:00:02. > :00:05.Hello, I'm Sally Taylor. Welcome to South Today. In tonight's
:00:05. > :00:08.programme: A paedophile ring is broken. Four
:00:08. > :00:17.men and a woman are guilty in a case that detectives describe as
:00:17. > :00:20.the most horrific they have seen. The most terrific were over 300
:00:20. > :00:24.videos of children being sexually abused, and I have never seen
:00:24. > :00:25.anything like that in my career. An investigation begins into how
:00:25. > :00:28.two businesses were destroyed by fire.
:00:28. > :00:37.Under pressure - saving a piece of naval history that once tested
:00:37. > :00:41.divers to the limit. It is wonderful because they have
:00:41. > :00:44.been saved from the scrapyard. They would have gone to scrap if we had
:00:44. > :00:49.not found a home for them. And a student union - an honorary
:00:49. > :00:53.degree for the couple who met at university in 1948.
:00:53. > :01:03.I thought, that is a nice looking girl sitting opposite me! That is
:01:03. > :01:05.
:01:05. > :01:07.Detectives working on an international paedophile
:01:07. > :01:13.investigation have described it as the "most horrific" they have
:01:13. > :01:15.experienced in their careers. Tonight, a woman and four men,
:01:15. > :01:20.including a serving soldier, have been found guilty of offences
:01:20. > :01:25.relating to systematic child abuse. The gang were convicted of 16
:01:25. > :01:28.charges at Portsmouth Crown Court. The offences relate to the abuse of
:01:28. > :01:31.children under the age of 13. And, as Roisin Gauson reports, their
:01:31. > :01:39.abusers used a nudist website as a front to distribute the images
:01:39. > :01:43.across the world. Portsmouth was the city said to be
:01:43. > :01:48.at the heart of an international paedophile ring. Today there were
:01:48. > :01:52.tears in the crown court as Melissa Noon, who lived nearby, was found
:01:52. > :01:57.guilty of 11 counts of sexually abusing children. Also in the dock,
:01:57. > :02:00.Mark Day. He broke down as he was found guilty of two accounts of
:02:00. > :02:04.planning to abuse a child. Alongside him, John Maddox was
:02:04. > :02:08.found guilty of causing a child under 13 to engage in sexual
:02:08. > :02:11.activity through a webcam. Said insult to Daniel Bell was found
:02:11. > :02:16.guilty of possessing and attempting to distribute indecent images of
:02:16. > :02:20.children. He was cleared of two further charges of arranging to
:02:21. > :02:25.meet up in order to abuse a child. A 4th man, Simon Hilton, was found
:02:25. > :02:29.guilty of arranging child sex offences. The rain came to the
:02:29. > :02:33.attention of police shortly before Christmas last year -- the
:02:33. > :02:37.paedophile ring. The team received an alert from Australia, where
:02:37. > :02:41.police had complete evidence that a man from Portsmouth was abusing
:02:41. > :02:44.children in Hampshire. That man was Robert Hathaway, the common link
:02:44. > :02:52.between the defendants. He has pleaded guilty to a string of
:02:52. > :02:55.offences including the rape and sexual assault of children. An
:02:55. > :03:00.investigation got underway. Hathaway and his partner, Melissa
:03:00. > :03:04.Noon, were arrested and their computers seized. The recovered
:03:04. > :03:09.data led police to arrest several others, whose computers, in turn,
:03:09. > :03:14.produced more evidence. In all, there were 14,000 indecent images,
:03:14. > :03:18.and more than 300 videos of children being sexually abused.
:03:18. > :03:22.Everything you see here is evidence. We have a lot of storage for the
:03:22. > :03:26.computers, the hard drives, and this one caused an issue because of
:03:26. > :03:30.the volume, it is one of the largest cases in the last few years
:03:30. > :03:34.we have had to deal with. Images were shared from Portsmouth around
:03:34. > :03:37.the UK, but officers realise they were dealing with an international
:03:37. > :03:41.paedophile ring. The pictures quickly spread through seven
:03:41. > :03:51.countries in Europe and internationally to Japan, America
:03:51. > :03:56.and Australia. Victoria Dennis was the senior investigating officer.
