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Hello, I'm Tony Husband. Welcome to South Today. In tonight's | :00:04. | :00:06. | |
programme... A radical change to part of the | :00:06. | :00:09. | |
Sussex coastline, but the business spending millions to fund it, is | :00:09. | :00:17. | |
told you're on your own. We have held a gun held to our | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
heads. We were told to do it or kiss goodbye to the business. | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
Fighting the spread of a potentially deadly virus among | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
animals. Scientists searching for a solution to the Schmallenberg | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
outbreak. Seeds of change, how the old | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
bottleneck around Hindhead is being returned to nature. | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
And rowing the atlantic - five women's gruelling challenge and the | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
women's gruelling challenge and the support that got them to the finish. | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
Before we left we actually met David Cameron, and when in this | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
boat we got text messages from Matthew Pinsent and Sir Stephen | :00:50. | :01:00. | |
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It's a first for the south. Millions of pounds is being spent | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
on a massive new nature reserve which would see part of the Sussex | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
coastline change forever. Environment Agency is currently | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
building seven kilometres of new sea defences between Selsey and | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
Bracklesham - in the process, creating a huge habitat for | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
wildlife. But one local business is angry that it is having to pay out | :01:19. | :01:28. | |
�17 million to support it. Roger Finn has been following the story. | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
The Selsey coastline has always been vulnerable. In March 2008, the | :01:32. | :01:40. | |
defences were breached, the caravan behind was swamped. -- the caravan | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
park. If that same year, the Environment Agency gave the go- | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
ahead for a radical solution they had been consulting on for many | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
years. They call it a managed realignment - replace the present | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
line of defences between Selsey and Bracklesham with a seven, but there | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
spike inland. The flooded land would shock up the power of the | :02:00. | :02:07. | |
waves and become wildlife habitat, 11 square miles in all. The work is | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
already under way. The banks are being treated from soil dug from 12 | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
pits on the side. They will eventually become ponds and reed | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
beds. Much of the flooded land will become salt marsh, rare and | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
precious for natural life. We have a habitat that is generally | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
dry for most of the time, but we will have a new defences built | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
which will reduce flooding to the community, and also agreed nature | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
reserve, birds flying in, a wide range of species. | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
But not everyone is happy. The caravan park is the largest in the | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
UK and is extradited to contribute �16 million to the local economy. | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
The plan would have left it marooned. Now the owners are going | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
to build two rock islands just offshore, back filled with | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
thousands of tons of shingle. The Environment Agency is costing �25 | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
million, the caravan park's is costing �17 million. It will be one | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
of the biggest private sea defences built in Britain, but that car -- | :03:10. | :03:18. | |
Park claims it had no choice. We had a gun held to our heads. We | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
were either to lose 75% of the property, all the complexes, around | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
�30 million worth of swimming-pools and leisure facilities. We were | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
left to do our own thing, either do it or kiss goodbye to the business. | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
We have limited funding and need to prioritise that in the most | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
appropriate way. Where a commercial businesses making a profit out of | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
an operation, that is good and pays into the local economy, but it is | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
important we don't inadvertently subsidised that with public money | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
that could be spent elsewhere. They plants for it -- the plan is | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
for the old shingle defences here to be breached and abandoned next | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
spring. A headteacher who claims she was | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
the victim of racial abuse has faced questions at her employment | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
tribunal in Reading. Sudhana Singh, seen here on the right, is the | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
former head of Moorlands Primary School in Tilehurst. She says | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
governors and parents were complicit in a racially motivated | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
campaign to undermine her authority. But Reading Borough Council and the | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
governors claim any challenge to Mrs Singh's position was about | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
school policies rather than a personal attack. The hearing was | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
told the council investigated Mrs Singh's complaint of racism and | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
offered her independent pastoral support. The case continues. | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
Scientists in Surrey are battling to come up with a solution to stop | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
the spread of the Schmallenberg virus. So far the number of farms | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
in the South East affected by the potentially lethal SBV animal virus | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
has doubled in the last two weeks. The infection causes stillbirths | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
and deformities in lambs and calves. With the latest on the fight to | :04:48. | :04:58. | |
control the virus here's Yvonne So far, no sign of the | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
Schmallenberg virus Indies newborns at Prestwick farm in a sorry, but | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
last week this farm was one of the latest victims. -- in Surrey. | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
A be a angles of his legs were all wrong. | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
They would normally come out very streamlined and birth is a very | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
natural process. This lamb had come true. And when I checked his legs | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
