:00:02. > :00:06.Hello, I'm Laura Trant. Welcome to South Today. In tonight's
:00:06. > :00:14.programme: The effects of extreme cyber bullying on young people and
:00:14. > :00:19.efforts in Brighton to stop it. remember every single day coming
:00:19. > :00:24.home and crying and crying. I was quite scared it was going to happen
:00:24. > :00:27.because I didn't know half of the people giving me death threats.
:00:27. > :00:33.After one of the biggest losses of life in Afghanistan, thousands of
:00:33. > :00:37.troops leave the south to face the frontline. That was back in 2005.
:00:37. > :00:39.When I go back now it is a completely different environment so
:00:39. > :00:43.looking forward to see how much it has changed.
:00:43. > :00:48.And buffing up old buffet cars. The rail operator rolling back time to
:00:48. > :00:52.boost capacity on the most overcrowded trains in the country.
:00:52. > :01:02.You are constantly banging against people. You have to be ruthless and
:01:02. > :01:03.
:01:03. > :01:06.push people out of the way. It is a Young people increasingly live
:01:06. > :01:10.their lives online, but what happens when the world of social
:01:10. > :01:16.media turns nasty? 12-year-old Poppy Freeman received such abuse
:01:16. > :01:19.and harassment online that she considered taking her own life. Now
:01:19. > :01:28.her father is setting up a charity from his home in Brighton and
:01:28. > :01:36.campaigning for a change in the law. Danielle Glavin reports.
:01:36. > :01:41.It made me feel like death was the only way out, to be honest. I
:01:41. > :01:46.remember every single day coming home and crying and crying. Poppy
:01:46. > :01:50.Freeman started being bullied online when she was 11. At first
:01:50. > :01:57.she kept it a secret but then her attendance at school fell and she
:01:57. > :02:03.was scared to use a laptop. daughter said at one point she had
:02:03. > :02:07.over 60 negative feedback us on one update to her Facebook page. It
:02:07. > :02:13.escalated in she ended up with threats to kill her and people
:02:13. > :02:18.telling her to kill herself. It got really bad. Facebook says you need
:02:18. > :02:22.to be 13 to use it side, but many younger than that have accounts.
:02:22. > :02:27.Poppy's father has joined up with another that his son was bullied on
:02:28. > :02:34.Facebook. They are launching a charity to support other victims.
:02:34. > :02:40.Social media is growing. That is part of the younger generation. To
:02:40. > :02:45.exclude them from it would be, at the bullies would win. Later this
:02:45. > :02:50.month they are meeting was Sussex police as part of a campaign to
:02:50. > :02:55.criminalise cyber bullying. Police clearly can't respond fully to
:02:55. > :03:02.every type of bullying. If they have somewhere to refer victims to
:03:02. > :03:07.for advice, guidance to help stop it, counselling, then I think that
:03:07. > :03:13.has to be a good thing. Poppy agrees that the charity would help.
:03:13. > :03:18.When I was going through it, I felt like I was the only one. A charity
:03:18. > :03:23.like my dad's, it just shows that there are more people going through
:03:23. > :03:27.the same thing. Poppy says some of those he bullied her have since
:03:27. > :03:30.apologised. She forgives them but says forgetting her ordeal will not
:03:30. > :03:33.be easy. Thousands of troops from across the
:03:33. > :03:37.south, who are about to deploy to Afghanistan, have been talking
:03:37. > :03:41.about the dangers and challenges that lie ahead. They've been taking
:03:41. > :03:44.part in training exercises on Salisbury Plain. The risks have
:03:44. > :03:47.been brought into sharp focus this week with the deaths of six
:03:47. > :03:54.soldiers in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday. Steve Humphrey joined the
:03:54. > :04:01.troops today at Copehill Down near Shrewton.
