:00:05. > :00:07.Hello, I'm Sally Taylor. Welcome to South Today. In tonight's
:00:07. > :00:16.programme: Backing up the system, the patients
:00:16. > :00:20.waiting months for operations for crippling problems. They tried to
:00:20. > :00:23.say life isn't worth living any more, of course it is, but it makes
:00:23. > :00:29.it more difficult day by day. The battle for cruise control
:00:29. > :00:32.between Southampton and Liverpool intensifies. If in the future
:00:32. > :00:36.Liverpool invest in their facilities it is possible some
:00:36. > :00:39.voyages would start in Liverpool, it would be popular for our guests.
:00:39. > :00:48.Wading through the water in her back garden, now this woman's house
:00:48. > :00:58.is under threat. And why this side is revealing the
:00:58. > :01:01.
:01:01. > :01:04.A Hampshire man with a crippling back condition has been told he may
:01:04. > :01:07.have to wait a year for an operation. Tony Hawkins, from
:01:07. > :01:09.Winchester, can't walk more than a few yards without needing to rest.
:01:09. > :01:13.But Southampton General says it has been inundated with spinal patients,
:01:13. > :01:19.many from other hospitals. It is now having to pay private clinics
:01:19. > :01:21.to take on some of the cases. Here is our health correspondent, David
:01:21. > :01:25.Fenton. Tony Hawkins has stenosis of the
:01:25. > :01:35.spine. Even this short walk to his kitchen exhausts him. Often, he
:01:35. > :01:39.cannot move more than 15 yards without pausing for a rest. They
:01:39. > :01:43.have tried to save life isn't worth living any more, of course it is,
:01:43. > :01:47.but it makes it more difficult day- by-day. He needs an operation, but
:01:47. > :01:54.it has taken five months just to see a consultant. He has no idea
:01:54. > :01:58.when his treatment will start. took us months to see the
:01:58. > :02:04.consultant, and then it to go further two or three weeks before
:02:04. > :02:09.we learned that we are on the waiting list. I find that pretty
:02:09. > :02:12.astounding. Hospitals should treat patients within 18 weeks, but there
:02:12. > :02:14.has been a big increase in spinal cases. And as smaller hospitals
:02:14. > :02:17.have stopped doing surgery, waiting times have increased. Today,
:02:17. > :02:21.Southampton said it was it was "working to address the issue". It
:02:21. > :02:26.is recruiting a new surgeon and it has also paid for patients to go
:02:26. > :02:29.private. In a statement, it said: "We are aware Mr Hawkins and his
:02:29. > :02:37.wife have concerns over his treatment and will be in touch with
:02:37. > :02:40.them directly to keep them updated". But despite more than 50 letters,
:02:40. > :02:50.emails and phone calls to the hospital, Tony's wife still has no
:02:50. > :02:54.idea when or if he will be treated. You feel like you are in the dark,
:02:54. > :02:58.like you are a bit of a nuisance. You are an NHS patient number, that
:02:58. > :03:05.is all they ever ask you for. Tony's best hope now is for an
:03:05. > :03:07.operation sometime next August. The subject of waiting times for
:03:07. > :03:10.surgery came up yesterday in Prime Minister's Questions. The leader of
:03:10. > :03:13.the Opposition accused the Prime Minister of having the wrong
:03:13. > :03:16.priorities in the Health Service. Ed Miliband urged Mr Cameron to
:03:16. > :03:25.explain why the number of people who wait longer than six months for
:03:25. > :03:31.an operation has gone up by more than 60% since he came to office.
:03:31. > :03:35.Does waiting for orthopaedic operations, up by 72%. Those
:03:35. > :03:38.waiting for eye surgery, Mr Speaker, the country and I are at just
:03:38. > :03:43.asking for a simple explanation from the Prime Minister, why has it
:03:43. > :03:47.happened? The explanation is that the amount of time people are
:03:47. > :03:52.waiting for an out-patient operation has actually gone down,
:03:52. > :03:56.that is what has happened. As he knows, we have targets for 90% of
:03:56. > :04:03.people to get their treatment within 18 weeks, and those targets
:04:03. > :04:07.are being met. He may not like the trees, but that is the truth. -- he
:04:07. > :04:10.may not like the truth. So what is the reality here in the
:04:10. > :04:13.south? Here are a few examples from our hospitals of patients seen
:04:13. > :04:16.within the 18-week period the Prime Minister mentioned there. The
:04:16. > :04:19.figures are for June of this year. At the top end of the table was
:04:19. > :04:27.Bournemouth, seeing 96% of patients in that time. Poole was high as
:04:27. > :04:30.well, at 94%, and Salisbury wasn't But at the other end of the scale
:04:30. > :04:40.were Southampton on 78%, Worthing and St Richard's on 77%, and the
:04:40. > :04:45.
