07/03/2012 South Today

Hello, I'm Sally Taylor. Welcome to South Today.

In tonight's programme: Locked up - the mental health patients detained

for hours in police cells. I felt like I was a criminal. I

could not understand what I had done wrong to be in a police cell.

No one had explained it to me. They just said I was a danger to myself

and other people. Port wars - they are already moving

in on Southampton's cruise trade, now Liverpool want a slice of the

container business, too. What a gem - the treasure hunter

who found a 3,000-year-old ring in a farmer's field.

It's just not cricket - the paintballing players limbering up

Police say hundreds of mentally ill people are being locked up

unnecessarily for hours on end in prison cells across Hampshire.

In the past year, more than 1,000 people in Hampshire have been

detained under the Mental Health Act. They had not committed crimes,

but need to be taken somewhere secure for their safety and that of

the general public. Of these around 400 were taken to NHS facilities.

640 were taken to police cells. The national target says people taken

in to custody should be assessed within two hours. In Hampshire the

average time is 17.5 hours. The police say they are making progress

to cut those numbers, but admit more needs to be done. Here's our

Home Affairs correspondent, Alex Forsyth. This woman has tried to

kill herself four times in the past year. She suffers from borderline

personality disorder, which means her mood changes quickly and she

can become suicidal. Each time she has tried to kill herself she has

been arrested and taken to a police cell. You have literally got a bed

and a metal toilet. You just sit there looking at four walls. You

are stripped of everything you have got on you. You are just left on

your own. It is noisy because you have got other people in there who

have been arrested shouting at the staff to let them go. Guidance from

the Royal College of Psychiatrists says that custody suites like this

should only be used to house people suffering from a mental illness in

exceptional circumstances. The national target is that they are

assessed within two hours. Hampshire hundreds of mentally ill

people have been held within cells. The mental health assessment has to

be completed by social workers trained in that field and medical

professionals, and it is getting those two people together to

complete that assessment, particularly out of hours. Police

have been working closely with the helped us to address this problem.

There are currently seven places they can take people where they can

be seen by medical professionals, but many only have one bed and it

can mean officers making tough judgments about where his best for

some and he is mentally ill. thing we have been doing here is

quite a lot of training for the beat officers and the custody suite

officers so they can make better decisions about were summoned

should be brought. Overall, the number of mentally ill people held

in police custody is falling, which for people like Francis is vital.

If someone wants to take their life, they will not be able to

communicate well with somebody. Alex joins me now. Alex, that's the

situation in Hampshire, what about elsewhere? This is not a Hampshire

specific problem. All forces faced this dilemma. That is what you do

with people who have not committed a crime that need to be somewhere

secure. In Dorset they say they are detaining too many people who are

held under the Mental Health Act in police cells. They say that is down

to a lack of provision. In Thames Valley they are a bit further ahead.

They had enough medical facilities that the majority of people they

detained are taken straight to a medical centre and not held in

police cells. They say that has taken a lot of effort, a lot of

work with their health trust to make sure there are enough places

for these people to go, and a lot of work with the police to make

sure officers are really well trained. That is what Hampshire is

now doing. They have made a lot of progress, but they are being very

honest about the fact that there are still a long way to go.

A tragic accident, and not a crime. That is the verdict of Dorset

police tonight after their investigation into the death of a

Bournemouth schoolboy. 16-year-old Kyle Rees died after being struck

on the head by a cricket ball at Portchester School last week.

Another boy arrested in connection with Kyle's death has now been

released without charge. Steve Humphrey has been following the

story since news of Kyle's death broke last week and is in the

newsroom now. Steve, a fairly brief statement from police this evening?

Sally, it was on Tuesday last week that Kyle Rees died at Southampton

General Hospital. The previous day he had been hit on the head by an

indoor practice cricket ball during an incident in the playground at

Portchester School in Bournemouth. In the days after Kyle's death,

hundreds of floral tributes were left outside the school. He was

described as a popular pupil, who was due to sit his GCSE's this

summer. The school's head, Debbie Godfrey-Fore, said tonight: We

welcome the police's full and thorough investigation and their

conclusion into the cause of Kyle's death. Dorset Police said in a

statement: It has been determined that the death of 16-year-old Kyle

Rees was a tragic accident involving no criminality. The

statement goes on to say: A 16- year-old boy who was arrested in

connection with the incident has been released without charge. An

inquest into Kyle's death was formally opened and adjourned last

Friday. There'll be a full hearing at a later date.