:04:01. > :04:08.I can just about see it on their. They are brothers in arms. They are
:04:08. > :04:11.serving in Tidworth and are about to go to Afghanistan as part of the
:04:11. > :04:15.Wiltshire-based 12 mechanised Brigade. They learnt of the death
:04:15. > :04:20.of six soldiers from the third Battalion Yorkshire Regiment while
:04:20. > :04:26.they were on exercise on Salisbury Plain. Gutted for the regiment on a
:04:26. > :04:31.whole. It is a tragic loss. We are going to get out there and crack on
:04:31. > :04:38.and do the best we can. It is a great shame. I am gutted for them
:04:39. > :04:43.and the families. Does it make you more determined? Definitely. Also
:04:43. > :04:49.going to Afghanistan are more soldiers. Their colleagues who were
:04:49. > :04:53.killed this week when members of an advance party. With the casualties
:04:53. > :04:58.that we have just had, we are always going to be scared. It is
:04:58. > :05:05.what I signed up to do so I have to do it. I know my mum is prowled and
:05:05. > :05:10.it is what I want to do so she is backing me. Making sure all of our
:05:10. > :05:14.training has as focused and able to do the job. Today, the Defence
:05:14. > :05:19.Secretary met some of the soldiers who lost friends and colleagues in
:05:19. > :05:25.Tuesday's blast. Today is an opportunity for me to express
:05:25. > :05:29.directly to the men, my condolences of the terrible events earlier this
:05:29. > :05:33.week. Also to hear from them how they feel about the mission ahead
:05:34. > :05:37.of them and crucially how the families are holding up. There is
:05:37. > :05:41.no underestimating the challenges that the soldiers will face in
:05:41. > :05:46.Afghanistan, but the brigade commander says he believes his
:05:46. > :05:48.troops are well trained and well- equipped.
:05:48. > :05:51.Police in Hampshire are investigating after a man's body
:05:51. > :05:54.was discovered in Petersfield this morning. A cordon was put in place
:05:54. > :05:58.near Churcher's College shortly after 6:30am, after a passer-by
:05:58. > :06:01.raised the alarm. Police say the death is not being treated a
:06:01. > :06:04.suspicious. Annette Brooke, the MP for Mid-
:06:04. > :06:08.Dorset and North Poole, is recovering in hospital after
:06:08. > :06:12.fracturing her hip in a fall outside Westminster. The long-
:06:12. > :06:15.serving Liberal Democrat tripped over a paving stone on Tuesday. She
:06:15. > :06:19.was taken to St Thomas's Hospital for an operation after passers-by
:06:19. > :06:24.stopped to help. The 64-year-old, who also injured her wrist, says
:06:24. > :06:26.she hopes to return to Dorset on Monday.
:06:26. > :06:29.Governors of a 100-year-old private school in Berkshire say they're
:06:29. > :06:34.fighting to keep it open, despite pupil numbers nearly halving in the
:06:34. > :06:39.last two years. White House Preparatory School has been badly
:06:39. > :06:42.affected by the economic slowdown and is struggling to survive. Ben
:06:42. > :06:50.Moore joins us now from our Caversham studio. Ben, what's
:06:50. > :06:55.happened? This is all to do with numbers.
:06:55. > :07:00.School fees and bums on seats. If you want to send your child to
:07:00. > :07:03.White House Preparatory School it will cost �9,000 per year. Believe
:07:03. > :07:08.it or not, that is the low end of the scale when you are talking
:07:09. > :07:15.about private schools and Berkshire. Despite this, pupil numbers have
:07:15. > :07:21.decreased over the last two years from 120 to just 80 pupils. There
:07:21. > :07:25.is still some hope. The whole school community has come together,
:07:25. > :07:29.governors, staff and parents said they will work together to ensure
:07:29. > :07:34.the school stays open. Several parents have been offering to write
:07:34. > :07:38.cheques to keep the school afloat at least for the next year. One
:07:38. > :07:42.thing that must be said is that the school is not a victim of poor
:07:42. > :07:46.standards. White House Preparatory School was actually at the top of a
:07:46. > :07:50.league carried out by the Sunday Times for preps schools in
:07:50. > :07:55.Berkshire. This is a worrying time for any parent that as a child at
:07:55. > :07:58.the school, but they head mistress and governors say their door is
:07:58. > :08:01.always open. A company which ran a pub in a
:08:01. > :08:03.Purbeck village, where the kitchen was over-run by mice, has been
:08:03. > :08:08.fined for breaking food hygiene regulations. An inspector found
:08:08. > :08:12.mouse droppings on food containers, work surfaces and chopping boards.
