28/07/2011 South Today

Hello, I am Sally Taylor. Welcome to South Today. Tonight: At the

warnings after a devoted family man is accidentally gassed to death in

a tent. We have used generators for such a

long time, so if we can get the message out about how to use them

and where to base them, that is something we needed to do.

The sailors back home but facing up to life in a smaller Navy.

Trying to protect a piece of D-Day history and the bottom of the sea.

And sporting greats, celebrities... And then there is Gordon. The

online campaign to put this man in the Olympic torch spotlight. I am

overwhelmed by the number of people who have got behind Gordon and said

Good evening. An inquest has heard that a cruel combination of events

led to the death of a young father who was poisoned by exhaust fumes

as he slept in a tent. Richard Phillips from Worthing died while

in Somerset last September. His widow said she hopes his tragic

death will serve as a warning to others.

Richard Phillips had two great loves in his life - his family...

And a riding off-road motorcycles. This is him, filmed by his son,

practising near their home in Worthing. His widowed travelled

from West Sussex to Somerset for her husband's inquest. He was

everybody's hero, I think. Since he was six, it was his life. He loved

every single minute of it. He has passed that on to my boys, so we

are continuing to race even though he is not here. He was a fantastic

man and would do anything for anybody. In September, he was

camping with friends ahead of riding his bike in a competition.

This photograph shows the petrol generator outside the tent where he

slept, powering an electric heater inside. The inquest heard it should

have been a metre away but was half that distance. The winds that night

were too light to blow the carbon monoxide fumes away but strong

enough to blow the poisonous gas into the tent. His friends had gone

to bed later, and the generator was switched off. Richard was exposed

for the longest time and died. He was just 38. Recording a verdict of

accidental death, the coroner said it was the combination of those

factors that caused Richard Phillips's death. Were any one of

them to have been any different, he may well have survived. If we can

stop it happening to anybody else, that is our main goal. It was such

a tragedy. Something that we never would have expected. We have used

generators for such a long time, so if we can get the message out about

how to use them, where to place them, then that is something we

need to do. On her way home to Worthing, she would lay flowers at

the site where her husband died, hoping lessons would be learned and

that others would not suffer as she has.

A second man has been charged with the murder of Andrew Rickwood from

Aldershot. Mr Rickwood was found in Basing Drive with serious injuries

and later pronounced dead at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey.

24-year-old William Aaron Stewart appeared at Aldershot magistrates'

court this morning and was remanded in custody.

A coroner has ruined that three soldiers shot at their base in

Helmand Province by a road Afghan colleague were unlawfully killed. -

- has ruled. The three soldiers were all from the first Battalion

Royal Gurkha Rifles and were killed in the attack on their base last

year. Nearly 500 sailors arrived back in

Portsmouth today aboard two warships after six months at sea.

HMS Richmond has been involved in anti-piracy operations, while HMS

Iron Duke's deployment included frontline action of Libya. Both

crews are expected to be very busy over the coming years as the number

of sailors and chips is reduced as part of the Government's defence

review. Steve Humphrey is in Portsmouth. Then maybe is certainly

under pressure. Yes, if you add the Navy's

commitments around the world together and factor in operations

of the Libyan coast, you realise why the fleet is so busy. These

ships have both been away for over six months. HMS Richmond has been

carrying out anti-piracy patrols of the Horn of Africa and has been as

far as Singapore, Brunei and the Seychelles. HMS Iron Duke has been

carrying out patrols in the Gulf and, on the way home, got involved

in operations of the Libyan coast. Little wonder that the sailors were

so delighted to get back to Portsmouth this morning!

Cheering crowds welcomed HMS Richmond and HMS Iron Duke back to

Portsmouth. In the wake of the Government's defence review, these

two warships represent a 10th of the UK's entire fleet of frigates

and destroyers. Everyone on board, and their families and friends,

knows that the Navy is facing a busy future. If there are less

people and ships but still the same amount of work to do. We are going

to be busier. It has gone quicker. What has it been like for you while

he has been a way? Tough, but you try to get into routine so you do

not notice it as much. Senior officers say that with fewer ships

and sailors, the Navy is becoming more efficient than ever before.

