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South Today. In tonight's programme: | :00:02. | :00:05. | |
The police officer who shot this armed robber dead tells his story | :00:05. | :00:11. | |
publicly for the first time. Campaigning for cleaner air - | :00:11. | :00:18. | |
concern that pollution levels are too high. | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
This morning I can taste and smell the pollution in the air, which is | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
very uncomfortable. Going head-to-head, despite being | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
continents apart - students vie for Olympic honours. | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
And the up-and-coming horse trainer hoping for fairer weather this | :00:29. | :00:39. | |
winter than he suffered last year. When the snow came down the country | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
roads, you could not get out. If you cannot take them racing, you | :00:43. | :00:53. | |
The police officers who shot two armed suspects dead during a bank | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
robbery in Hampshire have told their stories publicly for the | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
first time today. The officers, who cannot be named for legal reasons, | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
told an inquest jury of the moment they pulled the trigger on their | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
guns. Mark Nunes and Andrew Markland died during the robbery in | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
Chandlers Ford four years ago. Roger Finn was at today's inquest | :01:10. | :01:19. | |
and joins us now from the scene of the shootings. | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
This was the exact spot where the two robbers were shot dead on that | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
September morning four years ago. They had been trying to hold of a | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
ban delivering cash to this branch of HSBC. The gang was well-known to | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
the police and had committed 17 raids before, and there had been a | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
tip-off about this one. Just over the road here, in the toilets down | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
there, a group of armed police were waiting to leap out and arrest the | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
gang in the middle of the crime. Those are the other side of the | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
main road, behind that per stop, you can see the house and windows | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
where two marksmen were looking out, observed in with their rifles, as a | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
contingency. Today, we heard their stories. | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
There was heavy security at Winchester Coroner's Court as the | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
police marksmen gave evidence. Neither could be named and were | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
kept hidden from the press. The first said he had taken up position | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
three hours before the band arrived. He said he had seen the gang drive | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
past several times, then he saw Andrew Markland waiting at the. | :02:25. | :02:33. | |
Right in front of him -- waiting at the bus stop in front of him. Then | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
he saw the gang's car parked near the back. He told the court, my | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
heart was racing, I felt like I had when 100 metres, I was scared. | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
Members of the public were walking past. I knew when the van door | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
opened, there would be an aggressive act towards the part. He | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
said as soon as the guard came out of the van, Mark Nunes walked up to | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
him, pointing a pistol at his head. He said he believed he would shoot | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
the guard at any moment and there was a threat to light. He waited | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
until he had a clear shot and squeezed the trigger, but in one | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
round into Mark Nunes' body. He said he had never discharged his | :03:13. | :03:22. | |
weapon at anyone before. The second marksman said that after the first | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
shot, he discharged fire. He said he was convinced that Andrew | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
Markland posed a threat to his colleagues, the guard, and members | :03:30. | :03:37. | |
of the public. The lawyer for Andrew Markland's family challenged | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
the marksman to justify his shots. The court was shown a video taken | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
by the police of the exact moment of the shooting and the lawyer | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
claimed that when the first shot rang out, Andrew Markland was not | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
pointing the gun at anyone and when the second shot rang out, Andrew | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
Markland was not only on the ground but had dropped the gun and police | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
-- the police response team was all around him. The first marksman | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
disagreed with that interpretation and said Andrew Markland was moving, | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
he had not seen the burned up and he thought he posed a real risk to | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
life. -- he had not seen them go and drop. The inquest continues. | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
A Sussex man accused of murdering his mother and then burying her | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
body after a row over money had failed to repay her thousands of | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
pounds she had lent him. The evidence was heard at Hove Crown | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
Court this morning in the trial of Neale James from Chichester. This | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
afternoon, his sister took to the witness stand to give evidence | :04:31. | :04:39. | |
against him. Danielle Glavin was in court. | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
Nicole James, seen on the left, cried as she spoke about her mother. | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
She said Brenda James was a tolerant woman. Every year, Brenda | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
James would visit her in Sweden, where she lives. The court heard | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
they got on well. Nicole told the court that she was contacted by a | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
concerned friend in England to asked her if she knew where her | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
mother was. She then tried to call, and when she did not get an answer, | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
she called her brother, Neale James. When they finally spoke, he said he | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
had not seen their mother for a few days. She said, there was nothing | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
in his voice to say he had done anything wrong, but then she was | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
called by her uncle who told her her brother had been arrested for | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
murder. The prosecution alleges Neale James killed his mother as | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
she wanted him to repay loans that he had gambled away. Brenda James' | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
body was found on the Goodwood estate. The Defence has said Neale | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
James and his mother were walking in the area, she made a nasty | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