:08:12. > :08:19.He said it was the worst case he'd ever seen. The pub's manageress at
:08:19. > :08:24.the time has also been fined. Roger Finn reports.
:08:24. > :08:28.For the last nine months, the sailor's Return has been under new
:08:28. > :08:32.management and now has a clean bill of health, but in February last
:08:32. > :08:36.year, when the previous management were in charge, it has a very
:08:36. > :08:41.different picture. This is what an environmental health officer found
:08:42. > :08:46.when he made a surprise inspection after an anonymous tip-off. Upon
:08:46. > :08:50.entering the kitchen I found a massive infestation of mice, mouse
:08:50. > :08:55.droppings, chewed through food packets and materials used for
:08:55. > :09:02.nesting. In my experience, it was simply the worst experiences I have
:09:02. > :09:06.encountered. The holding company pleaded guilty to six counts
:09:06. > :09:11.including failing to have a cleaning regime or a pest Control
:09:11. > :09:14.regime. Their directors claimed they had not been told of the
:09:14. > :09:19.infestation. They came to Bournemouth Crown Court to hear the
:09:19. > :09:24.sentence. The court was told that the manageress at the time was a
:09:24. > :09:30.barmaid at the pub who had stepped up as manager on a caretaker basis
:09:30. > :09:33.just a few days before the incident. The judge said there had been a
:09:33. > :09:39.massive infestation and that food should have never been prepared in
:09:39. > :09:43.those conditions. He find the manageress �600, but he also said
:09:43. > :09:50.there had been an appalling failure to have that system in place to
:09:50. > :09:55.maintain hygiene standards. He fined the company �6,000 with an
:09:55. > :09:59.additional �3,000 in costs. The new team say they spent two
:09:59. > :10:04.months stripping out cleaning the kitchen a bar. They are anxious to
:10:04. > :10:07.make sure -- made clear that they had nothing to do with the previous
:10:07. > :10:10.management. If you commute with First Great
:10:10. > :10:13.Western you'll know that they run the most overcrowded trains in the
:10:13. > :10:16.country, and you'll understand how hard it is to get a seat in rush
:10:16. > :10:19.hour. Now the train company is converting 35-year-old, redundant
:10:19. > :10:24.buffet cars to create more space. Bringing these back into service
:10:24. > :10:29.will create an extra 4,5000 seats a day to trains in the Thames Valley.
:10:29. > :10:32.That's an increase of 9% in capacity. But that doesn't mean
:10:32. > :10:41.everyone will be able to sit down. Our Transport Correspondent Paul
:10:41. > :10:45.Clifton reports. Here is the problem, all of the 10
:10:45. > :10:50.most overcrowded trains in the country I'll run by First Great
:10:50. > :10:55.Western. Passenger groups say it is becoming intolerable.
:10:55. > :11:01.How often do you get a seat? Since the beginning of the year, four
:11:01. > :11:05.times. One of those times was at 10pm at night. Every day you are
:11:05. > :11:12.lucky to get a seat. You are constantly banging against people.
:11:12. > :11:17.You have to be restless ambush people over. It is a nightmare.
:11:17. > :11:23.Here his first Great Western's solution. It is taking all of the
:11:23. > :11:28.old redundant buffet cars it can find. In Scotland, these vehicles
:11:28. > :11:33.are being stripped back to bare metal and refurbished with high-
:11:33. > :11:38.density airline-style seating. are going to put 84 seats in here
:11:38. > :11:42.so they can use it for the Olympics. When they are finished, these will
:11:42. > :11:47.be added to existing trains making a busy his services one carriage
:11:47. > :11:53.longer. Together with other rolling stock, they will increase rush-hour
:11:53. > :11:58.capacity on the first Great Western by 9%. By the time the Olympic
:11:58. > :12:03.Games take place, the vast majority of those carriages will be in
:12:03. > :12:09.traffic for our customers. The trains were built more than 35
:12:09. > :12:13.years ago. They are the oldest long-distance trains in the country.