:03:56. > :03:59.Her team found Robert Hathaway set up an online community -- online
:03:59. > :04:04.nudist amenity as a friend to find like-minded people who were
:04:04. > :04:08.admitted to a secure area of the website where they shared images
:04:08. > :04:12.and encouraged each other to abuse children. This is the largest
:04:12. > :04:16.investigation of this type the Constabulary has dealt with. In my
:04:16. > :04:21.20 years as a police officer it is one of the most complex I have had
:04:21. > :04:25.to deal with as well. I am joined by Roisin Gauson now.
:04:25. > :04:29.You have followed this from the start. Today we saw five people
:04:29. > :04:33.found guilty. But there are many more people involved?
:04:33. > :04:38.Those five we had about today had pleaded not guilty, but in total
:04:38. > :04:43.Hampshire police have charged eight defendants with a total of 124
:04:43. > :04:46.offences. Some of those have entered guilty pleas at and 97
:04:46. > :04:50.counts, so they will go straight to sentencing, but it does not stop
:04:50. > :04:55.there. Information about seven other suspects was sent to forces
:04:55. > :04:59.across the UK and there has been a conviction in Durham Crown Court.
:04:59. > :05:03.Those people will be sentenced on 19th December.
:05:03. > :05:07.If it is going further afield, it is going even further, not just
:05:07. > :05:11.Hampshire, much wider? It stems from Australia and
:05:11. > :05:14.Hampshire police have worked closely with authorities in
:05:14. > :05:19.Australia, two officers travelled there to help the police with
:05:19. > :05:23.inquiries. Outside the UK, 20 different forces are involved
:05:23. > :05:26.across 10 countries. Hampshire police have identified 35 suspects
:05:27. > :05:30.but it could grow as investigations continue.
:05:30. > :05:32.Thank you very much. Bournemouth Council has applied to
:05:32. > :05:36.the courts to evict protestors outside the town hall. A hearing
:05:36. > :05:39.will take place on Friday. The council says it has 12 weddings due
:05:39. > :05:42.to take place in the week from Friday, and they could be disrupted
:05:42. > :05:45.if the protests continue. A number of banners have already been
:05:45. > :05:49.removed by council officers. Plans to build 400 flats in Poole
:05:49. > :05:53.have been rejected by councillors. Developers described the West Quay
:05:53. > :05:55.site as a commercial space. But opponents branded it as a
:05:55. > :06:05."carbuncle on the quay" and hundreds of people objected to the
:06:05. > :06:06.
:06:06. > :06:10.scheme. Police searching a property in the
:06:10. > :06:14.Isle of Wight say the body of Damien Nettles is not there. Damien
:06:14. > :06:19.was 16 when he went missing 15 years ago today. The property in
:06:19. > :06:23.Marsh Road in Gurnard had been sealed off for two days. It is
:06:23. > :06:29.thought that Damien Nettles has been murdered. Rachael Canter is
:06:29. > :06:34.there for us tonight. What more can you tell us?
:06:34. > :06:38.Forensic officers have spent a second day here at the property on
:06:38. > :06:43.March -- Marsh Road in dare not, and as you can see it is run-down,
:06:43. > :06:47.it looks almost abandoned, but police say that -- police say that
:06:47. > :06:50.somebody does own it and one of the things they have looked at is
:06:50. > :06:54.whether it has links to the suspects that were arrested
:06:54. > :06:59.yesterday morning. They have spent the day inside the property,
:06:59. > :07:03.lifting up the floorboards, scouring the earth underneath, and
:07:03. > :07:07.carrying out an extensive excavation of the garden. But this
:07:07. > :07:11.evening police officers left around 4:30pm as it began to get dark and
:07:11. > :07:16.they said that nobody has been found, and they have finished their
:07:16. > :07:21.search here. Earlier, I spoke to a neighbour who did not want to go on
:07:21. > :07:24.camera but said how shocked she was. She knew Damien Nettles' family
:07:24. > :07:27.personally and said she was surprised to find they were
:07:27. > :07:31.searching a couple of doors down from where she lived.
:07:31. > :07:37.It is a poignant day to day, 15 years since Damien went missing.
:07:37. > :07:40.Where does this leave the investigation?