Three people arrested by detectives investigating the suspected murder

of missing Isle of Wight teenager Damien Nettles 16 years ago have

had their bail extended. The 16- year-old vanished after a night out

in West Cowes in November 1996. This CCTV image is the last

confirmed sighting of him on the night. A 38-year-old man from Ryde,

a 36-year-old woman from Cowes and a 45-year-old man from Cowes will

remain on police bail until 7th There are concerns for a journalist

from Wokingham who has being held by a Libyan militia on suspicion of

spying. Nicholas Davies-Jones, here on the right, was working for

Iranian state-TV in Tripoli when he was captured, along with colleague

Gareth Montgomery-Johnson last month. The head of the militia

holding the men has accused them of spying on government facilities, a

claim denied by their relatives. The Foreign Office says it is

providing consular assistance. The full scale of Liverpool's

ambitions to take trade away from Southampton Port became clear today

as they put forward the UK's biggest planning application. The

Liverpool Waters scheme is part of a �50 billion development by Peel

Holdings. It would create thousands of jobs and is receiving a range of

Government grants, but the developers have now admitted that

at least some of those jobs would be at the expense of South Coast

businesses. Our Political Editor, Peter Henley, reports.

It is an double-whammy porcelain hunt and, following Liverpool's

application to takes out coast cruise liner trade and a new

container port, costing �300 million. There are openly trying to

take business that currently uses overcrowded southern roads. Given

the fact that a lot of these continuous end up in the north of

the UK, they are all going on the overloaded road and rail networks,

we estimate there is a saving of 150,000 road and rail miles.

application to build this report is only the start of the ambition of

Liverpool. One man is behind what is now Britain's biggest planning

deal, worth �50 billion. For John Whitaker is a wealthy resident of

the Isle of Man and someone who only rarely gives interviews.

a fascinating character. Very intense, but also very driven. He

is a devout Catholic. He is passionate about the North of

England. He could have made even more money than he has been doing

this in the south of England, or by selling out, but he is absolutely

committed. John Whitaker has had considerable access to ministers,

but South Coast MP said that tax money must be used fairly. The

court wars between Liverpool and Southampton are a game of poker and

the stakes are growing higher. Well, Peter is in our Westminster

studio now. Peter, there have been threats of legal action over the

cruise terminal and the dredging of the Mersey, so will there be

further action over each of these developments as they come up?

the developers in Liverpool admit that they're trying to poach

business from us, as they have done here, and when there is public

money going in to the project, I think the way is open to challenge,

certainly under the European regulations about state aid and

competition. But there is a danger of crying wolf, or Southampton

people making themselves unpopular and they would certainly rather see

ports in the North East or Felixstowe joining in with the

objections. How do people in Liverpool regard the man behind

these developments, John Whittaker? He certainly is the driving force -

pushy, ambitious, said never to have lost a planning application,

but rarely in the public eye, only two journalists have ever

interviewed him. �50 billion will become an unstoppable momentum,

what ever damage it does to businesses and are part of the

world. -- in our part of the world. More than 30 disabled workers could

lose their jobs in the region after the Government announced the

closure of 36 of its 54 Remploy factories nationwide. Remploy in

Poole and Southampton are earmarked for closure at the end of the year

according to the GMB union. The company finds work for people with

disabilities and complex health problems. The Government said they

want to see disability workers welcomed into mainstream jobs as

part of a Government review. A pilots' union based in West

Sussex is so worried about lives being put at risk by proposed

changes to rules on flying hours that it has spent thousands of

pounds making a video about pilot fatigue. The new European

legislation would see pilots working longer. The Independent

Pilots Association says that will lead to accidents. They are sending

copies of the documentary to every MP. Danielle Glavin has more.

