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In tonight's programme: From threats to kill, | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
The extent of the verbal abuse ambulance call | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
handlers are subjected to, and claims the law should be | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
I don't give a bleep about those other people, the only people I care | :00:16. | :00:30. | |
about is my daughter. Please stop swearing at me, I understand it is | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
upsetting but I am only trying to help you. | :00:35. | :00:35. | |
Also: trying to tackle the shortage of spaces. | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
Plans are announced to build five new multi-storey car parks | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
And later on, the small space showing new art | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
There are claims the law needs to be tightened to protect 999 call | :00:45. | :00:57. | |
handlers after a BBC investigation revealed the extent of abuse | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
Call handlers working for South Central ambulance service | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
have received threats to kill, as well as racist and sexist abuse. | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
They say abuse from members of the public is part | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
David Lumb's been to the service's main control room, and has | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
There's nothing allocated yet because we are very busy. | :01:17. | :01:24. | |
What do you mean there's nothing allocated yet? | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
Just tell me and I'll take her to hospital myself | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
Just a normal shift for 999 call-taker Josie Wass. | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
The 22-year-old's been doing the job about a year and says she's | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
Yes, I've been called the B-word and told to eff off | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
and a few of the S-words thrown in there as well. | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
Sometimes sexist, "Oh, you're just a woman. | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
You're just sat there listening to them giving | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
feel like you are the smallest person in the world, | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
It just makes you feel very small and very useless | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
The staff in this control room take more than 1,000 999 calls a day | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
from across Oxfordshire, Hampshire, Berkshire | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
At the minute I don't give a BLEEP about them other people, | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
the only person I care about is my daughter. | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
Sir, sir, sir, please stop swearing at me. | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
I understand it's upsetting but I am only trying to | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
Figures obtained by the BBC show call-takers in England, | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
Wales and Scotland logged hundreds of abusive calls in three years. | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
They include sexist and racist abuse, and even threats to kill. | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
At the end of the day, workplace should be a safe | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
You come to work to help people here, we should | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
not have too put up with anybody talking to you like that. | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
At the moment this kind of abuse is covered under | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
2003 and the Protection from Harassment Act 1997. | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
Both carry a maximum sentence of six months. | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
But the union Unison says it's not enough. | :03:01. | :03:03. | |
It wants harsher penalties and a greater requirement | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
The government do need to look at the law surrounding prosecuting | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
people that have threatened and threats of violence. | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
I don't think the law in itself is enough. | :03:16. | :03:24. | |
It will send out a strong message to people that we take ambulance | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
and NHS staff health and safety seriously and we will prosecute. | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
A Government spokesman said sufficient laws were already | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
For now it seems abusive calls will remain something | :03:35. | :03:52. | |
David, just how widespread is this problem? | :03:53. | :04:01. | |
Well, Geraldine, it's certainly not soemething that's | :04:02. | :04:02. | |
I spoke to Ambulance Trusts across the UK and many of them | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
reported this as a concern. Interestingly not all of them | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
could give specific or significant statistics, I should say, | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
but I think that may be reflective of the fact that a lot of workers | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
The union Unite, as you heard in my report there, wants | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
a specific law to tackle this, or at the very least | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
harsher sentences to try and deter offenders. | :04:28. | :04:28. | |
It also wants employers to have a greater requirement | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
Self Central Ambulance says is takes these incidents very seriously. | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
South Central Ambulance says is takes these | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
It gave me a number of interesting examples, | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
including one call handler who, would you believe, was accused | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
It does encourage staff to report incidents. | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
Police have launched a murder inquiry following the death | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
of a woman in Ludgershall near Aylesbury. | :04:56. | :04:56. | |
Samantha Blake-Mizen's body was found in a house | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
A post mortem examination has revealed she died | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
A 43-year-old from Thame has been arrested and is being questioned | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
The singer George Michael died of natural causes, | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
The star was found dead at his home in Goring | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
in South Oxfordshire on Christmas Day. | :05:17. | :05:17. | |
An initial investigation had failed to determine what led to his death. | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
The coroner has now concluded George Michael died from heart | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
