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Hello, I'm Tony Husband. Welcome to South Today. In tonight's

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programme... A radical change to part of the

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Sussex coastline, but the business spending millions to fund it, is

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told you're on your own. We have held a gun held to our

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heads. We were told to do it or kiss goodbye to the business.

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Fighting the spread of a potentially deadly virus among

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animals. Scientists searching for a solution to the Schmallenberg

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outbreak. Seeds of change, how the old

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bottleneck around Hindhead is being returned to nature.

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And rowing the atlantic - five women's gruelling challenge and the

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women's gruelling challenge and the support that got them to the finish.

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Before we left we actually met David Cameron, and when in this

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boat we got text messages from Matthew Pinsent and Sir Stephen

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It's a first for the south. Millions of pounds is being spent

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on a massive new nature reserve which would see part of the Sussex

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coastline change forever. Environment Agency is currently

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building seven kilometres of new sea defences between Selsey and

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Bracklesham - in the process, creating a huge habitat for

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wildlife. But one local business is angry that it is having to pay out

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�17 million to support it. Roger Finn has been following the story.

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The Selsey coastline has always been vulnerable. In March 2008, the

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defences were breached, the caravan behind was swamped. -- the caravan

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park. If that same year, the Environment Agency gave the go-

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ahead for a radical solution they had been consulting on for many

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years. They call it a managed realignment - replace the present

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line of defences between Selsey and Bracklesham with a seven, but there

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spike inland. The flooded land would shock up the power of the

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waves and become wildlife habitat, 11 square miles in all. The work is

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already under way. The banks are being treated from soil dug from 12

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pits on the side. They will eventually become ponds and reed

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beds. Much of the flooded land will become salt marsh, rare and

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precious for natural life. We have a habitat that is generally

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dry for most of the time, but we will have a new defences built

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which will reduce flooding to the community, and also agreed nature

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reserve, birds flying in, a wide range of species.

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But not everyone is happy. The caravan park is the largest in the

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UK and is extradited to contribute �16 million to the local economy.

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The plan would have left it marooned. Now the owners are going

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to build two rock islands just offshore, back filled with

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thousands of tons of shingle. The Environment Agency is costing �25

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million, the caravan park's is costing �17 million. It will be one

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of the biggest private sea defences built in Britain, but that car --

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Park claims it had no choice. We had a gun held to our heads. We

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were either to lose 75% of the property, all the complexes, around

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�30 million worth of swimming-pools and leisure facilities. We were

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left to do our own thing, either do it or kiss goodbye to the business.

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We have limited funding and need to prioritise that in the most

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appropriate way. Where a commercial businesses making a profit out of

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an operation, that is good and pays into the local economy, but it is

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important we don't inadvertently subsidised that with public money

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that could be spent elsewhere. They plants for it -- the plan is

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for the old shingle defences here to be breached and abandoned next

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spring. A headteacher who claims she was

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the victim of racial abuse has faced questions at her employment

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tribunal in Reading. Sudhana Singh, seen here on the right, is the

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former head of Moorlands Primary School in Tilehurst. She says

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governors and parents were complicit in a racially motivated

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campaign to undermine her authority. But Reading Borough Council and the

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governors claim any challenge to Mrs Singh's position was about

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school policies rather than a personal attack. The hearing was

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told the council investigated Mrs Singh's complaint of racism and

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offered her independent pastoral support. The case continues.

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Scientists in Surrey are battling to come up with a solution to stop

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the spread of the Schmallenberg virus. So far the number of farms

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in the South East affected by the potentially lethal SBV animal virus

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has doubled in the last two weeks. The infection causes stillbirths

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and deformities in lambs and calves. With the latest on the fight to

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control the virus here's Yvonne So far, no sign of the

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Schmallenberg virus Indies newborns at Prestwick farm in a sorry, but

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last week this farm was one of the latest victims. -- in Surrey.

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A be a angles of his legs were all wrong.