:12:13. > :12:19.Eventually, passengers will get a new generation of electric trains.
:12:19. > :12:25.Three years ago, the Japanese firm Hitachi was named to protect third
:12:25. > :12:33.bidder. That deal has still not been signed so the trains remain
:12:33. > :12:36.years away. Until they arrive, this is the stop absolution. These extra
:12:36. > :12:41.carriages will make life easier on Britain's most crowded trains, but
:12:41. > :12:46.they won't mean that everyone gets a seat. Growth on the Great Western
:12:46. > :12:50.is so fast, they will absolve less than three years increase in
:12:50. > :12:55.passengers. They will only stop the journey becoming even more
:12:55. > :12:59.overcrowded or a little while. Well, Paul has just got back from
:12:59. > :13:03.Scotland, and he's here with me now. Will adding one more carriage make
:13:03. > :13:06.much difference? One more carriage will help. But on
:13:06. > :13:11.trains like the 0740 from Reading to Paddington there are twice as
:13:11. > :13:14.many passengers as there are seats. So adding an extra 84 seats will
:13:14. > :13:17.help, but it won't bring a transformation.
:13:17. > :13:19.And passenger numbers are still growing, of course.
:13:19. > :13:23.These carriages add about 9% more capacity to trains through the
:13:23. > :13:27.Thames Valley. But passenger numbers are also growing by 9% a
:13:27. > :13:30.year. A lot of that growth is leisure travel outside the rush
:13:30. > :13:36.hour, so First Great Western thinks overall this will stabilise the
:13:36. > :13:40.overcrowding for about three years. We've been talking for years now
:13:41. > :13:44.about new trains to replace these old ones. When are they coming?
:13:45. > :13:47.This diesel railway is going to be electrified. After that, we will
:13:48. > :13:51.get new trains. We've known for three years now that Hitachi of
:13:51. > :13:55.Japan is going to build them. But some of the engineering details are
:13:55. > :14:02.not finalised and the contract has still not been signed. So
:14:02. > :14:08.realistically they are five or six years away. With demand growing so
:14:08. > :14:11.fast, things are clearly going to get worse before they get better.
:14:11. > :14:14.Thank you very much. Still to come in this evening's
:14:14. > :14:20.South Today: The party's started to celebrate Poole's iconic new bridge,
:14:20. > :14:23.but for the moment, it's still a road to nowhere.
:14:23. > :14:26.The victims of the holocaust have been remembered at a special
:14:26. > :14:31.service in Auschwitz where 200 sixth formers from across the South
:14:31. > :14:33.lit candles. This week they've been touring the concentration camp as
:14:33. > :14:43.part of a government-funded scheme run by the Holocaust Educational
:14:43. > :14:46.
:14:46. > :14:51.Trust. Here's Simon Clemison's They stare into the past, but
:14:51. > :14:55.making sense of it is a struggle. They see inside the gas chambers
:14:55. > :15:00.and take a look at some of the terms of hair shaved from the heads
:15:00. > :15:04.of the victims. Sometimes people who come here find it is that that
:15:04. > :15:09.you cannot see that his most challenging. Come to the second
:15:09. > :15:13.camp and it feels as though the guards have only just left. It is
:15:13. > :15:15.abandoned and the watch towers still watching. One day in, cross
:15:15. > :15:20.the tracks and the years have hardly past.
:15:20. > :15:24.There is a row of wooden huts that had been rebuilt, but most were
:15:24. > :15:29.raised to the ground. The chimneys are all that still stand for as far
:15:29. > :15:35.as the eye can see. This is meant to be not just a museum, but to
:15:35. > :15:40.awaken something in people. We want the next generation to be
:15:40. > :15:44.aware of what happened. A lot of these children went have a member
:15:44. > :15:48.of family who lived through the wall. Absolutely. That is why
:15:48. > :15:55.coming here and letting them experience it is vital for the
:15:55. > :16:03.future of our society. The people here had nothing and it just makes
:16:03. > :16:13.me feel, it is hard to think about it. What I'm feeling compared to
:16:13. > :16:19.