:04:45. > :04:50.To discuss this I am joined by Dr Brian Hammond, an osteopath and
:04:50. > :04:54.chiropractor and chairman of the charity back care. Thank you for
:04:54. > :04:59.joining us. A lot of people have back problems, you must see a lot
:04:59. > :05:04.of people with back problems, but how many are serious conditions,
:05:04. > :05:09.and do they really need surgery? About 50% of the population will
:05:09. > :05:14.suffer with back pain this year, and about 3% of those will be very
:05:14. > :05:19.serious. When people consult an orthopaedic surgeon at, about one
:05:19. > :05:24.in 50 will go for surgery. That does not see many, it seems a small
:05:24. > :05:29.percentage, and yet, since we mentioned this story earlier today,
:05:29. > :05:33.we have had quite a few e-mails from people and nearly every one of
:05:33. > :05:39.them is saying, I am waiting, almost to a year or more, for a
:05:39. > :05:43.hospital treatment or appointment. It is clearly a very big problem.
:05:43. > :05:47.One would think, with an ageing population, that there would be
:05:47. > :05:53.some resource stretch and orthopaedic surgeons would be under
:05:54. > :06:00.pressure to provide early surgery. His surgery the only answer, do you
:06:00. > :06:04.think? Surgery is certainly not the only answer, it is successful in
:06:04. > :06:10.about 90% of patients with leg pain but only about 50% of patients with
:06:10. > :06:17.lower back pain, so the NICE reports recommend that many
:06:17. > :06:22.punitive treatments, physiotherapy, chiropractic, should be the line of
:06:23. > :06:27.first resort. You would say that, being a chiropractor and osteopath?
:06:27. > :06:32.But that is not always available on the NHS, isn't that the issue as
:06:32. > :06:37.well? That is correct, although osteopathy is available on the NHS
:06:37. > :06:42.in some regions, as is chiropractic and physiotherapy, which the
:06:42. > :06:47.government spent �150 million on last year for a back pain. Thank
:06:47. > :06:56.you for joining us this evening. And thank you for all of the e-
:06:56. > :07:00.mails you have been sending in on that particular story.
:07:00. > :07:04.A Royal Marine from Reading has been repatriated to the UK in the
:07:04. > :07:08.first such ceremony to be taken place at RAF Brize Norton in
:07:08. > :07:15.Oxfordshire. Sergeant Barry Weston of 42 Commando was killed when a
:07:15. > :07:17.roadside bomb in Afghanistan last week. He was the first repatriation
:07:17. > :07:22.at a �3 million purpose-built centre since the ceremony was moved
:07:22. > :07:25.from Wootton Bassett in Wiltshire. The most famous cruise company
:07:26. > :07:28.sailing from Southampton, Cunard, could be heading for Liverpool. It
:07:29. > :07:32.says it is interested in operating from a terminal in Liverpool city
:07:32. > :07:38.centre, if a row over the use of public funding to build it is
:07:38. > :07:41.resolved. Long-term, this could be what Liverpool port looks like,
:07:41. > :07:47.with new and improved cruise terminals and a massive housing and
:07:47. > :07:51.business development. The row over public money being used for
:07:51. > :07:54.Liverpool's current terminal is still not resolved. As a result,
:07:54. > :07:57.the port of Southampton accuses Liverpool of unfair competition. A
:07:57. > :08:03.Government consultation on the plan ends next week. Here is our
:08:03. > :08:06.transport correspondent, Paul Clifton.
