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Hello, I'm Laura Trant. Welcome to South Today. In tonight's

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programme: A group of friends have been

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convicted after a malicious plot in Brighton, leads to a young man

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being burned alive. The pouring of petrol and putting him in the beat,

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nobody deserves to go like that. Victory for a pub landlady who's

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won her legal battle against the Premier League. It is a moral

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victory. The big corporations thinking they are above the law

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when they didn't know it themselves. His tenants lived in squalor - a

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Reading landlord is sent to jail. And calling on football fans to use

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their love of the game, to turn Judges say she was wrongly

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prosecuted. Karen Murphy, a pub landlady has

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won her six-year legal battle. It was to overturn her conviction for

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using a cheaper foreign alternative to Sky, to show football in her

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Portsmouth pub. The High Court today decided Karen's appeal to use

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the cheaper device to bypass costs and controls over match screening,

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must be allowed. So let's remind ourselves of the

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background to this case. Sky offered the football service to

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Karen at a cost of around �8,000 a year. She said she couldn't afford

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those prices and opted for the cheaper Greek service at �800 a

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year. But the English Premier League then took legal action and

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she was fined �8,000, but Karen decided to take her fight to use

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the cheaper provider to the European Courts of Justice. It

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found partly in her favour, and now the High Court has backed what she

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says is her long awaited victory. Joe Campbell has been in court and

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we can go to live to him in London. Joe, the costs in this case have

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been described by the judge as "eye watering".

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The meter is still running with possibly more legal action to come.

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It was a spot of a giant-killing whistle. On one side we had the

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Premier League with a huge war tressed banks to the money it has

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accrued from selling rights to show their games on television. On the

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other side a small, local Hampshire pub struggling to balance the books

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but it was when the landlady tried to cut their costs by ditching her

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Sky service that is were no problems began.

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It is six years since she worked -- first walked through the doors off

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court. Today she finally emerged victorious. He could have been my

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house, my pub, everything but that is beside the point. It needed to

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be done and it has begun. I had this stage is the face of football

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as we know it. The battle kicked off when she bought a Greek

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satellite decoder. It cost �118 per month. Stopping a QC at the cheaper

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foreign supplier breached European law on the single market, she

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argued. We had to appeal against a magistrate's decision, the Crown

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Court, and three trips to the High Court. On the way a trip to the

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European Court. She has had to go through the full gamut of the legal

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process but she has got here today and she has got what I believe is

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the right result. Today the Premier League was determined to play on.

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It's the music and logo is used during broadcasts remain copyright

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and anyone showing those without permission could still be in

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But she is not intimidated. What drove you? I don't like police,

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people thinking they are above the law and believe me because they are

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an individual. It doesn't mean they are right and it proved that I was

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right. And so back at the pub regulars will be celebrating that

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today it was their side that won. Joe, what are the knock on effects

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to football and its screening as a whole?

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The Premier League is hoping there might still be some legal wriggle

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room because of the logo is that it used in a lot of broadcasters

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transmissions of its gains which might still give it a chance to

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defend those rights when they are sold here into the UK. But at the

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end of the day this isn't about footballing tactics as much as

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economic tactics and what the Premier League may have to decide,

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much as it wants to preserve -- protect the money it gets from

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selling its rights in the UK, by actually doing away at the end of

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the day from selling rights for a lot less into Europe and is

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certainly they want to look at that and say what it needs to do is

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perhaps to protect itself by making a little less money in Europe by

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guaranteeing the money it is making A young mother's been held at

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gunpoint in her home in what police believe was a targeted armed

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robbery. Two men wearing hoodies and high visibility jackets barged

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into the house in Totton in Southampton on Wednesday. The

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woman's 11-month old baby was upstairs as the attackers raided

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the property. Both escaped unharmed. A Sussex University medical student

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has been found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm after a man

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was beaten unconscious and left to die inside a burning car. Mundill

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Mahil, who's from Kent enticed Gagangdip Singh, to her house in

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Brighton last February, in revenge for his attempted rape of her six

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months previously. He was then attacked by two men. They've also

