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Hello, I'm Laura Trant. Welcome to South Today. In tonight's | :00:03. | :00:05. | |
programme: A group of friends have been | :00:05. | :00:08. | |
convicted after a malicious plot in Brighton, leads to a young man | :00:08. | :00:18. | |
being burned alive. The pouring of petrol and putting him in the beat, | :00:18. | :00:24. | |
nobody deserves to go like that. Victory for a pub landlady who's | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
won her legal battle against the Premier League. It is a moral | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
victory. The big corporations thinking they are above the law | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
when they didn't know it themselves. His tenants lived in squalor - a | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
Reading landlord is sent to jail. And calling on football fans to use | :00:41. | :00:50. | |
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their love of the game, to turn Judges say she was wrongly | :01:00. | :01:07. | |
prosecuted. Karen Murphy, a pub landlady has | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
won her six-year legal battle. It was to overturn her conviction for | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
using a cheaper foreign alternative to Sky, to show football in her | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
Portsmouth pub. The High Court today decided Karen's appeal to use | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
the cheaper device to bypass costs and controls over match screening, | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
must be allowed. So let's remind ourselves of the | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
background to this case. Sky offered the football service to | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
Karen at a cost of around �8,000 a year. She said she couldn't afford | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
those prices and opted for the cheaper Greek service at �800 a | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
year. But the English Premier League then took legal action and | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
she was fined �8,000, but Karen decided to take her fight to use | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
the cheaper provider to the European Courts of Justice. It | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
found partly in her favour, and now the High Court has backed what she | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
says is her long awaited victory. Joe Campbell has been in court and | :01:51. | :01:58. | |
we can go to live to him in London. Joe, the costs in this case have | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
been described by the judge as "eye watering". | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
The meter is still running with possibly more legal action to come. | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
It was a spot of a giant-killing whistle. On one side we had the | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
Premier League with a huge war tressed banks to the money it has | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
accrued from selling rights to show their games on television. On the | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
other side a small, local Hampshire pub struggling to balance the books | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
but it was when the landlady tried to cut their costs by ditching her | :02:25. | :02:31. | |
Sky service that is were no problems began. | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
It is six years since she worked -- first walked through the doors off | :02:35. | :02:42. | |
court. Today she finally emerged victorious. He could have been my | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
house, my pub, everything but that is beside the point. It needed to | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
be done and it has begun. I had this stage is the face of football | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
as we know it. The battle kicked off when she bought a Greek | :02:55. | :03:05. | |
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satellite decoder. It cost �118 per month. Stopping a QC at the cheaper | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
foreign supplier breached European law on the single market, she | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
argued. We had to appeal against a magistrate's decision, the Crown | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
Court, and three trips to the High Court. On the way a trip to the | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
European Court. She has had to go through the full gamut of the legal | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
process but she has got here today and she has got what I believe is | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
the right result. Today the Premier League was determined to play on. | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
It's the music and logo is used during broadcasts remain copyright | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
and anyone showing those without permission could still be in | :03:40. | :03:50. | |
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But she is not intimidated. What drove you? I don't like police, | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
people thinking they are above the law and believe me because they are | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
an individual. It doesn't mean they are right and it proved that I was | :04:15. | :04:21. | |
right. And so back at the pub regulars will be celebrating that | :04:21. | :04:28. | |
today it was their side that won. Joe, what are the knock on effects | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
to football and its screening as a whole? | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
The Premier League is hoping there might still be some legal wriggle | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
room because of the logo is that it used in a lot of broadcasters | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
transmissions of its gains which might still give it a chance to | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
defend those rights when they are sold here into the UK. But at the | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
end of the day this isn't about footballing tactics as much as | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
economic tactics and what the Premier League may have to decide, | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
much as it wants to preserve -- protect the money it gets from | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
selling its rights in the UK, by actually doing away at the end of | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
the day from selling rights for a lot less into Europe and is | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
certainly they want to look at that and say what it needs to do is | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
perhaps to protect itself by making a little less money in Europe by | :05:08. | :05:18. | |
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guaranteeing the money it is making A young mother's been held at | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
gunpoint in her home in what police believe was a targeted armed | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
robbery. Two men wearing hoodies and high visibility jackets barged | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
into the house in Totton in Southampton on Wednesday. The | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
woman's 11-month old baby was upstairs as the attackers raided | :05:29. | :05:37. | |
the property. Both escaped unharmed. A Sussex University medical student | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
has been found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm after a man | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
was beaten unconscious and left to die inside a burning car. Mundill | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
Mahil, who's from Kent enticed Gagangdip Singh, to her house in | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
