18/07/2011 South Today

Hello I'm Sally Taylor. Welcome to South Today. In tonight's

programme: Bus companies and campaigners warn

of fewer services as Hampshire prepares to save on subsidies.

rural services and urban services are in the evenings and Sunday will

suffer some severe cutbacks. The Spinnaker Tower calls time on

its external lift as the company that runs it calls for a bigger

slice of profits. Israel defends its decision to hold

a 77-year-old woman in prison for four days.

And the sweet taste of success. The young apprentices who have grand

designs for their product. We will create some more global things and

More people use buses than any other form of public transport but

tonight there are warnings that yet more will be cut. Hampshire County

Council is expected to detail later this week which services will be

affected by a �2 million cut in the money it has, to subsidise bus

services. The cuts will come into force in October.

The Authority will follow West Sussex which has also cut the same

amount, and Surrey which cut �1.7m. Today the bus operator Stagecoach

predicted the cuts would mean some rural areas could lose their buses

entirely and urban areas would see services cut in the evenings and

weekends. Hampshire County Council said it had to live within its

means after a cut in central Government funding.

At Andover bus station, half the services of rely on Council subsidy

because they are not commercially viable. The number 87 bus runs

every two hours. Today it is quite busy but often there are only a

couple of passengers. Rural services like this will face the

biggest cuts. People living in rural areas really do have to rely

on public transport, particularly those who are disabled and elderly.

It is very important. They will miss it. The government has cut the

rural bus subsidy by a third. In Hampshire that means around �2

million less to support bus services like this one. It will

affect us. We will not go out as much. I will be driving soon so I

do not care. I would not be able to get to college aware that have to

learn to drive or get someone to drive me. Bus services in Hampshire

are often paid for by the council. They pay for 700800 passengers

every day. When people realise the scale of the cuts, there will be a

lot of political lobbying. It depends so much on where you live.

If you live in a small village you will potentially have a robust

facing at the -- bus service at all. On a smaller state it might just

mean you cannot go out on Sunday evening. Stagecoach will also need

the work of drivers. Rural services and urban services on the evening

sun Sunday will suffer some really severe cutbacks. I am afraid many

people will find this to be less convenient than before. I am very

sorry that people in rural areas will suffer this iPod in

convenience. Type of in convenience. Hampshire County Council cannot say

yet which routes will be cut. Hardest hit will be those who have

no alternative but the bus. Marks and Spencer has been found

guilty of failing to protect staff and customers from being exposed to

asbestos during a major refurbishment at stores in Reading

and Bournemouth. The trial at Winchester Crown Court heard

construction workers removed ceiling tiles containing asbestos,

but M&S broke health and safety rules because contractors weren't

given enough time or space for safe removal. The company will be

sentenced in September. Union officials have called another

strike in Southampton. They have told the city council that workers

will go out next week. Toll collectors, parking officers and

street cleaners, will go on strike next Monday, if this week's talks

don't reach a settlement. Union officials and City Council are

talking again tomorrow and if a decision is reached the strike will

be called off. The Ministry of Defence has

confirmed it still intends to move out of the town of Bordon, paving

the way for an eco town. If the Army does go, around 2,000 civilian

jobs will be lost in the area. The developers say that will be

mitigated by the 7,000 jobs they hope to create during the eco-

town's construction. But those opposed to the plan claim 5,500 new

homes will destroy the natural environment and increase traffic

and noise. This is where the army trains many

of its engineers. You may be able to make out some tanks in the yard

fair. In a format years, this place, along with Arborfield, will close.

It is a big bloke to Bordon. There is not a beating heart to its

community but everybody needs more facilities here. Under the eco-town

plan, that is what is promised but that is not until the army moved

out in some years. Everyone should be concentrating their efforts to

date and trying to better the facilities we have, not some time

in the future with an eco-town. like the idea of the eco-town but

they seem to be changing their minds about what they are actually

going to do. Bordon his army. It is like Aldershot. If you get rid of

the army, you will lose a bit of Bordon. I do not think putting eco

in will make a lot of difference. The Government says it backs eco-

towns where there is genuine local support for them but residents are

not aware of the scale of the developments planned. There will be

building on green field as well as brownfield site and they claim

there is not enough public support. There is absolutely no documentary

evidence to support it. It is a town built on a life. Eight will be

live. There is no other way of putting it. The county council

disputes that and says they have had millions of pounds to kick-

start the process. They have spent strong green grants for home owners

and converted the fire engine into -- fire station into a show home.