disease and a fatty liver, and that any further | :05:24. | :05:25. | |
A gay couple who were beaten up by a gang of men on a train | :05:26. | :05:33. | |
from Reading say they're now afraid to travel by rail. | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
It happened on Valentine's Day, with horrified passengers | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
Images have now been released of the men that | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
They knocked these two teeth down here out and I had a lot of bruising | :05:44. | :05:52. | |
and cuts all around my face and Zbynek, you had | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
a lot of bruising around the eyes and the head. | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
Phil and his boyfriend Zbynek had fallen asleep on a train home | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
after celebrating Valentine's Day in Reading, when they were set | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
One guy just wake me up and say something nasty to us. | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
I just said leave us alone and all the attack started. | :06:17. | :06:23. | |
I think they didn't like me laying on Zbynek. | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
I was laid over him I think that's what caused the issue. | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
But I've never gotten a fight in my life so to suddenly be | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
punched in the face, oh, I just want to think about it. | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
Police have now released these images of four men | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
they want to speak to in connection with the incident. | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
They got off the train at Ealing Broadway moments | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
Police say this was a prolonged, very nasty attack, | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
which the victims believe would be motivated by homophobia. | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
They say hate crime of this kind will absolutely not be tolerated | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
and they are appealing for anyone with information to come forward. | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
At the moment I'm just a bit scared to go on the evening train. | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
You know, I try to have a look where I am sitting and who is coming. | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
So many things in the world, bad things happening and why | :07:16. | :07:27. | |
are picking on people because of their sexuality? | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
I don't know, but I'm glad the police have got those images now | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
because it makes people aware of what they look like, | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
in case they see them, contact the police. | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
Plans to build five multi-storey car-parks at hospitals in Oxford | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
Patients and visitors currently face lengthy delays at peak times | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
The car park plans have been revealed amidst discussions | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
about radical changes to the NHS in Oxfordshire. | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
Our political reporter Bethan Phillips has this report. | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
Today was a chance for councillors and campaigners to put | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
their concerns to health bosses about plans to save ?200 million | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
One of the main worries to come up was parking. | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
The plans include centralising some services in Oxford, | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
including making a so-called downgrade of the maternity unit | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
at Banbury's Horton hospital permanent, meaning women with higher | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
risk pregnancies will have to go to the John Radcliffe. | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
And that's with huge pressure on parking there already, | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
with some patients missing appointments because they simply | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
Today Chief Executive of Oxford University Hospitals, | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
Dr Bruno Holthof, addressed these concerns, saying they want to treat | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
more patients at home, and offer more outpatient | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
appointments at the Horton hospital, which would help ease | :08:40. | :08:41. | |
But he said the Trust was also set to put planning applications | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
in for five multi-storey car parks in Oxford - two at the John | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
Radcliffe, two at the Churchill and one at the Nuffield Orthopaedic | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
That will be a relief to many patients who have struggled | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
But it's unlikely to set the minds of campaigners here at ease, | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
who have much wider concerns about the health plan, | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
saying overall it will mean cuts and closures. | :09:04. | :09:05. | |
A Labour councillor said today there simply wasn't a safe way | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
to make ?200 million worth of savings to health | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
And that was a sentiment echoed by protesters. | :09:12. | :09:24. | |
in Oxfordshire is based on taking out ?200 million a year over the | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
next few years, that is 20% of the budget, we all know that things are | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
very pressured right now and people are on trolleys we have lost people | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
who don't have enough hospital beds or GPs or nurses but what will | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
happen when 20% of that is taken out? People will die. | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
The Clinical Commissioning Group, which is the organisation behind | :09:48. | :09:49. | |
this plan, insist it will mean better, joined -up services | :09:50. | :09:51. | |
Today councillors decided they needed another meeting, | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
and another chance to question health bosses about the plan. | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
If their concerns aren't addressed, the plan could be referred | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
An activity centre in Buckinghamshire which has helped | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
thousands of disabled children has expanded. | :10:04. | :10:04. | |
Thomley, in Worminghall, also supports parents and carers. | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
A new pavilion will mean more performances to | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
Watching them being drawn is a real treat. | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
