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Hello and welcome to South Today. In tonight's programme: | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
A record fine of ?20 million for Thames Water. | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
The company let more than a billion litres of sewage | :00:13. | :00:14. | |
People and animals became ill - and thousands of fish died. | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
We've never had a longer or more intensive investigation. | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
Those analyses allowed us to present a picture of systemic failure, | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
that involve the sewage of 200,000 people. | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
Also: The developers continuing to build a crematorium - | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
even though they no longer have planning permission. | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
From childhood leukaemia, the four-year-old girl | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
who was inspired by her role models to become a nurse herself. | :00:45. | :00:57. | |
Thames Water has received a record fine of more than ?20 million | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
Nearly one and a half billion litres of raw sewage went | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
The judge said the scale of the problem meant those | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
at the top of the chain of command must have known. | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
The River Tame is getting back to its best, but in 2013 a local farmer | :01:17. | :01:33. | |
was shocked to find sewage flowing downstream. The river was a black | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
grey colour, it was very smelly. There were dead fish. More than 1 | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
billion litres of untreated sewage were released into the River Thames | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
and its tributaries between 2012 and 2014. In January Thames water | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
admitted sewage spills from treatment walks -- treatment works | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
in Aylesbury, Didcot and little Marlow and a pumping station in | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
little more. The company also admitted failing to control waste. | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
After receiving a record fine, Thames Water said it's invested | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
millions in new equipment since the offences. There have been sweeping, | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
far-reaching changes across the waste water business. That included | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
more people, more and better systems, and more investment. And | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
that is beginning to pay. Our performance has improved | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
considerably, and were also doing a lot of work in partnership with | :02:39. | :02:40. | |
environmental groups across our area. The court case followed a | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
three-year investigation by the Environment Agency. The pattern of | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
offending was disturbing. It wasn't because there had been new | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
conditions, it was because basic equipment, screens and pumps, were | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
not maintained, repaired or replaced. Thames Water's pay for new | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
fencing to keep the cattle away from the water, but he can't understand | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
why the pollution got out of control, and for so long. It's | :03:19. | :03:27. | |
highly irresponsible for such a large company with massive profit | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
margins to be polluting our waterways. It shouldn't happen. | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
Judge Francis Sheridan described Thames Water's failings as | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
diabolical, and entirely foreseeable. He said all of the | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
problems were avoidable by any competent operator, and summing up | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
the case before that record ?20 million fine, he said "What a | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
dreadful state of affairs." Local environmental | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
groups welcomed the fine. But as the countryside recovers, | :03:57. | :03:57. | |
their message is that Thames Water simply didn't do its job, | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
and must change its ways for good. Today's fine is not the first, | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
for Thames Water is it? There have been a number | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
of cases over the years. In January 2016, the company | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
was fined ?1 million because of pollution | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
on the Grand Union Canal. You're seeing recent pictures here, | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
but in 2013 there was a leak from a sewage plant in Tring | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
which polluted the Wendover At the time that was a record fine | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
for a prosecution of a water company by the Environment Agency, | :04:29. | :04:40. | |
but this one far exceeds that. Was that a surprise? No, I think | :04:41. | :04:54. | |
they had been bracing themselves partly for this. | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
New guidelines were brought in in 2014 for environmental | :04:57. | :04:58. | |
offences; since then fines have gone up. | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
Also, the judge said more than once in this case that he wanted to send | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
a message out to shareholders that pollution on this scale | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
Bear in mind this is a company that makes ?2 million a day. | :05:07. | :05:22. | |
One more thing - Thames Water assured me this fine won't be paid | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
Thames Valley Police say they are reviewing their security | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
in light of today's attack in London. | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
In a statement, Chief Constable Francis Hapgood sent out | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
his sympathies to all those effected by today's events. | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
He added that the Thames Valley force were reviewing their security | :05:40. | :05:41. | |
Developers are continuing to build a privately owned | :05:42. | :05:50. | |
crematorium in Aylesbury - even though they no longer have | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