comment and he hit and killed her. Today the court was told Brenda | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
James struggled to walk far. Nicole told the court she visited the site | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
where her mother's body was found. It is close to a gravel path with a | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
downward slope. She said, there is no way I could see mum walking down | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
there. I found it improbable it is something she would have done. | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
Neale James denies murder, and the trial continues. | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
There is no end in sight for Southampton Council's pay row. A | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
final offer from the council has met with little support from the | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
unions. Under the revised deal, anyone earning less than �22,000 | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
would be exempt from the pay cuts, but the bin men's union, Unite, | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
urged its members to reject the proposals. Members will be asked to | :06:22. | :06:29. | |
make a final decision in a postal vote. | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
50% of our employees would get no pay cut at all, so when they see | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
that I am hoping that, although the unions are saying they should vote | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
against, they will see common sense, see the big picture, see why we are | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
doing this and will vote for their jobs. If they vote yes, we will | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
have to make an agreement. If they vote no we will have to sit down | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
with our members and decide what to do going forward. If they vote no | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
we still have the legal cases which we will continue with, and we will | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
go forward and try to change the council. | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
While Southampton's local dispute goes on, it was confirmed today by | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
the union Unison that its members have voted in favour of a strike at | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
the end of this month, protesting at planned changes to public sector | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
pensions. Other unions are also balloting their members. One of | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
them is Unite. We have been to speak to one of its members in the | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
south to ask why, despite a new offer from the Government yesterday, | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
he still plans to strike. He spoke to Roisin Gauson. | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
Simon Hartill is a union man. He has worked for Southampton City | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
Council for 13 years. A Secure Pension was one of the things that | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
tempted him to work in the public sector. Now, that decision could | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
backfire on him. I am gutted, absolutely gutted. I pay 6.8% of my | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
salary into the pension fund, about �185 per month, and they are | :07:51. | :07:56. | |
talking about increasing it to 9.2% of my annual salary, likely to be | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
an additional �75 a month, which is far too much, I cannot afford it. | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
Simon is not alone in his concerns. Unions which represent staff | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
ranging from teachers and nurses to civil servants want a show of | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
solidarity against proposed pension changes which will see public | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
sector staff work longer, pay more, and receive less. Yesterday the | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
government put a revised offer on the table ensuring anyone within 10 | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
years of retirement will not be affected by any changes and | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
increase in payments. But the offer does not go far enough for Simon. | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
You sign up to work in the public sector knowing you will get a final | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
salary pension scheme that will go through a career average scheme, | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
contributions will go up, and there is no need for it whatsoever. In | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
Germany they put twice as much into their pensions, and in France they | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
have pensions about twice as much as ours. The ballot result may be | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
out, but more are expected in the next few weeks. Simon hopes it will | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
lead to a resounding yes in favour of the biggest strike in a | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
generation at the end of this month's. | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
The numbers of fines issued for driving in Reading's bus lanes has | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
trebled in a year, which could earn the council �3 million. A report | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
has revealed almost 55,000 tickets were issued in the last six months. | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
That is compared with 18,000 over the same period in 2010. Joe | :09:19. | :09:29. | |
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Campbell reports. The signs are there for all to see. | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
This is one Reading Road where the bus is king. The driver of the | :09:33. | :09:39. | |
white car following in its wake could get a nasty shock in the post. | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
Cameras like this are used to catch motorists to use roads they should | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
not. The town is one of the first outside London to introduce them, | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
but a change in the road layout and an arrival of extra cameras this | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
spring saw the number caught rocket. In many cases people made genuine | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
mistakes in the early days, made representations to the council and | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
we have cancelled 10% of tickets, the board in April and May. Several | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
months on, the council says excuses are wearing thin. It dismisses fame | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
the restrictions are confusing. The council says this is not a plan to | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
plug the gap left by the fact it is getting less money now than it used | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
to from Whitehall. In fact, tonight a committee will meet to discuss | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
how it can better publicise where people, particularly those with | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
disabilities, can now take their cars, and where they cannot. The | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
town's biggest bus operator says with many people using public | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
transport, car drivers should see things from the bus passengers' | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
point of view. The thing about roads for buses and bus lanes is | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
that, for passengers, they make the difference between unreliable | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
operation and turning up on time, making a good stab at it. Now the | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
