13/09/2011 South Today

Hello, welcome to South Today. In tonight's programme...

Memories of Lauren online, but abusive images were posted by a man

who has been jailed in the first case of its kind. I know she's gone.

We couldn't stop it, we didn't know how to stop it.

Fewer passengers - the growth in air travel takes a knock at some of

our regional airports. Hoping someone can help - the

eight-year-old boy searching for a donor. You find a whole new meaning

to anxiety and stress, yet you have to put on you're smiling face and

be positive. A vintage harvest - it's quality,

not quantity in the South's vineyards this year.

We couldn't stop him and we didn't know how to. The words of a mother

whose daughter was repeatedly bullied on line. What made it worse

was that her daughter had died just weeks before from an epileptic fit.

Today, her abuser has become the first person to be sentenced in

Britain for posting offensive messages of the dead on line, or

trolling, as it's called. Sean Duffy from Reading pleaded guilty

to two charges of going on memorial sites and abusing several

schoolgirls who had died. He was sent to prison for 18 weeks.

This person was hiding behind a computer. You can't see him, you

can't do anything. This is the reality as what is known as

trolling, abuse of the dead. As well as losing their daughter, this

family's precious memories were violated. It is hard for the family.

You try and protect your kids. Hopefully every -- nothing will

happen to them. The man who did it, 25-year-old Sean Duffy, is behind

bars. It is frustrating. We couldn't stop it, we didn't know

how to stop it. The pain we were going through anyway, we didn't

anticipate we would have to deal with this as well. I remember lying

next to her and crying and thinking, I can't protect her from this. I

know she is gone. We couldn't stop it, we didn't know how to stop it.

Duffy was at a troll, a person whose scarred the media for reports

of tragic deaths. He would find websites and leave abuser. One

victim was 15-year-old Natasha McBride. She died on Valentine's

Day after she committed suicide. The day after her death, Duffy log

on to her face brick tribute page. What he left her there was too

distressing to the family for us to report. Duffy thought he targeted

for families anonymously. He was wrong. You will always be found. It

is always possible to trace the individual. Everything leaves a

trail. Data can be captured. We will inevitably get to the bottom

of who they are and what they have done on other sites, or on a system,

and proof that in a court of law. Duffy, who suffers from Asperger's

syndrome, pleaded guilty to two charges of sending communications

of an indecent nature. He admitted three other charges and was

sentenced to 18 weeks. The magistrates also banned Duffy from

such a media sites for five years. Mr Duffy was trying to gain

attention by upsetting families that had lost loved ones.

acknowledges that. The attention was to cost hurt and damage to

those families. That is what rolling his. Obviously, in a social

networking context. Police said the sentence served as a warning to

others he would comply and a family's grief. It is a clear

message, you are not anonymous. We heard in the report from one of

the victim's families talking about the difficulties of stopping this

type of bullying. Let's talk to Anastasia de Waal from the charity,

Family Lives. And 18 weeks sentence, what does that send out? It was

clear the intention was to send a message saying this is not going to

be acceptable behaviour. This is in the environment. This is a new

forum were bullying can happen. In order to make it clear that this is

not acceptable and you cannot hide behind anonymity, it was decided

that a penal sentence would be required. We heard one of the

fathers saying he is hiding behind a computer. What about the impact

of cyber bullying? I think it is new. Bullying is an old thing. We

know it has happened for a long time and it is something schools

and families have to deal with. We are fighting to do with that. This

is a new forum. It is not surprising it is springing up on

social networking site. The question is how to deal with it.

One way is knowing what is happening. That is a problem in

itself. Although you encourage greater parental involvement, one

of the barriers could be the technical side. This is a

generation thing. Absolutely. This is not about becoming familiar with

the technology. This is about talking to your child. What are

they doing? What sites and a involved in? That opened up lines

of communication which shows you are interested. It is much more

likely to lead to your child talking about distressing

situations that they may encounter. 77% increase in calls about cyber

bullying to your charity? This is to do with exactly what you are

saying, parents do not know what to do or where to turn. The most

important message we can make is to communicate with your child. Talk

to them and probably some of these issues will Tong --,. -- come out.

