12/03/2012 South Today

South Today. In tonight's programme:

A warning to protect water supplies now as low levels in reservoirs

lead to hosepipe bans next month. think it is disgusting. We pay our

water rates and they have not got it right.

A family crossing the road is hit by two motorcycles, a five-year-old

child has died. The super clean team beating the

superbugs, but will it cut hospital infection rates? High quality means

that when the bed comes at a bar service it is so clean you could

eat your dinner off it. And he is up for the challenge,

Berkshire's sports reporter attempts 30 different sports in a

Last year was the driest since 2005. As a result, some of our reservoirs

and rivers are very low. Today, due to that lack of rainfall, water

companies in the South have announced hosepipe bans. We only

had 638 mm of rainfall, which is about 25 inches. The average annual

rainfall in the South is 776 mm, which is just over 30 inches. That

difference has led to Southern Water, South East Water and Thames

Water all bringing in restrictions. But there are no current plans for

Upper Bann in Dorset, Hampshire or the Isle of Wight. Mark Sanders is

live tonight at Ardingly Reservoir in West Sussex, one of the areas

most affected. Mark, how bad is the situation there? This reservoir is

one of the South's key reservoirs, yet it is less than 50% full

because of that intensely dry period. The water company has

decided they have to enforce a hosepipe ban.

Not a cloud in the sky and that is the problem, the lack of rainfall

has already met some areas being officially declared as suffering

from a drought. South East Water has tried to conserve the amount

held in Ardingly Reservoir a line it and other water companies to put

restrictions on water use. This was the view on the hosepipe ban in the

village near the reservoir. It is disgusting. We all pay our water

rates, and they still haven't got it right. I am an avid gardener, so

it could be problematic. I think it is inevitable, we have been warning

people about this for months, the lack of water in the reservoirs. I

think we will have to put up with it. Southern Water, South East

Water and Thames Water are all bringing in restrictions because of

the dry winters which has left reservoir and the ball leverets low.

Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, been affected and --. It is the

first hosepipe ban in the South since 2005. Thames Water says under

the terms of the ban, customers can still water their gardens and clean

their cars, provided the use of watering can or a bucket. Everyone

could use a bit less water, that is what we are asking. The ban is a

way of underlining the seriousness of that. The water companies know

the restrictions are likely to be unpopular. But they insist it will

save a lot of water. And that hosepipe ban comes into

force next month. Today we had a warning from the Environment Agency

that the dread could spread westwards to the Hampshire and

Wiltshire border unless we get some persistent heavy rain very soon.

Alexis will have the weather shortly.

A five-year-old girl has died this afternoon and her 72 year-old

grandmother is critically ill after being hit by two motorbikes in

Weymouth. The woman was crossing the A354 Weymouth Way with three of

her grandchildren. The two other girls, who are aged 10 and six,

were also injured. Our home affairs correspondent Alex Forsyth has been

following the story. After the tragic collision in

Weymouth, the two most seriously injured people were brought here,

to Southampton General Hospital. Tonight the grandmother remains

here in a critical condition, but this afternoon, police confirmed

the youngest girl, who was just five, has died. A family walk at

turned to tragedy. The grandmother and her three granddaughters were

crossing the A35 or Weymouth Way at around 3.30 yesterday afternoon,

heading towards the nature reserve. Around the same time, I group of

motorcyclists were travelling along the road towards the Swannery

Bridge. Two of the motorcyclists collided with the family. I was

walking past and cries of the emergency services. The two older

children, aged six and 10, was seriously injured. They were

airlifted to Dorset County Hospital, where they are in a stable

condition. The grandmother, 72, and the young this goal, just five,

were taken to Southampton General. But the youngest girl died.

Residents say Weymouth Way is a very busy road. Brian hope

collected a petition of more than 1,000 petition -- 5,000 signatures.