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been convicted today, one for murder the other manslaughter as

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Chris Coneybeer reports. Gagangdip Singh, just hours before

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he was murdered, seen here on his way to Brighton where he stopped to

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buy a teddy bear to give to medical student, Mundill Mahil. She, and

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known to him, it was during him into a trap. A trap set by her and

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another close friend. She'd tricked him into meeting her at her flat

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where he would be attacked. The recent, he had revealed to her a

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painful secret. The previous summer Gagangdip Singh has attempted to

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rape her. She plotted revenge. European to her flat Mundill Mahil

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knew he might be heard but once there her friends to get further,

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beating him unconscious. He was bundled into the boot of a cart

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wrapped in bedsheet and with his arms bound together. Still alive he

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was driven from Brighton to London where petrol was poured on him and

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the car, and set alight. He died from breezing in the toxic fumes.

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Text messages reveal Gagangdip Singh suspected a trap walked into

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it even his friends and family bewildered by the thought of his

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suffering. It is hard to believe in this day and age human beings can

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do such things. Just thinking about his final moments, nobody deserves

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a death like that. He was 21 years old and had a

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promising future. He had launched his own TV service and his senior

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reporting from Pakistan. As it caught a statement was read on

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behalf of his family. On a day-to-day basis there is a

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gap in our lives and the sense of loneliness. He was always a happy

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person trying to make us laugh. He was always positive and reassuring

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in his family and business life. Mundill Mahil and Peters will be

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He forced his tenants to live in dangerous and dirty conditions,

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with live electrical cables exposed, and often without hot water or

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heating. A rogue landlord in Reading's been convicted of a

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string of offences, after repeatedly ignoring demands to

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bring his property up to scratch. As Allen Sinclair reports, Abdul

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Hanif was already serving a prison sentence for unrelated crimes.

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Now managed by a relative of the end of this property in central

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Reading is once again left out to tenants. The string of serious

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fault put right. Council enforcement officers say they were

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struck -- shocked by conditioned when I first went inside. Several

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tenants were living here with exposed and dangerous electrical

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fittings, filthy and faulty equipment with the dangerous gas

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supply frequently breaking down and holes in walls and ceilings. It has

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taken nearly three years to bring to court but the landlord Abdul

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Hanif was found guilty of 13 breaches of housing regulations by

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magistrates. Sometimes tenors don't know their rights, or even if they

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do, because of the high demand we have here in Reading, it can be

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difficult for them to may be a Ford alternative accommodation so it is

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important the castle Act to protect people rights. The council hopes

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his firm stance will encourage other tenants living in squalor to

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come forward. The landlord is already serving a four-year jail

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term for drugs offences. Unable to pay a fine he has had a further

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The family of a newly-qualified teacher who was killed while

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cycling in Brighton say they want to prevent such a tragedy from ever

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happening again. Jo Walter died in 2010 on the A270 Lewes Road. Now a

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trust set up in her name has produced a grand plan for safer

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cycling routes in the city. Alex Beard reports.

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The family of Jo Walter wants to make Britain safer for cyclists so

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no one else has to suffer a similar loss. She was only 28. The last

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thing we expected to happen. It has been a real help feeling we were

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doing something positive out of it. We would be absolutely delighted if

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this came off and we could feel people going to and from university

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were cycling safety -- safely and this wouldn't happen again.

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Walter was cycling along this path to the university campus when she

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swerved to avoid another cyclist put up she fell onto the road and

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was hit by a passing van. Her family want to see a designated

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cycle past -- path for this stretch of road. It is part of a masterplan

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to create a safer ways for cyclists to get round the city. I have been

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really heartened by the response from the City Council who have

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taken this as a constructive input, and we are very much working with

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them and it is very probable what we are suggesting will happen.