Bournemouth's new airport terminal cost �45 million and was built to

deal with a significant growth in passenger numbers. But now, new

government figures suggest a major growth rethink. There is a

significant downgrading in the forecasts of air travel in many

regions. Our transport Correspondent is at Southampton

Airport tonight. Fewer passengers than expected will

fly from many of our airports in future. Southampton is a very

successful airport, but even here, the government expects numbers to

grow only slowly for the rest of this decade. Good news if you live

beside an airport, less good news if you work at one. Not good at all

if you have banked heavily on rapid growth. Bournemouth is where we

find the widest gap between the predictions of future growth and

what the Department of Transport believes will happen. With its

award-winning new terminal, built at a cost of �45 million, the

airport will handle only 800,000 people this year. The airport

confidently predicted that by 2030 it would have thought 0.5 million

people. -- 4.5 million. The government reckons in 19 years,

they will only have reached 2 million, less than half the

airport's prediction. Bournemouth airport is adamant that the

government figures, with a wide margin of error, are not a true

picture of what will happen. It expects growth to resume at much

sooner. Today it announced a renewed service to the Channel

Islands three days a week. They are pulling out for November to January,

there is nothing the airport can do about that. We have enjoyed 10

years of growth at 5% per year but that has now been reversed.

Southampton, the government reckons by 2020 numbers will have changed

little. It will grow to 6 million in 2030. The reasons for slower

growth? Year is what passengers thought to today. I have noticed

the bargain flights are not so much of a bargain any more. The length

of time you have to spend in the airport to get where you what, it

makes it difficult. I do not fly anywhere for leisure any more.

Gatwick has 32 million passengers this year. There will be 35 million

in 2020, reaching the theoretical airport limit of 40 million in 2030.

Overall, the prediction for most airports is down. Why? Rising fuel

costs, government air passenger duty which is too high, the

recession, making people feel poorer, and the security hassle and

general misery of being treated like a tourist when you are using

your own airport in England. -- terrorist. What does all this show?

Phenomenal growth in demand for air travel has driven enormous

investment in airport capacity, as well as better road and rail links

to our airports. But economic turmoil, high fuel costs,

increasing tax on passengers, the weak exchange rate, and simply

having less money in our pockets has hit aviation very hard. Grow

will be slower in future. And maybe our previous insatiable lust for

air travel is now subsiding. Several parliamentary

constituencies in the region are likely to change following

recommendations from the Boundaries Commission. The Isle of Wight could

be split between two MPs, but some existing members of parliament,

including Chris Huhne at Eastleigh and Caroline Lucas in Brighton,

will face the challenge of seeing their constituencies change.

It is where the population has changed most in big cities the most

seats will disappear. The south- east and south-west will lose just

two MPs each. In drawing the new boundaries, several high-profile

MPs will worry that voters are taking away. Liberal Democrat then

sisters have been given former Conservative seats. Chris Huhne in

Eastleigh and Norman Baker in Brighton East. Caroline Lucas loses

nearly half of her current voters in Brighton Pavilion. To a new

Conservative MPs in Hampshire used -- lose their seats entirely.

is a big deal for Chris Huhne. His constituency is almost obliterated.

Most of it will be absorbed into this new constituency. Quite where

this will leave him remains to be seen. There is one new seat

covering Hedge End, but that will include a substantial number of

former Southampton Labour voters. We have been butchered. We have got

one full-time MP and three big party MPs. The issues in the City

are very different to perhaps more rural areas. Berkshire and Surrey

will remain largely unchanged. While it Dorset sees a new

constituency created with Wiltshire, there is less of a merry-go-round.

If you want to find out more, go to our website.

Council leaders in Portsmouth say they have ruled out a pay cut for

staff. They are looking at a pay freeze instead after unions held a

demonstration at a council meeting to discuss the plan. Southampton

City Council is still embroiled in a dispute over its pay cut, which

cost months of strikes. Historic treasures from a West

Sussex stately home have been going under the hammer today. Auction

house Christie's has set up 80 phones deal with interest in the

sales from Cowdray Park House over the next three days. Still to come,

weather and sport. We have got cricket and football

and we have seen Weymouth and Portland take another step in

readiness for next year's Summer Games.