council says it is seeing a small number of repeat offenders who seem | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
to think the fine is worth paying if they get to their destination on | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
time. Still to come in this evening's | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
South Today: Royal recognition for the 26-year- | :11:05. | :11:13. | |
old who has proved she is a real community champion. | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
Sussex Police are appealing for information to help catch a taxi | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
driver who attacked a woman in Crawley. The 20-year-old woman got | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
into a Crawley Hackney carriage in Vulcan Close. The driver then | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
locked the doors and carried out a sexual assault. The police have | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
just released details of the attack, which happened at around 5.30am on | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
September 25th. 2,500 staff at South Western | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
Ambulance Service have been asked if they will take a pay cut, or | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
lose some leave, as part of plans to save millions of pounds. The | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
service, which has written to all staff, says jobs may go if they | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
cannot find �4 million of savings a year. The announcement has been met | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
with anger from the unions, who branded the proposals "totally | :11:53. | :12:01. | |
unacceptable". Clearly, they are very annoyed and | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
very angry. They are committed, hard-working people who are already | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
not on great salaries, no matter what anybody thinks about that, and | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
do not see why they should take any larger hit than other NHS staff | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
across the south-west. A Green MEP has been in Portsmouth | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
today urging the local council to take more action on air pollution, | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
specifically nitrogen dioxide, saying if drastic measures are not | :12:23. | :12:30. | |
made, thousands of lives are at risk. Laura Trant has the story. | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
Cycling is cheap, green and healthy. Isn't it? 26-year-old Allyn relies | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
on it. His bike is his way of getting from to B. But there is a | :12:41. | :12:48. | |
problem. This morning I could taste and smell the pollution in the air | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
I was cycling in, so it is uncomfortable from a personal point | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
of view, but I am more concerned that, as the years progress and I | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
continue cycling, it might have held a effect on me personally. | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
comes as no surprise to Green MEP Keith Taylor, who is concerned | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
about levels of nitrogen dioxide, a gas omitted from road transport. | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
They are saying 200,000 people are losing years off their lives | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
because of pollution. So what we need to be doing is making the air | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
we breathe healthier. Portsmouth City Council says it is | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
on top of the problem. We used to have 13 air action quality zones. | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
We have been able to sort this out in everywhere apart from five, so | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
things are getting better in Portsmouth, but they are right, we | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
have a problem with some fumes and we need to work harder to sort that | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
out. There is no easy task, comparing levels of air pollution | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
across the south, because it is up to councils to decide where to | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
place their monitoring stations. Whether or not it is at a pollution | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
hot spot. This is how it works. This is a diffusion tube. You take | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
off one of these rubber bits, put it up here on a lamp-post, and then | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
the air swells around inside and any nasty pollutants that stake in | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
there are then tested in laboratories so they know what is | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
in the environment for those cyclists and people walking around. | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
According to council figures, more than a quarter of the monitors in | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
Portsmouth show levels of nitrogen dioxide to be higher than the EU | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
target levels. In Brighton that is the case that more than three- | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
quarters of the monitors. Salsbury is in the middle with half of | :14:33. | :14:40. | |
stations showing higher than acceptable readings. | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
People living near Shoreham in West Sussex say their health is | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
suffering as a result of dust blowing towards their homes. Report | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
says improvements have been made to try to solve the problem. Sean | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
Kinnock has more. It was back in the spring that a | :14:54. | :14:59. | |
new operation began at Shoreham Port, exporting waste wood chip to | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
buy a mass burners in Scandinavia. Nearby resident John Oakley video | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
to the chippings being loaded on to chips and says dust blowing in the | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
wind has covered part cars and houses in the neighbourhood and | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
affected the health of his family and neighbours. It gets up your | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
nose, you cannot breed, it is in your eyes and a mouth. It is | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
getting all over your hair and your body. The portal authority says as | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
a result of meetings with residents improvements have been made to the | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
operation in recent weeks. woodchip is certainly the new | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
operation that we have on the port and has been creating some dust | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
over the summer, particularly when the weather was dry and windy. But | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
with the improvements it should make a big difference, and what | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
most people are asking overwhelming these to ensure that the woodchip | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
pile is reduced to below the retaining wall, which would make a | :15:50. | :15:56. | |
big difference to the amount of dust. The company says it adheres | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
strictly to all regulations. In a statement they said, we have almost | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
-- also invested over �40,000 in practical measures such as adding | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
extra high windbreak netting to the horse, installing additional | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
sprinkler systems and changing the specification of the biomass | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
