29/05/2017 South Today - Oxford

Good evening, I'm Allen Sinclair with the news now here in the South.

Police investigating the terrorist attack in Manchester last week have

Officers raided a flat above shops in Shoreham town centre in the early

Neighbours say the 23-year-old came from Libya and was training to be

This was the day the hunt for those who might be linked

to the Manchester bomber came to the South Coast.

Yeah, we were staying here last night.

Well, I just kind of heard crashing and banging.

I'd just woken up so it was all a bit like 'whoa!' to me.

The raid by anti-terror officers was right in the heart of Shoreham.

Detained at the flat above shops in Brunswick Road

was a 23-year-old man, arrested under the Terrorism Act.

He'd been a regular customer at several nearby businesses.

He said he went to college, he studied up there.

He was from Libya, that is all I know.

The owner of this salon below the flat where he had his hair cut

said those studies involved training as a pilot at nearby

Sometimes I'm busy doing hair, so they'd would bring people there,

I would wave at them, they would wave at me.

And what did you think when you arrived here

I've just woken up, I'm still panicking!

The Shoreham raid coincided with other police operations

in the Whalley Range area of Manchester, and in

All in connection with the bombing a week ago today which claimed

the lives of 22 people at the Manchester Arena.

Police say they've made considerable progress in their investigation,

but today's raid shows the pace of operations certainly isn't

The man arrested here has not been formally identified and police are

not saying where he's being held. He is the 16th person to be arrested in

connection with the Manchester bombing. 14 of them remain in

custody. Sussex Police say people should remain alert not alarmed.

This investigation has now spread to the south coast.

It was a devastating end to the play-off finals

at Wembley for Reading - robbed of a return to

An incredibly tense and even-matched game saw Royals and Huddersfield

goalless after 90 minutes, and it was still 0-0

In the end, it was the final kick of the game that

They'll be back in the Championship next season.

Our sports editor, Tony Husband, went through the agony with them.

The play-off final at football's most lucrative game and it can also

be the most devastating if you're a fan of the losing side.

And for the sixth time in Football League play-off history,

Reading have come up just short again.

They've been beaten here at Wembley Stadium by Huddersfield

in truly heartbreaking style, 4-3 in a penalty shoot out.

It all followed a very tense game of few chances.

Huddersfield probably just edged the 120 minutes,

but hopes were high that Jaap Stam's and then could come through the game

and secure their place in the Premier League.

Nevertheless, it was devastation for Royals players,

Reading didn't take the chances, they didn't really shoot.

So, unfortunately, I don't know whether the better team won,

but we weren't good enough on the penalties, I'm afraid.

This season, I'd have taken mid-table.

The fact that we made the play-offs, the fact that we made third,

the fact that we gave a good show of ourselves today,

It was always going to be an equal contest and it went literally

Huddersfield probably deserve it on that game.

When you get the penalties, it is a lottery.

Huddersfield had two good chances early on in the game but,

as you said, after that, it was nip and tuck and,

unfortunately, Huddersfield have got themselves over the line

into the Premier League, and the management,

the players of Reading, they will be absolutely distraught,

It doesn't matter how many people tell them it's been a great season,

they'll be absolutely distraught for days to come.

It's just a case of words won't do much at the moment.

We just need to try and get over it, and time will do that and,

when we come back, we'll be better for the experience, but obviously

it's easy saying that at this moment in time.

Nobody would have, for one moment, suggested we would be here at the

play-offs at the beginning of the season. An awful lot to be pleased

about and build on. But at the end of the day, we come away

empty-handed. In many ways, Reading defied expectations this season.

Nobody predicted that they would finish third in his first campaign

in English football. The hope must be that now jabs stamped stays to

oversee another tilt at the Premier League.

Meanwhile, breaking news tonight - Portsmouth manager Paul Cook looks

to be on the verge of leaving to join League 1

Pompey offered Cook a lucrative new contract to remain

at Fratton Park after securing promotion this season,

but it's understood he's keen to rejoin the club where he had two

The deal's expected to be completed tomorrow.

It's now two months since the penalty for using a mobile phone

behind the wheel was doubled and a campaign launched

to try to make it as socially unacceptable as drink driving,

but it seems many motorists are ignoring the warnings.

Nearly 500 have been caught in a single month

A mother and three children were killed in this crash

Tomasz Kroker had been distracted by his phone at the time.

And in January, Lewis Stratford here was jailed for causing

Again, Lewis had been using his mobile phone while driving.

Now stricter penalties for drivers mean if you're caught

holding your phone behind the wheel, you face getting six points

Those new rules came in at the beginning of March this

year and yet, in that month alone, Thames Valley Police recorded

nearly 500 incidents of drivers doing exactly that.

The force recorded the largest total of drivers using a phone

behind the wheel in the UK outside of London.

I think there is this fear of missing out,

especially with younger drivers, who want to keep in touch with their

And what we need to get the message across is, put the phone away,

that Snapchat can wait, that Facebook message can wait,

get to your destination safely and then do what you need to do

Other safety campaign groups have welcomed today's figures,

but say a change in driver attitude is the only solution.

Sir Ben Ainslie and his crew have lost a fourth successive race

in the opening phase of America's Cup

The Landrover BAR team based in Portsmouth were beaten

by the unfancied French boat in their only race of day three.

The British team still sit in a healthy position

in the rankings due to World Series points carried into the Cup,

but Ainslie says his team must come back fighting tomorrow.

The weather for the week ahead is fairly mixed. We will have rain at

times. Dry warm sunny days. It will turn fresher by the weekend.

Overnight, the risk of the odd isolated shower. Temperatures in

double figures. A good deal of cloud, maybe coastal mist here and

there. Through the course of the day tomorrow, the cloud will then braked

and up a brighter spells. Not wall-to-wall sunshine but a fair

amount of cloud and the odd isolated shower as well. Temperatures in any

sunny spells could reach a high of 20 Celsius. Tomorrow evening, the

cloud will disappear for some but the odd shower is possible, and that

cloud will fade away during the early hours of Wednesday morning.

There may be mist developing in places, particularly coastal mist.

Temperatures tomorrow night 11-13dC. Through the course of Wednesday, a

good deal of cloud, coastal mist town towards the south-west, but

pleasantly warm in any sunny spells with a high of 19-20dC. Through

Thursday, dry and settled thanks to dry pressure dominating our weather.

On Friday, this weather front moves south and East Woods said the

possibility of heavy rain, but a lot of uncertainty about the timing of

this rain band and when it is expected to arrive. For the weekend,

fresher conditions, brighter spells here and there, and the odd

scattered shower, but a lot of dry weather.

Tomorrow evening, our political editor will host a special election

debate with candidates from the five main parties and an audience of

local voters. Hello. There I think we've seen the

back of the thunder storms now. Over the next few days, our weather will

start to come in from the Atlantic. We'll draw down fresher air from the

North West. Recently, we've been drawing up humid air from the south,

from the near continent. Of course, it all went bang in the early hours

of this morning. Some tremendous thunder storms, a rattling and

liting up the skies in the south-east. Since then, it's not

been as stormy. A few storms over the near continent. It's been bursts

of rain across the UK. And a lot of cloud too. Quite low cloud in places

as well. Quite a poor day, for example, here in Buxton in

Derbyshire. A lot of cloud still around. It is turning drier. All

these down pours are tending to work their way northwards and eastwards,

out into the North Sea. It's turning drier. It's still quite warm and

humid, particularly across England and Wales.