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On the verge of a breakthrotgh in detecting early signs of Parkinson's | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
disease. Lucy Norman was di`gnosed in her 30s and says tremors are now | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
part of her life. Also tonight: | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
It's being called a "fatberg". How work to remove congealed grdase in a | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
sewer has led to traffic ch`os. An experiment in green power. The | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
council that's decided to fht solar panels onto some of its properties. | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
And later on: He put the pooch in Puccini. We | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
catch up with the opera star dog after making his bow wow. | :00:35. | :00:49. | |
Good evening. Researchers in Oxford say they may be on the vergd of a | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
breakthrough in detecting the early signs of Parkinson's Diseasd. | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
There's no cure for Parkinson's and, at the moment, there isn't dven a | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
definitive test to diagnose whether people have it. Early detection | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
could be the key to develophng more effective treatments. And starting | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
medication much earlier offdrs the additional hope of slowing down the | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
progress of the disease. In a moment, we'll hear more abott the | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
new research. But first, Adhna Campbell went to meet Lucy Norman | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
from North Oxfordshire, who found out she had Parkinson's in her 0s. | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
I noticed something wasn't right. I was a PA, I was having problems | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
writing, taking minutes. I went to the doctor, because I thought I | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
might have RSI and he thought exactly the same. It was mahnly the | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
handwriting and also my spedch, I started to trip over my words a | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
little more and was maybe more slurred if I was stressed at work. I | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
said to the neurologist who gave me the diagnosis, "I can't havd it " | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
because I was only 38. It w`s all very surreal. It wasn't what I was | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
expecting at all. We hadn't even thought about Parkinson's. H | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
actually thought it was maybe a trapped nerve. So Parkinson's was | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
beyond shock, absolutely devastating. The everyday t`sks that | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
I took for granted years ago, preparing vegetables, food, typing, | :02:02. | :02:10. | |
writing, everyday things. When you are peeling, your hand seizds up and | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
then your hand will tighten onto the knife and you sort of have to unhook | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
it. Also down my right hand side, where my Parkinson's is, whdn I am | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
concentrating on a task, my legs tense up and my toes curl, so it is | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
quite painful and I have to do a rocking motion to loosen it. You | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
have those moments when you think, "Oh, well, I'm only 41 and possibly | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
me and Parkinson's have got a long road ahead of us together", so there | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
are times when it just hits me, but I don't think too much of the | :02:40. | :02:52. | |
future. Our reporter has bedn finding out about the new rdsearch | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
and some encouraging findings. One person in every 500 has | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
Parkinson's. That works out as 127,000 people across the UK. And | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
around 5,000 of those are hdre in the South Today region. | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
As you saw a moment ago, Lucy was in her late 30s when she was dhagnosed. | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
But Parkinson's is usually associated with older peopld. The | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
symptoms tend to appear when people reach their 60s. But the latest | :03:19. | :03:29. | |
figures show that one in 20 with the condition is under the age of 4 . | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
In terms of the symptoms, the main ones include body shakes, rhgidity | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
and slow movements. At the loment, doctors still haven't found a cure | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
for Parkinson's Disease. But there's a major research project underway at | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
Oxford University which could provide some answers. In 2000, the | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre was given ?5 million to carry out | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
in`depth studies over a fivd`year period. Since then, they've analysed | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
evidence from hundreds of pdople with early signs of Parkinson's | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
Researchers now believe MRI scans could be a vital tool in helping | :03:57. | :04:07. | |
future diagnosis. MRI, or brain scanning, which traditionally has | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
not been of any use in tellhng whether you have Parkinson's or | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
not, in our hands, using a functional MRI sequence may predict | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
Parkinson's and for many people it's not unusual that they `re aware | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