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Cycle safety isn't just a local issue. Early yesterday it was

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debated in Parliament. Good for the Environment, good for the economy

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so people should cycle but we have a duty in government and local

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councils have a duty to make it as safe as possible and encourage it

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as much as possible. Two local cyclists feel safe? Drivers are not

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that considerate towards cyclists. I think we need a little bit of

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protection. When you go on the bike you take your chances. Not quite

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Amsterdam yet. But in Netherlands style cycle that work is exactly

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what Jo Walter's family wants to see in Brighton and they believe it

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Still to come in this evening's South Today:

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On the eve of the Sunseeker Rally, Tony Husband is live tonight at

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Poole Quay. The teams are about to parade along

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Paul Kee ahead of the start of this year's Sunseeker Rally. A look

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ahead to that and all the rest of Condor Ferries has confirmed that

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sailings won't resume from Weymouth until the end of March. Services

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have been moved to Poole while work to repair cracks in the ferry berth

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at Weymouth Port is carried out. Condor Ferries say it will contact

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passengers affected by the change. Our passengers are very

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understanding of the fact this is something beyond our control. The

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actual impact on them is reasonably negligible in terms of the back the

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service will still operates at a committal where connections, just

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from a port that serves slightly In the summer a new charity will be

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formed which will instantly become the 12th biggest in the UK. British

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Waterways is to become the Canal and River Trust, owning a land and

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property portfolio worth half a billion pounds. But some aspects of

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the decision are controversial, and our Political Editor Peter Henley

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has been finding out more. This new charity is going to be quite a

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giant when it's created then? Let us start off by saying why

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people love rivers and canals. We have got some fantastic ones in the

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south, the mighty Thames, Basingstoke Canal. People are used

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to having British Waterways as their landlord or maybe as the

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regulator of these great Waterways. People who live alongside, earned

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their living from boats on the river. They are all used to British

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Waterways. What if they are a charity? Things are different. A

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tricky deal for the government to work out. The Newbury MP Richard

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Benyon is the minister who has been working at this deal. He is very

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positive. It is really big news for everybody who knows, uses and loves

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our Waterways and they will be able to control it. It will be theirs

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rather than a state asset. It will be around by those who really are

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what they are talking about. some owners of businesses are not

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so sure about a non-professional waterway. I am not sure I want to

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have business depending on the work of volunteers who might get up in

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the morning and say I did want to do that. The other people worried

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are the existing volunteers. They do things like running boats out on

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the river, having cafes. What if British Waterways are competing

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with them? Is that because Canal cost a lot to keep?

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Absolutely. The government will fund this for 15 years but what

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happens when that runs out? Should they have just handed his ever to a

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charity? They could have sold off some of this valuable riverside

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property. They belonged to the taxpayer. All those questions and

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Much more at midday on Sunday. The council tax will be frozen next

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year in Brighton and Hove. At a crunch budget meeting last night,

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Conservative and Labour councillors united to vote against the ruling

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Green party. Protesters had gathered outside the meeting. The

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Green party had wanted to increase council tax by 3.5%. But opposition

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councillors joined forces to vote for a freeze. The Greens called the

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decision 'financially reckless' and said the council tax freeze will

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result in deeper cuts next year. He's a lifelong Southampton

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football supporter, and he runs a charity to help children orphaned

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by AIDS in Africa. Now Steve Fleming is bringing his two

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passions together, and he needs your help. He's on the hunt for

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football fans to come to Lesotho, and use their love of the game to

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help educate youngsters, in a country with the third highest rate

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of HIV infection in the world. Princes William and Harry Mead

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children affected by HIV. 100,000 youngsters in this country have

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been orphaned by the disease. Is it like this can boost awareness of

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the need for better education. But when the royals go home, it is up

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to charities like Kick4Life to continue their work. We were using

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football, the great passion ever there, to engage the unpeople and

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deliver messages about health education and avoiding been

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affected, where they can go for testing and changing their lives.