:07:40. > :07:44.Police say in just before we came on air this evening that they have
:07:44. > :07:51.failed the couple that were arrested yesterday, A35 year old
:07:51. > :07:55.woman and 44-year-old man arrested answers the receipt of -- and
:07:55. > :07:58.rested on conspiracy to murder. For the family this evening, 15 years
:07:59. > :08:05.from when he was last seen, they are still no closer to finding out
:08:05. > :08:07.what happened to Damien. Thank you.
:08:07. > :08:10.Two businesses have been destroyed by a fire at the Rushington
:08:10. > :08:12.Business Park in Totton, near Southampton. Flames ripped through
:08:12. > :08:15.an MOT station and a commercial lighting company. More than 40
:08:15. > :08:22.fire-fighters were there at the height of the fire, with crews from
:08:22. > :08:27.neighbouring Wiltshire also drafted in. Caroline Richardson reports.
:08:27. > :08:30.The 999 call came at half past two this morning. Crews were met by a
:08:30. > :08:34.substantial fire which they battled to bring under control. The
:08:34. > :08:38.contents of the building and the structure were both well alight.
:08:38. > :08:44.This is a very severe fire involving a large 20 by 50 metre
:08:44. > :08:49.unit. That said, the early make-up by initial cruise, effective
:08:49. > :08:52.actions of the firefighters to get in and make an initial
:08:52. > :08:56.investigation, meant we could save a large part of the property.
:08:56. > :09:00.only now that the damage is apparent. The roof has collapsed in
:09:01. > :09:05.on itself, and much of the inside is gutted. People turning up for
:09:05. > :09:10.work this morning when shocked. No one was injured in the blaze. The
:09:10. > :09:13.fire service and spent all morning damping down. Fire investigation
:09:13. > :09:16.officers are working to establish how the fire started.
:09:16. > :09:19.Sussex Police have warned about a growing trend in people using
:09:19. > :09:22.lasers against aircraft. It follows an incident on Monday night when a
:09:22. > :09:25.laser was shone at the pilot of the police helicopter. A 16-year-old
:09:25. > :09:32.girl was arrested in Worthing on suspicion of endangering an
:09:32. > :09:37.aircraft. She was released on bail until December 3rd.
:09:37. > :09:40.It is a growing trend, it is certainly rising exponentially. It
:09:40. > :09:42.is amazing. The CCTV cameras will stay switched
:09:42. > :09:45.on in Chichester after councillors voted to keep the service. The
:09:45. > :09:49.authority has to save money and shutting the service down was one
:09:49. > :09:54.option. The control room will now stay open, but there will be 16
:09:54. > :09:59.fewer cameras operating. This will save nearly �20,000. The district
:09:59. > :10:02.council will be looking to make other savings elsewhere.
:10:02. > :10:05.Still to come in this evening's South Today:
:10:05. > :10:10.On the move - hundreds of sea creatures making way for the
:10:10. > :10:13.builders. And I will have the stories from
:10:13. > :10:21.last night's football, including a very upset Brighton manager as his
:10:21. > :10:24.Local councils from the South have joined the complaints about the
:10:24. > :10:27.cuts in Government subsidy for solar power. Yesterday, we reported
:10:27. > :10:33.on the installation companies who say their plans have been thrown
:10:33. > :10:35.into chaos. Today, the Prime Minister was taken to task and
:10:35. > :10:43.angry MPs confronted the Energy Minister, Hampshire Lib Dem Chris
:10:43. > :10:53.Huhne. Our political editor Peter Henley is here. This is a cut that
:10:53. > :10:53.
:10:53. > :10:57.particularly affects the South of England, isn't it? Yes, we get more
:10:57. > :11:01.sunshine so many companies have made an investment in this idea of
:11:01. > :11:05.putting solar panels on the roof. A lot of councils were complaining
:11:05. > :11:08.today, in particular Reading council who had a �5 million scheme
:11:08. > :11:12.ready to go and do not think it will get through in the six-week
:11:12. > :11:17.deadline so it will probably not happen. They will not get cheaper
:11:17. > :11:20.fuel and so will not put things back into the grid from solar power.