:08:06. > :08:10.The Southampton-based cruise ship Queen Elizabeth arrived in
:08:10. > :08:15.Liverpool this morning for her maiden visit. For more than a
:08:16. > :08:20.century, this was Cunard's home port. The cruise terminal was paid
:08:20. > :08:25.for with public money, a condition of the subsidy was that it could
:08:26. > :08:28.not be used to compete against privately funded ports like
:08:28. > :08:33.Southampton for lucrative turnaround calls, taking on new
:08:33. > :08:40.passengers. Liverpool wants to overturn that, offering to repay a
:08:40. > :08:45.quarter of the subsidy, �5 million, over 15 years. For Southampton
:08:45. > :08:49.Forest Sheryl Dowd, that matters. If Liverpool takes away some of
:08:49. > :08:53.Southampton's cruise ships, her business will suffer.
:08:53. > :09:00.environment is lovely down here, and the area is buzzing. It would
:09:00. > :09:04.be such a pity and a great loss. The campaign by other ports to stop
:09:04. > :09:09.Liverpool's plans has gathered 6,000 signatures. What they are
:09:09. > :09:13.doing is using taxpayers' money, my money, your money, I am a taxi
:09:13. > :09:18.driver ear, to subsidise an operation in Liverpool for which
:09:18. > :09:23.public money has had to be used here. But in Liverpool today,
:09:23. > :09:27.Cunard made its intentions clear. Southampton remains our base but if
:09:27. > :09:30.Liverpool invest in that facilities like other ports around the world,
:09:30. > :09:35.then it is possible some voyages would start in Liverpool and I
:09:35. > :09:39.think that would be popular for our guests. In Liverpool, grand plans
:09:39. > :09:43.for the future. The terminal could be at the edge of a multi-billion-
:09:43. > :09:48.pound private redevelopment with a second cruise terminal and landmark
:09:48. > :09:52.buildings on a scale Southampton could not match. But the city
:09:52. > :09:57.council sees little point repaying the subsidy. It is weird that
:09:57. > :10:01.people think that, as the leader of Liverpool City Council, I should
:10:01. > :10:04.knock on the European Union's door and say, take this money back. Most
:10:04. > :10:09.ports around the country and most City have had European Union
:10:09. > :10:12.sending in some way to enhance their city's or airports, and that
:10:12. > :10:17.stage it is hypocritical of people to ask us to pay money back to
:10:17. > :10:21.Europe when Europe don't want it. government consultation on
:10:21. > :10:26.Liverpool's bid to become a turnaround port ends next week.
:10:27. > :10:30.Paul is with me. This would be an interesting move by Cunard, there
:10:30. > :10:34.are big forces at stake politically and financially?
:10:34. > :10:38.Behind the political argument over whether public or private money
:10:38. > :10:42.pays for a cruise terminal are big businesses, and most people I have
:10:42. > :10:45.spoken to suspect Liverpool will win this. But whichever side wins
:10:45. > :10:49.it will influence the look of the waterfront in Southampton and
:10:49. > :10:53.Liverpool for years to come. It Southampton loses, it might
:10:53. > :10:58.postpone plans for a 5th cruise terminal, but more importantly it
:10:58. > :11:03.will affect the working lives of hundreds or thousands of people.
:11:03. > :11:07.Why are the stakes so high? It is a business worth millions.
:11:07. > :11:12.Cruising used to be the preserve of the well-off, but that has changed
:11:12. > :11:19.and it is now a mass-market package holiday, the equivalent of two
:11:19. > :11:26.weeks on the Spanish Kostas, and in the north is a mine untapped market.
:11:26. > :11:30.Go from Manchester it is quite a trek to get a cruise. Linda Paul
:11:30. > :11:36.Wood cell, that is why Cunard is interested in going back to the
:11:36. > :11:39.home port it abandoned -- liver Paul would sell. That is why
:11:39. > :11:42.Southampton is so worried about losing it.