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They would normally come out very streamlined and birth is a very

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natural process. This lamb had come true. And when I checked his legs

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were at 90 degrees to where they should have been. They were locked

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in that position. Most lambs have so far been born

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apparently unaffected in the South East, but at the number of farms

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reporting deformities and stillbirths caused by the virus has

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doubled to nearly 50 in the last two weeks.

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Way don't know what to do about it. We really need advice on this,

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because we don't even know whether to replace our sheep, because we

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may be buying in the infected sheep, and we could be bringing in

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deformed lambs for next we're's crop.

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Scientists are here are leading European-wide research into the

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virus. These are a few of the Moody's from

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the vast colonies here at the Pirbright university laboratories.

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It is hoped they will provide clues about the virus and had to stop it

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spreading. So far they believe it has been spread by biting midges

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blown across from the Channel. They are trying to understand exactly

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what it is and how would it is transmitted.

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We are infecting insects artificially in the laboratory to

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confirm they are involved in the transmission of the virus, because

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that means we can find out if it is spreading geographically and try

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and control the spread in animals. The second area is to develop --

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develop a diagnostic test which will pick up antibodies in animals.

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The hope is that scientists will produce a diagnostic blood test in

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time for this year's breeding season in the in the autumn.

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A Sussex pensioner who trawls Brighton's streets collecting cans

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for charity, has been given just under a month to clear a huge pile

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of rubbish from her front garden or face eviction. Olive Taylor has

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raised more than �40,000 for charity by recycling cans since

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1978. But she's been given the deadline to tidy up, after council

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officials decided her property was overrun with rubbish and had become

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a health hazard. Ian Palmer has the story.

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Olive Taylor - charity champion of public pest? Brighton City Council

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is definitely in the second category.

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I am not worried because there is no smell, no mice, nor rats.

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Still, how have we got here? The 87-year-old began collecting in

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1978. In 1993 it took eight lorries to remove items from her front

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garden. In 2003 she was threatened with eviction.

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In a statement, Brighton City Council said that there are

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potentially serious public health risks arising from Olive Taylor's

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action, and as she consistently refuses to co-operate, the council

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has to take action to protect the community.

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All of does do a lot of good for the community, -- she does do a lot

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of good. I must admit, there is a bit too

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much, but we just need to keep that under control, for them to come and

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collect it. They have come out with this

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complicated situation, rather than not to bully.

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The council -- council's ultimate sanction would be eviction. She has

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days to comply, and says she will do her best to meet the deadline.

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Brighton City Council says it will be watching closely.

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A �100 million scheme to completely transform a residential estate in

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Southampton has been given the go ahead. The city council is planning

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to demolish five blocks of flats on Townhill Park to make way for 675

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new homes, a shopping parade and a village green. The proposal for the

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area involves three phases of work over the next ten years.

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Politicians have been lobbying the government today to invest more

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money in upgrading a major road in the South. The A303 has a long

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history of proposed improvements - including tunnelling under

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Stonehenge - but none have come to fruition. Making the whole road a

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dual carriageway would cost around �1 billion.

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More than 4 million passengers pass through the doors, and now South

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West Trains has been showing off the newly refurbished Basingstoke

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railway station. It is one of the most important transport hubs in

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the south, carrying commuters between London, the south coast and

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the West Country. Joe Campbell has been to see what the money has been

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4.5 million people passed -- pass through Basingstoke station each

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year, and time is running out for parts of the Victorian structure.

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Even less frequent visitors, like Betty and her sister from Germany,

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are appreciative of the revamp. The two very nice, it makes it look

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very modern. -- it is very nice. am sure people will find it very

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useful to have all that space, as well, inside.

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The bill for all this is �1 million. Overall, South West trains has

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committed to spending �49 million on station improvements across its

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parish during its current franchise. -- across it Patrick.

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Today's ceremony comes at a time when ministers have made it clear

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they want railways to make do with less public money.

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That will be a real challenge but we will keep focusing on that, and

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we will work with our partners in the rail industry, Network Rail

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especially, to make things more efficient.

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But passengers are worried they could pay the price for their

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spacious new ticket hall in the years to come.

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Still to come in this evening's South Today...