:11:20. > :11:24.In the House of Commons, Alan Whitehead took the Prime Minister
:11:24. > :11:29.to cast. Will he personally intervened to
:11:29. > :11:34.sort out the appalling chaos that is rigid -- that is resulting from
:11:34. > :11:37.the reducing of tariffs in six weeks' time, leading to job losses,
:11:37. > :11:44.chaos in the solar industry and devastation for hundreds of
:11:44. > :11:47.community renewable projects? this government that set aside �3
:11:47. > :11:50.billion for a green investment bank, much talked about in the past, and
:11:50. > :11:55.ever done. Many were saying the initial rate
:11:55. > :12:00.of subsidy was too good to be true? There are two sides to every story
:12:00. > :12:03.and people were saying, is it the best use of taxpayers' money? Homes
:12:03. > :12:08.that may not have the best insulation where people can afford
:12:08. > :12:13.�15,000 to get it put in, rather than the people struggling to pay
:12:13. > :12:19.their bills? It seemed to be a licence to print taxpayers' money.
:12:19. > :12:22.The Energy Minister, Chris Huhne, seen here looking at a farm in his
:12:22. > :12:28.constituency on the roof of a leisure centre, said they had to
:12:28. > :12:33.pay that level of subsidy in order to make it free to people.
:12:33. > :12:39.entire budget would be exhausted by the spring of next year, and our
:12:39. > :12:45.estimate, as I remember, if we were to allow the scheme to continue at
:12:45. > :12:52.the old tariff rate would have been at least 1 billion on to consumer
:12:52. > :13:00.costs through this parliament. Any chance of a rethink?
:13:00. > :13:06.He was saying her billion when the Dong went off there X Mach -- when
:13:06. > :13:16.the gong went off there! But some of the schemes may see a bit of a
:13:16. > :13:19.
:13:19. > :13:22.rethink. Thank you. They were used to train divers in
:13:22. > :13:25.the Second World War, and now they have got an extraordinary place in
:13:25. > :13:28.naval history on the seafront near Gosport. The diving chambers were
:13:28. > :13:32.used by scientists to see just what the human body could cope with.
:13:32. > :13:33.They have now found a permanent home at the Diving Museum in Stokes
:13:33. > :13:36.Bay. Roger Finn watched the delicate operation.
:13:36. > :13:40.7 turns of thick steel swings in the air. -- seven at tonnes. Save
:13:41. > :13:47.it from the scrap heap to end its days in the Gosport dining museum.
:13:47. > :13:50.This chamber was built in 1943 and was used by the Royal Navy.
:13:50. > :13:55.Royal Naval physiological Laboratory is experimenting in
:13:55. > :14:00.deep-sea diving! The chambers were pressurised to simulate conditions
:14:00. > :14:05.at depths of 300 ft or more. John town has worked at the Laboratory
:14:05. > :14:09.and remembers being told hair- raising stories about the war year
:14:09. > :14:13.volunteers. They were put in the chamber and taken down to about 100
:14:13. > :14:17.feet to see if they can bolster or not. They were all volunteers, they
:14:17. > :14:22.came out of the chamber only to see a line of the next people waiting
:14:22. > :14:27.to go in when they were being carried out unconscious. The second
:14:27. > :14:33.chamber delivered today was built in 1965. It is smaller but twice as
:14:33. > :14:38.heavy, one of several used to simulate extreme depths. Inside the
:14:38. > :14:43.chamber, it would -- a gap of 1,200 feet can be assimilated, but these
:14:43. > :14:46.men have no desire to reach that bone crushing debt. Close watch is
:14:46. > :14:51.kept on the divers by the highly trained staff, ready to take
:14:51. > :14:55.immediate action should anything go wrong. This is a very
:14:55. > :15:00.claustrophobic experience but in 1980 two men spent 42 days in this
:15:00. > :15:06.little space. That was two days assimilating going down to the
:15:06. > :15:10.bottom, a day on the bottom, and 38 days simulating the slow rise back
:15:10. > :15:15.to the surface. 10 years earlier another pair spent 15 days in the
:15:15. > :15:21.Chamber of reaching a record depth of 1,500 feet. Dr John Bevan was
:15:21. > :15:26.one of them. I really enjoyed it. But you were taking quite a risk?