:16:19. > :16:23.them feeling, seemed this, it has In a service at the end of the
:16:23. > :16:28.visit, the rabbi tells a new generation of the need to speak out
:16:28. > :16:38.against prejudice. The stories and the memories may be passing further
:16:38. > :16:38.
:16:38. > :16:44.into history, but these teenagers may now keep them alive.
:16:44. > :16:48.You can really feel the eeriness watching that report. Let's move on
:16:48. > :16:53.to sport now. Let's start with Portsmouth.
:16:54. > :16:57.When clubs have problems, the question is often asked what part
:16:57. > :16:59.good local authorities play in trying to help the club.
:16:59. > :17:02.The leader of Portsmouth City Council has confirmed it could buy
:17:03. > :17:05.Fratton Park, but would only do a deal if Portsmouth Football club
:17:05. > :17:07.was to be liquidated. Gerald Vernon-Jackson has confirmed he's
:17:07. > :17:10.had initial talks over the possibility of buying the ground,
:17:10. > :17:13.but that he would rather a new owner was found for Portsmouth.
:17:13. > :17:15.Yesterday, the Conservative group on the city council tabled a motion
:17:16. > :17:24.calling for the council to investigate buying the stadium. I
:17:24. > :17:31.spoke to the council leader earlier. We are not going to bail the club
:17:31. > :17:35.out. Other councils have done it in the last year.
:17:36. > :17:39.No, my understanding is that would put of other owners coming forward
:17:39. > :17:43.because they would not own the ground and people want to own the
:17:43. > :17:48.ground if they owned the club. day they could bite back of few,
:17:48. > :17:53.couldn't they? You might be the best way of saving the club in the
:17:54. > :17:57.short term. That would happen if the club went into liquidation.
:17:57. > :18:00.That meeting is a couple of weeks away.
:18:00. > :18:03.On the field, Portsmouth make their first trip to the Amex Stadium to
:18:03. > :18:06.face an Albion side which is chasing a play-off place. Tuesday
:18:06. > :18:09.night's 1-0 reverse at Reading sent Pompey to the bottom of the
:18:09. > :18:15.Championship. A threadbare squad is now seven games without a win and
:18:15. > :18:19.struggling to score goals. The manager is keeping his hopes up.
:18:19. > :18:27.We are in a period where there is no hiding place, this is where it
:18:27. > :18:32.is. It is do or die time. All of the old cliches. I can keep reeling
:18:32. > :18:35.them of if you want me to. Albion are aiming to maintain an
:18:35. > :18:45.unbeaten run since the turn of the year in the league which has seen
:18:45. > :18:55.them establish themselves as genuine play-off contenders.
:18:55. > :18:58.that I am categoric League would like the team to do better.
:18:58. > :19:00.boss Gus Poyet's had his say about the type of financial problems
:19:00. > :19:03.clubs like Portsmouth have found themselves in,. While sympathetic
:19:03. > :19:07.with the club and it's fans, Poyet feels the penalties for those
:19:07. > :19:09.hitting financial problems should be firmer in the future.
:19:09. > :19:13.Reading manager Brian McDermott has won the Championship's manager of
:19:14. > :19:17.the month award for February. The Royals won all four matches they
:19:17. > :19:20.played during the month. Goalkeeper Adam Federici was named player of
:19:20. > :19:24.the month. Tomorrow the Royals host Leicester and could go into the
:19:24. > :19:27.automatic promotion places if results go their way.
:19:27. > :19:30.Southampton remain top and on course for promotion, but they're
:19:30. > :19:34.just a point ahead of West Ham. Tomorrow, Saints hope to bounce
:19:34. > :19:38.back to winning ways, they host Barnsley at St Mary's. Saints made
:19:38. > :19:41.four changes on Tuesday night in the draw with Ipswich. Manager
:19:41. > :19:44.Nigel Adkins is without defender Danny Fox.