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Boxed up at Box Hill, find out what these youngsters were doing for BBC

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School report. Potholes across the sofa costing

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the Government millions of pounds to repair. The annual report says

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that �6 million was spent filling the men last year, and in Dorset

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more than �2.7 million, too. The It is the final milestone in

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the Hindhead Tunnel project. Since the tunnel and bypass opened last

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summer, they've relieved a traffic bottleneck on the old A3 through

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Surrey. Earlier today that old road went officially 'back to nature' as

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the Highways Agency handed it over to the National Trust. Let's join

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our Transport Correspondent Paul Clifton.

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Well, just a moment ago our van drove up here, rushing up, the

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driver went down his window, looked at his Sat Nav and said, whereas

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the A3? Two Bibles show a new, because it

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ends on that bit of tarmac right there. Now, for more than a mile

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stretching off behind me, there is just bare earth, would only nine

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months ago all the traffic between Portsmouth and London used to crawl

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through the Devil's Punchbowl. It is already hard to imagine this

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as one of the more of -- busiest roads in southern England. Let's

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remind you - the Devil's Punchbowl look like this, and the road

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carried 30,000 vehicles per day. Last autumn, the tarmac was scraped

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away, all trace of it has been dug up or covered over. Instead,

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traffic pours through the Hindhead tunnel. It opened nine months ago.

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It has taken since then to returned the old route to nature.

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Today, the very last stage of this huge project saw the Highways

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Agency and the land to the National Trust. To mark the occasion, local

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children sprinkled heather seeds over what used to be the A3.

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It changed because they're used to be all the tarmac and lots of

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traffic, it used to be really noisy. The does important for Nature and

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for the people. Come back in five years' time and

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hopefully it will look like there has never been a road here. We're

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looking to saw some heather seed and give the grasses and natural

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habitat back. -- to sow the seed. By down the road, here is how the

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village of Selsey used to look - ravaged by the biggest traffic

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bottleneck on the roads from Portsmouth to London. Here it is

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now. The traffic has gone - even the paddle station has closed down.

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Denise McCulloch lives right beside what was once the notorious Selsey

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traffic lights. Noise levels in the evening have

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reduced considerably. There are no shadings of Windows or beds when

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the big trucks go through. It is fine now, it is much more peaceful.

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But it has taken 50 years of planning and debate to reach

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today's Landward occasion. The van is still trying to work out

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where to go. Today marks the completion of the last big road-

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building project in the region. The A3 is now buried underground. With

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Government spending on roads cut back, there are no other big road

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schemes on this deal in southern England for the foreseeable future.

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-- on this scale. The drivers everywhere upgrading

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their Sat Navs tonight. It Now to something else people

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have been waiting for. It has been in the pipeline for more than two

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years, but this week the first steps to build an artificial reef

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in Weymouth Bay off Dorset are being taken. It is part of a long

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term plan to boost lobster stocks to help the commercial fishing

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industry. Hundreds of tonnes of rocks are being laid at sea this

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week to create the right environment for marine life.

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We are one year away from seeing these creatures graced the seabed

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of the Weymouth and Portland waters. Building their nursery it starts

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here. Lumps of rock are being carefully placed near Ringstead Bay.

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One pull of a lever is all it takes. The new undersea structure will be

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formed by 1750 tonnes of pork one stone. It will be spread out into a

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200 metre wide circle. The barge behind me will make six

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trips altogether to take the stone out to sea.

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Over the next year, Portland lobsters will be incubated and

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hatched in Cornwall before they make the return trip home.

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Six days a year for three years, and the idea is not to catch those

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lobsters, but to let them grow and wander off into the wider

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environment to breed and boost the fishery.