There's always some thing that you can find a way to what someone | :10:20. | :10:28. | |
If you draw a dinosaur you've got somebody. | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
Thomley was set up 15 years ago by a group of parents whose | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
Children and teenagers from all over the country now come here. | :10:38. | :10:46. | |
We get some children who have no disabilities and some that have | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
clearly got a huge range of disabilities, for example | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
they might be in a wheelchair full-time, they might be peg fed, | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
and it's actually really beneficial for all the children that come | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
here to learn about different types of abilities. | :11:00. | :11:01. | |
Thomley is firmly established at a nine acre site in Worminghall. | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
Visitors can get a bite to eat and enjoy all | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
What we plan to use it for is putting on film shows, | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
little theatre events, training events. | :11:18. | :11:18. | |
So it is just providing all different opportunities | :11:19. | :11:28. | |
for families to try something new, something different. | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
Keeping Thomley going is a challenge. | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
There's no government funding, and it costs more | :11:35. | :11:35. | |
The good news is visitor numbers have shot up 80% | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
The Olympic rower and chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, | :11:42. | :11:55. | |
Katherine Grainger has become a Dame. | :11:56. | :11:56. | |
She's been honoured at Buckingham Palace for her services | :11:57. | :11:58. | |
Dame Grainger was the first British woman to win medals | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
She has one gold and four silver medals, winning the last one in Rio. | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
She's now retired from international rowing. | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
The annual boat race is under a month away, | :12:13. | :12:14. | |
and for Oxford preparations are underway in earnest. | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
The team's taken to the water this morning | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
We will have more from them tomorrow night. | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
I'll have the headlines at 8.00pm and a full bulletin at 10.30pm. | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
Now more of today's stories with Sally Taylor. | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
And there are 80 art works on display in this very small space. In | :12:36. | :12:52. | |
fact, it is so small, they call it the Tight Modern! | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
There're fears the reopening of Reading's Edwardian swimming | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
baths as an outside pool could be delayed, because the local | :13:00. | :13:01. | |
sewer network might not be upgraded in time. | :13:02. | :13:03. | |
Thames Water insists the sewers will be ready for the opening. | :13:04. | :13:05. | |
But the man behind the ?3 million project says they've been | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
Originally built for the ladies of Reading, King's Meadow baths | :13:09. | :13:16. | |
But after a successful campaign to save them, | :13:17. | :13:24. | |
Arne Ringmer and his team have been breathing new life into | :13:25. | :13:26. | |
But the local sewerage system running through the park outside has | :13:27. | :13:36. | |
a history of flooding and needs to a history of flooding and needs to | :13:37. | :13:45. | |
be upgraded, just as the Thames Lido team wants to transform this into a | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
landscaped park. Pathways, lighting, benches and that opportunities for | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
the people of red and enjoy this section of the park. Hopefully it | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
will open up the rest of the park. And the last thing I want is to have | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
all of that team dug up again by Nu sewerage installation. So I am | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
begging Thames water to come and activate this process now. They will | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
have two years to do this process and they are dragging their feet and | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
dragging their feet, saying next dragging their feet, saying next | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
week, but nothing ever happens. Thames water declined our request | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
for an interview but said that they would be walking a good distance | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
away from the Lido. The sewerage network will be prepared in good | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
time to the planned opening, but can be prepared at short notice, should | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
be Lido open earlier than land. The park and lido must | :14:44. | :14:53. | |
be finished and open by September at the very least, | :14:54. | :14:55. | |
if this historic riverside gem is to star in the very first | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
Thames Festival to celebrate Onto sport and it's a big | :14:59. | :15:00. | |
Tuesday night of football Tony is at the Madejski stadium for | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
Reading's game against Newcastle. But first tonight, Tony, | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
tributes to a legendary athletics coach and a figure many of us | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
here at the BBC knew very well, too. A lovely man. Yes, Mike Smith, at | :15:12. | :15:30. | |
the age of 88, has passed away. He was a broadcaster with BBC local | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
radio for more than 30 years. I have my own personal memories, I joined | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
the BBC has a raw 21-year-old and the port me how to be calm in the | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
fraught world of monthly broadcasting. He presented the | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
non-league show and commentated on football on local radio for many | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
years. He will be best remembered as an athletics coach guiding the | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
careers of some of the greatest sprint athletes Great Britain has | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
ever seen on track and field, leaving a lasting legacy. Here is | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
Steve Humphrey. When you are sprinter, 21, 22 is not passed. He | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
was the athletics coach with the Midas touch. Mike Smith turned | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
talented runners into Olympic, world and Commonwealth champions. Amongst | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
them, Roger Black, Chris Akabusi and Iwan Thomas. Everything I have in my | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
life is because of Mike. All of the good memories I have from athletics, | :16:28. | :16:35. | |
