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Good evening. A 75`year`old woman has pleaded | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
guilty to the murder of her husband, claiming it was an act of mercy. | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
Sheila Sampford from Milton Keynes appeared via video link from prison. | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
The court heard how she told police that her 83`year`old terminally ill | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
husband's death, was part of a suicide pact. Jessica Cooper | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
reports. Sheila Sampford appeard in court via | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
in court via videolink from prison. When asked how she pleaded to the | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
charge of murdering her husband she said guilty. It was on the 5th of | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
July last year that police were called to a house in Spoonley Wood, | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
Bancroft Park and found John Sampford who'd been strangled to | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
death. Neighbours have described them as a lovely, genuine couple we | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
ho'd been married for 50 years. Saying John was Sheila's rock and | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
he'd been receiving treatment for leukaemia. The court heard today | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
that Sheila Sampford told police the death was part of a suicide pact. | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
The prosecution said the issue to consider was if she believed the | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
killing was an act of mercy. The defence told the court, "The only | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
matter is whether he asked her to do what she then did to him." Sheila | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
Sampford is due back in court next month, when the judge will decide if | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
he should impose an automatic life sentence. The sentence she's given | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
will depend of whether the judge believes she carried out a mercy | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
killing. Jessica Cooper, BBC South Today. | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
It's the wettest January on record, according to Oxford University, and | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
there's going to be more rain overnight. | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
Weather experts at Green Templeton College have been measuring rainfall | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
every day since 1767. There's now been more than 138 millimetres this | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
month. The last time it was that wet was in 1852. The Environment Agency | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
has issued a number of flood warnings and says our region is | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
particularly at risk because the ground is so saturated already. | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
Campaigners in Wiltshire are calling on the government to try and stop | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
solar farm developments. Seven different projects are planned for | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
500 acres of land around Seend. But critics say they will spoil the | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
view. A debate in Parliament has been told, there are enough | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
safeguards. Paul Barltrop has more. Coming soon to a field near you. | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
Solar power is booming as Britain shifts to cleaner energy. This solar | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
farm near Melksham is one of the first in Wiltshire. Close by, | :02:31. | :02:42. | |
another is planned, 20 times larger. In what it is one Briton's biggest | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
solar farms, what has Royal locals is that so many are planned for this | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
area. Within a five mile radius there could be no less than seven. | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
In the village they've mobilised. They're putting pressure on | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
Wiltshire council which is deciding whether to grant planning | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
permission. I and others in our group are very | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
in favour of renewables, we are just scared and concerned that our area | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
is going to be lighted by such overwhelming numbers of solar | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
panels. The firm behind the biggest scheme have some local backing. | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
It'll go on low`grade agricultural land; the community will receive | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
$40,000 a year. It's claimed fears have been exaggerated. | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
Within five miles of a particular point where are over 50,000 acres. | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
It's roughly one present. Within that context, sites have been | :03:43. | :03:51. | |
designed discreetly and so the ultimate visual impact is minimal. | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
In Parliament one Wiltshire MP stressed the need to use brownfield | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
sites. There was reassurance from a government minister that enough IS | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
being done to protect prime countryside. | :04:06. | :04:06. | |
That is the reason why we have issued further planning practice | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
guidance on renewable and low carbon energy. So the energy revolution | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
goes on. Soon solar farms may be as much a fixture of the countryside | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
as, well, pylons. While the Prime Minister led a | :04:21. | :04:22. | |
UK`France meeting at the Oxfordshire airbase Brize Norton earlier, this | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
weekend marks a special anniversary for staff at RAF Benson. Tomorrow | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
will be 75 years since the airbase first opened. It comes as a new | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
generation of aircraft has been drafted in, as part of a | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
multi`million pound upgrade. BBC South was the first TV crew aboard | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
the new Puma mark two. Stuart Tinworth has been looking back at | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
the airbase's history. Preparing for take off back in the | :04:49. | :04:56. | |
1940s. It's loaded up with the necessary | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
equipment. Throughout the second world war, aircraft at RAF Benson | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
was used to gather photographic evidence. But over the last 75 years | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
many other important tasks have happened here. As well transporting | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
kings and queens, RAF Benson has been home to Puma helicopters for | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
nearly 20 years. The last few months though have marked a new generation | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
of aircraft ` a multi million pound upgrade from the Puma MK1 to the new | :05:19. | :05:32. | |
MK2. This upgrade is part of a ?260 million programme, and it means that | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
this helicopter can travel with 35 present more power. It can go | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
faster, and thanks to increasing fuel efficiency it can also go | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
further. And staff here believe it's a good investment. It has a | :05:44. | :05:52. | |
worldwide deployable capability at short notice for rapid rebuild | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
within four hours to have the aircraft flying and operating. These | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
Pumas can carry up to 16 fully`equipped troops and have | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
highly advanced digitised glass cockpits ` arguably more efficient | :06:03. | :06:09. | |
than some Merlin helicopters. Investment in Puma has been a great | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
boon in the future of the capability at RAF Benson is moving to the | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
Navy. Seven of the RAF's fleet of the new pumas have so far been | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
delivered to RAF Benson. The rest will be handed over next year. | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
And now for a look at the weather, here's Alexis Green. | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
One or two showers through the course of the night which will bring | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
the risk of ice where temperatures fall away rapidly towards the | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
freezing mark. The winds will increase through the morning | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
tomorrow, and we are looking at dusty conditions tomorrow, feeling | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
chilly out and about with showers rolling in from the south`west. They | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
could be heavy. We could have sleet over higher ground. Temperatures | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
will reach six or seven Celsius. The south`westerly wind will make it | :07:06. | :07:07. | |
feel cold in the open. Showers tomorrow, fewer showers on Sunday. | :07:08. | :07:17. | |
The winds lighter tomorrow. We look ahead to next week, the winds start | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
to pick up, rain will spreading and last until Wednesday. | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
That's all from me and the team tonight. We're back during BBC | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
Breakfast tomorrow morning from six o'clock. For now, though, | :07:32. | :07:42. | |
Good evening. Today's heavy and persistent rain is disappearing over | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
the horizon. Sadly, the other problems are not. Problems to come | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
tonight include snow over Scotland and Northern Ireland, and tomorrow, | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
strong winds and high tides bringing the potential for flooding. This | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
area of | :08:04. | :08:04. |