Through a well trained, resilient crew, there is no doubt that the

Navy is working hard. The conflict in Libya has added to the Navy's

commitments. HMS Iron Duke was called into action on her way home

to destroy a pro Gaddafi short battery. They had a very intense,

excited feel about it. They were inside the range of certain weapons

but the key thing was to balance the risk of getting ashore without

putting the ship in undue danger. In the midst of the welcome home

there was a touch of romance. One sailor's long deployment ended with

a marriage proposal. Did you know? I didn't. What did she say? Yes.

All these sailors will now get some well-earned shore leave, but many

will soon be back at sea. You mentioned that the Navy is

getting smaller - have you got any figures?

The yes, I will give you some context. In 1982, before the

Falklands war, their country had a total of 56 frigates and destroyers.

That number will now come down to 19 frontline frigates and

destroyers. NAD is also taking a big man power hit. By 2015, the

size of the Navy will come down from 35,000 people to 30,000 people.

The job of matching commitments to resources is going to become very

tough. Fire crews in Portsmouth have been

tackling high rise flat buyers today. It has been designed to beat

as lifelike as possible. It follows the death of two firefighters 18

months ago. -- have been practising tackling. This is an exercise to

help train firefighters to tackle blazes that break out in a tower

blocks. 35 firefighters were involved in today's exercise at an

empty flat on the top of a high- rise block, which was filled with

smoke to simulate a real-life fire. They had to rescue four people

trapped inside before making the area safe. They are very difficult

to train for. We need the buildings to be able to practise. That is

what you have seen here today. fire safety is very high on our

agenda at the moment, and our approach to fire safety in our high

Rise Properties is very good. approach to fires in high-rise

blocks has changed after two firefighters died at a fire in his

tower block in Southampton last year. Now the focus is on keeping

firefighters safe. So instead of three engines responding, five are

sent to any fire in a high-rise block. And firefighters will no

longer enter the flat that is on fire until all crews are there and

back up is in place on stairwells and floors below. The incident last

year raised some of the dangers of two firefighters -- the dangers to

firefighters. They need to see the layout of them, see the water

supplies, sea access. They need to familiarise themselves for how they

would put the procedure in place in a specific building. A although

today's was fake, fires like this are all too real, so crews want to

make sure they are ready when they happen.

Campaigners demonstrated outside an NHS meeting, demanding to know why

a promise has not been kept for a new hospital in Littlehampton. They

lobbied a meeting of the Sussex Cluster Primary Care Trust in

Crawley. In response, NHS Sussex said it would talk with campaigners

next week. Still to come this evening: A Roger

has been enjoying Ed day out at the races.

A glorious day at Goodwood, and we will focus on the racing.

Particularly a special celebrity race. We have had a hot weather and

the sunshine. But what about the weather in the next few days?

Social workers in Southampton will extend their strike action for a

further six days in August. Workers from adoption, fostering and the

adolescent Ridett -- Resource Centre will walk out over pay cuts

and the council's decision to pay only a limited number of workers a

yearly supplement. It comes after its staff in child and adult

safeguarding announced a one-day strike. The council says it will

put children's welfare and whisk. The parking wardens in Reading are

told to be more lenient with delivery drivers after shopkeepers

complained it is hurting their business. They say lorries have

been ticketed as they drop off or pick up goods. Shop owners say that

changes to the town's traffic flow means they are suffering. The

council says changes are part of a six-month trial. They will be there

telling them off, booking them, and they have got quite funny with us,

with the shop, as if it is our fault and it is not. We have had to

talk them round, promising them that things will be sorted out.

There is less than a year to go before the Olympic Games open in

Britain and much of the talk in the build-up has been about the legacy

the Games world leave. Will places like Weymouth and Portsmouth, homes

of the sailing events, benefit in the long term? Seven years ago,

Greece hosted the Olympics. Have they seen a lasting legacy? Simon

Denison has been to Athens to find out.