:15:26. > :15:30.We knew what the risks were, and we were going down very slowly so if
:15:30. > :15:35.there were any problems we could come back at any time, so it was
:15:35. > :15:38.being done extremely carefully. Gosport Diving Museum opened in
:15:38. > :15:43.April and celebrates Gosport's pivotal role in the history of
:15:43. > :15:46.diving, but it is the chambers that now have the pride of place. It is
:15:46. > :15:50.wonderful because these have been saved from the scrapyard. They
:15:50. > :15:55.would have gone for scrap if we had not found a home for them at the
:15:55. > :16:00.Diving Museum. Roger is with me. Amazing museums -
:16:00. > :16:03.- amazing machines. A host of stories connected with them? They
:16:03. > :16:07.found a lot of bizarre stories about what happens under extreme
:16:07. > :16:15.pressure. They used to put in food through an air hatch at one end,
:16:15. > :16:20.and press a rise it -- and pressurise it. Boiled sweets, an
:16:20. > :16:24.air pocket in a boiled sweet, if it hits your tongue, it will latch on
:16:24. > :16:29.to your tongue. Everybody wants to ask the question, what about the
:16:29. > :16:34.toilet? That is the big question. There is a little chamber at the
:16:34. > :16:41.end which has a toilet and shower. A bit of privacy! What about seeing
:16:41. > :16:45.these in place? Can you visit? museum is open at the weekends and
:16:45. > :16:49.bank holidays, run by volunteers. They were going to shut for the
:16:49. > :16:58.winter but because of the fuss over this they will be open for the next
:16:58. > :17:01.two weekends. Definitely worth a look. Thank you very much.
:17:01. > :17:03.They came from all over the world. Former students gathered at the
:17:03. > :17:07.University of Surrey today for an honorary degree ceremony. Among
:17:07. > :17:09.them, a couple who met on their first day at college more than 60
:17:09. > :17:12.years ago. Barbara and Michael Cutland studied at Battersea
:17:12. > :17:15.Polytechnic, which became part of the university in the 60s. Sean
:17:15. > :17:19.Killick went along to the event at Guildford Cathedral.
:17:19. > :17:24.A touching moment in the lives of Barbara and Michael Cutland. Their
:17:24. > :17:29.romance began in 1948 when they met at Battersea Polytechnic. Their
:17:29. > :17:33.love depend as they trod the boards together in their dramatic society.
:17:33. > :17:37.They joined the sports clubs together as well. Two years after
:17:37. > :17:41.graduation, they wed. That was 58 years ago but they have never
:17:41. > :17:46.forgotten where and how it all be down. That was the first day when
:17:46. > :17:49.we were freshers and you meet up in a common room and feel terribly
:17:49. > :17:54.awkward and gradually you notice who they are and everything is
:17:54. > :18:01.explained very clearly. I thought, that is a nice-looking girl sitting
:18:01. > :18:07.opposite me! But then you join the clubs and we have a lovely time, as
:18:07. > :18:11.well as a lot of hard work. Today, Barbara and Michael were among 400
:18:11. > :18:14.Battersea students from the 1940s, fifties and sixties receiving
:18:14. > :18:19.honorary degrees from the University of Surrey, which took
:18:19. > :18:23.over from the Polytechnic in 1966. Barbara was one of many who were
:18:23. > :18:29.originally only awarded a diploma, not a degree, after three years of
:18:29. > :18:34.study. We used to feel hard done by. But today he is finally received a
:18:34. > :18:38.degree? It was lovely, and meeting people so far back. It is almost
:18:38. > :18:41.unbelievable that we are still friends. Battersea Polytechnic was
:18:41. > :18:45.renowned for teaching domestic science as well as chemistry and
:18:46. > :18:50.engineering. It took university staff more than a year of scouring
:18:50. > :18:53.old records to trace the 400 people at the ceremony. We are pleased to
:18:53. > :18:59.see so many it today, with their families, their grandchildren,
:18:59. > :19:02.their relatives, who perhaps in some cases had graduated themselves,
:19:02. > :19:06.and to see their grandmother or grandfather graduating is a real on
:19:06. > :19:11.and we are proud of that, proud of what we are done and proud of the
:19:11. > :19:15.history of the graduates. Some travelled from as far afield as
:19:15. > :19:22.Australia, Japan and South Africa to celebrate their undergraduate
:19:22. > :19:26.days more than half a century ago. I bet there were a few shared
:19:26. > :19:29.memories there today. We are used to Fairtrade chocolate
:19:29. > :19:32.and Fairtrade sugar. Now we have Fairtrade gold. It is the first
:19:32. > :19:35.time anywhere in the world that it has been displayed on a public
:19:35. > :19:37.building. Steeplejacks climbed 277 feet to mount a gilded weathervane
:19:37. > :19:44.on the spire of Chichester Cathedral. A private donor helped
:19:44. > :19:47.pay for the project. It looks wonderful, doesn't it?
