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Hello, welcome to South Today. In tonight's programme: | :00:03. | :00:06. | |
Cuts at the QA - hundreds of jobs are to go among nurses and midwives | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
at the south's newest hospital Praise for the pilot who avoided | :00:09. | :00:19. | |
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houses before his plane crashed. didn't just like a hero, but he | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
actually died being my family's saviour. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
Remembering Sebastian, the young boy who was the inspiration for | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
this new respite centre which will help families. I can't describe how | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
important it is to be together for a week in a place like this. | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
And move over Stig - it's top gear as synchronised scooters burn | :00:40. | :00:50. | |
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rubber. Don't say I can't do it, because you can. | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
One in ten staff at Portsmouth's main hospital could lose their jobs. | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
We've seen documents revealing plans to cut nearly 200 nursing and | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
midwifery posts at the Queen Alexandra hospital, including | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
almost all of their pool and agency staff. In total, nearly 600 posts | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
could go before next April. Managers have refused to comment, | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
beyond saying they are only planning 99 redundancies at the | :01:18. | :01:25. | |
moment, as part of a plan to save �30 million. But unions say the | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
care patients receive could be affected. Our Health Correspondent | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
David Fenton has this. Pauline Mauger gave birth 7 weeks | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
ago. It was not a happy experience. The midwives were so busy they left | :01:41. | :01:51. | |
her 15 minutes after the baby was born. She got checked, then it | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
might disappear, and it was my mum that had to clean me and the baby | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
up. I was pretty much left in my own mess and stuff. I understand | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
they were relieved rushed off their feet but I didn't get the support | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
that I thought I would. Fortunately, Pauline and baby Neveah were fine, | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
but plans to cut midwives and nurses at the Queen Alexandra are | :02:12. | :02:20. | |
now worrying patients, professionals and unions. I think | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
some services are going to stop. You can't just take 10% are, then | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
another 10% and another, and deal with the same volume of patient | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
care. The hospital needs to save �30 million this year and it's | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
already announced 99 redundancies. Figures we have seen suggest there | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
could be many more - up to one in ten of staff jobs. If it did turn | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
out to be that high, I would have great concern about the level of | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
nurses being reduced. The figure does seem excessively high. This is | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
a sensitive issue. Last year, there were protests when midwives were | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
temporarily moved out of birthing centres and back to the QA to cope | :03:03. | :03:12. | |
with a surge in births over Christmas. -- it is not only | :03:12. | :03:20. | |
nursing and midwifery posts that could go. The workforce plan | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
suggests... 19 consultant jobs could also be cut... Along with 94 | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
doctors from bank and agency staff... And managers don't escape | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
either - 26 could lose their jobs. These cuts may sound drastic - but | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
at the moment they're just figures on a piece of paper; and it's not | :03:32. | :03:41. | |
yet clear how far the hospital will go in carrying them out. How likely | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
that these jobs will go? I think it is difficult to save. I would be | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
very surprised if all of the jobs in his work force plan will | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
actually go up by the end of the year. Equally I will be surprised | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
if he's 99 redundancies, which is what they are talking about at the | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
moment, are the only jobs which go, because they need is it �30 million. | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
That is not going to do that. is not the only hospital doing | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
this? They are all making cuts. Home General Hospital, 29 nursing | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
jobs. The Royal Berkshire, they cut a lot of the agency staff but to | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
gone 120 full-time nurses because it was cheaper. -- took on. Cue a | :04:25. | :04:33. | |
also doing a same thing. This is the first time we are the frontline | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
staff been cut. He was my family's saviour, a real | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
hero - the tribute paid to the pilot who managed to avoid crashing | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
into houses and people on the ground following yesterday's mid- | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
air collision at Shoreham airport. He died in the accident but a | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
second plane landed safely. Tonight he has been named as Alan Weal from | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
Worthing, who was 63 and a retired British Airways pilot. Sean Killick | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
has the details. At Shoreham Airport today, flags at | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
half mast in respect. A tight-knit flying community,sharing the shock | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