Brighton last February, in revenge for his attempted rape of her six | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
months previously. He was then attacked by two men. They've also | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
been convicted today, one for murder the other manslaughter as | :06:00. | :06:09. | |
Chris Coneybeer reports. Gagangdip Singh, just hours before | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
he was murdered, seen here on his way to Brighton where he stopped to | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
buy a teddy bear to give to medical student, Mundill Mahil. She, and | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
known to him, it was during him into a trap. A trap set by her and | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
another close friend. She'd tricked him into meeting her at her flat | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
where he would be attacked. The recent, he had revealed to her a | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
painful secret. The previous summer Gagangdip Singh has attempted to | :06:36. | :06:44. | |
rape her. She plotted revenge. European to her flat Mundill Mahil | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
knew he might be heard but once there her friends to get further, | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
beating him unconscious. He was bundled into the boot of a cart | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
wrapped in bedsheet and with his arms bound together. Still alive he | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
was driven from Brighton to London where petrol was poured on him and | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
the car, and set alight. He died from breezing in the toxic fumes. | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
Text messages reveal Gagangdip Singh suspected a trap walked into | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
it even his friends and family bewildered by the thought of his | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
suffering. It is hard to believe in this day and age human beings can | :07:19. | :07:26. | |
do such things. Just thinking about his final moments, nobody deserves | :07:26. | :07:35. | |
a death like that. He was 21 years old and had a | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
promising future. He had launched his own TV service and his senior | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
reporting from Pakistan. As it caught a statement was read on | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
behalf of his family. On a day-to-day basis there is a | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
gap in our lives and the sense of loneliness. He was always a happy | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
person trying to make us laugh. He was always positive and reassuring | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
in his family and business life. Mundill Mahil and Peters will be | :08:01. | :08:11. | |
He forced his tenants to live in dangerous and dirty conditions, | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
with live electrical cables exposed, and often without hot water or | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
heating. A rogue landlord in Reading's been convicted of a | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
string of offences, after repeatedly ignoring demands to | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
bring his property up to scratch. As Allen Sinclair reports, Abdul | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
Hanif was already serving a prison sentence for unrelated crimes. | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
Now managed by a relative of the end of this property in central | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
Reading is once again left out to tenants. The string of serious | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
fault put right. Council enforcement officers say they were | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
struck -- shocked by conditioned when I first went inside. Several | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
tenants were living here with exposed and dangerous electrical | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
fittings, filthy and faulty equipment with the dangerous gas | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
supply frequently breaking down and holes in walls and ceilings. It has | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
taken nearly three years to bring to court but the landlord Abdul | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
Hanif was found guilty of 13 breaches of housing regulations by | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
magistrates. Sometimes tenors don't know their rights, or even if they | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
do, because of the high demand we have here in Reading, it can be | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
difficult for them to may be a Ford alternative accommodation so it is | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
important the castle Act to protect people rights. The council hopes | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
his firm stance will encourage other tenants living in squalor to | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
come forward. The landlord is already serving a four-year jail | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
term for drugs offences. Unable to pay a fine he has had a further | :09:33. | :09:43. | |
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The family of a newly-qualified teacher who was killed while | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
cycling in Brighton say they want to prevent such a tragedy from ever | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
happening again. Jo Walter died in 2010 on the A270 Lewes Road. Now a | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
trust set up in her name has produced a grand plan for safer | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
cycling routes in the city. Alex Beard reports. | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
The family of Jo Walter wants to make Britain safer for cyclists so | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
no one else has to suffer a similar loss. She was only 28. The last | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
thing we expected to happen. It has been a real help feeling we were | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
doing something positive out of it. We would be absolutely delighted if | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
this came off and we could feel people going to and from university | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
were cycling safety -- safely and this wouldn't happen again. | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
Walter was cycling along this path to the university campus when she | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
swerved to avoid another cyclist put up she fell onto the road and | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
was hit by a passing van. Her family want to see a designated | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
cycle past -- path for this stretch of road. It is part of a masterplan | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
to create a safer ways for cyclists to get round the city. I have been | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
really heartened by the response from the City Council who have | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
taken this as a constructive input, and we are very much working with | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
them and it is very probable what we are suggesting will happen. | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
Cycle safety isn't just a local issue. Early yesterday it was | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
debated in Parliament. Good for the Environment, good for the economy | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
so people should cycle but we have a duty in government and local | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
councils have a duty to make it as safe as possible and encourage it | :11:13. | :11:21. | |