Mike was by my side. Today, he left flowers in Mike's memory at least | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
without an athletics track where the master coach prepared is at to | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
an old teacher. And he was very an old teacher. And he was very | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
strict with his training. And that is exactly what I needed. | :16:48. | :16:56. | |
First-time... He cheered on Iwan in the 1988 Commonwealth Games from the | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
BBC studio in Southampton. Come on, you've done it, you've done it! He | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
said success was based on simple ingredients. They can do repeat runs | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
and repeat runs and get iron hard bit. It is iron hard fitness, hard | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
work in the gymnasium and so on. He created an environment where many | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
talented athletes, not just Olympic athletes but club athletes came | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
together in the power of the group, and under his guidance, worked | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
incredibly hard and then ran fast. If I hadn't met Mike Smith I would | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
not have been a world-class quarter-mile runner. He said, if you | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
want to run fast, you have got to run fast! And he made me run fast. | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
For many years, Mike was an important part of the BBC radio | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
Solent sports team. One of those people who had a real genuine love | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
of sport. Like all of the freelance staff who are so important to the | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
programme, he did it for what it meant, not for the money, and he did | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
it very well. In a statement, Mike Smith's family said that the | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
88-year-old had "Crossed the finishing line" last Sunday. He | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
Talent plus hard work is a recipe Talent plus hard work is a recipe | :18:09. | :18:19. | |
for success. A fine man, Mike Smith. Condolences to his family. I know | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
that Mike is watching now and he's saying, come on, Husband, get on | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
with the sport. Tonight, Reading take on the leaders, Newcastle. It | :18:28. | :18:39. | |
has been a good week for their opponents. 11 games to go now and | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
in the hunt for promotion to the in the hunt for promotion to the | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
Premier League? Let's bring in our BBC radio Berkshire presenter. This | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
is a massive one. I am nervous. The players will be nervous. We have the | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
best on show, championship leaders Newcastle, they have won seven and | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
drawn three. Reading have won nine of their last 11 matches here on the | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
me. Lots of Reading families expect me. Lots of Reading families expect | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
Newcastle to win, W but I don't think like that at all. Jaap Stam is | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
tempering expectations. This is better than everyone expected | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
Reading Doody. Everyone knows that he has done a brilliant job. | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
Overachieving. Leeds, Reading and Huddersfield are overachieving being | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
continue. You have a statistic about continue. You have a statistic about | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
refereed Newcastle twice this season refereed Newcastle twice this season | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
and they won those games 6-0, 4-0. A week ago we mentioned that Brighton | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
were top of the table and things were looking good. Tonight they are | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
facing rock bottom Rotherham and they know that they have fallen off | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
the pace of Newcastle as they try to stay in that second automatic | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
promotion spot. Chris Hughton is without Shane Duffy who's had foot | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
surgery. He will miss six weeks. A big game for brighten up in | :20:07. | :20:07. | |
Yorkshire. The Kassam Stadium hosts a big game | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
in League One tonight. Oxford United host | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
the leaders Sheffield United. There's full commentary | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
on BBC Radio Oxford. Meanwhile Portsmouth are in action | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
tonight in League Two. Last night the club's | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
community work was recognised in parliament, with the award | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
of the Football League's Checkatrade Community Club of the Year | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
for the south-west region. On the field, matters | :20:38. | :20:39. | |
are pretty serious now. A trip to Crawley | :20:40. | :20:40. | |
tonight, and fifth-placed | :20:41. | :20:42. | |
Pompey need to bounce back after two home games | :20:43. | :20:43. | |
which produced only a point. We want to do our best and get | :20:44. | :20:52. | |
promoted. But you bring that type of stuff on yourself. We backed | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
ourselves and we know that we can keep going. We believe in one other | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
and you want to show people, but we needed a performance and we are | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
it. These final Tuesdays of the it. These final Tuesdays of the | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
season as we get into the running are super Tuesdays. Lots of | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
ramifications for the league tables tonight. We will wrap it all up in | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
our update at 10:30pm. Reading against Newcastle beer, Brighton on | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
the road at Rotherham and other important matches in League 1 and | :21:25. | :21:26. | |
two. If no-one sees your artwork, | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
are you still an artist? Many people with disabilities | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
struggle to get recognition Now a pop-up exhibition | :21:34. | :21:34. | |
the Aspex Gallery in Portsmouth is challenging that with a display | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
by artists whose work You have heard of the Tate Modern, | :21:39. | :21:52. | |
this is the Tight Modern. 86 pieces of art is squeezed into the world's | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