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We have a game where teachers showed children you cannot tell

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somebody has a Derby just by looking at them. The well-tended

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surf of St Mary's is a world away from the make -- makeshift football

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pitches but the passion for the game is just as strong as in this

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stadium on a Saturday afternoon. The Saints Foundation is the

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charitable arm of Southampton Football Club and is backing the

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next trip and once 25 the Saints supporters to join up. What they do

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out there and what we do here is very similar to stop the

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opportunity to play in your kit, in South Africa, it will get people

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signed up dust on that basis. People will go out thinking

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football is the most important part and realise the Health Education is

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the most fulfilling part of the trip. It is for everybody who plays

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football and wants to make a difference. To get involved you

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will have to raise �2,500. There is an information day on March 13th

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and more information on the state's website. -- St.

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Onto sport, and thousands of motorsport fans will descend on

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Bournemouth and Poole this weekend for the annual Rally Sunseeker

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event. For nearly three decades some of Britain's top rally drivers

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have raced around the heathland and forests in the area. It all kicks

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off tonight, and Tony is there, Tony.

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Absolutely. They are just about to head off. I will get out the way

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because the cars will take centre stage in just a moment. We have got

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the mayor of Paul who is going to wave them off. The opening round of

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the British Rally Championship. The rating takes place tomorrow. 66

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miles. The most this event has had in more than four decades of

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rallying along the south coast. They will be taking to the

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heathland around Bournemouth. It all finishes in Bournemouth

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tomorrow night. This is one of the big rally in events of the year in

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the south. Last year for the first time it was the opening round of

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the British Rally Championship and that again, credit to the

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organisers of the event, they managed to put on such a good event,

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and to get that recognition as part of the British Rally Championship

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at up those of you who know about British rally driving will know

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they are normally four-wheel-drive cars. This year they will be to

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wheel-drive cars. That is a technological change, interesting

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to see how they get on, on some quite icy land as you go round the

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heathland, around Bournemouth. -- dicey. That is the challenge that

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awaits them this weekend. I will tell you about what else is going

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on in sport this weekend. Southampton's Pete Waterfield

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finished seventh in the final of the 10m platform synchronised event

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at the Diving World Cup with his partner Tom Daley. The pair

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performed well in five of their six routines at London's Aquatics

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Centre, but an error on their hardest dive cost them a chance of

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a medal. The duo, making their debut at the Centre, have suffered

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an array of injuries since they last competed together at the World

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Championships in July 2011. We were both injured at the beginning of

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the year so we have missed out on a bit of training so a bit behind.

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When you come unprepared, you expect not to win a medal but for

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the preparation we have had, we have put in a pretty good

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performance. We miss one dive, with more preparation at the games we

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should be fine. Peter Waterfield is in the individual event, qualified

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in 16th place. $NEWLINE The Hampshire-based Great Britain

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synchronised swimming team are in competitive action for the first

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time this year over the weekend. The squad train at the elite

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performance centre in Aldershot. They're competing in the Spanish

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Winter Open in Barcelona. Both the team and duet will be unveiling

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their new routines, that have been choreographed specifically for this

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summers Olympic Games. -- summer's. The former Chairman of Portsmouth

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Football Club has defended his financial record at the club,

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saying that without spending "it was simply impossible to satisfy

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supporter's expectations." In a statement to the BBC, Vladimir

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Antonov says there were no complaints to the Football League

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during his five-month tenure. He also accused the Lithuanian

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government of illegally seizing his banking assets which led to

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Pompey's latest crisis. The Lithuanian government refused to

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comment on the claims. Meanwhile some of the Portsmouth side joined

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staff at the club this afternoon to help sell tickets for tomorrow's

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home game with Leeds. Fans are being urged to "pack the park and

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prices have been reduced by �5. The manager is full of praise for the

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squad. The players have to play with

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injuries, Knox. Considering they are not actually getting paid to do

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what they asked to do, it is also a testament to their character. I

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take that as a massive positive from being the manager, at the end

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of the day they don't have to do that. The cars are starting to set

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off. 9,000 people expected. Keep the football going for a moment,

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take a look at the championship table ahead of the matches tomorrow

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for top Southampton's second. Birmingham have a game in hand.