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Lobsters are not the only thing hoping to put Weymouth and Portland

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on the map. There are plans to sink two warships. All of which will

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happen after the Olympics. The ships will help the diving

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industry and tourism in general in Weymouth and Portland, because it

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is estimated that sinking at a single ship rings �1.6 million to

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the local economy. This is borne out by the sinking of another shop

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-- ship, which has been very successful, and we hope to do the

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same here. It might be some time before we see

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scenes like this Olympic waters, but the long-term aim is the

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It's BBC News School Report Day, which means children around the

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country have been making their own news reports and becoming

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journalists. At Priory School in Portsmouth, School Reporters Josh,

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Edwin and Lois have been recording the story of their trip to Box Hill

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in Surrey. Here's their report. Box Hill is a beautiful area of

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woodland and chalk Downland. It is a Site of Special Scientific

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Interest with wild flowers and insects.

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The road forms a 15 kilometres lip, including the famous zig-zagged

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Hill. It is a great place for cycling, and each year thousands of

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people come here. They will come to watch the Olympic road cycling

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races. I am here with my classmates from

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Portsmouth, and we have been learning about the ship's Olympic

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events. We have come to Box Hill to pay the special boxes we made a few

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days ago. The remember, they have to be challenging...

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We have been working in groups using the internet to find out

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about the environment at Box Hill and why it is such a good place for

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Olympic cycling. We have also research Olympic

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values, like rights and responsibilities.

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Pupils have helped a new -- create a new policy which encourages the

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use of hand-held devices. We filled our three boxes with

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items, chosen to represent the Box Hill area, the Olympics and the

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school. We have some tracking packs, and

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we're hoping that people will take them somewhere else. Rio de Janeiro

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is the next Olympics, that is our aim.

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The poll will be able to find them using the GPS in their cars or

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smartphones. It is called Gio cash income and people will be able to

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find our Gio caches while they wait for the cycle races.

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We want people to find the boxes without causing damage to the

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environment. Once they are hidden, we're using computer tablets to

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record the co-ordinates and put the information on the internet.

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With this project this year our students have been able to work

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really well as a team. They have learnt how to use the technology

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and skills themselves, and for many years to come people will be able

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to come and find these and hopefully people will find that a

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challenge and exciting. What you don't realise is when we go back to

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school I am sitting an exam on this. Sorry, I have to stop you there,

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that is all we have time for. And you can see more reports made

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by school children from across the BBC South patch at

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She has been described as the nation's first people's princess.

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The mourning after her early death was perhaps only matched by that

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over Diana, Princess of Wales. Princess Charlotte, daughter of

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George the Fourth, was adored by the public in the early 19th

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century and in the years since has largely been forgotten. Now an

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exhibition at her family's seaside home, Brighton Pavilion, aims to

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bring her memory alive. Sara Smith The shops closed for a fortnight.

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Everyone dressed in black. Byron wrote from Venice that it was like

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an earthquake in Venice, what could it have been like in Britain?

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Poets, the press, the public all mourned by the but net -- mourned

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the death of Princess Charlotte. Born in 1796, the only child of a

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disastrous union between the Prince Regent and Princess Caroline of

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Brunswick, it was said to be because they were so unpopular that

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she shone. In comparison she was felt to be

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the hope of the country. She was called the daughter of England, a

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hope for a new beginning. Through a childhood marred by a

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parent's separation and the banishment of her mother, her death

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was at just 21. This exhibition charts the life of a forgotten

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Princes. It was here at her father's seaside

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resident that Charlotte began one of her happiest period. Here, she

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was introduced to Prince Leopold, the man she would marry. Within one

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year rather have -- a year-and-a- half she was dead. She died shortly

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after the delivery of a stillborn son. Portraits, plaques,

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commemorative china, even at the natured made for her stillborn baby

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now on public sure to tell her On to some sports news, Reading

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have signed the Portsmouth midfielder Hayden Mullins. He will

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boost a Royals squad aiming for promotion back to the Premier

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League. Portsmouth's administrator, Trevor Birch, said the deal was

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another essential move in helping to keep the club alive. Mr Birch

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said finding a buyer for Pompey remains the number one objective.

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At the Cheltenham Festival, Berkshire trainer Nicky Henderson

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celebrated a sixth victory of the week. Riverside Theatre, part-owned

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by the actor Jimmy Nesbit, produced a strong sprint finish. The 8-year-

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old was galvanised by jockey Barry Geraghty to finish half a length

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clear of the field. The horse was the 7-2 favourite.