It is all feeding into a master plan which the council says we

address everyone's concerns. A It is unfortunate that so little has

happened in Bordon over the years and it is our prime concern. This

is why the master plan is so important. It means we can ensure

that infrastructure comes up alongside housing. It is needed now,

as jobs are needed now. I can understand people's concerns but we

are working hard on it. More public consultation and the master plan in

the spring that a very sad day for Bordon. After 100 years, the Army

are to leave. It was the finishing touch for

Portsmouth's Spinnaker Tower - a glass lift offering stunning views

over the Solent. But it's never worked properly, and today leading

councillors have decided to give up on it for good. At the same time

confidential papers, seen by BBC South, show falling visitor numbers

could mean a cut in council profits from the iconic tower. Alex, why

quit on the lift now? They lift does work but the problem

is the reliability. The council has spent six years trying to improve

it, ever since the tower open. Today the councillor said they had

spent enough money on trying to get into work and it is likely that

decision will be approved tomorrow. That leaves them with two choices,

they can either remove the lift all together or leave it merited but

not working. It is now unlikely that it will ever do what it was

designed for. It does not go up straight. It goes up at an angle

outside, held on by just one side. It is very, very technically

difficult and it just has not worked. We have got to be realistic

about that. Inevitably I am disappointed by that. What does

this mean for the tower? Now the initial excitement has died

down, visitor numbers are falling. That is a concern. The operators

had hoped that get in the lift working would give the tower and

boost and encourage people to come back. Now that will not happen,

they need something new so they are looking at potential improvements

to the structure around the entrance. There are some questions

about who will pay for that. considerable amount of money has

been spent on the tower and we are still paying for it. We need to be

careful if we are to spend more money on it going forward to make

sure that we get a payback from the investment in a set period of time

and it is clearly and robustly demonstrated. The operators have

asked the council to take a cut in net profits from the tower because

the income has fallen. It is unlikely that the council will do

that. Despite the tower being a huge success, everyone agrees that

something is needed to keep its successful. We now know that is

highly unlikely to be the left. A woman from West Sussex claims she

was treated inhumanely by the Israeli authorities. Audrey Gray

says she was held against her will for four days in Israel last week

after she tried to get to the West Bank to show her support for the

Palestinians. The Israeli Embassy told BBC South they were doubtful

about her claims but she was welcome to make an official

complaint. Audrey Gray is back home after

being detained by the Israelis. She said she was travelling to the West

Bank at the invitation of families there. The campaign group said it

was for a week of peace for activities. Audrey Gray and other

campaigners were held at the airport in Tel Aviv last Friday and

she said that the inside the van as she was transferred to prison was

the most awful experience of our life. It was horrible. We were

locked in, slammed in, no air. The temperature was high. There were

little tiny strips up the top. I am seats. Eventually the other women

came. One French women came in their shackled. The Israelis had

this to say about the complaint about her treatment. I will doubt

that. I will check the case and I do nothing there was such a case.

If there was a case then it seems to be much easier to complain in

the media rather than to send in any official complaint through the

British Embassy. I am not aware of such a complaint. Audrey Gray said

the conditions in the place she was eventually held were reasonable.

She insists she was held against her will and was not given a reason

why. She was sent back to the UK after four days inside. The Israeli

embassy says she was held in a facility, not a prison. Audrey Gray

says her experience has not deterred her from supporting the

Palestinians but she would clarify her status with Israel before

considering any return. 80 years ago it drew an audience of

half a million to watch - how the story of the Schneider Trophy Air

Race is being brought to a new generation.

Sundeep was 22 when she was terribly scarred, after acid was

thrown in her face in an apparently random attack. It was feared she

would lose her right eye after the incident near her home in Kenya.

But her Uncle, who lives in Britain, put her in touch with the

pioneering McIndoe Surgical Centre in Sussex and over the last six

years they have rebuilt her face and helped rebuild her life.

Some of you may find the images in this report disturbing.

Sunday bores in the car with her father when somebody threw acid at

her. That person has never been identified and she has never found

out why she was attacked. This was the impact. Her eyelids, and much

of her face burned away. She was terribly scarred. The first time I

saw it, it was a shock. It was really upsetting. It felt like the

world was coming to an end. There was no hope that I would get better.