People felt that was dangerous and quite a few people said, will it

take an accident for some thing to be done about it? Dorset say the

campaign was for a stretch of road some distance away from where

accidents took place. They say bought a with the family. Dorset

police are appealing for witnesses, asking anyone who saw the collision

or who saw the three motorcycles leading up to the accident to come

back -- contact them on their non- emergency number, 101. They say

tonight trained officers are with the devastated family to offer them

any support they can. A new way of fighting superbugs is

being tested in Portsmouth. The Queen Alexandra Hospital is putting

every one of its 1500 beds through a special unit, which blasts them

with steam and anti-bacterial solution. And they are doing it

every time a patient is discharged, even if the bed has been used for

just five minutes. Since 2005, infection rates for MRSA have come

down dramatically. From 96 cases in Portsmouth to just six. From 92

cases to four in Southampton. And in Worthing and St Richard's

hospitals, from about 44 to none at all. Our health correspondent David

Fenton reports. Another dead arise for cleaning,

there is one every six minutes. First it is swabbed to see how

dirty it is. This one is pretty bad, but not for long. When the beds

come in, they are contaminated with dirt and organic matter. When the

heads go, they are all very high quality and climate does, so clean

you could eat your dinner off it. That is probably not a good idea,

but cutting infection rates is. This team has been set up to clean

every bed and mattress as soon as the patient leaves. It is quite

easy to come up, the dirt, it is so quick to come off. You use the

steam and you use the clock. three weeks, they have done more

than 1,200 of these, almost every bed in the hospital. It takes to

people about 15 minutes did thoroughly clean Abed using these

steam hoses. Before, this was a job that would have been done on the

ward by nurses, using white. doing this, taking that job away

from the nurses and bringing it to a specialised unit where we can

really go in debt, we are allowing the nurses to have more face time

with their patients, so we are releasing their time to deliver

proper nursing care. Finally, the beds are swabbed again to check out

clean they are. This one's score was 550, now it is just 11, the

standard from most commercial kitchens. Four patients, it is a

great idea. It has a green strip across it. It is like a hotel.

is a pilot scheme, it is hoped that all the hospitals -- Hospital's

clinical equipment can be cleaned the same way.

So, are a hospital beating these superbug?

Some they are and some they are not. MRSA, the figures have got a let

better over the past years and as we saw, some hospitals have no

cases at all. But it's still bugs like C Difficile, a very nasty one

back and hang around for years, and is still very difficult killed. We

all know every winter there is also the dreaded norovirus. So the bogs

are still out there, and we are not getting the horror stories be used

to get a few years ago, overall things probably are getting better.

It was great to see the best being steam cleaned and so on, but there

are other things around the bed like tables and chairs, that

patients will touch. They will touch them and that

really is the battleground for infection control, that area

immediately around the patient, that is where the bugs Hyde, if you

like. One expert said, what they need to do is get some old

fashioned elbow grease and some cleaning to get this bugs out, it

is not enough to have a fancy disinfectant white because that

does not do the job. In Portsmouth, they just use soap and water and

elbow grease, that is really what a lot of infection control teams will

be doing, to be the bugs, get at elbow grease going!

Debt -- There is increasing uncertainty

about the future of the video games retailer GAME, which has its

headquarters in Basingstoke. It comes as suppliers refused to

distribute a number of new products to the company. The group, which

employs 10,000 people, has warned that shares in it might now be

worthless. A nurse who left her paralysed

patient severely brain-damaged after turning off his ventilator

has failed to attend a disciplinary hearing against her. Violeta

Aylward is charged by the Nursing and Midwifery Council with not

being familiar with how to operate a life support machine. Matthew

Hill has been at the hearing in London.

Today was the first day that we were so poor stickier from Violetta

ill word about why she turned up a patient Harry Potter's Wizarding

World ventilator, leaving him without a proper supply of oxygen

for around a quarter of an hour. But she failed to show up. A last-

minute letter from church elders said this was because of ill health.