:11:42. > :11:45.Tributes have been paid in the House of Commons to the Red Arrows
:11:45. > :11:48.pilot killed at the Bournemouth Air Festival last month. Flight
:11:48. > :11:51.Lieutenant Jon Egging, who was 33, died as his Hawk jet crashed on the
:11:51. > :11:54.banks of the River Stour. An inquiry has been ordered into his
:11:54. > :12:02.death. The Conservative MP for Bournemouth East, Tobias Ellwood,
:12:02. > :12:06.said he was a brave man. Rather than eject from his stricken
:12:06. > :12:10.aircraft, he was able to manoeuvre it away from a built-up area, an
:12:10. > :12:16.action which probably cost him his life. He will be missed by his
:12:16. > :12:21.family, friends, the RAF community and, indeed, his nation.
:12:21. > :12:24.A tribute to left -- to Flight Lieutenant Jon Egging in the House
:12:24. > :12:27.of Commons. A widow from Surrey says her home
:12:28. > :12:30.is being put at risk by a water company. Virginia McDonagh lives
:12:30. > :12:33.next door to a South East Water treatment works. Her garden
:12:33. > :12:36.regularly floods and now the water is getting closer to her house.
:12:36. > :12:40.Virginia's late husband repeatedly complained to the company, and she
:12:40. > :12:43.says it is hard to fight on without him. Danielle Glavin reports.
:12:43. > :12:48.Wellies are essential wear when Virginia McDonagh hangs out her
:12:48. > :12:52.washing. There are boggy patches across the lawn. The problem is the
:12:52. > :12:55.water treatment works next door. Water trickles from under their
:12:55. > :13:03.fence onto her property. The surface damage looks superficial,
:13:03. > :13:06.but the real worry is about what lies beneath. We had a survey out
:13:06. > :13:10.and he says if it goes on like this it will be going under the house.
:13:10. > :13:16.No way at the moment would we be able to sell the house because
:13:16. > :13:21.nobody could get a mortgage, nobody would agree to have a mortgage on
:13:21. > :13:23.the house because of the water, the amount of water front and back.
:13:23. > :13:26.garage also regularly floods. Virginia's late husband used to
:13:26. > :13:31.complain, their correspondence dates back 11 years. She says it is
:13:31. > :13:34.hard to fight on without him. South East Water told us: "South East
:13:34. > :13:40.Water is sorry for the distress the flooding at Millbrook House causes
:13:40. > :13:42.to the family. We are working to resolve the issues and are sorry
:13:42. > :13:46.for the time this has taken. Our engineering department is working
:13:46. > :13:49.to find a solution to the drainage issues and we will work with the
:13:49. > :13:55.family to ensure we get this issue, including their insurance and
:13:55. > :14:00.mortgage problems resolved once and for all".
:14:00. > :14:04.A writer's letters or e-mails, appear to be really serious, saying,
:14:04. > :14:08.oh, don't worry, we will get something done. But it just doesn't
:14:08. > :14:14.happen. South East Water say they will visit Virginia at the earliest
:14:14. > :14:17.opportunity. She hopes they bring a solution with them.
:14:17. > :14:20.The Home Secretary has denied that a decision has been made to sell
:14:20. > :14:24.off the Bramshill police training college in Hampshire. The Times
:14:24. > :14:27.newspaper reported that the sell- off of the college and its 300 acre
:14:27. > :14:30.estate near Hook would raise tens of millions of pounds. But Theresa
:14:30. > :14:32.May told a committee of MPs that talks are ongoing as part of the
:14:32. > :14:39.discussions on the future of the National Policing Improvement
:14:39. > :14:44.Agency. No final decisions have been taken
:14:44. > :14:49.in relation to the estate. The National Policing Improvement
:14:49. > :14:52.Agency work is being done as part of the process at -- the process of
:14:52. > :14:56.looking at leadership and looking at the estate, and when decisions
:14:56. > :14:59.are taken, they will be announced in the proper way.
:14:59. > :15:02.People living and working in Bournemouth will have to dial the
:15:02. > :15:05.01202 area code when making local calls from next year. The changes
:15:05. > :15:08.are being brought in by telecoms regulator Ofcom to boost the supply
:15:08. > :15:12.of spare numbers in other areas where they are needed. Bournemouth
:15:12. > :15:16.will pilot the system before it is rolled out to several other towns
:15:16. > :15:19.and cities, including Brighton and Hove, by 2016.