as much as possible. Two local cyclists feel safe? Drivers are not | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
that considerate towards cyclists. I think we need a little bit of | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
protection. When you go on the bike you take your chances. Not quite | :11:31. | :11:37. | |
Amsterdam yet. But in Netherlands style cycle that work is exactly | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
what Jo Walter's family wants to see in Brighton and they believe it | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
Still to come in this evening's South Today: | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
On the eve of the Sunseeker Rally, Tony Husband is live tonight at | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
Poole Quay. The teams are about to parade along | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
Paul Kee ahead of the start of this year's Sunseeker Rally. A look | :12:01. | :12:10. | |
ahead to that and all the rest of Condor Ferries has confirmed that | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
sailings won't resume from Weymouth until the end of March. Services | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
have been moved to Poole while work to repair cracks in the ferry berth | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
at Weymouth Port is carried out. Condor Ferries say it will contact | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
passengers affected by the change. Our passengers are very | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
understanding of the fact this is something beyond our control. The | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
actual impact on them is reasonably negligible in terms of the back the | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
service will still operates at a committal where connections, just | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
from a port that serves slightly In the summer a new charity will be | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
formed which will instantly become the 12th biggest in the UK. British | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
Waterways is to become the Canal and River Trust, owning a land and | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
property portfolio worth half a billion pounds. But some aspects of | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
the decision are controversial, and our Political Editor Peter Henley | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
has been finding out more. This new charity is going to be quite a | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
giant when it's created then? Let us start off by saying why | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
people love rivers and canals. We have got some fantastic ones in the | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
south, the mighty Thames, Basingstoke Canal. People are used | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
to having British Waterways as their landlord or maybe as the | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
regulator of these great Waterways. People who live alongside, earned | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
their living from boats on the river. They are all used to British | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
Waterways. What if they are a charity? Things are different. A | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
tricky deal for the government to work out. The Newbury MP Richard | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
Benyon is the minister who has been working at this deal. He is very | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
positive. It is really big news for everybody who knows, uses and loves | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
our Waterways and they will be able to control it. It will be theirs | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
rather than a state asset. It will be around by those who really are | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
what they are talking about. some owners of businesses are not | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
so sure about a non-professional waterway. I am not sure I want to | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
have business depending on the work of volunteers who might get up in | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
the morning and say I did want to do that. The other people worried | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
are the existing volunteers. They do things like running boats out on | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
the river, having cafes. What if British Waterways are competing | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
with them? Is that because Canal cost a lot to keep? | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
Absolutely. The government will fund this for 15 years but what | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
happens when that runs out? Should they have just handed his ever to a | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
charity? They could have sold off some of this valuable riverside | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
property. They belonged to the taxpayer. All those questions and | :14:38. | :14:48. | |
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Much more at midday on Sunday. The council tax will be frozen next | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
year in Brighton and Hove. At a crunch budget meeting last night, | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
Conservative and Labour councillors united to vote against the ruling | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
Green party. Protesters had gathered outside the meeting. The | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
Green party had wanted to increase council tax by 3.5%. But opposition | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
councillors joined forces to vote for a freeze. The Greens called the | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
decision 'financially reckless' and said the council tax freeze will | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
result in deeper cuts next year. He's a lifelong Southampton | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
football supporter, and he runs a charity to help children orphaned | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
by AIDS in Africa. Now Steve Fleming is bringing his two | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
passions together, and he needs your help. He's on the hunt for | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
football fans to come to Lesotho, and use their love of the game to | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
help educate youngsters, in a country with the third highest rate | :15:33. | :15:43. | |
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of HIV infection in the world. Princes William and Harry Mead | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
children affected by HIV. 100,000 youngsters in this country have | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
been orphaned by the disease. Is it like this can boost awareness of | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
the need for better education. But when the royals go home, it is up | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
to charities like Kick4Life to continue their work. We were using | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
football, the great passion ever there, to engage the unpeople and | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
deliver messages about health education and avoiding been | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
affected, where they can go for testing and changing their lives. | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
We have a game where teachers showed children you cannot tell | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
somebody has a Derby just by looking at them. The well-tended | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
surf of St Mary's is a world away from the make -- makeshift football | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
pitches but the passion for the game is just as strong as in this | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