:19:44. > :19:47.Elsewhere, tomorrow Bournemouth hope to end a streak of four
:19:47. > :19:50.consecutive defeats, but they face a tough task to force their way
:19:50. > :19:53.back into the play-off picture as they travel to Sheffield Wednesday.
:19:53. > :19:57.In league Two Aldershot lost their first game in seven on Tuesday
:19:57. > :20:03.night at Torquay. Tomorrow they're on the road again at struggling
:20:03. > :20:13.Northampton. Crawley have slipped to sixth and travel to Macclesfield.
:20:13. > :20:14.
:20:14. > :20:16.Steve Evan's side have not won in five league games. Lots of football.
:20:16. > :20:19.The past few weeks have been a rollercoaster ride for Britain's
:20:19. > :20:22.rhythmic gymnastics team. They failed to qualify by the usual
:20:22. > :20:26.route for the Olympics, but learned this week they will get to
:20:26. > :20:31.represent the UK after all, because they're from the host nation. Today,
:20:31. > :20:34.some of the team were in Wiltshire visiting St Edmonds School. Pupils
:20:34. > :20:37.there have been learning about the Olympic values and have pledged to
:20:37. > :20:46.raise a thousand pounds to support the Rhythmic Gymnasts, who are all
:20:47. > :20:51.self-funded. This school has links with one of the gymnasts through
:20:51. > :20:58.their head teacher and the school called us up and said clear to come
:20:58. > :21:04.in. Could you try and inspire their kids and talk to them about Joy Joy
:21:04. > :21:09.-- journey. We are happy to do that. Our school is trying to help push
:21:09. > :21:16.them along the way and try to raise �1,000 and the next couple of weeks.
:21:16. > :21:22.We have a run 900 goals, so if we did a non school uniform day, �1
:21:22. > :21:27.per person will instantly raised a lot of money. Little things like
:21:27. > :21:30.that, it is just amazing. And the girls will be performing
:21:30. > :21:40.live on tonight's One Show, here on BBC1, straight after South Today in
:21:40. > :21:46.a few minutes' time. And now the weather. Can we expect
:21:46. > :21:50.good weather this week? Settled conditions, but there are
:21:50. > :21:54.some people who want rain in the forecast.
:21:54. > :21:56.According to the old wives' tale, these cows lying down at a farm
:21:56. > :22:00.near Stockbridge in Hampshire would suggest rain on the way, but
:22:00. > :22:02.there's not a lot in the forecast. Thanks to Sandy Burnfield for that
:22:02. > :22:05.photo. Despite grey skies, a splash of
:22:05. > :22:15.colour in Bournemouth town centre - a beautiful display there. Hillary
:22:15. > :22:18.
:22:18. > :22:23.a beautiful display there. Hillary Harth sent that photo in. We could
:22:23. > :22:30.see some dampness and drizzly spells to the rest of though -- to
:22:30. > :22:32.the west of the region. One or two breaks in the cloud here and there.
:22:32. > :22:39.Temperatures eight or nine degrees which is more like what we would
:22:39. > :22:42.see during the daytime so very mild tonight. The weekend is shaping up
:22:42. > :22:47.to be fine and settled staying dry with high pressure in charge and
:22:47. > :22:52.some good brightness on the way. Some semi a breaks. We start
:22:52. > :22:58.tomorrow on them over class note, but we will see that cloud break
:22:58. > :23:03.pantheon bringing brighter skies and sunny spells. Where we see that
:23:03. > :23:09.sunshine, 14 or 15 degrees. Tomorrow night is looking to be a
:23:10. > :23:15.mild night. Cloud coming and going once again. I think it will be a
:23:15. > :23:21.dry one perhaps with c-file to the western part of our coastline.
:23:21. > :23:27.Almost of verse, a calm and quiet night. On Sunday we stick with this
:23:27. > :23:33.area of high pressure. It is not going very far in the coming days.
