matches will go ahead! | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
Last night we were sitting here with pine cones and a bit of old seaweed. | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
We were forecasting quite well with those! But times have changed. Yes | :23:45. | :23:53. | |
and we're celebrating a big birthday ` 60 years of weather forecasts on | :23:54. | :24:00. | |
the BBC. George Cowling first presented the Invision TV forecast | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
on January 11, 1954. In the early days, the charts were hand drawn. | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
Symbols were introduced in 1967, as colour TV arrived. The magnetic | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
symbols would sometimes fall of mid`forecast. Then we got to | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
computerised graphics in 1985. And by 2005, we started using the ones | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
you see in your forecast today. Of the magnetic ones just kept coming | :24:29. | :24:29. | |
off! The weather has been beautiful to | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
start What a glorious start to the day in | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
Emsworth. Nature at its best according to Martin Stewart, who | :24:42. | :24:43. | |
sent in that photo. This scene shows a gorgeous | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
reflection in the flooded meadows around Salisbury Cathedral. Thank | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
you, Tony Oliver, for that one. And another beautiful reflection of | :24:50. | :24:51. | |
today's weather taken in Christchurch, Oxford, by Caroline | :24:52. | :24:55. | |
Davis. We have got some more wet weather to | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
come through this evening. Not great amounts but we are expecting to see | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
more rain and any rain at this stage is unwelcome. Cloudy conditions | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
bring the patchy rain through the course of the night. It's sweeping | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
eastwards and behind it, clear skies developed. We have an ice risk where | :25:14. | :25:23. | |
we see the skies clearing, so very chilly temperatures. At some frost | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
first thing tomorrow. A cloudy start for eastern parts but first thing, | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
some brightness around and tomorrow is a lovely January day. Sparkling | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
sunshine, some blue skies and light winds. Temperatures about where they | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
should be for the time of year. Tomorrow night, we'll start to see | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
Misty, murky conditions developing. Some patchy fog could prove to be | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
rather dense and we see the club again to move in despite initial | :25:55. | :26:02. | |
frost. `` cloud begin to move in. A murky start for Sunday. This is what | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
we've got to expect for Sunday. We start with dry conditions, cloudy | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
and damp, but a band of rain arrives into the evening period so a grey | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
day with some dampness and then a band of rain working its way in. | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
10`50 millimetres through the overnight period, roughly half an | :26:23. | :26:30. | |
inch. Here's your summary for the coming days. A warning for icy | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
conditions first thing on Saturday but some good sunshine. Cloudy, | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
murky conditions for Sunday with rain overnight, and some scattered | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
showers for the new working week. A quick word about some features on | :26:41. | :26:50. | |
South Today next week. Here's Paul Clifton to talk about car | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
manufacturers. Did you know cars used to be built | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
on the Isle of Wight? 40 years ago, battery`powered city car was | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
revolutionary. Well, we found one and we'll need to the man who | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
designed it. Much older is this ` Salisbury's Scout. There are only | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
two left in the world. They made buses, too, but they've all gone. | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
Here's my favourite ` it was built in Eastleigh. This is the most | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
gorgeous car. You can see more of Paul Clifton's | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
love affair next week! Did he ever get out of it, I wonder? | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
That's it for now. Have a great weekend, particularly if you've got | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
the floods around you. Good eye. `` goodbye. | :27:46. | :27:47. |