:15:19. > :15:23.Still to come in this evening's South Today:
:15:23. > :15:32.Still on course - the public cheer on comedian David Walliams as he
:15:32. > :15:35.tries to swim the Thames for Archaeologists have long known that
:15:35. > :15:39.the historic parts of Southampton can yield some pretty exciting
:15:39. > :15:42.finds. It is one of the earliest English settlements, and at one
:15:42. > :15:45.stage was probably the biggest, most important town in the whole
:15:45. > :15:50.country. That is why, whenever a building is demolished in the city,
:15:50. > :15:53.they like to get in quick to see what treasures might lie beneath.
:15:53. > :16:01.Chrissy Sturt has been to find out why they are so excited about their
:16:01. > :16:05.latest dig. This is where the story of the City
:16:06. > :16:10.of Southampton begins, this construction site is in the middle
:16:10. > :16:14.of the ancient Anglo-Saxon town of Hamlet. Because the band,
:16:14. > :16:18.archaeologists knew that the site had secrets to reveal. But what
:16:18. > :16:26.they found took their breath away. When they started digging, they
:16:26. > :16:35.quickly found human bones. They uncovered an unusual double burial,
:16:35. > :16:40.the couple's legs intertwined. The layout of the bones indicate it is
:16:40. > :16:45.the earliest Christian ceremony -- cemetery ever found here. We had
:16:45. > :16:49.absolutely no idea there was a Saxon ceremony -- cemetery. We
:16:49. > :16:56.thought, we have one great here, maybe we have more, and in the end
:16:56. > :16:59.we found eight of them. The eighth century town of Hamwic rivalled
:16:59. > :17:02.London in power and importance, thousands of Saxons lived here, and
:17:02. > :17:05.the artefacts yielded up by the site paint a vivid picture of their
:17:05. > :17:10.lives. We find their rubbish in the rubbish pits, the waste of the food
:17:10. > :17:13.they ate. Is it a period you would want to have lived in? If I had a
:17:13. > :17:17.time machine and would like to go back to find out more about the
:17:18. > :17:26.time, but I'm not sure I would like to live them. It would have been
:17:26. > :17:36.smelly, I'm sure! Pretty dirty, they used to eat toff beet and
:17:36. > :17:36.
:17:36. > :17:43.mutton, probably not a good period for vegetarians. -- toff beef.
:17:43. > :17:47.Matt's lab, we take a closer look at the site's finds. This is a
:17:47. > :17:51.snooze Blackstone with a hole in it, it was probably suspended summer,
:17:51. > :17:56.but we spotted a trace of gold, telling us a Goldsmith was working
:17:56. > :18:01.in that part of Southampton. This was found in a Saxon rubbish pit, a
:18:01. > :18:04.fossil of something that came out of the back end of a dog. Back at
:18:04. > :18:12.the site, work is well underway to build 13 affordable homes, meaning
:18:12. > :18:16.this site will have been continually lived on for 1300 years.
:18:16. > :18:20.And if you want to see any of those artefacts, they will be going on
:18:20. > :18:23.display at Southampton's new Sea City Museum, hopefully next year.
:18:23. > :18:28.David Walliams has made it to Berkshire in his Sport Relief
:18:28. > :18:31.attempt to swim 140 miles along the River Thames. The actor and
:18:31. > :18:35.comedian has been suffering from a stomach bug for the last 24 hours
:18:35. > :18:42.and has fallen a little behind schedule. Ben Moore was there with
:18:42. > :18:49.the crowds in Goring to see him enter the royal county.
:18:49. > :18:54.He crossed the border in his own way at about 11am. Hundreds lined
:18:54. > :18:58.the riverbank to cheer David Walliams through the lock. A man he,
:18:58. > :19:02.at the moment, is battling not permit the Thames but the stomach
:19:02. > :19:08.bugs the river gave him. -- battling not only the Thames. How
:19:08. > :19:15.are you feeling? Tired. What energy it had, it seemed he was saving it
:19:15. > :19:19.for the crowd. David has raised over �350,000 for Sport Relief so
:19:19. > :19:24.far. He is four hours behind schedule because of his illness but
:19:24. > :19:27.says his supporters are keeping him going. We live locally so it came
:19:27. > :19:31.down and have been here for an hour and-a-half waiting for him, well
:19:31. > :19:36.worth the wait. It doesn't happen every day, and he needs the support,
:19:36. > :19:41.so good to be here. Very impressive, it brings home what a feat it is
:19:41. > :19:45.and how cold it must be. Fantastic, a dream come true. We rushed along
:19:45. > :19:53.the river with him, walking at the speed he was swimming. It is
:19:53. > :19:58.fantastic. A last wave... I Love You, thank you! And he was off
:19:58. > :20:07.again. Another 35 miles to swim in Berkshire. He will stay just
:20:07. > :20:13.outside Reading tonight. Hopefully he will forgive me for
:20:13. > :20:16.pronouncing his name wrong! He has more things to worry about!