Their final moments on board Flight I x 812. The approach of the plane

was too high and it careered off the runway killing most of those on

board. Pilot fatigue was one of the causes. And pilots' union film to

reconstruction to campaign against increases to flying time limits.

believe that the current changes being proposed are not really

following this science or listing to what the pilots are telling us.

That is that if we ignore the message, at some point there will

be another accident. The proposed changes would set a single standard

across Europe. At the moment the UK has its own rules. Three Palace are

needed and some long-haul fights -- flights, this would change to due.

The number of hours would increase that a pilot could fly. The

situation -- the Civil Aviation a authority says safety will not be

affected. He this will actually help safety. -- this will actually

help safety. This will improve aviation safety for the rest of

Europe. The documentary is being sent to MPs. The association wants

them to put pressure on the Government to opt out of the system.

A bus company has launched an internal inquiry after passengers

claimed they were ordered to get off by the driver due to spilt

coffee. The driver is said to have had health and safety fears about

the spillage. The incident happened on the Wilts and Dorset M2 service

in Westbourne when a passenger spilt her drink. A company

spokesman apologised in advance to passengers should it be found that

the driver had over-reacted. Still to come in this evening's

South Today: It's Kris Temple, but not as we know him! Find a way I'm

stood in the middle of a forest Campaigners fighting to protect an

area of land in Weymouth have lost an appeal. The Society for the

Protection of Markham and Little Francis lost a battle in the Appeal

Court this morning, which means the green can be developed. But

campaigners said they will be asking for leave to appeal. How was

it for you? Be there on a weighted digital switchover happened for

many of us last night and you might have been retuning your television.

Digital UK is making sure viewers are aware of what these changes

mean by launching special bridges. -- events. The digital switch has

been affected. It has been declared a success. The BBC channels on

digital have, layered and it has gone very well. The people we have

spoken to said that they are enjoying digital channels. There

have been help lines and this is what Brighton had to deal with. The

White Oak transmitter does not broadcast South Today any more.

like Sally Taylor and South Today. I like all that team. They are gone.

I have got a brilliant signals. I am actually getting my transmission

from the Isle of Wight. Might television did not get BBC One or

BBC Two this morning. I will sort it out when I get home. Many people

will have to tune their equipment today and again on 21st March when

the analogue signals will be A reminder that if you have got any

problems relating to the digital problems relating to the digital

screen. That is if you wish to see South Today. The people in the

Brighton area will be affected because you have got the region in

because you have got the region in the South East as well. Sport. I am

looking forward to seeing the cricketer's paintballing. We got a

bit wet and my shoes on the radiator. Football to start. Every

night of football will be important towards the end of the season, top

and bottom of the table. Things are getting interesting in the

Championship with Southampton in front despite being held by Ipswich.

They stood firm until the 74th minute when Rickie Lambert got his

25th of the season and five minutes from the end Ipswich got a

deflection and Jason Scotland secured the 1-1 draw. Southampton

will feel Reading breathing down their necks as they charged towards

promotion. Seven wins in a row with victory against Portsmouth,

victory against Portsmouth, themselves at the bottom of the

table. They are a country's form team but did not need to be at

their best to beat a spirited but beleaguered Portsmouth. The goal

came after 25 minutes as Jason Roberts worked down the right and

presented a chance which was accepted gratefully. Goals have

been the problem for Pompey recently with just two in seven

games. This was as good as it got for Michael Appleton's team. Bottom

of the table but for the Royals, of the table but for the Royals,

they are within reach of the top. We have created good openings and

opportunities and we bossed the game. It was an absolute credit to

the players. They do not get the credit they deserve but I hope they

will do at the end of the season. It was a great opportunity but we

got punished and that is what can happen. If they keep coming up with

the answers that they did at times in the middle of the match, then

will we be happy. Aldershot have been on a fine run but after six

straight victories, that sequence ended in defeat against Torquay. An

early goal did for the team. It was scored after seven minutes.

Aldershot are 13th in the table. Aldershot are 13th in the table.

That wraps up last night's action. Southampton could be overtaken by

West Ham, playing Watford tonight. We will have more about Brighton in

a second. They play Cardiff tonight. Portsmouth's defeat puts them down

to the bottom with six points adrift and 12 matches left.