and grief of what happened here yesterday afternoon, when one plane | :05:03. | :05:11. | |
landing collided with other in mid air above the airport. | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
Parts of one plane landed on Shoreham Beach, others on a | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
playground. One of the aircraft crash landed via a recreation | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
ground. It caught fire and the pilot died. Eyewitnesses told how | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
he avoided families on the plain food. All I could see was the plane | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
coming towards us, we've been left and right. I screamed at my right | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
to grab the kids and run. -- my wife. There was just coming at us. | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
We started running and I was trying to look back. The plane was coming | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
straight for us. In the last seconds, when he was probably at | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
the height of a tree or a house, he managed to bag left and crashed 20 | :05:53. | :06:03. | |
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metres from us. We were very lucky we did not get hit by him or any | :06:05. | :06:15. | |
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debris. The pilot was Alan Weale. Another | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
flight managed to plant safety. They displayed exceptional piloting | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
skills. Planes taking off and landing at Shoreham are directed by | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
the control tower. But is still the responsibility of pilots to | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
maintain a visual check. That is not something air traffic | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
investigators will be examining as they try to establish the cause of | :06:48. | :06:58. | |
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the collision. A military helicopter on a training | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
flight has crash landed in a field close to the A303 in Andover. The | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
pilot and two crew members escaped unharmed and were treated at a | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
nearby hospital for minor injuries. Military investigators have been | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
called in to try and determine exactly what caused the Puma | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
helicopter to come down. Emergency services say it could have been | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
much worse. Not far away there are housing | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
estates. Next door, an area under development, lots of workers there. | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
Whatever the aircraft crew did to get to this field, they have done a | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
good job. They are all alive and that is the right result. The | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
consequences do not bear thinking a but. | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
South Today can reveal that councils in the south spent nearly | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
�13 million planning for new schools, most of which were never | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
built. They were cancelled when the Building Schools for the Future | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
project was scrapped 12 months ago. Critics say the money has been | :07:45. | :07:52. | |
wasted. Charlotte McCathie reports. One year ago today, this go and | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
find out her skill would not be getting a makeover. -- and this | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
girl find out her school. In the winter it is a bit school and in | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
the summer it is really hot. Last summer, her father organised a | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
protest against the decision to withdraw funding. In is an old | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
school which needs investment. It is not too much to ask that our | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
children have a decent building to learn in. Across the city, the King | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
Richard's school was just weeks away from signing a building | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
contract. I have been told by a senior source that a surveyor gave | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
his building just four years until it falls down. He said there are no | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
disabled facilities and the rooms are falling in. He said the | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
children's have been badly let down. Both projects were cancelled when | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
the coalition axed the Building Schools for the Future scheme. New | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
figures show councils in the South spent nearly �13 million, mostly on | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
projects that were later scrap. Portsmouth spent nearly �3.5 | :08:57. | :09:06. | |
million. 11 projects.. One academy received the money. We wasted money | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
on consultants and we could have spent it effectively in these | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
schools. Now they will not have it. It is like Third World countries. I | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
am ashamed to say there in that state and we need to do something. | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
More than half the schools were giving funding to proceed, they | :09:22. | :09:32. | |
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were all academy. -- academies. only people that seemed to be | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
getting many other schools blackmailed into becoming academies. | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
They are told the only way to become a decent building for | :09:40. | :09:50. | |
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Portsmouth City Council says it is looking at ways to help the skills | :09:59. | :10:09. | |
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that missed out. Still to,... The stars of | :10:10. | :10:20. | |
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synchronised scooters perform their daring display. | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
For people like Michael Bowden, farming is in the blood. His family | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