But the MMC decided to go ahead with the hearing anyway because

they thought she would not turn up to future hearings. Taken by a web

cam set up by the 39-year-old patient because he was so worried

about his care. This footage shows and as turning off his life-support

machine and then panicking. By let a L-word is also charged with not

being trained in how to resuscitate a patient breathing true at a

tracheotomy, being unable to switch the machine back on and collecting

an emergency breathing back to his mouth instead of his neck. --

connecting. The nurse was supplied by a private agency. The panel

heard that the nursing agency were fully aware that they should

provide a nurse trained in how to use a ventilator. But Violeta ill

word has no such experience and had not even been on an intensive care

ward. Today, Jamie married's sister said she was disappointed that she

would never hear a full explanation from his nurse. It would have been

good for her to come to hear what they had to say about what she did

Jamie. I am sad emotionally, but I understand where she might be at.

But as a nurse, she owes a duty of care to not on the map other but

also to the Association she is registered with. The hearing is

expected to end of Friday. If found guilty of serious professional

misconduct, she could be struck off. Anti-capitalist campaigners who

have set up camp in the grounds of Bournemouth University say they

have no plans to leave. Members of the Occupy movement want to meet

the Chancellor, who is also head of the new Supreme Court. They are

concerned about the recent removal of demonstrators from St Paul's

Cathedral. The university says it will take legal action if the

protesters don't go. Still to come in this evening's

South Today: A Sport Relief challenge for Radio

A volunteer army of litter pickers has been out in Reading. They were

involved in RESCUE - the Rivers and Environmental Spaces Clean-up Event.

RESCUE's supported by the council and brings together dozens of

community groups in the town. This is the 23rd year it's been held -

and it seems to be just as necessary as ever. Roger Finn

explains. The scars of thoughtlessness. Opie

bruisers along the River Thames in Reading. It is not just the eyes

that suffer, literate threatens wildlife also. But rescue is at

hand. The rubbish during event is being held twice the year and is a

firm fixture in the town Callander. It is important because it involves

people in the community and it makes them aware of the environment.

Overall, it has a really positive impact. Some 300 people joined the

clean up this weekend under with 30 different organisations contributed

volunteers. A lots of different groups of people, people from

football clubs, people from the Scouts, Thames 21, all different

groups come together because they care about Reading. The event was

sponsored by Thames Water and several of the staff have joined

the volunteers. It's amazing when you come out here and see all the

rubbish. It's quite disconcerting. With a large group, you can make a

big impact in an afternoon. It makes you feel better and makes you

feel like you're giving back to the community.

It's not often you get to see one of your ancestors carved into a

hillside. But today, Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal flew

into Dorset to see her great great great great grandfather's outline.

Restored by over 100 volunteers who cleared 160 tonnes of stone, to

spruce up this ancient monument. An ancient monument that was at risk

until The Osmington White Horse Restoration campaign took matters,

quite literally into their own hands. Georgina Windsor reports.

It is looking much like a Martian that had done 10 laps of Aintree

rather than a monarch on horseback. His Majesty was unveiled as the fog

disappeared and as the sun broke through, many volunteers came here

to see the official unveiling by her Royal Highness, the Princess

Royal. It is lovely to ask somebody to come back and stayed in the last

number of years this was done for you great, great, great, great

grandfather. This hillside has been home to King George the Third and

his charges since 1808. The method for the bathing it was high tech,

but to get its looking this could, it was hard graft. We brought bags

of gravel down hill which was quite challenging. We did the second back

leg and the tail every will keep an eye on them. It is really amazing

to see it now. It has been a unique restoration on many levels. It is

the only white horse carvings on the British Isles with a human

figure on it. It is a statement of our time, a statement to win one

arc, and if you look at the engagement of the community here

today involved. -- it is a statement of our time and a

statement to the monarch. This was the first time that her Royal

Highness had visited her ancestor and she has clearly impressed by

the hard work of the volunteers. A great state, it looks really good

now. I am going to apologise know if I

do not sound as I normally sound. Huge apologies, it will improve as

the week goes on. We are very pleased to have the

back. Let's talk about the sport and the

awards. The Football League awards were on last night in London.