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This week we're following BBC Berkshire's Tim Dellor as he

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tackles 29 Olympic events for Sport Relief. So far he's crossed

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trampolining, pistol shooting, dressage and diving off his list.

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Today he has been getting a kick out of Taekwando in Berkshire

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before flexing his muscles at weightlifting. Then it was En Garde

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for Fencing at Woodford Leisure Centre. Tomorrow is his final day,

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and we will be finding out just how challenging the week has been.

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And if you have been inspired by Tim's efforts you can donate money

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by logging on to Alexis has joined me on the sofa.

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We have a really good story, unit some interesting people.

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I did, I met them down at the Old - - Dorney Lake. I was coming

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athletes doing their trials. Inspirational women.

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Yes, you met these ladies. A group of women from the south became the

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first crew of five to row 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean

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unaided. They are now back on home turf after rowing from La Gomera,

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part of the Canary Islands, to Barbados. And I have been to meet

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them at Dorney Lake. Five women, one goal, to cross the

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Atlantic Ocean unaided. The reason - to raise awareness for human

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trafficking and child exploitation. Currently, we have raised around

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�55,000. We were the first female five ever across and the fastest

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females are crossed. We knocked five days of the record, 45 days.

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But not everything went to plan. This being broke, so we had to

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rebuild that, and that was a hairy moment. -- the spearing broker.

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On board there was no room for home comforts, and that lead to a few

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challenging moments. Day 37 was Mike point, I was saying,

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get me off this boat! The flying fish! Some of the big waves, that

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was really good fun, really enjoyed that.

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There was a good deal of support, even from people in high places.

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Before we left we met David Cameron, and while on the boat we got text

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messages for -- from Matthew Pinsent and Steven Redgrave, so

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that spurred us on. We thought -- where we saw everyone

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lined up their, they let flares off and it eliminated how many people

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there were. We knew there was lots of support, but how incredible,

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overwhelming. It was so was a real. It will take a few days to sink in.

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A tremendous effort. They were absolutely shattered.

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She could have we stand up at the end, but an inspirational team.

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Now for the weather. But it was foggy but lovely.

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Be in the sunshine today, 17 Celsius in parts of Surrey, but

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Celsius in parts of Surrey, but under the cloud 5-six Celsius.

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Graeham Hutt captured Caversham Bridge in Reading in the morning

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fog. And Ryde Pier on the Isle of Wight

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was also shrouded in mist and fog, even at 1.30pm this afternoon. This

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There was some sunshine today, but also some cloud and mist in places.

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The much-needed rainfall finally arrives this weekend, rain on

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Sunday, showers -- rain on Saturday, showers on Sunday.

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Tonight and tomorrow we will hold on to cloud, possibly some drizzle.

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Mist and fog patches on hilltop areas. Under cloud there

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temperatures will be mild, expect a low of seven or eight Celsius.

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Winds will gradually pick up speed into tomorrow. Tomorrow starts off

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misty and wacky. The South Coast and Southern Counties could hold on

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to the cloud and fog for much of the day. Not as warm as today, 17

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Celsius, today, tomorrow a high of 10 or 11 Celsius. Into the weekend,

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you can see the much-needed rainfall, the weather front coming

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in from the Atlantic through the early hours of Saturday morning. A

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low of the very similar temperatures to tonight, eight or

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seven Celsius. One Saturday night a weather front windows in some areas,

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gradually easing south and east, heavy bursts, and the winds will be

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gusty. Fine on Sunday morning, but following that period of rain.

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Perhaps a bright end to the day for northern and western areas, perhaps

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some late evening sunshine. The high-pressure start building in

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next week, saw the first part of next week high pressure, still a

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squeeze on the isobars soul went back from the south or South West.

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They will be brisk but it will be more settled. Apart from one or two

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show was on Monday the high pressure starts to build in.

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Rain in the early hours of Saturday morning, rain on Sunday, and

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settled next week. Laura Trant is with us tomorrow

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