has been milking cows for more than a century but he has the difficult | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
task of bringing that tradition to an end. The Berkshire farmer is | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
preparing to say goodbye to his dairy cattle, because he's losing | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
too much money. The county has lost a third of its dairy farmers in the | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
last five years. They may not have always had such | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
an easy way of getting round the farm but for more than a century, | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
life here has revolved around the natural cycles that govern how we | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
get our milk. This afternoon, as the cars were led into the milking | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
parlour, all of that was coming to an end. Nobody was feeling the loss | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
more than Simon. He has been 20 years a herdsman, more than half of | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
those on this farm. One car gone already would have been one of the | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
first cars I milked. She would have been one of the first heifer as I | :11:18. | :11:25. | |
ever milk. Seeing her in a lorry, well, it is very upsetting. Doing | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
this for the last time, I did not know if I was going to be able to. | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
Friends and neighbours have rallied round to have loaded the animals | :11:33. | :11:41. | |
for market. Car around -- Caroline gave up her own herd to help sedate. | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
It is a hard decision to make but he has no option. The barns are | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
falling apart and he has not got the support he needs. There is no | :11:49. | :11:55. | |
money in it and he cannot reinvest. We have all put on a brave face for | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
him. It is very hard. The fact that these cars are being shipped out | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
says much of the dairy industry in Berkshire. The case is it is no | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
longer worthwhile trying to sell them in this country as there are | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
no Dairy Farm has left to buy them. And so the farm fell quiet. I hope | :12:17. | :12:26. | |
they get there safely and they find nice forms to go to, for they are | :12:26. | :12:36. | |
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looked after. And then we move on to something else. | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
We'll have another report from Joe Campbell tomorrow as Michael's herd | :12:43. | :12:53. | |
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go under the hammer. Another problem for farmers is what to do | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
with all of them manure from livestock. If you mix it with food | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
waste, you can create gas which can be earned for energy. It is a | :13:02. | :13:10. | |
process called Arabic digestion. It is getting the residents of one | :13:10. | :13:20. | |
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Hampshire village very irritated. But plans for a digester at a | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
brickworks near Selborne were rejected by the council. Today | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
there was an appeal and Roger Finn went along. | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
An Arabic digester takes waste trade and farm manure, put it in | :13:33. | :13:41. | |
heated tanks, work bacteria munch at its and produce gas. What is | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
left over can be used as fertiliser. There is plan to put one here at | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
the brickwork. Its owner blamed the price of gas for the closure, which | :13:52. | :13:59. | |
accounts for 70% of the cost of producing a break. An anaerobic | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
digester produces an identical gas and captors heat that would be | :14:05. | :14:12. | |
wasted from the kilns. There is a lovely symbiosis. The waste heat | :14:12. | :14:19. | |
fires the bricks. The proposed plan would import 20,000 tonnes of food | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
waste each year and local fruit -- farm manure, all to doubt into a | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
seat handing shed. That I jesters would sit in leggings held from | :14:30. | :14:38. | |
view. -- by jesters. Local people worry about the extra 100 lorry | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
movements here each week. We have already lorry traffic going through. | :14:44. | :14:51. | |
Any increase would be, we believe, bad news for the village. It is a | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
red herring so gas can be produced and sold to the National Grid. | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
appeal inspector is and expected to make a recommendations in the | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
autumn. A very special dream came true | :15:03. | :15:05. | |
today. It was an idea nine-year-old Sebastian Gates from Berkshire | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
shared with his mum just days before he died from cancer back in | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
2003. Today, his very proud mum, Jane, and hundreds who have helped | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
her, came to celebrate the opening of a holiday respite home, where | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
seriously ill children can take a break with their whole family. | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
Allen Sinclair reports. When he came up with the idea, | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
Sebastian knew it would never be a place he himself would get to stay. | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
But 100 families a year will now be able to come here for a holiday, | :15:37. | :15:44. | |
free of charge, to spend precious time together. We haven't been on | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
holiday for two years so it will be nice to. Other children need to as | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
well. I can't describe how important it is to be together for | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
a week. I saw this place two years ago when it was just mud and | :15:58. | :16:07. | |
thought, what can come out of this? It is just amazing. This facility | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
will give them a chance to recharge their batteries and Foster being a | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