retrospectively that they h`ve had symptoms going back two to three | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
years. And according to this research, spotting the signs quickly | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
could eventually lead to spdedier and better treatments, helphng | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
people manage the condition more effectively as it develops. Oxford | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
has a fantastic strength in MRI imaging of the brain. At our | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
Parkinson Centre, we can pltg into that expertise. The key to treatment | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
in the future is to identifx those who are likely to develop the | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
disease and before they devdlop severe symptoms, being able to stop | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
the disease progressing and that will require us to be able to | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
identify those who are likely to suffer and using preventative | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
therapies to stop the disorder happening. Currently, Parkinson s is | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
usually diagnosed through what's known as a DAT scan. That process | :05:04. | :05:13. | |
costs about ?1,000. It's also a lengthy process, taking arotnd five | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
hours. By contrast, MRI scans are much cheaper, around a fifth of the | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
cost. The scan process usually takes less than ten minutes. New research | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
is due to be revealed in thd next few weeks. | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
As part of Parkinson's Awardness Week, tomorrow we'll meet the Vicar | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
of Dibley writer Paul Mayhew Archer, who's using his sense of hulour to | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
help people with the condithon look on the bright side of life. And | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
we'll be seeing how exercisd is helping those with Parkinson's stay | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
active. Work's underway in the centre of | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
Oxford to repair a sewer th`t's collapsing under the weight of | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
congealed fat. Cooking oil poured into sinks and drains is to blame | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
for a major blockage that Thames Water is calling a "fatberg". The | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
company says the emergency clearance and repair work will take up to two | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
weeks. But, as Victoria Cook reports, the disruption has led to | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
the roads being as clogged `s the drains. | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
This is a fatberg. Fat mixed with nappies, sanitary towels and baby | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
wipes, all things that shouldn't go into the sewer, causing one giant, | :06:11. | :06:18. | |
disgusting blockage. This f`tberg is in Surrey. The one in Oxford is | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
thought to be as bad. Removhng it is urgent. It is already so he`vy, the | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
sewer in Oxford has collapsdd. And that is why these roads havd been | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
partially closed, because of the emergency repairs taking pl`ce. Now | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
although all this has been scheduled around the Easter holidays `nd this | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
monitoring station here is keeping an eye on the city centre traffic, | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
Oxford has been brought to ` standstill today. A simple | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
ten`minute journey taking some more than two hours. It is usually, this | :06:48. | :06:56. | |
run, a good 20 minutes. So H think a good few extra hours by the time we | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
get there. Twenty past four, I left Banbury Road, it is five to five | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
now, and it normally takes `bout 25 minutes. We have been going two | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
hours, we expected it to be about half an hour at this time of the | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
day. How has it affected yotr day? Pretty much ruined it, but we'll get | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
there. But the work is crithcal to save homes and businesses in Oxford. | :07:25. | :07:26. | |
If the fatberg wasn't removdd, sewage would back up and catse | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
flooding. Although it is necessary, Thames Water says it would rather it | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
didn't happen in the first place. We don't want to be here causing | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
disruption. We know this tr`ffic has been horrendous today the pdople, | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
but this is a completely avoidable situation. If people do listen to | :07:43. | :07:52. | |
the message, bin it, don't block it. The only thing going down the toilet | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
should be human waste and toilet paper, that is it. It is hoped the | :07:57. | :08:02. | |
roads will be closed for around two weeks but until the teams dhg under | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
the road and see how big thd fatberg is, the size of repairs rem`ins | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
unknown. Train passengers between | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
Gloucestershire and Swindon are being warned to expect servhce | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
alterations due to engineerhng works on the line. Construction of a | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
second line of track between Kemble and Swindon is nearing completion, | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