The project, in the lakeside village of Watermead, has met | :05:54. | :06:02. | |
A high court judge said construction could go ahead - | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
but now the Court of Appeal has overturned that decision. | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
With an opening date set for June, the developers say | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
The diggers are still digging, the builders still building. | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
And that's despite the fact the Court of Appeal has ruled | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
against the company behind this construction on the shores | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
The row's been going on for over two years - | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
the parish council have been fighting it every step of the way, | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
and they say it's not just because it'll ruin the view of some | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
The fundamental issue is that there was no sequential test, | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
which is a test to determine whether or not a site is suitable | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
for a particular development - in particular in Watermead this | :06:41. | :06:42. | |
relates to the flood risk, and this has now been proven that | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
a sequential test should have been carried out. | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
They say it is the wrong project in the wrong place, | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
and that plans for another crematorium less than a mile | :06:52. | :06:53. | |
No-one denies that Aylesbury needs a crematorium; the nearest one | :06:54. | :07:02. | |
They are often busy, leading to delays for grieving families. | :07:03. | :07:10. | |
But the row over whether this lakeside location is the best place | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
That's because the company behind the construction, Westerleigh, | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
have now submitted all the correct forms to the district council, | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
and are confident they'll have the permission they need | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
The planning application now needs to be reconsidered, | :07:25. | :07:36. | |
but that can be done, and according to the appeals court | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
judges ought to be done and they expect it to be | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
So planning permission should come through again relatively quickly, | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
and from a construction point of view we'll be ready | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
Both the parish council and the construction firm | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
are confident they'll win - but it s now up to Aylesbury Vale | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
District Council to consider the latest planning application. | :07:57. | :07:58. | |
A decision is expected in the next few months. | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
Plans to build nearly 200 homes in South Oxfordshire have been | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
Developers wanted to build 170 houses between Didcot | :08:06. | :08:13. | |
South Oxfordshire District Council refused the plans; now a planning | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
Campaigners raised ?10,000 to protect what they | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
A woman who set up a charity supporting youngsters with parents | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
in jail has been honoured by the Prime Minister. | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
Sarah Burrows, from Oxford, launched Children Heard and Seen | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
after learning two in three boys with a convicted parent | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
My dad's been in and out of prison for the last 15 years, and I don't | :08:35. | :08:46. | |
Clayton's parents were jailed for drug offences when he was a toddler. | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
The 15-year-old and his brother were raised by their grandparents. | :08:52. | :08:59. | |
I thought I'd only have them for a day or so, | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
And then within three days, my husband and I knew | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
that we would end up looking after the children for the rest | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
I can't even explain to you how difficult that was. | :09:10. | :09:22. | |
We couldn't be the grandparent any more, we had to be a parent. | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
That's where the charity Children Heard and Seen came in. | :09:26. | :09:33. | |
It runs weekly youth groups, and provides mentors. | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
I used to be an officer at the youth offending service in Oxfordshire, | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
and a lot of the children that were coming through the criminal | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
justice system who were offending, I realised had a parent in prison. | :09:48. | :09:56. | |
So when I started researching why this might be, I then realised | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
that 65% of boys with a parent in prison went on to a friend. | :10:00. | :10:10. | |
And thought, actually let's stop this intergenerational offending. | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
Sarah's received an award from the Prime Minister, | :10:15. | :10:16. | |
But she relies on referrals to find people who need help. | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
She says a national database of children with parents in jail | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
For us it's always having to go out into the community, | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
getting a referral from school, social care, the police, | :10:27. | :10:36. | |
probation, whoever, or obviously self-referrals, | :10:37. | :10:38. | |
but if there was a national database, then those children | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
could be picked up immediately and support services | :10:41. | :10:42. | |
For people like me, who have nobody, not even any relatives locally, | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
And I'd been waiting for that for five, six years. | :10:47. | :10:59. | |
Now, if you were in Oxford this afternoon, you may well have seen | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
an unusual horse trotting through the cobbled streets. | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
The horse puppet was promoting a production of War Horse, | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
which comes to the New Theatre in December. | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
The award-winning show is based the novel by Michael Morpurgo, | :11:11. | :11:12. | |