stadium on a Saturday afternoon. The Saints Foundation is the | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
charitable arm of Southampton Football Club and is backing the | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
next trip and once 25 the Saints supporters to join up. What they do | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
out there and what we do here is very similar to stop the | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
opportunity to play in your kit, in South Africa, it will get people | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
signed up dust on that basis. People will go out thinking | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
football is the most important part and realise the Health Education is | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
the most fulfilling part of the trip. It is for everybody who plays | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
football and wants to make a difference. To get involved you | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
will have to raise �2,500. There is an information day on March 13th | :17:16. | :17:26. | |
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and more information on the state's website. -- St. | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
Onto sport, and thousands of motorsport fans will descend on | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
Bournemouth and Poole this weekend for the annual Rally Sunseeker | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
event. For nearly three decades some of Britain's top rally drivers | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
have raced around the heathland and forests in the area. It all kicks | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
off tonight, and Tony is there, Tony. | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
Absolutely. They are just about to head off. I will get out the way | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
because the cars will take centre stage in just a moment. We have got | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
the mayor of Paul who is going to wave them off. The opening round of | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
the British Rally Championship. The rating takes place tomorrow. 66 | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
miles. The most this event has had in more than four decades of | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
rallying along the south coast. They will be taking to the | :18:13. | :18:21. | |
heathland around Bournemouth. It all finishes in Bournemouth | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
tomorrow night. This is one of the big rally in events of the year in | :18:25. | :18:30. | |
the south. Last year for the first time it was the opening round of | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
the British Rally Championship and that again, credit to the | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
organisers of the event, they managed to put on such a good event, | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
and to get that recognition as part of the British Rally Championship | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
at up those of you who know about British rally driving will know | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
they are normally four-wheel-drive cars. This year they will be to | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
wheel-drive cars. That is a technological change, interesting | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
to see how they get on, on some quite icy land as you go round the | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
heathland, around Bournemouth. -- dicey. That is the challenge that | :19:02. | :19:08. | |
awaits them this weekend. I will tell you about what else is going | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
on in sport this weekend. Southampton's Pete Waterfield | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
finished seventh in the final of the 10m platform synchronised event | :19:13. | :19:23. | |
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at the Diving World Cup with his partner Tom Daley. The pair | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
performed well in five of their six routines at London's Aquatics | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
Centre, but an error on their hardest dive cost them a chance of | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
a medal. The duo, making their debut at the Centre, have suffered | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
an array of injuries since they last competed together at the World | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
Championships in July 2011. We were both injured at the beginning of | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
the year so we have missed out on a bit of training so a bit behind. | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
When you come unprepared, you expect not to win a medal but for | :19:49. | :19:51. | |
the preparation we have had, we have put in a pretty good | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
performance. We miss one dive, with more preparation at the games we | :19:56. | :20:05. | |
should be fine. Peter Waterfield is in the individual event, qualified | :20:05. | :20:13. | |
in 16th place. $NEWLINE The Hampshire-based Great Britain | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
synchronised swimming team are in competitive action for the first | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
time this year over the weekend. The squad train at the elite | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
performance centre in Aldershot. They're competing in the Spanish | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
Winter Open in Barcelona. Both the team and duet will be unveiling | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
their new routines, that have been choreographed specifically for this | :20:27. | :20:36. | |
summers Olympic Games. -- summer's. The former Chairman of Portsmouth | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
Football Club has defended his financial record at the club, | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
saying that without spending "it was simply impossible to satisfy | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
supporter's expectations." In a statement to the BBC, Vladimir | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
Antonov says there were no complaints to the Football League | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
during his five-month tenure. He also accused the Lithuanian | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
government of illegally seizing his banking assets which led to | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
Pompey's latest crisis. The Lithuanian government refused to | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
comment on the claims. Meanwhile some of the Portsmouth side joined | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
staff at the club this afternoon to help sell tickets for tomorrow's | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
home game with Leeds. Fans are being urged to "pack the park and | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
prices have been reduced by �5. The manager is full of praise for the | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
squad. The players have to play with | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
injuries, Knox. Considering they are not actually getting paid to do | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
what they asked to do, it is also a testament to their character. I | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
take that as a massive positive from being the manager, at the end | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
of the day they don't have to do that. The cars are starting to set | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
off. 9,000 people expected. Keep the football going for a moment, | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
take a look at the championship table ahead of the matches tomorrow | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
for top Southampton's second. Birmingham have a game in hand. | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