Brighton could jump into the play- Brighton could jump into the play-

offs with a win against Cardiff. They have got a long-term deal for

Craig Noone. Gus Poyet has tied him down to a three year contract.

Cardiff actually tried to bite him in January. Live commentary on BBC

Sussex. -- purchase him. Be good news is summer is supposedly coming.

The cricket season is one month away and that means the dreaded

pre-season training for the cricketers but not a bleep test

inside, as I found out. County cricketers live in each other's

pockets for about six months and team spirit counts for plenty. The

Hampshire squad have got goggles and guns as they went through pre-

season preparations with a difference. You need to take time

out and have a bit of fun and get the guys together and enjoy

yourself and get together before the start of the season and we will

have a bit of relaxation. targets for the squad this season

includes getting back to Division One of the Championship after

relegation last year. This man is in charge having taken over from

Dominic Cork as captain. It is great but it is a bit apprehensive

for me as well. I had a bit of a taste last year but we will have

some testing times ahead but the guys at been great. He has got this

great Australian batsmen yet to arrive and he has got a talented

squad, one of whom have made an England debut this winter. It was

great to get recognised and get into that squad but I think the

main thing is to perform for Hampshire. Next week they go to a

training camp in Barbados ahead of the April season start. The players

are fired up for the challenge. This week, they are in a wet forest

and next week, Barbados. Will you be doing the team-building in

Barbados as well? I will not. that! You will wish she won a

treasure hunter after this because it was undiscovered for 3,000 years

and was originally mistaken for an old bottle top. It was decided be a

ownership of a tiny gold ring found by a treasure hunter should go to

the ground. Artist Alan Cracknell 30 years of treasure hunting.

Listening intently to every sound. But nothing prepared Alan Cracknell

for the biggest find of his life. When I cleaned it up and held it in

my hand, I realised it was very old because these artifacts are very

distinctive. I could not detect any more and I thought it was

incredible that something of that age was still there in the same

spot from the Bronze Age right the way through to today. 16 mm in

diameter. This dates back to the Middle Bronze Age. Experts think it

was probably used to hold hair in place. We have not got much

evidence of Bronze Age artifacts surviving. We have got items in the

past and we think these are personal adornments. Maybe for the

head. He has been hunting in these fields every Sunday but he said the

exact location that he found the ring must remain secret in case he

starts a gold rush. This belongs to a family but obviously had servants.

Some of his other heart attacks. They have all been documented and

the system is inspirational. -- other artifacts. These things are

very personal to me. He plans to paint a picture of the brink,

currently waiting to be valued at the British Museum. They will share

That is the next thing, isn't it? How much it is worth but it is

exciting to get a piece of history exciting to get a piece of history

like that. Now the weather. It is very beautiful and everybody wants

to stay in this region. Beaky has made this place his home since

Christmas last year. Thank you for this picture, Allen. The sunshine

came out in Kidlington in Oxfordshire. And looking around

Studland Beach, that was taken by Maria. We have seen the rain but

that is the last week will get for quite a while because it is dry and

settled. Frost in some parts have weather. Colder conditions. Skies

clearing and cloud shifting further south east and wind is still strong

but dying down. We will probably get out of the frost and

temperatures hovering close to freezing but warmer further north.

Temperatures down to two degrees. A cold start on Thursday but it is

beautiful later. Plenty of sunshine up. Cloud increasing. It is not

getting damp. Top temperatures of 10 degrees and wind lighter than

today and feeling very pleasant and very mild. We are getting an extra

couple of degrees on temperatures. They will not be as cold as tonight

but not particularly mild at five or six degrees. Friday, a cloudy

beginning. It will be very cloudy with lots of cloud at the start of

the day. Windy and dry. Expect top temperatures of 11 degrees at least.

High pressure has dominated. It will stay like that for the weekend.

These high pressure is gradually building and becoming bigger as we

head into Saturday. By Sunday, very different. It will be very quiet.

Dry and cloud. I cannot promise sunshine this weekend. Temperatures

at nine and 10 degrees. Windy but not as strong as today. Quite a