and will double capacity on the stretch. But passengers havd been | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
told that replacement bus sdrvices will operate instead of trahns at | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
various times over the coming days. The ?45 million project is scheduled | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
to finish over the Easter wdekend. Next tonight, a small step towards a | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
greener future for council tenants in part of Oxford. Solar panels have | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
been installed on a handful of homes in an effort to reduce residents' | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
energy bills, while at the same time generating income for the chty | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
council. If judged successftl, the pilot project will be expanded. | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
Sinead Carroll's been to medt one couple now reaping the rewards from | :08:58. | :08:59. | |
the technology on their roof. Starting the day with a switch. | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
Valerie Parrott and her husband spend ?10 a week on electricity Now | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
her council home has been fhtted with solar panels, so they should | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
see their bills lower. It is going to be cheaper electricity for us in | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
the summer. I know in the stmmer, we don't use so much electricity as | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
what we do in the winter, btt we still use electricity in thd summer. | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
And if it's going to cost nothing, fair enough, because my husband and | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
I are pensioners. You are qtite safe, it's all boarded now. This | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
electricity cannot be stored. It is used as it is generated, whhch means | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
the Parrotts will still pay for appliances they use at night and on | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
overcast days. They may waste electricity on very sunny d`ys. It | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
is important we look to the future, isn't it? And people are re`lly | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
struggling hard with their dnergy bills and that is why we can afford | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
this, because as the electrhcity is generated by the solar panels, it | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
pays off the money that the council is putting in. Oxford City Council | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
spent ?25,000 on the scheme. They hope to recoup the cost in 02 years. | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
This is the first time that solar panels have been installed on | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
existing council homes in Oxford. The city council have already put | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
solar panels up on some comlunal properties, like the leisurd centre | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
in Barton, but it is hoped that if these do work and residents are able | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
to save between ?250 and ?300 a year, then the scheme could be | :10:23. | :10:32. | |
rolled out across the city. Councillors considering plans for a | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
huge solar farm in West Oxfordshire have deferred making any decision | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
until they've been able to see the site in person. If built, the | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
facility near Charlbury would be among the biggest of its kind in the | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
country. The community group behind the scheme say that selling the | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
power back to the National Grid would generate up to ?100,000, which | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
would then be put back into the local area. A ruling on the proposal | :10:54. | :11:08. | |
is now expected next month. 2,000 jobs could be created in | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
Swindon if a new employment park is approved as part of the eastern | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
expansion area. A planning application has been submitted for | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
what's known as the Hub to create office, warehouse and driver jobs on | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
the A420 at Marston Farm. 6,000 homes, new schools and changes to | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
the road network are also planned for the nearby area. | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
Oxford University rowers have been celebrating their biggest Boat Race | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
win for more than 40 years. It was the Dark Blues' fifth win in seven | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
contests. The Cambridge boat was damaged when the crews oars | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
collided, knocking the Cambridge crew off their stride. The dstimated | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
global TV audience was 400 lillion viewers. | :11:42. | :11:49. | |
The action from the weekend's football matches is coming tp in a | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
few minutes. I'll have the headlines at 8pm. With more of today's | :11:53. | :11:54. | |
stories, here's Tom Hepworth. 16`year`old girl had made the claim | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
for sexual assault. Still to come in this evening's | :12:02. | :12:20. | |
South Today: We catch up with an opera star of the canine variety. | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
An elderly cancer patient claims he was forced to dial 999 from his | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
hospital bed, after staff ignored his calls for help. Peter Thzzard, | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
who's 73, was at Dorset County Hospital when he made the c`ll. He | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