family. That is important when you have the pressures faced by parents, | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
siblings and wider families of sick children. Among the hundreds of | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
supporters at today's launch was Olympic Gold medallist David Wilkie, | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
patron of the trust, who with Charlie's help christened the pool. | :16:31. | :16:41. | |
Go! WHISTLE BLOWS. This is an opportunity to forget hardship at | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
home and take a week off. This is a sanctuary where families can simply | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
be themselves... Making memories, and forgetting their day to day | :16:48. | :16:58. | |
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difficulties for a while. Now we move on to sport. I am | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
watching about the policing of the Olympic venue, which will be | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
extraordinary? If you imagine, it is such a | :17:19. | :17:25. | |
mammoth task to organise all the security. In fact, difficult, | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
painful and challenging is how the man in charge of policing in Dorset | :17:29. | :17:37. | |
for the Olympics and use the job of ensuring a trouble free games. | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
Assistant Chief Constable Adrian Whiting and his team are already at | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
an advanced stage of planning. And as Bob Everett reports, it's as | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
much about motorists as terrorists. International yachtsmen and women | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
aren't the only ones doing the hard yards before next year's Olympics | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
in Dorset. The county's police force is at it too - buoyed up by | :17:51. | :18:01. | |
timely funding from the Home Office. 19.4 million is a significant | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
contribution that had local tax payers had to find it, or had it | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
had to come from the 4th's budget, would have been untenable. | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
Terrorism is inevitably covered by the security plans for Weymouth and | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
Portland. But the success of the Dorset police operation will also | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
be measured by how well they can keep normal systems going during | :18:18. | :18:28. | |
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the Games. None of the security arrangements can be so restricted | :18:28. | :18:35. | |
that people simply cannot continue to trade off go about their lives. | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
The biggest single police concern outside terrorism is unquestionably | :18:37. | :18:39. | |
transport. Improved traffic measures will help, but won't | :18:39. | :18:45. | |
address all the pinch points. At peak times, 500 of the County's | :18:45. | :18:53. | |
1300 strong force will be on Olympic duty. -- it is as large a | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
consideration as some parts of the security. It can be a big challenge | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
in midsummer, when the infrastructure is pushed anyway. | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
peak times, 500 of the county's 3 - - 1,300 strong force will be on | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
duty. Even so, ensuring a pain-free visitor experience will be a truly | :19:13. | :19:23. | |
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Olympian task. Some football news and Hal Robson | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
Kanu has signed a new three year contract to stay at Reading. The | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
22-year-old midfielder scored six goals in 15 appearances for the | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
Royals last season and will now stay at the Madjeski Stadium until | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
2014. Meanwhile, Portsmouth are close to signing former Derby | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
striker, Luke Varney. The players has undergone a medical at the club | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
and they're expected to make an announcement in the morning. We | :19:47. | :19:49. | |
understand Pompey are also in advanced talks with goalkeeper | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
Stephen Henderson. Bournemouth are looking into signing Adam Barrett. | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
In last night's T20 cricket, Surrey pulled off an 18 run victory over | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
rivals Sussex. Steven Davies was instrumental in the win. He batted | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
throughout, finishing just shy of a century on 99 not out as Surrey | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
made 203. Luke Wright smashed five sixes for Sussex in reply but the | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
visitors lost momentum in the last few overs, reaching 185. | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
Let's have a look where that leaves things in the bigger picture. | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
Sussex remain in third place, Sussex remain in third place, | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
But perhaps the big winners of the night are Hampshire, who benefit | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
from that Sussex defeat and stay four points clear at the top. Just | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
one more win from their remaining four games should see them in the | :20:27. | :20:34. | |
In speedway, Elite League leaders Poole Pirates suffered a narrow | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
defeat last night in their away fixture against the Peterborough | :20:37. | :20:39. | |
Panthers. The Pirates found themselves trailing by ten points | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
early on in the clash, but 12 points from skipper Davey Watt and | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
13 points from Chris Holder, overtaking here, helped to narrow | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
the gap and earn them a bonus point for the meeting, to finish 49-44. | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
And in the Elite League, you can see that defeat hasn't done too | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
much to change the Poole Pirates fortunes. They're still three | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
points clear of Eastbourne and have two matches in hand. | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
