25/11/2011 South Today

Hello I'm Sally Taylor. Welcome to South Today. In tonight's

programme: In court, Portsmouth football

club's owner faces allegations of asset stripping at a major

Lithuanian bank. A financial expert warns it could have implications

for the club. If it cannot make the payments that are due then I

imagined the League will take a pretty stern view of it.

Cancel if you can, the appeal to thousands of travellers due to land

at Gatwick during next week's national strike.

How a dose of vinegar is helping doctors catch the signs of cancer

years earlier. The use of what vinegar does work. We all go home

hungry, smelling of fish and chips. And Newbury gears up for its

biggest day of the race calendar, the Hennessy Gold Cup.

A young woman living in Sussex faces deportation to South Africa

even though her mother and sister are allowed to stay. Jackie Young

has been here since 2006 and has no surviving relatives in South Africa.

The UK Border Agency said she failed to apply to renew her visa

before it expired. Jackie young does not know how long

she may have left in little Anton with her boyfriend and her family.

The nineteen-year-old may face deportation to South Africa --

Littlehampton. I have not done anything wrong. I do not have

drinking problems or do drugs. This is my home. This is all I have.

Jackie's mother came to the UK from South Africa in 2006 with her two

daughters. She married Robert Young a year later. Diane and her

daughters inadvertently allowed their visas to expire. While Diane

and her daughter Tanya have been allowed to remain in the UK, Jackie

has been ordered to go back to South Africa. It is extremely

difficult to go through this. I never thought that this would ever

happen but it has. We have just got to pull together as a family to get

through this. Jackie left South Africa when she was just 13 and has

no family there. In a statement, UK BA should have looked at the

family unit as a whole. They did not do an impact assessment of what

their decision would do to Jackie Young. Jackie Young says that if

she was forced to leave her home in Sussex she would live everyone that

she has cared for. -- lose everyone. BBC South can reveal tonight that

prosecutors in Lithuania are taking steps to freeze the assets of the

owner of Portsmouth Football Club. The news came as Vladimir Antonov

appeared before magistrates in London. He was detained after the

Lithuanian authorities issued an arrest warrant in connection with

alleged fraud at a bank he controls. A financial expert says the move to

freeze Mr Antonov's assets could have an impact on Portsmouth

Football Club. Once again question-marks are

swirling around Fratton Park, there home of Portsmouth Football Club.

It is financial and legal matters that are grabbing the headlines

rather than the team news for tomorrow's match against Leicester.

Vladimir Antonov is in the spotlight. His company took over

the club in June. The Russian National, he owned 60% of shares in

a Lithuanian bank. He is accused of the authorities of misappropriating

more than �127 million. The bank went into administration and has

now been nationalised. Many Portsmouth fans reacted with

disbelief to the rest of their club's owner. You think nothing

worse can happen and then this happened. I do not know, I feel

numb. He we go again. It is the same, isn't it? Never mind, we will

get through it. We have had our good times but also our bad times

and we are on the up now but we need a good own and we have had are

plenty of those. It would be nice to get some stability back in the

club again. Vladimir Antonov has had brushes with financial

authorities before. The UK's Financial Services Authority

opposed a bid by his bank to open a Vladimir Antonov was asked about

that in a BBC South interview. have passed a fit and proper

testing 2006. Then we had some difficulties with the FSA and we

were still in dialogue with them. In terms of banking business in

other jurisdictions, everything is fine. Today at Westminster

Magistrates Court, Vladimir Antonov and his business partner were

granted bail. They told magistrates that they would oppose extradition

to Lithuania and they deny all charges against them. But, in

another development, BBC South asked the Lithuanian prosecutor's

if their investigations into the bank would extend into the football

A business expert who represents some of the creditors of Portsmouth

Football Club from when it went into administration last year says

freezing Vladimir Antonov's assets could have a big impact. The key

question is whether there is enough money in the kitty to meet the

liabilities going forward through to the end of the season at least.

If they were planning on new money being put in through their owners,

it would seem unlikely that that will be available. There has been

no comment so far from the people running Portsmouth Football Club.