were at 90 degrees to where they should have been. They were locked | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
in that position. Most lambs have so far been born | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
apparently unaffected in the South East, but at the number of farms | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
reporting deformities and stillbirths caused by the virus has | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
doubled to nearly 50 in the last two weeks. | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
Way don't know what to do about it. We really need advice on this, | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
because we don't even know whether to replace our sheep, because we | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
may be buying in the infected sheep, and we could be bringing in | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
deformed lambs for next we're's crop. | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
Scientists are here are leading European-wide research into the | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
virus. These are a few of the Moody's from | :06:08. | :06:14. | |
the vast colonies here at the Pirbright university laboratories. | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
It is hoped they will provide clues about the virus and had to stop it | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
spreading. So far they believe it has been spread by biting midges | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
blown across from the Channel. They are trying to understand exactly | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
what it is and how would it is transmitted. | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
We are infecting insects artificially in the laboratory to | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
confirm they are involved in the transmission of the virus, because | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
that means we can find out if it is spreading geographically and try | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
and control the spread in animals. The second area is to develop -- | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
develop a diagnostic test which will pick up antibodies in animals. | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
The hope is that scientists will produce a diagnostic blood test in | :06:58. | :07:06. | |
time for this year's breeding season in the in the autumn. | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
A Sussex pensioner who trawls Brighton's streets collecting cans | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
for charity, has been given just under a month to clear a huge pile | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
of rubbish from her front garden or face eviction. Olive Taylor has | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
raised more than �40,000 for charity by recycling cans since | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
1978. But she's been given the deadline to tidy up, after council | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
officials decided her property was overrun with rubbish and had become | :07:23. | :07:31. | |
a health hazard. Ian Palmer has the story. | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
Olive Taylor - charity champion of public pest? Brighton City Council | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
is definitely in the second category. | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
I am not worried because there is no smell, no mice, nor rats. | :07:43. | :07:49. | |
Still, how have we got here? The 87-year-old began collecting in | :07:49. | :07:54. | |
1978. In 1993 it took eight lorries to remove items from her front | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
garden. In 2003 she was threatened with eviction. | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
In a statement, Brighton City Council said that there are | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
potentially serious public health risks arising from Olive Taylor's | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
action, and as she consistently refuses to co-operate, the council | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
has to take action to protect the community. | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
All of does do a lot of good for the community, -- she does do a lot | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
of good. I must admit, there is a bit too | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
much, but we just need to keep that under control, for them to come and | :08:26. | :08:36. | |
collect it. They have come out with this | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
complicated situation, rather than not to bully. | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
The council -- council's ultimate sanction would be eviction. She has | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
days to comply, and says she will do her best to meet the deadline. | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
Brighton City Council says it will be watching closely. | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
A �100 million scheme to completely transform a residential estate in | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
Southampton has been given the go ahead. The city council is planning | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
to demolish five blocks of flats on Townhill Park to make way for 675 | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
new homes, a shopping parade and a village green. The proposal for the | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
area involves three phases of work over the next ten years. | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
Politicians have been lobbying the government today to invest more | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
money in upgrading a major road in the South. The A303 has a long | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
history of proposed improvements - including tunnelling under | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
Stonehenge - but none have come to fruition. Making the whole road a | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
dual carriageway would cost around �1 billion. | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
More than 4 million passengers pass through the doors, and now South | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
West Trains has been showing off the newly refurbished Basingstoke | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
railway station. It is one of the most important transport hubs in | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
the south, carrying commuters between London, the south coast and | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
the West Country. Joe Campbell has been to see what the money has been | :09:44. | :09:54. | |
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4.5 million people passed -- pass through Basingstoke station each | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
year, and time is running out for parts of the Victorian structure. | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
Even less frequent visitors, like Betty and her sister from Germany, | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
are appreciative of the revamp. The two very nice, it makes it look | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
very modern. -- it is very nice. am sure people will find it very | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
useful to have all that space, as well, inside. | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
The bill for all this is �1 million. Overall, South West trains has | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
committed to spending �49 million on station improvements across its | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
parish during its current franchise. -- across it Patrick. | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
Today's ceremony comes at a time when ministers have made it clear | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
they want railways to make do with less public money. | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