Olympic Athens then there, and the sailing centre now. Dorset is next

to host events on the water, but Greece already knows what life can

hold after the party moves on. Organisers admit the future of some

venues was not properly thought through. The international

spotlight is not enough to convince the mayor of the waterfront where

the sailing took place. He questions whether the bid should

have ever been put forward. TRANSLATION: We expressed our

objections and were against hosting the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004,

but now we feel the legacy has justified our argument. The things

are really difficult and in my opinion, hosting the Olympic Games

in 2004 did not benefit our country as much as it should have done.

Organisers say the Syd T has the games to thank for a new airport. -

- the city. Tens of millions of pounds have already been sent on --

spent on doors at's transport network, but Athens is now

discovering whether the Olympics is the gift that keeps on giving. The

area close to the sailing centre saw an opportunity to grow its to

foreign business year on year, as Dorset does now. -- tourism

The atmosphere was terrific before the Games. You believed that after

the Olympics it would be good fantastic. But things went be

downwards. People should not expect that the Olympic Games will it

change their lives. I and afterwards? Some people will not

benefit at all, some will have it as a very nice memory. Some other

people who have managed to develop the business will be grateful to

the Olympics. It there are -- there are bigger issues in Greece than

whether the legacy of their Olympic Games is positive. But there are

lessons for our part of the world as the Olympics fast approaches.

Now, there has been some great horse racing today. Glorious

Goodwood has continued and the weather is glorious. In all the

this is that you were doing, did you manage to have a flutter today?

As you are about to find out, I regretted the fact that I did not.

I did not have the courage of my convictions. The evening's

entertainment is under way. Plenty of punters still here. The feature

race of the day was won by Frankie Dettori on the opinion poll. The

sunshine today has been glorious. The first race was a celebrity race.

Goodwood on a glorious summer lunch time. Relaxing and convivial.

Except for these Nine women. Ladies' Day at this year's festival

began with a charity race in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital.

the changing room, they were all whipping each other up into

hysteria. Once we get on the horses, it will be fine. How is your horse?

Good. I am not sure what resources are meant to feel like. It is a

nice horse. A you feeling good about it? Yes, but mostly noxious.

-- nauseous. By the end of the line, Delight for her trainer, who was

watching on the big screen. She has done this properly. There was no

flouncing around him super -- around in super model load. I could

not see what was going on, but it was good I think. This was a moment

to remember. A grey day's racing. And they all did really well. Just

like a couple of guys who have raised a lot of money for charity.

The featured them on Monday when the set out to swim to the Isle of

Wight, run round debt and then swung back. The cupboard over 60

miles it to raise awareness of pancreatic cancer and fund a new

equipment. I feel really exhilarated. We raised awareness,

we set out to achieve what we wanted it to achieve. A seven-mile

swimming, 60 miles running. Good news for Mark Ramprakash.

Tomorrow, we are going to Brighton. It is the eve of a huge favour

Brighton and Hove Albion fans. Debbie everything they would see a

view like this? They knew Amex's stadium will open on Saturday. We

will be with one supporter who remembers the day of the Goldstone

Ground and all the anguish when that went. Finally, he will see his

beloved clop back home. People just cannot wait for this to arrive. Now

that it has, and with what happened last season getting promoted, it is

a perfect, perfect launch for this stadium. A bright future for some,

for Brighton and Hove Albion. It is the 4th day of glorious Goodwood

tomorrow. We would get the weather forecast in just a moment. It looks

fabulous! The discovery of sunken tanks off

the south coast of England is posing a problem for the law

surrounding shipwrecks. Archaeologists examining the debris

from a D-Day landing craft for English Heritage say it needs

better protection. The tank set off on June 5th 1944

from Stokes Bay, but it sank along with the landing craft south of

Selsey. It had been enroute to Juno Beach in Normandy for the D Day

landings. The problem now is that because

these are sunken tanks rather than a shipwreck, they are not covered

by the law. Peter Henley explains. It is a snapshot of D-Day. Lying on

the seabed off the Isle of Wight. The tracks of the tanks are

remarkably well preserved after more than 60 years in salt water.