Let us talk a bit more about this. The charges that Vladimir Antonov

is facing a serious? Very serious, the Lithuanian authorities said the

charges of misappropriation and forgery carries a maximum prison

sentence of up to 10 years in jail. Today Vladimir Antonov's lawyer was

telling those magistrates in London that he strenuously denies

dishonesty in any of his dealings as regards the bank. Both Vladimir

Antonov and his business partner were granted conditional bail.

Vladimir Antonov has had to pay a security bond of �75,000 and has

had to surrender his passport. The the next court hearing will be on

December 16th. The extradition proceedings could last several

months. Thank you. Its been confirmed that the New

Forest father of the two children, abducted by their mother and killed

by her last week, is returning home without his children's bodies and

without having had the chance to see them or say goodbye.

Justin Mellersh has been in Turkey since last Saturday trying to see

the bodies of his eight-year-old son Jaanis and his sister Mira, who

was six. The bodies of their mother Elke Mellersh and the children were

discovered at a remote farmhouse and were buried soon after.

Gatwick Airport could be forced to close because of next week's

planned strikes by public sector workers. That's the fear of Crawley

MP Henry Smith. He says that passengers, who are already likely

to face significant disruption as immigration officers join strike

action over pensions, could end up finding the airport closed. Tonight

the UK Border Agency says it's examining all options to keep

borders safe and the Army could form part of the response.

It may seem inevitable for arriving passengers at Gatwick on Wednesday

but the MP says the airport could be forced to close. I hope it will

not mean the airport closing for a time but it would be foolish to

rule it out. I have confidence in Gatwick Airport to manage these

sort of contingency problems. They are working very closely with the

Home Office from the border point of view and also the Department of

Transport to make sure that airport operations remain as smooth as

possible, despite what I think is quite Regulus strike action.

report says it is arriving extra state -- the apple says it is

preparing extra space for arriving passengers. Managers did not say

the airport may have to close at but they say it would be a

challenge if the strikes went ahead. It their drafting in hundreds of

volunteers who may not be able to staff the border but they can

manage the clues. -- queues. government to manage everything

including freeing up immigration controls. It is bad enough for

visitors getting through Heathrow any way. If they are going to be

subjected to delays on an unprecedented scale and kept in

planes while it is happening, it will be incredibly damaging. The UK

Border Agency says it is bringing in managers, contractors and staff

from overseas to keep the borders running. They are even considering

asking the army for help. Metal stolen for its scrap value is

sadly nothing new, but how about this for sheer cheek. Police are

investigating the theft of 20 cast iron gates from two adjoining roads

in Berkshire. Thieves apparently went from house to house, simply

lifting the heavy gates from their hinges, and putting them into a van.

Leave something valuable lying around and it is a cast iron

certainty that it will be stolen. Who would have imagined this latest

trend? I came out to pull the car are and I looked around to open the

gates and there were no gates. When I looked across the road, his gates

were gone and the next-door neighbour's gates were gone. Double

gates from 10 homes were taken on the same night and nobody in the

neighbourhood heard a thing. They had a Transit and they just slid

them in as they went round. That is all we can think. If it was a

flatbed truck, we would have heard them. All the stolen gate had two

open our pride hinges which meant they could be quickly and easily

lifted free. If the bottom hinges inverted or turned around like this

one here, it is not possible. This gate is going nowhere. The town

council has been the target of metal thieves so we had to -- we

had led stolen from one of our properties which caused damage from

water leaks. It is in frequent in the town but, as this has proven,

we are becoming a target and people need to beware. There are a lot of

neighbourhood teams across the force and if anyone wants specific

advice about this a property -- property and how to secure it, we

are happy for them to contact us and we will visit. Police have had

recent success in bringing metal thieves to court but the the advice

to homeowners is to secure any and all property, right down to the

garden gate. If you're wondering why I have this

on the desk, there is a reason. A revolutionary new type of

treatment is giving people at risk of developing cancer a far greater

chance of survival, and this is the key, basic household vinegar. It's

just the sort many of us would put on our food at home. It's allowing

a surgeon in Portsmouth to detect pre-cancer cells in the gullet, in

some cases up to three years earlier than other methods. Cancer

of the oesophagus or gullet is the fastest growing cancer in the

James it is about to be tested to see if he is at risk of cancer.

Someone believes it can work, that's all I am interested in.

team are looking for a tiny groups of cells. We are going to start the

examination, put the camera down. They have been difficult to spot

until now. They will use this, vinegar, diluted with water.