material to limit any dust. We believe the current problem now | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
being experienced by residents is not originating from our by a mass | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
pile-up. -- biomass. | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
It is a sporting challenge that is continents apart - two schools on | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
opposite sides of the globe competing for Olympic honours. | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
Dorset school has been twinned with one in the foothills of the | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
Himalayas in India. The idea is to learn about different cultures and | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
explore the Olympic ideals. But things have started to get | :16:41. | :16:49. | |
competitive. Ed Sherry has been to meet the pupils. | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
My name is Tara Chittenden from the Thomas Hardye School and this is | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
the hockey challenge. I and Jason Jones and I am about to do the 60 | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
metres sprint challenge. I am doing the tennis challenge. This is the | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
halfway kick challenge. The latest student at the Thomas Hardye School | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
to give their all in five earning big sporting challenges. With | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
London 2012 less than a year away, they are excited about the game's. | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
It will be amazing for schools to be taking part as well and | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
hopefully will bring sport to be more of the subject and yet people | :17:26. | :17:33. | |
doing more sports. For now, this is who they are competing against, | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
friendly rivalry against this school in India. It is an all-boys | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
independent school where the focus is largely on sport. Each school | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
films that athletes in action and sends the others the results. So | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
far they have competed in -- competed in basketball and swimming. | :17:50. | :17:57. | |
It is part of World Class, a BBC campaign in schools around the | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
world in the build-up to the Olympic. We have asked the school | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
about their first famous gold medallist for the 10 metre rifle | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
shooting in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, what he has done and how | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
they are linking back to their school life at the men and. They do | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
a lot of sport training in general -- the moment. They get up before | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
breakfast and it leads to a more sporting community. But while it is | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
not all about the competition they are keeping score, and in the | :18:28. | :18:35. | |
challenge is so far it is Dorset two, Indian nil. | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
It is lovely that it is getting so competitive! A fabulous idea to | :18:40. | :18:45. | |
twin with other American -- schools around the world. | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
Kris Temple was at there last night, talking about having gone to meet a | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
racehorse trainer. He got up at the crack of dawn, a committed young | :18:54. | :19:03. | |
man for All Stop you have got to get up early. You are not doing | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
their stories! Net see what he was doing early | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
yesterday, shall we? -- next see what he was doing. | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
The South is blessed with some of the finest horse racing trainers | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
the sport has ever seen. The new the sport has ever seen. The new | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
jump racing season has also jump racing season has also | :19:19. | :19:20. | |
witnessed some fine performances by horses belonging to Jamie Snowden, | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
an up-and-coming trainer aged just 32. Kris has been to meet him at | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
his Berkshire base. Jump racing is his passion and | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
Jamie Snowden's training career is taking off. Having recently | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
upgraded to a new yard, he has had a flying start to the new season | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
with over �50,000 in prize money already. We have 30 horses on the | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
books now, we are in the hope of it here. The communication network is | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
amazing, you can get to 20 racecourses within a couple of | :19:49. | :19:57. | |
It is where it is all happening and I am happy with it. It is a far cry | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
from last winter when the big freeze brought many racing | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
businesses to a stance still. could not get out, and we managed | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
to keep the horses ticking over, but if you cannot take them to a | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
race meeting, you cannot re S. Having learned his trade under the | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
likes of Nicky Henderson, he is now in his 4th season. You can never | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
trained the same way as Nicky Henderson or Paul Nicholls, but you | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
can take a piece out of each of those. I worked in New Zealand in | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
might appear, and you take little pieces out of every one you have | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
been too. The Yard had their first win at Cheltenham last month, but | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
there are high hopes for an Old Course. He could make the line-up | :20:39. | :20:45. | |
for the 2012 ran National. Here he is, 11, probably hitting a peak | :20:45. | :20:51. | |
form of his life. It is not beyond the realms of possibility that he | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
should have run well in the Welsh National. He wears his heart on his | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
sleeve when he races, he digs deep, he has certainly got a chance. | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
another winner on the board just yesterday, Jamie Snowden's stock as | :21:05. | :21:12. | |
a trainer continues to rise. Beautiful pictures as well | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
yesterday morning. Now to the recurring question of | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
the week, which is, "When will Portsmouth appoint a new manager"? | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
It is three weeks since Steve Cotterill left to join Nottingham | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
Forest. He returns on Saturday with his new club. But as things stand, | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
coach Guy Whittingham, along with Stuart Gray, seems set to be | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
picking the team. Pompey's form since Cotterill left has bought the | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
Fratton Park club time as they mull over their options, but are the | :21:32. | :21:33. | |
players curious about what is happening? | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
I have not had one question, they have not said anything to me | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
whatsoever. They come in, they want to train, they gladly come in and | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
trained and they must be enjoying it and are looking forward to the | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