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Reading are boosted by the decision of Brian McDermott to stay at the

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Madejski stadium. Brighton remain in the hunt. Southampton go to

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Watford tomorrow. Guly Dio Prado is back from illness and in contention

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to start. Saints Japanese striker Tadanari Lee could also make his

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first start since joining the club after his goal against Derby last

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week. Reading are aiming for their fifth consecutive win after they

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beat Burnley last Friday. But they face a tough test at Middlesbrough

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who are 6th. Shaun Cummings and Andy Griffin should be fit.

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Elsewhere Brighton are at home to a resurgent Ipswich side. In League

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One Bournemouth boss Lee Bradbury says he's not under pressure to

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reach the play offs despite major investment in recent months. The

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Cherries host MK Dons. In League Two Aldershot will hope to claim a

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fifth consecutive win of their own with a home game against Barnet.

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You can follow it all on BBC local radio.

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There they are, at making their way along, a great event. The Sunseeker

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They will certainly have the right weather conditions, I think.

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A lack of rain in the South is leading to the real possibility of

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a drought this spring and summer. And the inadequate rainfall means

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low river levels which wildlife experts say is a risk for fish.

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It's thought the situation could pose a threat to their breeding

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pattern. Catharina Moh has the story.

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It has been a good winter for the number of salmon returning to

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Dorset. The local wildlife trust says there is around 400 spots

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where salmon have laid their eggs. But a lack of rain is affecting

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water levels in our rivers across the staff. This chore extreme

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Indoor -- Dorset is fed by groundwater but sources are running

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low. In matters massively. If these don't grow and go out to sea we

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will not have future generations returning in good numbers.

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Last month just under 50 mm of rainfall was recorded compared to

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20th January 11 which was more than double. Usually around this time of

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year the Dorset Froome is at least offered higher. Just down there at

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that raised bit of gravel is actually a salmon red which is a

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salmon nest where they spawn. The water levels are dangerously low so

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the eggs risk exposure. If that happens they could die. All these

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rivers are managed by different fishing clubs or environmental

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organisations and farmers. The brings in huge revenues.

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Environmentalists are hoping for wet weather in the coming months,

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but the Met Office predicts for March at least there will be some

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rain although the South will have the lowest amount in the country.

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Fingers crossed for a poor showers. -- April showers.

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We have also been talking about the weather for other reasons.

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Today Alexis has been busy tweeting to find out what villages, towns

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and cities you want to see on our weather map. We were inundated with

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your suggestions, the only way of us squeezing them on the map was by

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going round the office and doing a draw. You will see them in just a

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second. We do have a weather picture for you. Baz Adams captured

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a robin perched on a fence post at A cloudy end to the day and there

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is rain on the way. A damp start on Saturday. An improving picture. A

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lot of cloud about tonight. Patchy rain is a possibility. A weather

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front seeking his way southwards. The rain will not amount to much

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but where we have the clearing skies the temperatures will be a

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lot colder. A fresher feel two things. A mild start tomorrow. Damp

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in a few spots but it is an improving picture. The south coast

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and the South West could hold on to the cloud cover for much of the day.

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In the sunshine expect a high of 10 or 11. A fresher feel, temperatures

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heading back towards their seasonal average and not as warm as the last

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few days. A lot of cloud to stop the night tomorrow. It will fade

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away through the early hours of Sunday. That will allow

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temperatures to take a dip even further. Colder fealty things, not

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as warm as it has been over the last few nights. The rest of the

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few mist and fog patches first thing. Sunday daytime is a lovely

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day. High pressure remains in charge. You can see the widening of

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the isobars. This is coming our way Sunday night. Two weather fronts,

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called for its, heading from the Atlantic. That will produce cloud

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and rain into Monday. Rain on and off throughout Monday. He will be

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pushed back and forth from the near Continent. Tuesday, some bright

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spells will develop after a cloudy start. That is when we see

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temperatures her back to what we have been used to over the last

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couple of days -- head back. Here is your summary for the rest of the

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week and the weekend. A lovely feel two things. Lots of sunshine. Maybe

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a grey, damp start on Saturday. Rain on Monday at times. The

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temperatures are hotting up, Tuesday onwards. Dry conditions for

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those spectators at least in Dorset. We need rain up for our rivers. It

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