Eight year-old Olly has started a day spoke campaign with a

difference, a plea to make him better. He was born without white

blood cells and now has three leukaemia cells. His parents are

asking people to sign up to the bone marrow register to help cure

their son. Olly looks healthy but as a baby,

he what diagnosed with a serious condition. His blood does not

produce white cells and this affects his immune system. He needs

a bone marrow transplant to get better. I know it is not going to

be great. But you know that you need it? Yet. A donor has been

found but they are only a partial match, and this can lead to serious

complications. Oliver's parents had a perfect match will be discovered.

Material things do not make you happy. There is nothing more

important than your family. It would just be amazing, it would be

the best thing that ever happened to us. Theirs is not an isolated

case. Earlier this year ice -- South Today met Alex and his family.

He needs a bone marrow transplant to save his life. He is still

waiting for a match. The stem cells come from bone marrow or a donated

umbilical cord, but there is a shortage of both. It is like your

heart is being squeezed and your anxiety levels, you find a whole

new meaning to anxiety and stress, yet you have got to put on a

smiling face and be positive, and not let your kids say they you are

worried. You know, hopefully, there is going to be a happy ending.

Sharon once more donors to register so that her son, and others like

him, have a better chance. If you want to help Oliver and

others like him, go to the Anthony Nolan website and become a donor.

2012 will see less British wine available but according to experts,

it could be better quality. For one vineyard in Sussex, the rain back

in June means their yield is down but their grapes are set to produce

a richer and more complex flavour. They have had a bumper crop at his

estate in Sussex for the past two years. This year, the grapes have

matured differently. When the grapes flower and fruit sets, the

fruit does not set as quickly. In June, we had an early season, but

it at the beginning of June, all of the rain came and it was cold, so

it affected the grapes. This year, the weight per bunch is down 30%.

This would be the usual size of the grapes, relatively large. There are

lots of small groups this year. They will contain less Jews but it

will be more concentrated and hopefully produce a richer and

complex flavour. For the vineyards it is a case of quality with this

quantity. You want to have as nice grapes and wine as you can. You

want the best wine that you can. They're both sides. But we are in

Sussex? We are in England, so we have to accept that. This is what

we have to work with and there is nothing to do with it. I am looking

forward to the wines we make. There will be less English wine for the

next year. There will be some scarcity but better wine. There are

80 tons of grapes to harvest, getting under way next week.

One of Britain's rarest reptiles has been released back into the

wild five decades after it was seen. 80 sand lizards have been let out

after being bred in captivity. They became endangered after their

natural heathland and sand dune habitats were destroyed.

Nobody wants to be there, but when we are, we all know how boring a

spell in hospital can be. Particularly for children. Now,

patients on the children's ward at Southampton General Hospital say

time is passing more quickly thanks to the donation of �21,000 worth of

games consoles. We went to see them in action.

He is in a board near you. This fund centre is transforming the

hospital experience. As well as TV, internet, Blu Ray and DVD players,

machines come complete with the latest Nintendo games. You can get

for people and you can play against each other. It console is portable

and can be pruned to any bed side. We can bring it to them and they

are keen to get out of bed. It makes our job easier getting them

on the road to recovery. Southampton is one of the first

hospitals are to receive the robots. Eight charity has ordered millions

of pounds-worth of them for a kids' across the country. It is so much

distraction, help and fun. Some are giving them a cautious welcome.

gets them active and moving, but also, in other cases they are

addicted, and that is not the best idea. If they are monitored

correctly and parents are sensible about it and have a time switch.

Playing on the consuls can relieve anxiety and nerves as well as

beating boredom. Shall we talk about the Olympics?

We have had a lot of talk about the tickets for Paralympics. It was not

good news for the Olympics. One of Britain's greatest

paralympians was in the region today, highlighting the

opportunities for spectators to watch top-class Paralympic sport

next year. Chris Holmes won 15 medals in three games, including

nine golds. Today, he visited schools in the region and joined

delegates at a major conference on disability sport at the University

of Southampton. You can apply for pilot -- Paralympic tickets at

these e-mail address... It has been another big day in the

countdown to the Olympics. The buildings which will house the

world's top sailors were opened by Jonathan Edwards.