Reading are boosted by the decision of Brian McDermott to stay at the | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
Madejski stadium. Brighton remain in the hunt. Southampton go to | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
Watford tomorrow. Guly Dio Prado is back from illness and in contention | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
to start. Saints Japanese striker Tadanari Lee could also make his | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
first start since joining the club after his goal against Derby last | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
week. Reading are aiming for their fifth consecutive win after they | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
beat Burnley last Friday. But they face a tough test at Middlesbrough | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
who are 6th. Shaun Cummings and Andy Griffin should be fit. | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
Elsewhere Brighton are at home to a resurgent Ipswich side. In League | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
One Bournemouth boss Lee Bradbury says he's not under pressure to | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
reach the play offs despite major investment in recent months. The | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
Cherries host MK Dons. In League Two Aldershot will hope to claim a | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
fifth consecutive win of their own with a home game against Barnet. | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
You can follow it all on BBC local radio. | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
There they are, at making their way along, a great event. The Sunseeker | :22:52. | :23:02. | |
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They will certainly have the right weather conditions, I think. | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
A lack of rain in the South is leading to the real possibility of | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
a drought this spring and summer. And the inadequate rainfall means | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
low river levels which wildlife experts say is a risk for fish. | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
It's thought the situation could pose a threat to their breeding | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
pattern. Catharina Moh has the story. | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
It has been a good winter for the number of salmon returning to | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
Dorset. The local wildlife trust says there is around 400 spots | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
where salmon have laid their eggs. But a lack of rain is affecting | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
water levels in our rivers across the staff. This chore extreme | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
Indoor -- Dorset is fed by groundwater but sources are running | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
low. In matters massively. If these don't grow and go out to sea we | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
will not have future generations returning in good numbers. | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
Last month just under 50 mm of rainfall was recorded compared to | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
20th January 11 which was more than double. Usually around this time of | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
year the Dorset Froome is at least offered higher. Just down there at | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
that raised bit of gravel is actually a salmon red which is a | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
salmon nest where they spawn. The water levels are dangerously low so | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
the eggs risk exposure. If that happens they could die. All these | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
rivers are managed by different fishing clubs or environmental | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
organisations and farmers. The brings in huge revenues. | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
Environmentalists are hoping for wet weather in the coming months, | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
but the Met Office predicts for March at least there will be some | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
rain although the South will have the lowest amount in the country. | :24:37. | :24:46. | |
Fingers crossed for a poor showers. -- April showers. | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
We have also been talking about the weather for other reasons. | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
Today Alexis has been busy tweeting to find out what villages, towns | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
and cities you want to see on our weather map. We were inundated with | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
your suggestions, the only way of us squeezing them on the map was by | :25:00. | :25:07. | |
going round the office and doing a draw. You will see them in just a | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
second. We do have a weather picture for you. Baz Adams captured | :25:11. | :25:20. | |
a robin perched on a fence post at A cloudy end to the day and there | :25:20. | :25:26. | |
is rain on the way. A damp start on Saturday. An improving picture. A | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
lot of cloud about tonight. Patchy rain is a possibility. A weather | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
front seeking his way southwards. The rain will not amount to much | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
but where we have the clearing skies the temperatures will be a | :25:38. | :25:48. | |
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lot colder. A fresher feel two things. A mild start tomorrow. Damp | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
in a few spots but it is an improving picture. The south coast | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
and the South West could hold on to the cloud cover for much of the day. | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
In the sunshine expect a high of 10 or 11. A fresher feel, temperatures | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
heading back towards their seasonal average and not as warm as the last | :26:04. | :26:08. | |
few days. A lot of cloud to stop the night tomorrow. It will fade | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
away through the early hours of Sunday. That will allow | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
temperatures to take a dip even further. Colder fealty things, not | :26:16. | :26:23. | |
as warm as it has been over the last few nights. The rest of the | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
few mist and fog patches first thing. Sunday daytime is a lovely | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
day. High pressure remains in charge. You can see the widening of | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
the isobars. This is coming our way Sunday night. Two weather fronts, | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
called for its, heading from the Atlantic. That will produce cloud | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
and rain into Monday. Rain on and off throughout Monday. He will be | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
pushed back and forth from the near Continent. Tuesday, some bright | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
spells will develop after a cloudy start. That is when we see | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
temperatures her back to what we have been used to over the last | :26:58. | :27:05. | |
couple of days -- head back. Here is your summary for the rest of the | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
week and the weekend. A lovely feel two things. Lots of sunshine. Maybe | :27:10. | :27:14. | |
a grey, damp start on Saturday. Rain on Monday at times. The | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
temperatures are hotting up, Tuesday onwards. Dry conditions for | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
those spectators at least in Dorset. We need rain up for our rivers. It | :27:23. | :27:28. |