and follows the fate of a cavalry horse in World War I. | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
The show has been running across the world for ten years, | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
and it's about to embark on its second UK tour. | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
Being able to share a story about war, and about kind of trust | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
and friendship with everybody, in the centenary year of the end | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
of the first war is really important for Joey. | :11:31. | :11:32. | |
A dog walker in Banbury made a startling discovery in a field | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
near a housing estate - an eight-foot-long boa constrictor. | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
The RSPCA thinks the snake, who's female, may have escaped | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
She has been moved to a special reptile unit, until her owners | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
are located or she can be found a new home. | :11:48. | :11:49. | |
The RSPCA wants to hear from anyone who knows who she belongs to. | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
I'll have the headlines at 8:00, and a full bulletin at 10:30. | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
Now, more of today's stories with Sally Taylor. | :12:00. | :12:07. | |
Ryan McKinlay was a friend I had known for more than 20 years. | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
Ryan's death will haunt me for the rest of my life, | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
but I know that nothing can compare to his family's loss. | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
My thoughts are, and always have been, with them. | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
Out of respect to them, I will not be making | :12:20. | :12:21. | |
Aaron Brown's defence team had called it a tragic accident. | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
Later in the programme: The four-year-old with leukaemia | :12:25. | :12:33. | |
who was inspired by her role model to become a nurse herself. | :12:34. | :12:45. | |
70 jobs are set to go at Hampshire based ordnance survey. | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
The government owned company, based in Southampton, | :12:48. | :12:49. | |
They say the job losses are part of a restructuring programme | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
and existing staff will have to apply for new jobs or take | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
A consultation involving staff ad two unions is expected | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
It's a religious relic from one of the most pivotal | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
parts of our history, and now visitors to The Vyne Tudor | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
mansion near Basingstoke can immerse themselves in a ritual that was last | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
performed before one of our most controversial monarchs. | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
A rare catholic mass from 1535 has been recreated, in sound, | :13:17. | :13:18. | |
in minute detail and, as Ben Moore reports, | :13:19. | :13:20. | |
it means visitors can now go back in time to experience for themselves | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
The last time this Catholic mass resonated around these walls | :13:24. | :13:37. | |
In the congregation was King Henry VIII. | :13:38. | :13:47. | |
The chapel as it would've been experienced here is not | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
as you would think a parish church, you wouldn't have come | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
in and sat down at the pew and listened to a service. | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
In fact the Lord of the house would have sat above and looked down | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
and experienced the worship going on before him. | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
Choir boys singing the mass, the priest at the altar, | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
it would have been a completely different experience | :14:10. | :14:11. | |
The re-creation in immersive sound of Lady Mass at The Vyne Tudor | :14:12. | :14:23. | |
mansion means you can hear a different part of the service | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
Bringing it to life has been a pilgrimage, taking sound | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
technicians as far as Worcester to record a rare Tudor organ. | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
What you're trying to do is create an audio illusion so that | :14:34. | :14:40. | |
if you were to walk into the chapel and close your eyes, | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
you would hopefully get the impression there was a service, | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
Obviously if you open your eyes there is no one there. | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
These sounds accompanied a pivotal moment in history. | :14:50. | :15:03. | |
Henry was on a royal progress visiting his Lords to shore up | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
This is the very place that on the 17th of October 1535 Henry | :15:09. | :15:19. | |
would have been to listen to the mass. | :15:20. | :15:21. | |
It was not just about religious worship. | :15:22. | :15:23. | |
His courtiers said it was the only time they could guarantee the king | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
was sitting still long enough to deal with matters of state. | :15:29. | :15:30. | |
During this mass the King might have secured the loyalty of William, | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
The other people who are rumoured to have been involved | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
in the rebellion do indeed rebel, but Sands, the owner of The Vyne, | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
doesn't, so visits like this can help to get people | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
onside, helped cement the Reformation, so it is really | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
Just 20 years after Henry's death this mass was replaced | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
with a simpler English version but with the political undertones | :16:00. | :16:13. | |
in the past they can now meet the present in perfect harmony. | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
The outgoing head of British Olympic sailing has told South Today | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
that he questioned whether he was doing the right thing, | :16:21. | :16:22. | |
in taking up a new role with British Cycling. | :16:23. | :16:24. | |
Stephen Park has been involved in GB sailing success for over 25 years. | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
He's shortly to move to a sport which has suffered | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
many negative headlines, including allegations | :16:31. | :16:31. | |
I went to chat with Stephen in Hamble today, as he prepares | :16:32. | :16:35. | |
A double Olympian as a competitor followed by 20 years | :16:36. | :16:44. | |