Everything fell like it was born in one second. Had she stayed in Kenya,

she would have lost their sight permanently. Her case was taken on

by surgeons at a specialist burns centre in East Grinstead. More than

30 operations later and the results are clear. She needed to have skin

graft to her upper and lower eyelids. She needed to have surgery

to her neck and subsequently to her upper lip and to her hair to try

and expanded because she had a large bald patch. They have done a

really good job and I am really lucky that I got them to treat me

and help me to reach this far. It makes me feel like I still can live

like a normal person. She has done just that, going back to work and

marrying her fiance. She admits that in hospital, she was convinced

he would tell her it was all over. The good times were together and in

the bad times, why can't we be together? It never came across my

mind that I would say something like that. Because she is the same

person? Yes. While medical staff gave their time for free, the rest

of the costs were found by its fund raising. Now they are trying to

raise more money to continue her It has been 12 years in the making

and is the largest development project in the South West. Now the

construction of Poole's Twin Sails Bridge is one step closer to

linking Poole and ham were they. A massive project designed to

regenerate the area -- how unworthy. This still leaves have been moved

into position today. -- but still leads.

A major technical challenge achieved by precision engineering.

A key stage in Poole's regeneration project. The steel needs to move

from dry land to the backwater Channel.

Certainly with the concept of it, it is a very unique design.

total the regeneration project is costing �37 million. 2000 new homes

will also be put on the 26 Hector side. The plan is that within 15

years �100 million will go back into the local economy and

thousands of new jobs will be created. We know we have an elderly,

ageing population but we need to be able to balance that with jobs for

young people, homes, and that has always been our ambition and the

bridge and business opportunities Television broadcasts in the south

will make the switch to digital next year and a new campaign was

launched today in an effort to make sure nobody is left out. Starting

with a tea party in Southampton. Anybody not registered will ease

their signal after the switch-over. Staff are on hand to help locals

get to grips with the new system which will be rolled out at the

start of 2012. This is a gentle reminder that if

you have got any television in the house they get the signal through

an area or you need to do something next year when this whichever comes.

If you have Freeview television retune your equipment. If you are

still watching analogue by an external Freeview box, you will be

ready for switch-over. They were the elite of the day, the

pilots to chase the world speed record. Their constant attempts to

win this Naidu Trophy and will the nation. -- of Snider. -- Schneider.

The museum in the south has won the right to tell the story.

He began in 1911 as a competition to encourage technical innovation.

He became a matter of national pride with the British pitched

against the Italians, the French and the Americans. This love affair

with speed took this Schneider Trophy to all the glamourous places,

Monaco, Naples, Venice and hear in place. Planes flew at inconceivable

speeds and the men who flew them work front page news. Supermarine

S6 was built by a RJ Mitchell, here it is in the Solent Sky Museum in

Southampton. 80 years ago it was roaring over the skies of the solid,

watched by hundreds of thousands of people who had flocked to the coast

including when Russell and Norman Coward, both in their nineties now.

-- Len Russell. The roar was tremendous. Nobody had

ever heard a noise like that before. People instinctively at this point

docked. For a young lad it was like a bullet going through. Then there

was an exclamation went up from the crowd. Some were even clapping.

The British team won it five times. Of course RJ Mitchell's aircraft

design did not stop there. They were developing the technology

and that was so important because as we went into the Second World

War the direct result of this aircraft was the Supermarine S6. It

went on to develop into the Spitfire. The exhibition will tour

the South, go to Goodwood and Calshot before making a permanent

You don't realise, it does pilots, they were like the David Beckhams

because they were so well known. And they were so cool. I always

knew I lived in the wrong era. A new era for Brighton and Hove.

Their flat to Portugal -- they flew out to Portugal for a pre-season

match. The first Test match at their new �90 million and next

stadium was played between the Albion Reserves and Eastbourne

borough in this the 6th Senior Cup final. Albion 12-0. The official

opening comes next Saturday. Peter Waterfield recovered from

illness to help Tom Daley qualify for the 10 metres synchronised

event at the world championships in China this weekend. He had been

unable to train with his partner for a week after catching a flu bug.