:20:16. > :20:19.And David should be finishing today at Caversham Bridge any moment. He
:20:20. > :20:23.will be setting off again from the same place at about 7am tomorrow
:20:23. > :20:26.and making his way through Reading. Get along and support him if you
:20:27. > :20:32.can. It is all for a very good cause. Good luck to David. On to
:20:32. > :20:42.spot. We will start with football. We had
:20:42. > :20:43.
:20:43. > :20:47.an international break last weekend. Southampton defender Dan Seaborne
:20:47. > :20:49.is expected to remain in hospital for a few more days after being
:20:49. > :20:52.beaten up outside a city centre nightclub last week. The 24-year-
:20:52. > :20:55.old has been ruled out of the team's Championship matches for an
:20:55. > :20:57.indefinite period following the attack, which left him with serious
:20:57. > :21:00.head injuries. Two men were arrested following the attack. One
:21:00. > :21:02.was released without charge, while the other was bailed while
:21:02. > :21:04.inquiries continue. He is not the first Saints player to be involved
:21:04. > :21:07.in a late-night city-centre incident in recent times.
:21:07. > :21:11.The important thing is the players have a good reputation around the
:21:11. > :21:14.city, they behave themselves. I was speaking to the chief constable at
:21:14. > :21:19.the hospital on Friday and he reiterated that, that the lads have
:21:19. > :21:23.a great reputation and it was an unfortunate thing for Dan. The lads
:21:23. > :21:29.had a weekend of macros so it was a bit of downtime for the players, it
:21:29. > :21:33.is not as if he was doing anything wrong, but it underlines how good,
:21:33. > :21:43.disciplined and professional we have a group of players in this
:21:43. > :21:48.football club. Here is the scorecard at the end of
:21:48. > :21:58.day two between Lancashire and Hampshire. And she's still 159
:21:58. > :21:59.
:21:59. > :22:09.behind, they need to go well Sussex gain the initiative on day
:22:09. > :22:16.
:22:16. > :22:19.two against Worcestershire, and International Paralympic Day has
:22:19. > :22:24.been celebrated today, with tickets for next summer's London Games due
:22:24. > :22:27.to go on sale tomorrow. Among those hoping to win gold on home soil is
:22:27. > :22:29.Dorset cyclist Darren Kenny. Already a multiple gold medallist
:22:29. > :22:34.from Athens and Beijing, Kenny is competing in the World Paralympic
:22:34. > :22:40.Road Race Championships in Denmark. But, as Kris Temple explains, it
:22:40. > :22:44.has not been a good day for him. This is what Darren Kenny has
:22:44. > :22:47.become used to. The top of the podium has almost been a second
:22:47. > :22:50.home for the 41-year-old Dorset dad. But today in Roskilde, something of
:22:50. > :22:59.a surprise. Darren suffered technical problems with his gears
:22:59. > :23:04.and could only finish ninth in the time trial. It is always dependent
:23:04. > :23:08.on the course and conditions, you can only do what you can do, so it
:23:08. > :23:11.wasn't quite to my liking. It is a far cry from the success he has
:23:12. > :23:15.enjoyed in recent years. Two golds and a silver in Athens in 2004 were
:23:15. > :23:18.followed by imperious performances in Beijing four years later. Darren
:23:18. > :23:26.came home with four golds and a silver, making him Britain's most
:23:26. > :23:30.successful Paralympic cyclist ever. Pressure is what you put on
:23:30. > :23:35.yourself, it doesn't really matter if there is a million people there
:23:35. > :23:41.or no one there, you want that gold, that is it. There is no good time
:23:41. > :23:43.for your bike to break. But better to have a mishap now than in London
:23:43. > :23:46.next year. Golf is not yet a Paralympic sport.