Ordinary, everyday vinegar, it has an amazing effect on the body. The

healthy cells stay white but the pre-cancerous cells turn red.

is the area. This reddened area is half the size of AP, it will take

10 minutes to remove. Before this new technique was developed, all

these patients would have had major surgery, which takes about eight

hours, and has a very high risk of complications. 10% of Patients

never leave the hospital. They first came across this technique in

Japan, now hundreds of patients in Portsmouth are being tested this

way. In the past, they would have used a camera. Fewer than 50% of

patients were diagnosed. Now they are using vinegar, it has risen to

97%. This is so cheap and easy, it is widely available, it doesn't

matter which part of the world if you practise medicine. I thought it

was mad. The operation took just 40 minutes. It's all turned out very

well. We are pleased with that. will be going home the same day.

Our health correspondent David Fenton is with me. It sounds just

too bizarre to be true. It is true, and it works. The odd thing is, no

one knows how it works, but it does. When they first started testing it,

they literally used vinegar off the shelf from a local supermarket. It

was that simple. Now obviously it's made up for them, but it's still

just vinegar. If this was a drug, they'd have to

go through all sorts of trials. Presumably they don't need to do

that? No, that's because vinegar is a food and presumed to be safe. All

they have to do is show evidence that it works. And they've done

that. So far they've used it on more than a thousand patients. As

you saw in Rachael's report, the results have been very good. What's

it going to mean for patients? Cancer of the oesophagus is on the

increase, because of the western diet and lifestyle but also because

it's not diagnosed early enough. It causes 3,000 deaths a year in the

UK. So anything which can help detect it earlier is a good thing.

And of course this method is very cheap. A bottle vinegar doesn't

cost very much. Still to come in this evening's

South Today: Find out who the champion jockey is backing for the

Hennessy Gold Cup? They were laid to prevent Nazi

Germany invading the Isle of Wight 70 years ago, but mines are now

preventing a German company building a supermarket in Cowes.

Two pipe mines have been discovered on the site of a former grass

landing strip used by the RAF. Tom This field on the outskirts of

Cowes is giving up its secrets, 70 years ago, part mines were laid.

After the war, Canadian soldiers were meant to have removed the more.

They didn't. Two have been found, containing the equivalent of 15

kilograms of plastic explosives. will be conducting controlled

explosions. They are not a ticking time bomb, not a problem to passing

traffic or individuals. Five years ago, Pipe mines found here prompted

one of the biggest peacetime evacuations as the Royal Engineers

made them safe. There were also found at Southampton airport.

Contractors say they won't be as much disruption but businesses are

concerned. Deliveries will be our main problem, not getting people in.

The mines will be detonated in spring after a consultation to

minimise the impact of dealing with them. The captain of the ship that

went to the aid of the Titanic has had a road named after him. Captain

Rostron diverted the Carpathia to pick up survivors of the tragedy in

April 1912. Rostron Close in West End, where the captain spent his

final years, was unveiled this morning. The centenary of the

disaster is in April. A children's play specialist from

Hampshire has won a Heroes Award for her work in improving the

technology used by terminally ill children. Clare Floyd won a �5,000

grant for the Naomi House Hospice near Winchester. Sarah Holmes went

to take a look at the work she's been doing.

Like most children her age, Lauren loves using a computer, and thanks

to the technology pioneered by Clare Floyd, she can. This

extendable mouse arm gives Lauren the control she needs to operate

the computer independently. What is your favourite game on a computer?

The internet. How would you feel if you could not use the computer or

the internet here? Really sad. staff say giving children and young

people access to the equipment is an invaluable part of the work they

do. It just makes them the same as everyone else. They can access it,

play games, some of them are educational. The new equipment and

software we can get can keep them in touch with their peers, their

friends, a bit of Facebook and Messenger and things like that that

they can do at home and at college and when they come here it does not

close them off from the rest of their world.