:23:33. > :23:38.For Sunday itself we will see a generally settled and Friday. There
:23:38. > :23:41.will be good ripeness with the best of that in the east. The western
:23:41. > :23:46.coastline could cling on to that cloud a little longer through the
:23:46. > :23:51.day. Pretty bright and find in the most
:23:51. > :23:56.part. Temperatures in the mid-teens to the weekend, gradually becoming
:23:56. > :24:00.cooler into the working week, but still settled and largely dry.
:24:00. > :24:03.Perhaps by Wednesday we will see high pressure shift so they could
:24:04. > :24:05.be cold spells on the way overnight Wednesday.
:24:06. > :24:09.Wednesday. Now, if you live in Poole, it's a
:24:09. > :24:13.big night for you. After a long wait, the town is having a party to
:24:13. > :24:16.celebrate its �37m new lifting bridge.
:24:16. > :24:19.Thousands of spectators have lined the streets this evening on both
:24:19. > :24:21.sides of the bridge, which is designed to really put Poole on the
:24:21. > :24:27.map. Roisin Gauson is there for us
:24:27. > :24:31.tonight. Roisin there have been a few glitches, haven't there?
:24:31. > :24:35.It may not be fully open yet, but why let small details stand in the
:24:35. > :24:38.way of a good knees up? It's certainly been an extravaganza here
:24:38. > :24:41.this evening, and the party is set to continue well into the night.
:24:41. > :24:44.The council now says, rather than an official opening, the event is a
:24:44. > :24:52.celebration of the 85th anniversary of the original bridge. Whatever
:24:53. > :24:58.the reason, it's certainly been spectacular.
:24:58. > :25:02.It may not be the grand opening as planned, but as they say, the show
:25:02. > :25:07.must go on. The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra providing a
:25:07. > :25:16.premiere of the new peace and 800 school children putting their best
:25:16. > :25:21.There has been a real buzz about this bridge, it has been talked
:25:21. > :25:25.about for 30 years. As it neared completion, the community got
:25:25. > :25:30.behind it. Students from local schools made hard work to mark the
:25:30. > :25:35.occasion. It was quite hard having to get into small places. But
:25:35. > :25:40.really good. It was exciting knowing that we would be a name on
:25:40. > :25:46.the street for ever. Ours was supposed to be a pirate theme. I
:25:47. > :25:53.thought that on a pirate ship the figurehead would be a mermaid.
:25:53. > :25:57.work formed part of a flotilla of boats. Images of the bridge has
:25:57. > :26:04.gone out all over the world. It helps show our ambition and will
:26:04. > :26:08.encourage more than �700 million of investment in the town. My hope is
:26:08. > :26:14.that all who live, work and visit Poole will feel proud of this new
:26:14. > :26:19.edition to the town. As Poole it turned out in numbers, their lack
:26:20. > :26:24.of cars crossing did not matter in the least. When it goes a bid looks
:26:24. > :26:29.lovely. Once the cars go over it will be dirty. Everyone will
:26:29. > :26:32.grumble and then they will get it right and it should be fine. Or
:26:33. > :26:36.they won't get it right and we will grumble for a bit longer.
:26:36. > :26:39.There's still no firm date set for traffic to make use of the bridge -
:26:39. > :26:44.which you can perhaps understand. After all, two earlier deadlines
:26:44. > :26:47.have already come and gone. And in a way, it gives a chance to prolong
:26:47. > :26:50.the party. On Monday the Princess Royal is due to visit with the
:26:50. > :26:53.Royal Navy Warship HMS Cattistock taking part in the celebrations. So
:26:53. > :27:01.cars or not, this iconic addition to the Poole skyline is getting a
:27:02. > :27:07.warm welcome regardless. I hope you can go and enjoy some of
:27:07. > :27:12.the celebrations and get partying as well. That is all from us.
:27:12. > :27:17.She would have to catch them up, actually.
:27:17. > :27:23.We have the rhythmic gymnasts coming up. Stay tuned.