:23:46. > :23:51.If it was, this man might be a medallist. Last year, we featured
:23:51. > :23:55.Stan Bembenik from Berkshire. He has only got one leg after
:23:55. > :23:58.suffering from bone cancer more than 20 years ago. But he is one of
:23:58. > :24:01.the golfers from the region who have been named today in the first
:24:01. > :24:03.English Disabled Golf Team to play Scotland next month. Although there
:24:03. > :24:06.are many disabled tournaments and internationals for things like
:24:06. > :24:15.blind golf, it is the first such event for players with mobility
:24:15. > :24:25.disabilities. Well done to him, and good luck.
:24:25. > :24:27.
:24:27. > :24:30.Shall we keep the Gulfstream going? -- the Gulf Stream.
:24:30. > :24:33.A Dorset man has celebrated his 100th birthday with a round of golf.
:24:33. > :24:36.Bill Light completed nine holes at Sturminster Marshall Golf club
:24:36. > :24:42.before celebrating his centenary with friends and family. Happy
:24:42. > :24:46.birthday, Bill. I hope you enjoyed it. What did he get in the Gulf?
:24:46. > :24:53.Under par? He would be battling with the weather if he plays in the
:24:53. > :24:59.next few days. Wet and windy over the weekend, but a respite tomorrow.
:24:59. > :25:02.It has been a mixed day, some rain Keith Haywood captured the rocky
:25:02. > :25:10.shore line against the grey skies on Seaview beach on the Isle of
:25:10. > :25:13.Wight. Sandy Burnfield took this photo by
:25:13. > :25:16.the River Test at Longstock near Stockbridge in Hampshire.
:25:16. > :25:18.And the sun was shining for this heron fishing for its lunch in Vale
:25:18. > :25:20.of Aylesbury, captured by Dan Marshall.
:25:20. > :25:24.Some late-evening sunshine on offer but let's look at the weekend, very
:25:24. > :25:30.wet and windy. Rain at times, more so on Sunday, and that continues
:25:30. > :25:34.into next week. Tonight is a cloudy night, mist and fog could be a
:25:34. > :25:38.possibility for held up areas and the south coast, dense fog on the
:25:39. > :25:42.south coast on the English Channel. Outbreaks of light, a patchy rain,
:25:42. > :25:49.the odd heavy burst in places. Some clear spells but a lot of cloud
:25:49. > :25:52.overhead. Humid temperatures. An uncomfortable night for sleeping.
:25:52. > :25:57.Tomorrow there will be sunshine on offer, the outside chance of a
:25:57. > :26:03.shower. The mist and fog on the south coast could linger for much
:26:03. > :26:07.of the day, a problem if you want to head out to sea. If you are
:26:07. > :26:12.heading to the Isle of Wight, it should be a predominantly dry day.
:26:12. > :26:16.The outside chance of a shower, the mist and fog could be a problem
:26:16. > :26:24.heading over to the island. The showers will tend to die away
:26:24. > :26:28.overnight, the winds will start to pick up, dispersing any mist and
:26:28. > :26:32.fog problems. Yet another humid night to come. Saturday daytime, we
:26:32. > :26:37.have a cold front moving towards the North Sea, it will clear during
:26:37. > :26:42.the afternoon, so an improving picture, and on Sunday, a messy day,
:26:42. > :26:47.strong winds and heavy rainfall at times. That rain will continue into
:26:47. > :26:56.Monday courtesy of this area of low pressure in the Atlantic, another
:26:56. > :27:00.weather macrosystem drifting through, the winds will be brisk. -
:27:00. > :27:05.- weather system. Enjoy tomorrow one you can, because it turns right
:27:05. > :27:10.on Saturday, very wet and windy on Sunday and the winds continue to be
:27:10. > :27:19.strong into the start of next week. Enjoyed the sunshine tomorrow, and,
:27:19. > :27:25.Sally and Roger, Batten down the Bill White, apparently, was 100
:27:25. > :27:30.this week at some point. Still, happy birthday.