as administrator and manager of British Sailing. | :16:45. | :16:46. | |
As he prepares for a shift from sea to land Stephen Park | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
is heading into choppier waters than he is leaving. | :16:53. | :16:54. | |
20 years working on the Olympic programme, 16 years managing | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
the British sailing team, some fantastic performances at | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
Really excited about the opportunity with British Cycling. | :17:05. | :17:06. | |
Everyone is well aware there is plenty of challenges | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
within British Cycling at the moment. | :17:10. | :17:10. | |
Rio saw plenty of cycling success despite those negative headlines. | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
Park took the job of British Cycling's new performance | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
In the ensuing three months he could been forgiven | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
It would probably be a little bit disingenuous to suggest that I have | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
not had those thoughts at some time because you wake up in the morning | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
and you read the stories in the paper and you think, | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
Park's outgoing Olympics as sailing manager saw GB top the medal table | :17:39. | :17:53. | |
in Rio with three golds and a silver. | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
But for a personal highlight Hamble-based Park went | :17:58. | :17:58. | |
The final race of the star class in Beijing in 2008. | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
Iain Percy, Andrew Simpson, surfing down the last to the finish | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
The 2020 Olympics remain Park's focus but while he is in | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
the velodrome he is confident GB sailing can stay on track as well. | :18:13. | :18:15. | |
I think the sport is in good stead and I have absolutely no doubt | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
they are going to be going to Tokyo and we will come home again as one | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
We wish him success. The weather is not as good in Manchester! | :18:23. | :18:31. | |
Southampton pair James Ward-Prowse and Nathan Redmond could make | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
their full England debuts this evening, in the friendly | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
The two players received their maiden senior | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
call-ups for Gareth Southgate's first match as permanent | :18:43. | :18:44. | |
They have both been named on the bench in the last few minutes. | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
Bournemouth winger Ryan Fraser could also make his full Scotland | :18:51. | :18:52. | |
Oxford United missed a chance to close the gap | :18:53. | :19:00. | |
on the top six in League One, as they went down at home | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
Oxford were 2-0 down when Kane Hemmings bundled them some | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
But a Chey Dunkley own goal made it 3-1 to Bolton. | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
And, despite Chris Maguire's pulling Oxford back into it, | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
Bolton added a fourth before the end. | :19:15. | :19:16. | |
Poole Speedway manager Neil Middleditch says he's set | :19:17. | :19:18. | |
himself a target of winning ten British speedway titles. | :19:19. | :19:20. | |
After three successive championship wins, Poole missed out last year. | :19:21. | :19:22. | |
They held their traditional pre-season Press Day today. | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
Their competitive season starts on Monday, as they defend | :19:27. | :19:28. | |
I would like to win ten. I have a few years left in me yet and I think | :19:29. | :19:40. | |
Matt and I have a good partnership together. Matt loves the club as | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
much as I do and that is a key factor in our success, the fact we | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
feel for the club. You not that summer is starting when the cricket | :19:51. | :19:51. | |
and the speedway starts. Clara Markiewicz was diagnosed | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
with acute myeloid leukaemia Spending months in hospital | :19:55. | :19:56. | |
and undergoing numerous operations, the nurses around her quickly | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
became her role models. But now she's in training | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
in Southampton to become a child cancer nurse herself, | :20:06. | :20:07. | |
and her career has already taken At the age of four hospital | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
was a home from home Doctors had diagnosed her | :20:10. | :20:22. | |
with acute myeloid leukaemia. She was seriously ill | :20:23. | :20:29. | |
and her parents had been told that she had a 40% | :20:30. | :20:31. | |
chance of survival. There were often days | :20:32. | :20:40. | |
when you would wake up and one of your playmates was not | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
there anymore and your mum would have to try to explain it | :20:44. | :20:45. | |
to you in a way that was not scary for you, the reality was only | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
about 40% of us in that ward left. Thanks to a specialist clinical | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
trial, four rounds of chemotherapy and several operations she came | :20:53. | :21:01. | |
through the treatment The treatment is cruel, | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
it is really tough. It is almost worse than | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
the disease sometimes. It is really strong stuff, | :21:09. | :21:10. | |
a necessary evil, there's If it hadn't been for the care | :21:11. | :21:12. | |
I had, for the nurses who were there, every day, | :21:13. | :21:23. | |
every night, every morning, I would not have | :21:24. | :21:25. | |
these role models to look up to and these people that made life | :21:26. | :21:27. | |
so much easier when it was Claro began her studies | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
at Southampton University In December BBC Radio 1 made | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
a documentary featuring the 19-year-old's decision to become | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
a child oncology nurse. As it did the rounds on social | :21:41. | :21:42. | |
media her face rang a bell with one There's not many people in the world | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
called Clara and then it was Clara's last name, | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
which is Markiewicz, which is a name that | :21:51. | :21:52. | |
you would never forget, One day, maybe in my third or fourth | :21:53. | :21:54. | |
day here, I was sitting in the staff room having my lunch, | :21:55. | :22:08. | |