That will be a real challenge but we will keep focusing on that, and | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
we will work with our partners in the rail industry, Network Rail | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
especially, to make things more efficient. | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
But passengers are worried they could pay the price for their | :10:58. | :11:08. | |
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spacious new ticket hall in the years to come. | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
Still to come in this evening's South Today... | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
Boxed up at Box Hill, find out what these youngsters were doing for BBC | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
School report. Potholes across the sofa costing | :11:19. | :11:27. | |
the Government millions of pounds to repair. The annual report says | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
that �6 million was spent filling the men last year, and in Dorset | :11:30. | :11:40. | |
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more than �2.7 million, too. The It is the final milestone in | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
the Hindhead Tunnel project. Since the tunnel and bypass opened last | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
summer, they've relieved a traffic bottleneck on the old A3 through | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
Surrey. Earlier today that old road went officially 'back to nature' as | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
the Highways Agency handed it over to the National Trust. Let's join | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
our Transport Correspondent Paul Clifton. | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
Well, just a moment ago our van drove up here, rushing up, the | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
driver went down his window, looked at his Sat Nav and said, whereas | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
the A3? Two Bibles show a new, because it | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
ends on that bit of tarmac right there. Now, for more than a mile | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
stretching off behind me, there is just bare earth, would only nine | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
months ago all the traffic between Portsmouth and London used to crawl | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
through the Devil's Punchbowl. It is already hard to imagine this | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
as one of the more of -- busiest roads in southern England. Let's | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
remind you - the Devil's Punchbowl look like this, and the road | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
carried 30,000 vehicles per day. Last autumn, the tarmac was scraped | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
away, all trace of it has been dug up or covered over. Instead, | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
traffic pours through the Hindhead tunnel. It opened nine months ago. | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
It has taken since then to returned the old route to nature. | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
Today, the very last stage of this huge project saw the Highways | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
Agency and the land to the National Trust. To mark the occasion, local | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
children sprinkled heather seeds over what used to be the A3. | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
It changed because they're used to be all the tarmac and lots of | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
traffic, it used to be really noisy. The does important for Nature and | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
for the people. Come back in five years' time and | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
hopefully it will look like there has never been a road here. We're | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
looking to saw some heather seed and give the grasses and natural | :13:37. | :13:44. | |
habitat back. -- to sow the seed. By down the road, here is how the | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
village of Selsey used to look - ravaged by the biggest traffic | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
bottleneck on the roads from Portsmouth to London. Here it is | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
now. The traffic has gone - even the paddle station has closed down. | :13:58. | :14:05. | |
Denise McCulloch lives right beside what was once the notorious Selsey | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
traffic lights. Noise levels in the evening have | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
reduced considerably. There are no shadings of Windows or beds when | :14:13. | :14:20. | |
the big trucks go through. It is fine now, it is much more peaceful. | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
But it has taken 50 years of planning and debate to reach | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
today's Landward occasion. The van is still trying to work out | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
where to go. Today marks the completion of the last big road- | :14:33. | :14:40. | |
building project in the region. The A3 is now buried underground. With | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
Government spending on roads cut back, there are no other big road | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
schemes on this deal in southern England for the foreseeable future. | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
-- on this scale. The drivers everywhere upgrading | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
their Sat Navs tonight. It Now to something else people | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
have been waiting for. It has been in the pipeline for more than two | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
years, but this week the first steps to build an artificial reef | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
in Weymouth Bay off Dorset are being taken. It is part of a long | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
term plan to boost lobster stocks to help the commercial fishing | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
industry. Hundreds of tonnes of rocks are being laid at sea this | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
week to create the right environment for marine life. | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
We are one year away from seeing these creatures graced the seabed | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
of the Weymouth and Portland waters. Building their nursery it starts | :15:25. | :15:33. | |
here. Lumps of rock are being carefully placed near Ringstead Bay. | :15:33. | :15:40. | |
One pull of a lever is all it takes. The new undersea structure will be | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
formed by 1750 tonnes of pork one stone. It will be spread out into a | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
200 metre wide circle. The barge behind me will make six | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
trips altogether to take the stone out to sea. | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
Over the next year, Portland lobsters will be incubated and | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
hatched in Cornwall before they make the return trip home. | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
Six days a year for three years, and the idea is not to catch those | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
lobsters, but to let them grow and wander off into the wider | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
environment to breed and boost the fishery. | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
Lobsters are not the only thing hoping to put Weymouth and Portland | :16:15. | :16:21. | |
on the map. There are plans to sink two warships. All of which will | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
happen after the Olympics. The ships will help the diving | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