:19:47. > :19:50.It is tough moving house, but when you are dealing with hundreds of
:19:50. > :19:52.sea creatures it gets a bit complicated. Brighton Sea Life
:19:52. > :19:55.Centre is closing its doors to undergo vital maintenance work,
:19:55. > :20:02.meaning its occupants will need to be re-homed for the duration. Alex
:20:02. > :20:07.Beard reports on a somewhat fishy tale.
:20:07. > :20:11.A reluctant a victory. This spider crab is one of hundreds of
:20:11. > :20:15.underwater creatures moving home. All inhabitants of the Victorian
:20:15. > :20:20.arcade section of Brighton Sea Life Centre must obey Kate to allow for
:20:20. > :20:24.restoration. It is a very humid atmosphere, and the salt water is
:20:24. > :20:29.corrosive to the stonework, so we have a very talented team of
:20:29. > :20:32.stonemasons who are used to working on Victorian buildings coming in,
:20:32. > :20:35.repairing the stonework, they will be stripping back the paint and
:20:35. > :20:40.returning the building to its former glory as it was when it was
:20:41. > :20:44.first built. Some creatures are staying put, others moving to
:20:44. > :20:49.temporary housing, but those who need to move of site will be packed
:20:49. > :20:53.on to special fish lorries to be looked after across the can tip.
:20:53. > :20:57.Sometimes it is in a bucket, we used big buckets, we have
:20:57. > :21:02.specialised transport trucks. Some are literally completely sealed
:21:02. > :21:07.with just a hole on top of a flatbed lorry. Some are big fish
:21:07. > :21:14.tanks on the back of articulated lorries. One of the last tanks to
:21:14. > :21:18.be emptied will be this one, which homes these eels. This one weighs
:21:18. > :21:22.12 stone, his body is the diameter of a dinner plate, and his jaws are
:21:22. > :21:27.as strong as those of a lion, so when the staff end to this tank
:21:27. > :21:30.they have to wear chain-mail gloves. Once all of the tanks have been
:21:30. > :21:33.emptied, the building work can begin. It will be five months
:21:33. > :21:40.before the public and the spider crabs will see the new look
:21:40. > :21:45.aquarium. I like that, chain-mail gloves! He
:21:45. > :21:50.was a big monster, wasn't it? ! Kris Temple is here with the
:21:50. > :21:57.sport. How far payer are saints at the top
:21:57. > :22:02.of the championship? Five points clear now at the top, at they have
:22:02. > :22:08.won 17 home games in a road. Things not going so well for Brighton, it
:22:08. > :22:13.is fair to say. Nine games without a win for the Seagulls. We start
:22:13. > :22:16.our round-up with their 1-0 defeat at Watford.
:22:16. > :22:23.Brighton manager Gus Poyet was all smiles when he arrived but it was
:22:23. > :22:29.soon to turn to horror. Albion were punished with this second half when
:22:29. > :22:33.it. It is now four points from the last 27 available for the Seagulls.
:22:33. > :22:37.If you do not pass the ball, create, open up the position, if you are
:22:37. > :22:42.not brave enough and do not cross the ball properly and if you do not
:22:42. > :22:47.move in the box at the right time and are not stronger than the
:22:47. > :22:57.defenders... Southampton made harder work of beating ten-man
:22:57. > :23:04.
:23:04. > :23:08.sent off in the first half before Emile Sinclair's late consolation.
:23:08. > :23:14.Wedding's eight-game unbeaten run came to an end at Nottingham Forest.
:23:14. > :23:18.Marcus Tudgay's role -- goal decided it.