and this woman walks in and you know when you are drawn to someone | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
and you are not entirely sure why? So I was awkwardly trying to look | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
at her name badge and she saw me looking and she looked at me | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
and she looked at everyone else And she stood up and she | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
was like, it is Clara! I hadn't seen her for so long | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
and we had a big hug. Kate was the nurse who had | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
been present when Clara 15 years on the two have been | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
reunited on the children's ward This time Kate is keeping an eye | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
on her for different reasons. One thing I think is amazing | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
is that she has decided to come into not only nursing, | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
which is a fantastic profession, but she has come | :22:51. | :22:52. | |
into children's nursing, and that is what I was truly blown | :22:53. | :22:54. | |
away by, because it is great that she has gone full circle | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
and she can come and contribute. Sometimes on the ward if it has been | :22:59. | :23:00. | |
a tough day I am like, well, remember what it is like to be | :23:01. | :23:08. | |
on the other side of things, and that gives you another aspect | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
and another perspective, As a little girl the odds | :23:12. | :23:13. | |
were against her. But the nurses have always been | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
behind her and as she continues her degree in nursing Clara longs | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
to make a difference to the lives We wish her all the best in the | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
future with her new career. Springs through everything it could | :23:24. | :23:49. | |
act as today. We had chilli winds, sharp showers and plenty of sunshine | :23:50. | :23:58. | |
as well. Quite a story to tell. It was grey this morning. By lunchtime, | :23:59. | :24:09. | |
it was looking much brighter here. By tea-time, some sunshine in | :24:10. | :24:18. | |
Swanage and the blossom stayed on the trees. It is the chilly start | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
under clear skies at first but showers make their way in through | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
the second part of the night so dry to start but the rain that moved | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
west to east through the day starts to move east to west overnight. Some | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
heavy outbreaks at times. Under cloudy skies looking at lows of five | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
Celsius by Don. Strong winds overnight. Tomorrow, dull, damp | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
start with further rain to come through the morning for most places. | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
The further north you are the more likely you are to the wet weather. | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
Along the coast we have pretty sharp showers once again. In the best of | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
the brightness 10 Celsius is our top temperature but a key north-westerly | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
wind will keep temperatures in tech. Tomorrow evening, low pressure | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
feeding and showers. It is very stubborn and does not seem to want | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
to move away. Most places milder overnight, seven Celsius. Looking | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
ahead to Friday, that stop an area of low pressure still with us | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
through the morning. You can see the high pressure developing which | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
pushes the low-pressure away and it starts to take control as we head | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
into the weekend. A much more promising outlook for Saturday and | :25:35. | :25:42. | |
Sunday. Cloudy with showers through tomorrow and 18 north-easterly wind. | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
Friday, cloudy with the threat of rain for a time but the further | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
north you are the more likely to have a dry day with bright spells, | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
some sunshine per house for most places by the end of the day and | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
temperatures getting up to double figures. The weekend, some bright | :25:58. | :26:05. | |
spells through Saturday and the temperatures on the rise but a leak | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
easterly breeze will make things feel a little bit cooler. Much the | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
same story for Sunday, more cloud as well. | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
Let's return to our main story tonight. | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
Four people have been killed and 20 injured in a terror | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
A police officer and a person believed to be the attacker | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
Much of the area around the Houses of Parliament has been sealed off. | :26:28. | :26:34. | |
Our Political Editor Peter Henley is there. | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
This is an attack at the heart of the establishment. Yes, an attack | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
was feared that the heart of the British government and today those | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
fears were realised. Police forces here and in the south than the rest | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
of the UK will be reassessing their security measures and thinking about | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
how to plan for things like sporting events and incidents in towns and | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
cities. Security measures at military bases will potentially be | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
reassessed. The head of MI6 said recently that terrorism threat to | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
the UK is at an unprecedented level. The terror threat has been severe | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
since 2014 meaning an attack is highly likely. Today that attack | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
arrived back in the UK. Thank you. We are going to leave you this | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
evening with a live shot of Westminster which is in lockdown | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
with many places sealed off. Continuing coverage on the BBC News | :27:35. | :27:43. | |
Channel and an extended ten o'clock minutes. -- news. Goodbye. | :27:44. | :27:47. |