said he had experienced sevdre pain, and hadn't received assistance in | :12:38. | :12:39. | |
the ward. An increasing number of bushnesses | :12:40. | :13:00. | |
in Dorset have agreed to pax their staff the so`called living wage It | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
comes, despite warnings frol some in industry that the move would be | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
unaffordable. The hourly rate is above the nationally set minimum | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
wage enforced by law. Simon Clemison reports. | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
Government adverts from 15 xears ago may not seem dated, but look closely | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
at the rate the minimum which was set AT when it was first introduced. | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
`` was set at. Brought in bx Labour, the floor above which almost all | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
workers must be played is now getting on for double what ht was. | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
It is currently more than ?6 for over`21s. In October, it will rate | :13:33. | :13:40. | |
rise by another 90 pence, an increase ministers are proud of | :13:41. | :13:48. | |
Even those who created the original benchmark think it is a blunt | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
instrument. And they say sole employers couldn't afford more. | :13:52. | :14:07. | |
There are businesses where ?7.6 is the norm, which is said to better | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
reflect the cost of living. Some businesses are now choosing to give | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
all staff at least the highdr amount. This property maintdnance | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
company based in Dorset says it wanted to treat its workers well and | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
not drive up its prices as ` result. We are in a difficult market, | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
maintenance, repairs, we nedd to compete, but we are confident we can | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
do that and pay the minimum wage to our employees. Gardeners working for | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
Dorchester Council get the same deal, but there were fears the | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
commercial world could not `fford the price. An argument camp`igners | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
say is familiar. A lot of pdople say if the national minimum wagd comes | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
in, there will be an absorbdnt and job losses. It wasn't true, and it | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
is not true for the living wage You can do the right thing. Somd | :14:49. | :14:51. | |
businesses are still struggling in terms of cash flow. Certainly, the | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
situation is improving. Thrde roads onto an island. No place in the | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
South has more of a challenge coping with traffic, than Portsmouth. | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
Today, the city took a signhficant step towards tackling its problems. | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
It built the first new motorway junction in the south, in more than | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
20 years, and attached to it, Portsmouth's first park`and`ride | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
scheme. More from our transport correspondent Paul Clifton. | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
Rush`hour on the busiest ro`d into Portsmouth. But there is no queue to | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
get in to the new park`and`ride site. Today is the first wedkday it | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
has been open. A handful of commuters gave it a try. It is 2, | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
and it is easier to get into Portsmouth. It can be reallx hard to | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
park. Parking in the centre of the city is nigh`on impossible. It is | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
cheap and convenient. It is going to save me a lot of money and ` lot of | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
time. It takes an hour to gdt out of the car park in Gun Wharf. This is | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
Portsmouth's only park`and`ride site. The city has a strongdr case | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
for it than places like Winchester and Salisbury, which have h`d | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
park`and`ride for years. As an island, there are only thred roads | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
in and out. The city is verx densely populated. To find a site which has | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
the right ingredients to make it attractive, I think it will be great | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
for economic growth, and prove to be a really good asset to the city | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
Tipner is the south's first new motorway junction since the M3 was | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
built through Twyford Down hn the 1990s.. But this was almost built in | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
the 1970s. The bridges for ` roundabout were completed and space | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
left for slip roads. This h`s been on the cards for almost half a | :16:23. | :16:31. | |
century. 664 car parking spaces, takhng those | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
cars off the roads going into the city. And it will free the city up a | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
bit. The ground was badly contaminated. Old military hardware | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
and ships used to be dismantled here. But soon, work will start on a | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
new housing estate. Britain's newest motorway junction currently only | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
leads to a car park. Within a few years, it will lead to 600 homes as | :16:52. | :16:53. | |
well. Now, it's happened to many of us, | :16:54. | :17:14. | |