:23:18. > :23:22.As they move closer to naming a manager, Portsmouth fought out a 0-
:23:22. > :23:26.0 draw with Crystal Palace. They ended a run of five straight
:23:26. > :23:33.defeats on their travels. And in League Two, Aldershot had
:23:33. > :23:41.three wins and a roads. Luke Gutteridge sealed the points --
:23:41. > :23:43.Extended highlights of those games will be on the BBC website from
:23:43. > :23:46.midnight tonight. Plans to expand Crawley Town's
:23:46. > :23:49.Broadfield Stadium have been unveiled. Over 2,000 seats will be
:23:49. > :23:52.added to the East Stand if planning permission is granted. If the
:23:52. > :23:54.project is approved, it is hoped the building work will be finished
:23:54. > :23:57.by February next year. After a weather-delayed start, the
:23:57. > :24:00.tenth Transat Jacques Vabre race got underway off the coast of
:24:00. > :24:02.France today. A heavy storm had kept the sailors in port for an
:24:02. > :24:05.extra 72 hours, including Southampton's Mike Golding and Alex
:24:05. > :24:08.Thomson from Gosport. The fleet will sail straight into predicted
:24:08. > :24:13.winds of around 50mph and waves of 10 metres. The winner should reach
:24:13. > :24:16.the finish in Costa Rica in just under three weeks.
:24:16. > :24:19.A Hampshire school celebrated the opening of a new state of the art
:24:19. > :24:22.sports facility today. The astro- turf development at Ballard School
:24:22. > :24:24.in New Milton was officially opened by Olympic hockey gold medallist
:24:24. > :24:33.David Faulkner, although the international-sized pitch is very
:24:33. > :24:38.much multi-purpose. It means that we have got hockey
:24:38. > :24:41.available to us all the time to play. Lots of different sports as
:24:41. > :24:45.well to come on and practice. We previously just had the grass to
:24:46. > :24:52.play on, which is whether dependent, and it means the girls can get on
:24:52. > :24:57.to a true surface and their hockey skills will improve dramatically.'s
:24:57. > :25:04.great facilities. No progress on the Portsmouth
:25:04. > :25:09.manager yet, but we watch and wait. Straight on to the weather. Tales
:25:09. > :25:15.of doom and gloom? Some people like the rain, the air. I am one of them.
:25:15. > :25:20.Don't hate me! Shall we look at the details before we go further? We
:25:20. > :25:24.have seen a bit of rain but it will get a bit worse, I think. Brace
:25:24. > :25:32.yourselves. There is a lot of rain, not just tonight but for the next
:25:32. > :25:39.It is still on the mild side and will be fairly breezy overnight.
:25:39. > :25:43.This is the scene earlier on. That warm front has brought some rain,
:25:43. > :25:47.but the cold front later tonight will bring heavier pulses. Behind
:25:47. > :25:53.that cold front, unstable air, bringing further showers through
:25:54. > :25:59.tomorrow. Dorset and Hampshire have the heaviest rain in the second
:25:59. > :26:03.half of this evening and overnight. Perhaps easing the way here from
:26:03. > :26:09.many parts by dawn. Mild temperatures, compared with the
:26:09. > :26:14.single figures last night. Then the showers begin to pile in once again
:26:14. > :26:18.three Thursday. Probably a brief dry period in the morning and by
:26:18. > :26:24.midday the showers merging into longer spells of rain. Still breezy,
:26:24. > :26:28.and mild in spite of the Rhine. Into the evening, it gets wetter
:26:28. > :26:32.still, and then you think it is getting dry but it opens the
:26:32. > :26:37.floodgates for further showers. This time, they will be much
:26:37. > :26:43.heavier, they could be thundery in nature and they will be around for
:26:43. > :26:46.much longer than those on Thursday. The reason is the winds fall light
:26:47. > :26:51.on Friday said the showers will be slow-moving. Having said that, we
:26:51. > :26:57.will get some sunshine. Friday night is looking rather dry and
:26:57. > :27:01.chilly. Saturday, a grim start to the weekend. Deepening low pressure
:27:01. > :27:05.from the Continent, bringing a lot of rain and very windy conditions.
:27:05. > :27:10.Once the rain sets in on Saturday it will be around for quite some
:27:10. > :27:15.time. For Bonfire Night, wet and windy in the south, change your
:27:15. > :27:25.plans and may be have bonfire night on Friday night when it is dry,
:27:25. > :27:26.
:27:26. > :27:30.clear and then wait until Saturday! Tell us what is happening tomorrow