industry and tourism in general in Weymouth and Portland, because it | :16:28. | :16:33. | |
is estimated that sinking at a single ship rings �1.6 million to | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
the local economy. This is borne out by the sinking of another shop | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
-- ship, which has been very successful, and we hope to do the | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
same here. It might be some time before we see | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
scenes like this Olympic waters, but the long-term aim is the | :16:48. | :16:58. | |
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It's BBC News School Report Day, which means children around the | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
country have been making their own news reports and becoming | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
journalists. At Priory School in Portsmouth, School Reporters Josh, | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
Edwin and Lois have been recording the story of their trip to Box Hill | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
in Surrey. Here's their report. Box Hill is a beautiful area of | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
woodland and chalk Downland. It is a Site of Special Scientific | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
Interest with wild flowers and insects. | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
The road forms a 15 kilometres lip, including the famous zig-zagged | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
Hill. It is a great place for cycling, and each year thousands of | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
people come here. They will come to watch the Olympic road cycling | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
races. I am here with my classmates from | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
Portsmouth, and we have been learning about the ship's Olympic | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
events. We have come to Box Hill to pay the special boxes we made a few | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
days ago. The remember, they have to be challenging... | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
We have been working in groups using the internet to find out | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
about the environment at Box Hill and why it is such a good place for | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
Olympic cycling. We have also research Olympic | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
values, like rights and responsibilities. | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
Pupils have helped a new -- create a new policy which encourages the | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
use of hand-held devices. We filled our three boxes with | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
items, chosen to represent the Box Hill area, the Olympics and the | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
school. We have some tracking packs, and | :18:27. | :18:36. | |
we're hoping that people will take them somewhere else. Rio de Janeiro | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
is the next Olympics, that is our aim. | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
The poll will be able to find them using the GPS in their cars or | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
smartphones. It is called Gio cash income and people will be able to | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
find our Gio caches while they wait for the cycle races. | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
We want people to find the boxes without causing damage to the | :18:55. | :19:00. | |
environment. Once they are hidden, we're using computer tablets to | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
record the co-ordinates and put the information on the internet. | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
With this project this year our students have been able to work | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
really well as a team. They have learnt how to use the technology | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
and skills themselves, and for many years to come people will be able | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
to come and find these and hopefully people will find that a | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
challenge and exciting. What you don't realise is when we go back to | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
school I am sitting an exam on this. Sorry, I have to stop you there, | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
that is all we have time for. And you can see more reports made | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
by school children from across the BBC South patch at | :19:38. | :19:48. | |
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She has been described as the nation's first people's princess. | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
The mourning after her early death was perhaps only matched by that | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
over Diana, Princess of Wales. Princess Charlotte, daughter of | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
George the Fourth, was adored by the public in the early 19th | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
century and in the years since has largely been forgotten. Now an | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
exhibition at her family's seaside home, Brighton Pavilion, aims to | :20:04. | :20:14. | |
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bring her memory alive. Sara Smith The shops closed for a fortnight. | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
Everyone dressed in black. Byron wrote from Venice that it was like | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
an earthquake in Venice, what could it have been like in Britain? | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
Poets, the press, the public all mourned by the but net -- mourned | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
the death of Princess Charlotte. Born in 1796, the only child of a | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
disastrous union between the Prince Regent and Princess Caroline of | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
Brunswick, it was said to be because they were so unpopular that | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
she shone. In comparison she was felt to be | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
the hope of the country. She was called the daughter of England, a | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
hope for a new beginning. Through a childhood marred by a | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
parent's separation and the banishment of her mother, her death | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
was at just 21. This exhibition charts the life of a forgotten | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
Princes. It was here at her father's seaside | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
resident that Charlotte began one of her happiest period. Here, she | :21:11. | :21:17. | |
was introduced to Prince Leopold, the man she would marry. Within one | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
year rather have -- a year-and-a- half she was dead. She died shortly | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
after the delivery of a stillborn son. Portraits, plaques, | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
commemorative china, even at the natured made for her stillborn baby | :21:31. | :21:41. | |
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now on public sure to tell her On to some sports news, Reading | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
have signed the Portsmouth midfielder Hayden Mullins. He will | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
boost a Royals squad aiming for promotion back to the Premier | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
League. Portsmouth's administrator, Trevor Birch, said the deal was | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