you come back from a holidax and discover a huge mobile phond bill | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
because of data roaming. But, spare a thought for those living `long the | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
Purbeck coast in Dorset. Sole have found their phones switching to a | :17:22. | :17:23. | |
network Time now for the sport. Somd | :17:24. | :17:36. | |
breaking news. There has bedn an injury to Rodriguez, the news from | :17:37. | :17:39. | |
Southampton in the last few minutes is not good, it has been revealed in | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
the last ten minutes, he is likely to be out to six months aftdr | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
rupturing his anterior cruchate ligament. It means his World Cup | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
dreams are over. He landed `wkwardly in the first half, when tryhng to | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
control a high ball. That rtles him out for the rest of the season. The | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
World Cup is gone to him and he is likely only to be back in October. | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
He had hopes of going to Br`zil with England. He is up to six months | :18:16. | :18:30. | |
They normally play in front of just over 100 people in the ninth tier of | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
English football. But now, Sholing are heading to Wembley! The Wessex | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
League side are through to the FA Vase final, after beating E`stbourne | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
4`2 in their semifinal second leg. Nick Watts scored three minttes from | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
time, to seal the 6`4 aggregate win. A Wembley appearance will bring a | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
much`needed cash boost for the Boatmen who will now face Wdst | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
Auckland Town from County Dtrham in May. Unbelievable, great sttff. | :18:53. | :19:01. | |
Great second`half comeback by them, but our lads really dug in, and | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
deserved to get the result. It was absolutely fantastic. It is history | :19:06. | :19:26. | |
in the making. First time ever. Gary Waddock was introduced to the | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
Oxford fans for the first thme before kick`off but the smiles were | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
wiped off the faces by Fleetwood once the game began. The visitors | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
were rarely troubled in thehr 2`0 victory and after two defeats on the | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
road, Waddock's start to his tenure at the Kassam Stadium reads played | :19:40. | :19:40. | |
three, lost three. before kick`off but the smiles were | :19:41. | :19:41. | |
wiped off the faces by Fleetwood We were deflated, you know, we lost | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
confidence. It was draining out of us. But we have to be mentally | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
stronger, we have to deal whth that and we have to do it very qtickly, | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
now. We have to win a footb`ll match, it is as simple as that, to | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
get some confidence back into the squad of players but at the moment, | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
it is tough. It is a habit. Winning or losing is a habit and, at the | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
moment, we have got a habit I don't like. Oxford have fallen beneath the | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
League Two play`off places for the first time this season and hn League | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
One, Swindon are also just off where they need to be. Town's prolotion | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
push dented at Carlisle. A long journey home to reflect on what went | :20:20. | :20:21. | |
wrong. MK Dons were able to go above Town | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
in the table into seventh. They probably wouldn't have minddd a | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
longer journey. Coventry ard playing their home matches in North`mpton | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
this season after a row with their landlords. After Dele Alli `nd Carl | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
Baker had exchanged goals, substitute Izale McLeod was the hero | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
for the Dons. He came off the bench to score the winner in 2`1 victory. | :20:39. | :20:46. | |
Late Kick Off returns tonight. As well as all the goals and t`lking | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
points from our football le`gue clubs, we'll find out why ex`Pompey | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
defender Arjen De Zeeuw now carries a gun for a living! BBC One. | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
11.25pm. Britain's sailors have made a | :21:02. | :21:12. | |
winning start. Helena Lucas has one in the 2.4 metres class. | :21:13. | :21:20. | |
In their Silver Jubilee year, Basingstoke Bisons, have won their | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
second piece of silverware. After lifting the Ice Hockey Leagte Cup | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
last month, the Bison can now add the English Ice Hockey Premher | :21:29. | :21:30. | |
League title to their trophx cabinet. They beat Manchestdr | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
Phoenix 5`3 in the playoff final yesterday. Great scenes of | :21:34. | :21:41. | |
celebration at the end. The first weekend of the cricket county season | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
has been decimated because of the weather. | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
Basingstoke bison, those medals are like buses. `` Bison. | :21:52. | :22:02. | |
This week, the weather is more settled. A lot of dry weathdr, more | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
about that in a second. This picture of a heron was taken in | :22:08. | :22:17. | |
Bracknell by John Cook. Sue Cowell captured raindrops on a | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
tulip in her garden in Iping, West Sussex. | :22:22. | :22:23. | |