The money will be used to bring some of the technology already

available to younger children into here so that older children and

young adults can benefit too. The Dorset Business Awards took

place in Poole last night. The gala was hosted by impressionist Debra

Stephenson. Among the winners were Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre,

which took the Tourism Award. And the Apprentice of the Year was

Jack Ingram of Hamworthy Combustion. Prince Charles made a visit and to

the region today, planting a tree in Dorchester her. The sustainable

village there won't be finished until 2055. Now it's time for the

sport. Newbury racecourse is preparing for

its biggest day of the year tomorrow, with the staging of the

prestigious Hennessy Gold Cup. The race is the focal point of the

venue's three-day Winter Festival, and I was there earlier, to sample

the anticipation of tomorrow's spectacle.

It's the longest single sponsored events in Europe with the

partnership stretching back 55 years. As well as a �155,000 prize,

it is a highlight of the jumping calendar. In most traditional races,

you want to win, it is a highlight of the jumping year, a difficult

race to win. That's what -- that's what makes it different. A healthy

crowd turned out for the second day of the meeting. Our attendances on

the first two days have been really great, everyone is having a great

time. Tomorrow is our big day, ticket sales are up on last year. A

positive feel on the race. Champion trainer Paul Nicholls has won

before. He has tomorrow's favourite but there are many horses with

notable claims. Obviously, there are so many great horses. This is a

horse I can see finishing. There is no doubt there are some fantastic

courses. The weekend's football: Portsmouth

will be glad to put the focus back to matters on the pitch, at least

for a couple of hours tomorrow. Michael Appleton takes charge of

his first home game, with Leicester City the visitors to Fratton Park.

Pompey will be looking for a marked improvement, from last weekend's

defeat at Watford. After their comfortable win over Brighton,

Championship leaders Southampton are five points clear, going into

their game at Bristol City. Brighton themselves will be without

assistant manager Mauricio Taricco through suspension. The Seagulls

are at home to Coventry. Reading, in 14th, are one point ahead of

tomorrow's hosts Ipswich. The Royals have only won one of their

last six games. In League One tomorrow, Bournemouth

are set to hand a debut to new signing Charlie Daniels, in their

game at home to Oldham. In League Two, Crawley will hope to

regain top spot, with a win at Rotherham in 11th.

Mid-table Aldershot face a tricky trip to Swindon, who are seventh.

There's coverage of all those matches on your BBC local radio

station. Tickets have gone on sale this

evening, for AFC Totton's historic FA Cup tie at home to Bristol

Rovers. This was the reaction at the club's Testwood Stadium when

the second round draw was made. It's the furthest Totton have ever

gone, in the world's oldest cup competition. The tie will be played

on Sunday 4th December. And, with live TV coverage, the Southern

League side are set to bank around �100,000.

After a break for Rugby Union's European Cup, London Irish return

to Premiership action tomorrow. The Exiles face London Wasps at the

Madejski Stadium, and are expected to hand a debut to new Samoan

signing Ofisa Trevirarnus. I thought you were finishing with

ice-skating. There was ice-skating last night. We could call it ice

skating. I did fall over, you didn't see that. That would have

been fun to see. The weather over the weekend was

quite windy, looking very windy. the north of the country in

particular. It has been breezy today.

An alert Alpaca was captured by Tom Baylis in today's sunshine in

Thakenham. A surfer braved the cold sea to

catch a wave on Highcliffe Beach. This picture was taken by Barrie

Taylor. Chris Castle took this picture of a

squirrel munching on some seeds in A lovely sunny day, but breezy.

Tomorrow, clearing skies, a touch of fog. One or two showers

initially tonight but they will die away in the early hours.

Temperatures under clearing skies a lot lower than last night, four

Celsius. Colder in the countryside. Tomorrow it is a decent day if you

are out and about, sunny conditions. A keen a south-westerly breeze. Two

degrees up on today's values. Tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow

evening, there are the Christmas lights in Weymouth been switched on.

And other events in Weymouth. From 10:30am.

Tomorrow night, clear skies initially, before further cloud a

rise in the early hours. Patchy, light rain is a possibility.

Temperatures will stay mild, 11 Celsius. Milder than tonight.

Sunday daytime, after a damp start, and improving picture. A lovely,

sunny day. On Sunday afternoon, Sunday morning, the Victoria Park

runs starting at 11:30am. It is all for charity. Monday starts on a

bright and sunny note but the winds will increase with rain spreading

from the Atlantic. This is what is heading towards us on Tuesday, you

can see the winds will pick up, a very wet and windy day. Enjoy the

sunshine over the weekend, more cloud on Monday, wet and windy on