The last time I was at the Olympic village it was still a building

site. Tonight, another stage in the 2012 preparations was reached. Now,

as well as somewhere to compete, the athletes have a roof over their

heads. Inside, there is still work to do but outside, the buildings

are complete and they are dual purpose. They have not just put

them up for the Olympics. Next year, sailors will be buzzing around here

but after that, there will be part of the local housing stock. There

is focus on the venues where athletes will compete. They spend a

majority of their time in the Olympic village. It is crucial. The

majority of times, sailors will be here. The quality of food and the

ability to relax, to hang out, to try and deflect from the pressure

they are under, that will make the difference on how well they do.

There was anger in Portland at the siting of these houses. The

Steelers could have been put up in a floating hotel but the borough

council told me this is the right outcome. This could have been a

boat. It would have come in and gone away. As it is, it is being

used for Olympics in the meantime. I think that's fantastic. It will

be available for local people straight away after the Olympics.

The builders say the houses will be completed and handed over two

Olympic organisers in January, plenty of time before the Games

commence. The final days of the cricket

season usually require the use of a calculator to establish you need

what to achieve their goal. Hampshire know they will need to

secure maximum batting points in addition to just beating

Warwickshire at the Rose Bowl. Warwickshire were bowled out for

493 in their first innings on a rain-affected day. Hampshire are

still in with a remote chance of catching Worcestershire over the

final two days. Not likely. A short time ago Hampshire had started well

in their reply. Sussex are safe. Rained deflected play with the home

side closing 132 for one. Ceri, whose fast bowler who has earned a

contract today, are on top against Derbyshire.

Bournemouth travel to bottom of the table Leyton Orient tonight in

League One, hoping to spark some life into a poor start to the

season. BBC Radio Solent will be there to see if Lee Bradbury's men

can claim only their second league win of the season. Meanwhile,

listeners to BBC Surrey can hear commentary on Aldershot's trip to

Hereford. There's also reports during that game on Crawley's home

match with Swindon. Crawley have signed Colchester defender Tom

Eastman on a month's loan today. Meanwhile, Portsmouth fans get the

chance to quiz the men running the club tonight. BBC Radio Solent is

staging its annual football forum at Fratton Park. Manager Steve

Cotterill will take questions from the fans in a live broadcast.

We've got some wonderful archive footage of motor racing in the

1950s. This is Monaco. Remember, this is long before it became a

televised sport. Some of this footage has never been seen in

public before. We will be meeting the people who made these films and

we will also show them to one of the Grand Prix heroes of the day

and to the great Murray Walker. His view? They are amazing.

How fast and a going? In those days, pretty fast.

It looks fantastic! Of all of that tomorrow. I thought

it was a better day to day, although there were not so sure

was? Looks at be spilt came home from

work and -- loads of people came home from work today with that

shows on the washing line. It is an improving picture. It sunshine on

offer. One or two showers possible and the wind at this week will

gradually ease. There were gusts of 51 mph today. There is the outside

chance of a shower in Hampshire and Dorset. Temperatures will dead in

towns and cities. A chilly night in the countryside first thing

tomorrow. Decent amount of sunshine from the word go. The cloud turning

the sunshine he is the by the afternoon. The wind will be allowed

lighter than today. There is the possibility of mist and fog patches

and a clearing skies tonight. A dry night for all of us with

temperatures down into signal for - - single figures. Cooler conditions

if you're in the countryside. Another chilly start on Thursday.

The good news is, high pressure remains in charge. The wind will

die down. It will be a dry day with sunny spells of their state with

perhaps more cloud in the afternoon. Friday, predominantly dry. There is

the risk of rain on Friday. That will stay with us on Saturday.

Eight damp start to the weekend. There is the chance that Sunday

will be the better day of the weekend. Enjoy the sunshine

tomorrow and also up to Friday. The wind gradually dying down although

they pick up speed on Saturday. The outside chance of a shower tomorrow.

Meite went on Thursday. More Clough turning the sunshine hazy during

the afternoon and a decent day on Friday. It turns showery for the

weekend. People will get upset with you