He had qualified for their final in 5th place. They dropped a place to

sick. A creditable position in the circumstances.

Days had been set for the 2020 competition in cricket. The royals

will face Durham at the Rose Bowl - Coverage of both matches if on BBC

local radio. Glorious Goodwood will next week

once again be a destination for fashionable folk from across

country. An annual fixture in the so-called season. A place to see

and be seen. One person will have a fair claim on the most glamourous

tag next Thursday and she will be Edie Campbell is used to be in

front of the camera, but the 20- year-old supermodel is swapping

catwalk for racecourse next week to raise money for charity.

Just the chance to ride a proper racehorse in SME proper race, quite

scared, excited, I haven't really thought about it properly yet. And

trying to prepare as best I can. She will race other celebrities at

Glorious Goodwood next Thursday and although she wrote as a youngster

she is pushing up as gills under the expert eye it of George Baker,

at his stables near Fordingbridge. I have a rather cliched impression

of what a supermodel would turn up and expect, France on to the place

with a big pat and look at the weather and probably go home. She

was fantastic, got on the horse, clearly a competent rider and good

fun, good fun for us to have her around and hopefully she is

enjoying it. This is Edie in her day job, she

has been a model for five years and has quickly become one of the most

sought-after places in fashion. She will be riding a rising star at

Goodwood as well. Her horse, named after his trainer George Baker was

ridden to victory at Newmarket on Friday night by Frankie Dettori.

I think everybody is fairly competitive. And super competitive,

I really want to win. I will take- no-prisoners!

What Prix manner was handed Desert Orchid, racing's brightest star

before Edie was even born. Having a supermodel in the yard has put them

in the spotlight again. Keep an eye out next Thursday

afternoon. You need courage.

At Lord Sugar may have found his next apprentice last night, did you

watch it? But the next generation of entrepreneurs have been put

through their paces in Dorset. The pupils at Stourfield Junior

School have made and designed her a chocolate bars and today they got

the chance to take their first steps in the world of big business

and a pitched into a supermarket. Tom Hepworth leapt at the chance to

I think we have a good chance of If we are successful it will go

global. What business qualifications do have? I play

Monopoly quite a lot. You are fired. These children are not out to

impress Lord Sugar, but they are hoping to taste sweet success --

success with their chocolate. They have declined -- designed three

bars, one with banana and toffee, one aimed at mothers, and a local

bar for local people. A local chef from a cookery school came and did

some work and we have got some parents that run a marketing firm

and they have put a massive amount of time in taking the children's

ideas and professionalise in the work they have done isn't that

cheating? It is using the community. We value our links with our local

community. We spent a lot of time thinking about what target market

we should aim at. How did it go? They kept on saying well done. I

think he was very proud. Did he played any orders? No. If we sell-

out at Bournemouth we will create a more and create a more global

things and try and take over the world! No orders yet, we need to go

through our head office to see where we go. Some great Commons,

really pleased. Remember the first ball of cells,

don't take no for an answer. They still managed to get them on the

supermarket shelves. Other chocolate bars are available.

Well done, fantastic. Going global.

Business ticks -- business experience? I play Monopoly, the

-- of the 9th. You will need an umbrella over the next few days.

Very unsettled. Heavy showers at times. It will be colder. Showers

belonged in places. We have a band of rain over us. A wet, rush-hour

drive home. It will ease as we head through the night. A showers on and

off. Taking a closer look tonight the main band of rain, heavy in

places, it was Goethe's way eastwards. It will clear most areas

Some sunshine on offer first thing tomorrow morning. Then there

showers get going to like they did today. Not as frequent as today.

Some areas have been lovely sunny conditions. The wind tomorrow

afternoon will change direction, coming from the north, feeling

colder. Clear skies in some places tomorrow night. The cloud of rides

by dawn. Temperatures will stay mild -- the cloud arrives. We are

keeping an eye on this area of rain over the near Continent. Bigger

shift further northwards affecting the south coast. Almost on

Wednesday and improving picture. One or two showers dotted around.

Pretty messy day on Thursday. A drier end to the day. Dry overnight

Thursday and Friday. Friday, the isobars start to widen. The will

and will not be as brisk. We will see the air coming in from the

north. -- the wind will not be as brisk. Temperatures below the

seasonal average. Tomorrow, one or two showers dotted around.