another essential move in helping to keep the club alive. Mr Birch | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
said finding a buyer for Pompey remains the number one objective. | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
At the Cheltenham Festival, Berkshire trainer Nicky Henderson | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
celebrated a sixth victory of the week. Riverside Theatre, part-owned | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
by the actor Jimmy Nesbit, produced a strong sprint finish. The 8-year- | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
old was galvanised by jockey Barry Geraghty to finish half a length | :22:09. | :22:15. | |
clear of the field. The horse was the 7-2 favourite. | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
This week we're following BBC Berkshire's Tim Dellor as he | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
tackles 29 Olympic events for Sport Relief. So far he's crossed | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
trampolining, pistol shooting, dressage and diving off his list. | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
Today he has been getting a kick out of Taekwando in Berkshire | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
before flexing his muscles at weightlifting. Then it was En Garde | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
for Fencing at Woodford Leisure Centre. Tomorrow is his final day, | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
and we will be finding out just how challenging the week has been. | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
And if you have been inspired by Tim's efforts you can donate money | :22:44. | :22:54. | |
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by logging on to Alexis has joined me on the sofa. | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
We have a really good story, unit some interesting people. | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
I did, I met them down at the Old - - Dorney Lake. I was coming | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
athletes doing their trials. Inspirational women. | :23:08. | :23:15. | |
Yes, you met these ladies. A group of women from the south became the | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
first crew of five to row 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
unaided. They are now back on home turf after rowing from La Gomera, | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
part of the Canary Islands, to Barbados. And I have been to meet | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
them at Dorney Lake. Five women, one goal, to cross the | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
Atlantic Ocean unaided. The reason - to raise awareness for human | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
trafficking and child exploitation. Currently, we have raised around | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
�55,000. We were the first female five ever across and the fastest | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
females are crossed. We knocked five days of the record, 45 days. | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
But not everything went to plan. This being broke, so we had to | :23:51. | :23:58. | |
rebuild that, and that was a hairy moment. -- the spearing broker. | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
On board there was no room for home comforts, and that lead to a few | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
challenging moments. Day 37 was Mike point, I was saying, | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
get me off this boat! The flying fish! Some of the big waves, that | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
was really good fun, really enjoyed that. | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
There was a good deal of support, even from people in high places. | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
Before we left we met David Cameron, and while on the boat we got text | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
messages for -- from Matthew Pinsent and Steven Redgrave, so | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
that spurred us on. We thought -- where we saw everyone | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
lined up their, they let flares off and it eliminated how many people | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
there were. We knew there was lots of support, but how incredible, | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
overwhelming. It was so was a real. It will take a few days to sink in. | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
A tremendous effort. They were absolutely shattered. | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
She could have we stand up at the end, but an inspirational team. | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
Now for the weather. But it was foggy but lovely. | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
Be in the sunshine today, 17 Celsius in parts of Surrey, but | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
Celsius in parts of Surrey, but under the cloud 5-six Celsius. | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
Graeham Hutt captured Caversham Bridge in Reading in the morning | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
fog. And Ryde Pier on the Isle of Wight | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
was also shrouded in mist and fog, even at 1.30pm this afternoon. This | :25:18. | :25:28. | |
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There was some sunshine today, but also some cloud and mist in places. | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
The much-needed rainfall finally arrives this weekend, rain on | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
Sunday, showers -- rain on Saturday, showers on Sunday. | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
Tonight and tomorrow we will hold on to cloud, possibly some drizzle. | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
Mist and fog patches on hilltop areas. Under cloud there | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
temperatures will be mild, expect a low of seven or eight Celsius. | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
Winds will gradually pick up speed into tomorrow. Tomorrow starts off | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
misty and wacky. The South Coast and Southern Counties could hold on | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
to the cloud and fog for much of the day. Not as warm as today, 17 | :26:13. | :26:22. | |
Celsius, today, tomorrow a high of 10 or 11 Celsius. Into the weekend, | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
you can see the much-needed rainfall, the weather front coming | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
in from the Atlantic through the early hours of Saturday morning. A | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
low of the very similar temperatures to tonight, eight or | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
seven Celsius. One Saturday night a weather front windows in some areas, | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
gradually easing south and east, heavy bursts, and the winds will be | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
gusty. Fine on Sunday morning, but following that period of rain. | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
Perhaps a bright end to the day for northern and western areas, perhaps | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
some late evening sunshine. The high-pressure start building in | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
next week, saw the first part of next week high pressure, still a | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
squeeze on the isobars soul went back from the south or South West. | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
They will be brisk but it will be more settled. Apart from one or two | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
show was on Monday the high pressure starts to build in. | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
Rain in the early hours of Saturday morning, rain on Sunday, and | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
settled next week. Laura Trant is with us tomorrow | :27:29. | :27:32. |