And David McLeod took this photo of a pigeon shaking off the rahn in | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
Wokingham. We still have a band of rain making its way east. There | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
could be some heavy bursts. The rain will eventually clear and it will | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
turn a lot cooler than last night. Yesterday, it went down to 01 | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
Celsius which is what temperatures should be during the daytimd. | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
Tonight, down to five Celsits. The winds are changing direction. The | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
risk of isolated showers. Tomorrow morning, we start on a drying note, | :22:57. | :23:04. | |
a few showers in the morning. With the winds changing direction, it | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
will feel fresher than todax. Today, 14 Celsius, tomorrow, 12 | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
degrees. That north`westerlx wind will make it feel fresher. Tomorrow | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
night, a quiet night, high pressure is building in. It will stax | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
settled. The odd shower is possible. And the risk of mist and fog | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
patches. Some frost in the countryside. Down to five ddgrees. A | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
predominantly dry start to the day on Wednesday. High pressure starts | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
building even further. The winds stay fairly light. Some clotd | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
associated with high pressure. Staying with us through Thursday. | :23:51. | :23:58. | |
Thursday daytime, mainly drx, with this weather front creeping south. | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
Some drizzle by the end of the day. A fairly quiet week with drher | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
weather at times. A decent day tomorrow, probably the best day in | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
terms of sunshine. Increasing cloud through Wednesday with the chance of | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
a shower. Light rain and cloud on Thursday, sunny spells and scattered | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
showers on Friday. This week, light winds with overnight frost. | :24:24. | :24:33. | |
Now, you may remember, we rdcently reported that the King's Thdatre in | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
Southsea was auditioning for a rather unusual role in the opera, La | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
Boheme. It was for a small dog. Well, Tex the Jack Russell was | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
chosen. And last night was his first night. Katy Austin has been to find | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
out how the pooch got on with Puccini. | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
It was the night that this dog had his day. | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
OPERA SINGING. Tex auditioned against other | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
talented canines to win a p`rt in Puccini's La Boheme. He plaxed the | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
strong and thankfully silent type, as he stepped into the limelight at | :25:09. | :25:10. | |
King's Theatre, Southsea. He has been brilliant, absolutely | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
amazing. I'm so proud of hil. He has done so well. He wasn't at `ll fazed | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
by any of the music, or the sounds. He was quite happy and waggdd his | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
tail. Waved his paws. He was really good. | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
Tex is now home after his fhrst opera experience, and it went so | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
well, his owner is considerhng entering him for other auditions. | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
Lynne got the chance to go on stage with her Puccini pooch. | :25:38. | :25:46. | |
They told us, depending on how good he was, that would be the thme we | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
could stay on stage. If he was happy, they would leave us on stage | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
for the whole lot of the section we were in. He was fine, so we stayed | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
for the whole bit. Tex has already been successful in | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
dog shows. Now, it looks like a new career could beckon. | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
Tex, do you kill fame has changed you? | :26:08. | :26:07. | |
Not much, it seems. And he joins us now, along with his | :26:08. | :26:25. | |
owner. It helps when you have a pocket full of mints! I am really | :26:26. | :26:33. | |
proud of him. He exceeded all of our expectations. He was really well | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
behaved last night. And you had to tread the boards, as a chapdrone. | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
Yes, I was the maid. I followed onto the stage. And he was brought back | :26:46. | :26:57. | |
to me. Can he sing? He hasn't opened his mouth at all during the | :26:58. | :27:04. | |
performance. He only barks hf my other dog sets him off. Did you have | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
any concerns before the performance? No, because he is really lahd back, | :27:12. | :27:18. | |
he was so good when he came here. He has been amazingly well`beh`ved He | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
loves the camera. He is getting used to this. Are you getting agdnts | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
bringing up? Someone suggested he should have an agent, so maxbe we | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
will think about it. And Sandra at the theatre said she would like to | :27:35. | :27:36. | |
have him back. That's the latest. Thanks for being | :27:37. | :27:39. | |
there. We will be back with bulletins at 8pm and 10.25pl. Hope | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
you can join us then. From `ll the team here, a very good night. | :27:44. | :27:45. | |
Bye`bye. | :27:46. | :27:46. |