And it's another result for Mountain Bike Orienteering champion | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
Emily Benham from Salisbury, who's just secured her 8th British title. | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
You may remember we featured her a couple of weeks ago. The little- | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
known sport involves not only mountain biking at speed, but | :21:11. | :21:21. | |
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navigating the quickest route around the course - tricky stuff. | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
Looks like good fun! Does she have a sat nav? | :21:28. | :21:37. | |
It would be helpful in the Forest! In some performances it is like | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
poetry in motion, synchronised swimming or dressage. Here is | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
another one, although I am not sure you would call it a sport. It is | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
synchronised mobility skidders. Think of it at -- as the riot -- | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
Red Arrows at trap -- ground level. One group of pensioners should of | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
their skills in a national average. Reversing into position to run | :22:03. | :22:13. | |
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through their figure of eight. One, too, three, face away. | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
group of pensioners would not let anything stand in their way. Last | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
week, they were filling a TV advertisement in London. It gets | :22:24. | :22:30. | |
off to a slow start. It's not easy growing old. Many of as levels -- | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
live in poverty and isolation... But it soon picks up speed... | :22:36. | :22:46. | |
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it! And now the bit we are interested in. They call themselves | :22:47. | :22:57. | |
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the Red Ed targets, -- the red cards. Blink and you miss it. No | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
attention to detail its Baird, look at the go faster flames. And what | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
is the aim of his team? Show them life is worth living. You don't | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
even have to have a mobility scooter. Don't sit there and say, I | :23:18. | :23:28. | |
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can't do it. Do it, because you can. They are brilliant fun to work with, | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
never a dull moment. I was doing this on Saturday at the local | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
festival and we were never sure what would happen next on some of | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
these. It is good, it keeps you on your toes. He says there is a | :23:47. | :23:55. | |
little work to go before they win Britain. -- Britain's got talent... | :23:55. | :24:03. | |
But they won't let anything stand in their way. Well, almost nothing. | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
I am assuming that wasn't intentional! Did they have masks | :24:10. | :24:18. | |
on? It was like Batman and Robin. They were really going for it. | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
Archaeologists have discovered teeth belonging to one of the | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
Viking warriors found under the Weymouth relief road had been filed. | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
They were amongst remains found in a burial pit which was discovered | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
two years ago. The pair of front teeth have deep horizontal grooves | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
cut into them. Experts aren't sure why the teeth were filed but | :24:35. | :24:44. | |
believe it may've been to frighten opponents. | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
Just thinking about that, I am thinking about Vikings filing their | :24:49. | :24:59. | |
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teeth and looking hard, it puts my We have some weather pictures. The | :25:05. | :25:15. | |
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cloud is starting to build this The rain arrived this afternoon. We | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
started off in a bright and sunny note with cloud building from the | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
West. Tonight we will see one or two showers. It is courtesy of this | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
weather front across the country, below pressure centred over | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
Northern Ireland at the moment, it will stay for the rest of the week. | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
The main weather front goes towards the North Sea. Behind it, one or | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
two showers which could be on the heavy side. Maybe the odd rumble of | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
thunder as well. Clear spells but mild temperatures staying in double | :25:58. | :26:08. | |
temperatures. Tomorrow, some sunny spells but also the risk on a sunny | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
shower. We could have the risk of thunder. A dry interlude in the | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
afternoon with highs of 19 Celsius. Temperatures cooler than today. | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
Tomorrow night, another band of persistent rain will edge in from | :26:22. | :26:28. | |
the West, moving towards the north- east. Behind it, cheering skies but | :26:28. | :26:35. | |
under the rain, another mad night with loads of 13 or 14 Celsius. The | :26:35. | :26:41. | |
low pressure is not going anywhere quickly. That low pressure will | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
drive in various weather fronts. Thursday and Friday, both days, | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
sunny spells and scattered showers. By the weekend, the showers will | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
become less frequent and there will be more in the way of sunshine. | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
More cloud arriving from the south- west in the afternoon. For the rest | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
of the week, heavy showers were likely on Thursday and Friday, may | :27:03. | :27:11. | |
be some founder. The wind will pick up speed. Wet and windy conditions. | :27:11. | :27:16. | |
There will be some respite and we will see sunny spells mixed in | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
amongst those. Dry conditions for the start of the weekend and get | :27:20. | :27:26. |