Rickie Lambert was named Championship player of the year.

The 30-year-old has scored twenty one league goals this season to

help fire Saints to the top of the Championship. On Saturday, they

rarely needed to get out of third gear against Barnsley. Adam Lallana,

who also shortlisted for the award, scored both goals as Saints

established a three point lead at the top of the table, and took

advantage of West Ham's failure to win. After picking up his award

last night Lambert reflected on a career forged in the lower leagues.

Obviously, Alan Pardew paid a lot of money for me in League One.

Since then, I think, obviously, I have looked after myself as well as

possible, and I have seen the benefits from it. If you're going

to get to the championship, hopefully, you get to your peak,

and I feel at my peak right now. The Brighton boss Gus Poyet became

the first recipient of the outstanding managerial achievement

award. Poyet was praised for transforming Brighton and Hove

Albion from league one strugglers to a side chasing promotion to the

Premier league at a new stadium. On Saturday Poyet's side scored two

late goals to condemn Portsmouth to another defeat. Both goals came

from the Spaniard Vicente who came on as a substitute. Portsmouth were

without goalkeeper Stephen Henderson, who's set for a cost

cutting move to West Ham while Hayden Mullins, who also didn't

play, could be on the way to Reading. If you make sure that you

have got the right players, and to convince them, if you make sure

that they want to play for the football, and they believe in what

we do, because they have a different style. We have got a

chance. Portsmouth 1 a family a word, well

done to them. Reading's remarkable run continues,

and they could go into the top two tomorrow night. They beat Leicester

3-1 on Saturday. Mikele Leigertwood fired a cracker to get them started.

Further goals in the final quarter of an hour helped them ease to

victory. Jason Roberts and Simon Church were on target. Leicester

got a consolation but Reading now know they can go level on points

with Southampton and into second place if they win at Doncaster

tomorrow night. tomorrow night.

Here's confirmation of the table. We're in the run in now, 10 games

to go for Southampton - Reading have a huge game in hand tomorrow

night at Doncaster. Then there's a gap to the play off chasers -

Brighton very much among them. Late Kick Off is back on the air

tonight at 11:05 here on BBC One. They'll have all the weekend's

goals, here's the best of the action now starting with how to

lose a game in 10 minutes, a tough Lee Bradbury's man lost their last

five games. An opener after four minutes at Hillsborough. This own

goal would have been a particular disappointment. Michael Antonio on

loan from a wedding dance into the box for the third. -- on loan from

Reading. The cherries did not have a lack of chances. We can play

quite well, and late chances ended in nothing. It was disappointing.

At Macclesfield, Crawley looked in control when they went in front.

The advantage was then doubled. Two late goals meant that Crawley were

slipping off the promotion pace holding on at 2-1. Crawley are down

to sixth. Northampton got the better of Aldershot. A penalty made

it 3-1 after the break. Danny Hilton claimed a late consolation

for Aldershot. Justin Rose claimed his fourth US

PGA golf title last night in Florida. Rose, who played at the

North Hants club as a youngster won the WGC title by one stroke, after

shooting a final round of 70, to finish on 16 under par. He's up to

number seven in the world, after the victory which netted him

$875,000. The Great Britain rowing squad have

rowed their last race on the Dorney Lake, ahead of the Olympic Games.

The Olympic Trials gave the team's rowers a chance to bag a seat in

the 14 Olympic boats this weekend. Tim Dellor was there.