Upside down on the sand, the driver's Hadj is open. -- driver's

Hatch. There is live ammunition, support vehicles and spares. A time

capsule sealed in 1944. The vehicles were in the first wave of

invasion forces. But perhaps because of extra heavy armour that

had been fitted, the landing craft they were on was swamped. The

original discovery was made by local enthusiasts. Now they are

working with a local trust to survey and chart the site. It needs

to be protected. We can connect these are right city human side are

still alive. There are descendants of the people that were almost

landing craft and the can gather their stories. By interview him the

veterans, archaeologists realised these were rare examples of times.

But her final bring them to the surface? -- tanks. But why not

bring them to the surface. It is now like an artificial reef with

lots of Madine life on it. It belongs there now. To protect the

site, the trust now hopes to present a case study for using the

same archaeological law that applies on land. It is not a war

grave or a ship wrecked, but it is a precious snapshot of a moment of

history in the south coast. Great underwater pictures.

David Smith from Salisbury captured this picture of the Britannia steam

loco bathed in the early morning sunshine departing Salisbury for a

Cathedral Dreams special to Canterbury.

Here is a scene in Portsmouth. Quite a crowd had gathered to watch

the boats coming in and out of the You are looking glorious in

Goodwood. Thank you. We could not have chosen

a better day for Ladies' Day at Goodwood. Let's have a look at the

weather. The satellite image from earlier shows a clear view over

much of our region. But that is cloud heading into our region from

the West. We could have some drizzle later on. For many of us, a

cloudy, warm at night to come. Rows of 14 or 17 Celsius. As we start

our journey tomorrow morning, in the West, it will be a dry start to

the day. The best of the sunshine early in the day south of their M4.

Plenty of sunshine around, but not so much as today. It will feel

slightly cooler as well. The breeze in land will be slightly lighter

and they may encourage for the showers. An odd isolated shower for

the south. A fresh and light to come with lows of seven or eight

Celsius. As we head into the weekend, Saturday looks promising.

Initially cloudy, it will brighten up. Lots of sunshine to be had.

Sunday is the warmer day of the two, but more cloud around. It is

looking promising for Saturday as well offer of a Sunday -- as well

as for Sunday. Next week is looking warm as well.

It is going to be one of the hottest tickets in town come next

year - who gets to carry the Olympic torch around the UK.

Celebrities and sporting legends are often the faces we see holding

the iconic torch as it makes its way to the Games. There will also

be the chance for members of the public to be nominated and

considered as torch bearers. And that's where this man comes in.

This is Gordon Roberts. He's a well-known face in Bournemouth. And

he has become something of an online sensation with thousands of

people backing a campaign for him to carry the torch. Tom Hepworth

Trafalgar Square hosted a glitzy ceremony yesterday. But Gordon

Roberts was not invited to, and he is not bothered. He can tell you

the time he if you want even though he has not to watch. Half past 11.

But today, he has gone global. He is at the centre of a Facebook

campaign to carry their Olympic torch as it passes through

Bournemouth. What you think about it? I would just be the same.

will not let it affect you? No. as Gordon fit the bill? If I was

honest, I think I would rather have somebody a little bit more

deserving. I think it would be nice because he does not do any harm to

anyone. It is not a joke, we are not exploiting them. The genuinely

want him to be the torch-bearer. We have had comments on the group of

people in London mentioning his name. The games at local organisers

did not want to comment on Gordon's nomination. But Gordon has not made

his mind up either. A I will have to think it over. If he does become

the torch-bearer, you can count on one thing, he will not be late.

Good luck to him. If you want to nominate somebody, have a look at

our website. The details of the screen at now.