game on Saturday. No one has asked any questions about the managers at | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
all. Now, we are going to meet a young | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
lady who has had a rather special day. Jacqueline Cass has devoted | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
countless hours to helping others in sport. | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
Today, she received an MBE from Princess Anne for voluntary | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
services, part of the Queen's birthday honours. She is here with | :22:01. | :22:10. | |
us now. You have not seen this, having? And heir. Shall we relive | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
your special Mehmet? -- your special moment. | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
Jacqueline Cass for services to Thames Valley wheelchair basketball | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
club. That must have been a wonderful | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
moment for you. What did she say? She said it was nice to meet me, | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
asked me how many players I have in the team and where we were | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
competing. We spoke a bit about the junior lead that my players are | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
participating in last season and again this season and asked about | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
the Paralympics and how I felt about it coming to London. | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
Wheelchair basketball, we did a bit about it recently, and next year is | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
a great opportunity for exposure for the sport. Long term, still | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
some questions. How do you feel about the opportunities that the | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
Olympics and Paralympics offer and be on? It is amazing that it is a | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
home games, and to get people involved in the sport, I am hoping | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
to be an official at the Paralympics and possibly an index | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
with basketball, and the legacy that it will leave with the new | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
venues that it has created and the raised profile in disability sport | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
that it has brought. It is a fantastic opportunity, and also, | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
this must have been a surprise? definitely. I did not know I had | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
been nominated. I got home and was on the phone to my mum. When the | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
envelope came through... It looked official, I thought I had a | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
speeding ticket! I opened it and was speech this on the phone to my | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
mum. Better than a speeding ticket! Getting it, why is it so important? | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
What does it do for you and the sport that you support so much? | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
has raised the profile of wheelchair basketball for me to | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
come and speak to you today, and it is just something amazing. I don't | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
know the full benefits that I get and the implications it will have, | :24:03. | :24:13. | |
I am still learning. We met Jacqueline five years ago. Is this | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
better than getting the BBC South champion aboard?! Very much on a | :24:18. | :24:26. | |
par! I still have my award at home. On the mantelpiece! Congratulations, | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
thank you for coming tonight. Oh, we should show you, there it is, a | :24:32. | :24:42. | |
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wonderful Mb. Isn't it fantastic? Where it with pride. -- MBE. Wear | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
Ken Newberry captured a golfer taking full advantage of the dry | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
weather at midday before the rain arrived this afternoon in Cowdray | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
Park in West Sussex. We all know seagulls like their | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
chips. This one was captured by Robin Boltwood in Swanage. The two | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
people were also sheltering from the strong breeze. He is looking | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
through the glass! And Ron Adams from Aylesbury in | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
Buckinghamshire captured the morning dew on a spider's web. | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
There were heavy showers today, people in Shoreham said the rain | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
was coming in horizontally, not a meteorological term! We can expect | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
some thundery downpours tonight. The Met Office have issued a | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
weather warning, potential for very heavy rain causing localised | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
flooding, standing water on the road and surface spray, so do take | :25:31. | :25:38. | |
care. You can see the greens, the yellows and the darker blues. Very | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
mild temperatures despite those thunderstorms. Expect a low of 12- | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
13 Celsius. A brief dry period tomorrow morning with some | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
brightness before the show was start marching in again from the | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
English Channel. Thunderstorms are possible, maybe from Oxford up to | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
Dorset throughout the day, and a high tomorrow of 17 or 18, very | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
mild for the time of year. That line of showers stays through | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
Saturday morning, a few clear spells under those clearing skies, | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
perhaps some mist and fog patches. Temperatures just into single | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
figures. Unsettled into the weekend, unfortunately, for those wanting to | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
go to fireworks displays on Bonfire Night. Low-pressure over the near | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
Continent, the winds world died down, so it will feel cooler, | :26:28. | :26:34. | |
temperatures returning to the seasonal average. Unfortunately we | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
are seeing damp conditions, the north of the country having the | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
best conditions for the fireworks displays. Here is the summary for | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
Sunday, a drier day, cloud around, and over cast feel, the odd shower | :26:46. | :26:52. | |
here and there, and a similar picture on Monday. The winds are | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
coming in from the North at the weekend so it will feel cooler. | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
Thunderstorms tomorrow, brisk winds from the south-west, changing | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
direction over the weekend. Saturday, light, patchy rain to | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
start the day, 10 in heavier as the day goes on. Over cast on Sunday, | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
patchy drizzle by Monday -- 10 ING heavier as the day goes on. | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
Not great for fireworks night. are you back on the basketball | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
court, Jacqueline? We have the junior league in London. Straight | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
back to my aid. They will celebrate with you. Thank you for coming in. | :27:29. | :27:34. |