More than 19 row was needed to be whittled down to fewer than 50 for

the Olympic Games. For some athletes, if this would be the end

of their Olympic trains. Among the winners, Peter Reid and Banda

tricks Hodge won the final trial. You see how tight the racing is

against each other and then we combine forces and put that against

the best people in the world and see what happens. The definitely

get a confidence when you see other people in the team doing well and

getting success. Alan Campbell was one of the most impressive winners

specialising in the single scull. It was no surprise he should win

his final so convincingly. Every wanted to prove my ability and

there is no greater venue than on the Olympic course where we will

race in July and August. It was an opportunity to try and get the most

out of myself. For the 46 Team GB Row was, some real dramas will

unfold on these 2,000 metres of water. It looks lovely there.

First there was David Walliams' epic 140-mile River Thames swim.

Then comedian John Bishop's Week Of Hell cycling, rowing and running

from Paris to Trafalgar Square. Well now it's Tim's turn. He's

travelling across Berkshire, trying every Olympic event, here's the

story of day one. 29 different sports in a week. I do

not think that has been done before, and there are so many sports that

have not tried, so for Sport Relief, if we thought an Olympic talent,

but I have spent hours at every Olympic Games watching of the

sports on TV and I want to know more about them. There were some of

son's dance with the first challenge. Not surprising, it was

trampolining! Don't worry, expert assistance was on hand from an

Olympic hopefuls. It is really exciting at the moment, there are

two more trials with myself and four other girls looking for the

one place and be part of the Olympics. We find out in June would

be going. Tim survived the trampolining without injury, and

next step, a steady hand for pistol shooting. Bring it up, go over.

the National shooting Centre, they're hoping for success in

London 2012. A1 young lady has already qualified shooting a pistol

for the Olympics. I have that two more aspiring ones with in an ace

of achieving it. That actually hit the black. Still on target for his

Olympic challenge, he turns his hand to archery. But what is aim be

true in the shadow of Windsor Castle? When you get it right, if

you repeat the process, the outcome would be the same. Modern equipment

is such that if you can repeat the same process, he would hit the

target every time. Tomorrow, he saddles up for dressage and he is

in for the high jump to. That is quite a challenge!

He would be aching! I would never do a high diving! We

have got a lovely picture. A thirsty squirrel in Hampshire has

proved if you really want something you can get it. This squirrel was

captured in Stubbington. The grey squirrel had to get on its tip toes,

but got there in the end. Its drink of choice. A peanut butter

smoothie! Now, the weather. We're talking

about dry weather, drought and No significant rain to shout of.

Some rain later in the week. Today, 16 degrees in Southampton with a

blue sky. In parts of Hampshire and Oxfordshire had across the region,

temperatures struggling with mist and fog and some low cloud. Tonight,

cloudy and mild with temperatures above freezing. Ruling out the

chance of a frost. Like last night, mist and fog patches. Not as

widespread. One or two dense spots here and there. Seven or eight

degrees. Mild, cloudy and marquee to start. The cloud will break up

for tomorrow but some uncertainty. A lot of cloud, mist and fog along

the south coast. High in the sunshine, 14 Celsius. Are we hold

on to the cloud cover, nine or ten degrees. The wind will be light

like they were today. Doing it all again tomorrow, mist and fog a

possibility, a lot of cloud and temperatures reaching six or seven

degrees. A cloudy, murky started the day on Wednesday. Wednesday,

daytime, but cloud should thin and break to allow for some sunshine.

Once again, uncertainty as to who will see the sunshine. On Thursday,

similar, but there is a daytime, a bit of a breeze which would break

up a cloud. As we head towards Friday, the high pressure will slip

towards the Continent and we have a weather front moving to the south

and east across the country, introducing more cloud. The wind

would pick up and the possibility of rain by the end of play. This is

the forecast for the rest of the beak, a lot of cloud, mist and fog

tomorrow, dense in some places on the road. Wednesday, the cloud will

break up with some sunny spells and the next few days. It is hard to

pretend to where the sun will be. I liked the grey squirrel!