smallest pop-up gallery, or by artists who often go unseen. They | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
have social issues, disabilities, and perhaps have not had an | :22:03. | :22:04. | |
opportunity to show their artwork in this way. Lots of people beaver away | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
and nobody but their family and closest friends get to see the work. | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
But many artists, in order to flourish, need to put their work out | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
there in the wider world. It symbolises the way that it had gone | :22:19. | :22:28. | |
through the city and out onto the motorway and then arriving. This | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
piece, the 700, chart is a journey from Portsmouth to the arts centre | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
in Emsworth, a simple trip for some, a huge undertaking for him, as is | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
having his work on display. I use the art as my therapy to get over my | :22:46. | :22:54. | |
ME, and it pushes me to produce the work, and being at this exhibition | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
and into the previews, it just pushes me that little step, it gives | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
me that carrot to get it. And there's a precedent for work shown | :23:04. | :23:05. | |
at the Aspex Gallery to reach a wider audience. The Aspex Gallery | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
has supported local artists for 35 years, some of whom have gone on to | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
display at the Tate Modern and other galleries. Let's hope at the artists | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
on display here today can go on to do the same. The pop-up is in place | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
until next month, opening the door for little-known artists. A lot of | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
talent there. It is definitely worth a look. | :23:31. | :23:32. | |
Onto the weather now and Sarah Farmer will be | :23:33. | :23:34. | |
here with the forecast in just a moment. | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
The sun was shining earlier today - but it seems a cold front | :23:38. | :23:39. | |
has descended on Portsmouth this evening. | :23:40. | :23:41. | |
It has been a glorious day across the south of the day. There's a bit | :23:42. | :23:53. | |
of a chill in the air at Southsea. There is a special performance | :23:54. | :23:55. | |
running at the King 's Theatre all week. They are going to have a | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
specially destructed ice Rink on the stage. An extreme setup for an | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
extraordinary performance and the producer joins me now, Julian. What | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
agreement set up. We're excited to be here in Southsea. And it has been | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
pretty to get the logistics setup. Yes, it has not been the easiest. | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
One of the biggest headaches is this stage, which is raked, so we had to | :24:22. | :24:31. | |
get a specialist team to produce a scaffolding platform. It has been an | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
interesting few days. But we are ready for the opening night tonight. | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
As well as the practical challenges you are going all out with planes, | :24:40. | :24:47. | |
with acrobatics. Yes, we will be going to set fire to the ice rink at | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
some point. We don't want to give too much away. You will have to pop | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
down to the King 's Theatre to see us, hopefully enjoy the show. It | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
promises to be a terrific performance. As you raise your | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
garden tomorrow morning, the curtain will be going up here at half past | :25:05. | :25:06. | |
seven so you need to be clear. Wow! Is she good or a see good? And | :25:07. | :25:37. | |
she is here. Not too far to go. Not so much of a frosty forecast for | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
today. We have some above average temperatures to look forward to in | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
the coming days. It's going to be a beautiful -- it has been a beautiful | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
day today with lovely, sunny spells. The cloud beginning to picking | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
through the afternoon. Then we have rain arriving later on this evening | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
and tonight. About ten o'clock we will see that band of rain working | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
its way in from the West. Outbreaks of drizzle, then some heavier pulses | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
will tend to come and go. Not with will tend to come and go. Not with | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
us consistently but there will be some downpours through the overnight | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
period. Temperatures around six Celsius but climbing through the | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
overnight period, so by dawn, temperatures up towards around 10 | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
Celsius. So are mild, I'll damn, dreary start tomorrow. Looks like we | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
will have that rain coming and going through the course of the day. And | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
easing away through the afternoon. The northern part of the region seen | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
the best of any dry weather. Limited brightness on offer. You might just | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
catch a glamour to the north of our patch. Temperatures around 12, 13, | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
so above where they would normally be for this time of year. Tomorrow | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
night we will see further rainfall for southern parts once more. | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
Probably not quite as heavy as through the course of the night. But | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
there will be the odd burst here and there. Overnight we will see | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
temperatures down to around eight Celsius. Through the course of the | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
day on Thursday, a quieter day with things settling down. The best of | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
any brightness to the north of the M4 corridor. A largely dry day but | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
we could see one or two bits and pieces of drizzle. Here is your | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
summary for the next few days. Outbreaks of rain through much of | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
tomorrow. Some good brightness further north, but cloudy for | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
Thursday. Some drizzle for Friday and showers at the weekend. Thank | :27:33. | :27:40. | |
you very much, Sarah. Tomorrow, of course, the Budget, and we explore | :27:41. | :27:47. | |
ancient Rome through a model created by Reading University. Good | :27:48. | :27:48. |