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Hello, I'm Sally Taylor. Welcome to South Today. In tonight's | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
programme: A blot on the landscape? | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
Bournemouth's controversial Imax is to be demolished next year | :00:15. | :00:25. | |
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No tanker strike at Easter, but the rush for fuel still continues. | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
Demolishing the old - disruption as 17 bridges make room for new larger | :00:32. | :00:39. | |
containers by rail. And artistic differences - who are | :00:39. | :00:49. | |
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the winners and losers in the arts It's been labelled an eyesore and | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
one of the ugliest buildings in the country. But now ten years after it | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
first opened, councillors have decided the curtain will come down | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
for good on the former IMAX cinema in Bournemouth. It will be | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
demolished at the end of the summer to make way for a new open air | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
event space. Allen Sinclair is Bournemouth for us tonight. Allen, | :01:11. | :01:18. | |
this has been pretty expensive for the council, hasn't it? | :01:18. | :01:26. | |
�6.5 million to by the building in the first place and they will spend | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
�2 million to pull it down. The people in charge at former council | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
say it is money well spent because it is something the public want. We | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
have been following this saga for many years and from day one, this | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
has been a controversial plays. When the building first went up, | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
people said it was a blot on the landscape and blocked seafront | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
views. It is one of the South's most | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
recognisable and most loathed landmarks. Finally, it's time is up. | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
The huge building will be bulldozed and the end of summer and many | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
locals cannot wait to say good riddance. If anyone is going to | :02:05. | :02:09. | |
pull it down, it should be done as soon as possible because it is | :02:09. | :02:17. | |
empty, it is rubbish, it is ugly. It has not been liked since it was | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
put up. The majority of people wanted to be taken down. It is such | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
a great location. Something better can go up in its place. The IMAX | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
complex was never a commercial success. Since the cinema close, | :02:33. | :02:41. | |
the owner struggled to find a viable usage. The council stepped | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
in and bought the site for �6.5 million. Demolition will cost | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
another �2 million, but the council leader believes it is money well | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
spent because it is what the public wants. We had to buy it and we have | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
to do the work. We will do that to the best value we can, but if we | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
have not done it and sat still and done nothing, I suspect people | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
would not have been happy about that either. Once flattened, the | :03:07. | :03:13. | |
land will become open a public performance base for now. They are | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
not react future development, but they are not rushing ahead with a | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
replacement. So, a public performance space is what is going | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
to eventually replace the IMAX. The council is been vague about what | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
that means. Perhaps concert's and sporting events, but crucially, no | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
new building for the time being and nothing to block the seafront be | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
used. The demolition workers should live in at the end of the summer | :03:46. | :03:56. | |
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season. If anyone enjoys this view, they have not got long rest. Many | :04:04. | :04:11. | |
people waited for hours today to fill out their petrol tanks. | :04:11. | :04:21. | |
As the Proms ran dry and, at RAF crews were arriving for training. | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
Government contingency plans were doing little to quell the panic at | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
the pumps. Many top up their cars and then added a can of fuel for | :04:29. | :04:36. | |
good measure. At this petrol station near Brighton, they brought | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
in marshals to supervise the waiting motorists. That did not | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
stop arguments on the forecourt about alleged queue-jumping. In | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
Dorset motorists were content to wait it out in the hope of getting | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
a delivery. By waiting for the tanker to come so we can put some | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
fuel in. Not happy at all. I didn't do the panic buying. I followed the | :04:58. | :05:07. | |
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advice and where has that got me? There is nothing to flap about. | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
There were even reports of some garages being asked to siphon the | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
Drakes. In Berkshire, the sight of a delivery was enough to get | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
motorists lining up. One delivery driver, who did not want to go on | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
camera, told the BBC he had been passing a petrol station with a | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
long queue of cars to take on fuel. As he glanced in his rear-view | :05:33. | :05:43. | |
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mirror, he saw two drivers leave the cue and followed him. Whilst | :05:44. | :05:52. | |
the strike remain some way off, for cuts -- forecourts are drier as | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
they struggle to meet demand. A �2 million claim against the NHS | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
for failing to build a hospital in Littlehampton has been thrown out | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
at the High Court. It was brought by the builders, who were told just | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
weeks before work was due to start that the scheme had been cancelled. | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
The decision was hugely controversial and caused several | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
big protests in the area. Our Health Correspondent David Fenton | :06:11. | :06:21. | |
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has been following the story. Why did they lose? Basically because | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
they did not have a contract and they were trying to sue the NHS for | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
breach of contract. Said his company called Guildhouse had been | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
chosen to build the new hospital. They spent �2 million developing | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
the plans, but technically, they were just a preferred bidder and | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
that is why the legal action failed. At the decision to cancel the | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
hospital came very late, didn't it? Yes. This was back in 2006 am | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
literally two weeks before the building work was due to start, the | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
NHS Paul the plug. Remember, the old hospital in Litha Hampton had | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
been knocked down to make way for this new one and the building | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
company said it is astonished it has been left out of pocket because | :07:06. | :07:15. | |
the NHS in Sussex basically changed its mind. We have incurred 7,000 -- | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
several hundred �1,000 in legal fees. Whichever way you look at it, | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
there was a hospital required here and millions of pounds were spent | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
which could have gone towards producing a hospital. What has the | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
health trust said? The a said the legal claim against them was | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
rejected and Guildhouse have been ordered to pay the primary care | :07:42. | :07:49. | |
trusts's legal fees. The whole issue has been quite sensitive and | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
messy for the NHS. Legal matters aside, patients will be wondering | :07:53. | :08:02. | |
what it will mean for them, the fact they don't have a new hospital. | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
Hopefully there will be new plans coming forwards to answer those | :08:08. | :08:17. | |
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questions. Local traders and business owners | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
in Weymouth are worried about their future after the council announced | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
that a special workers parking permit will be scrapped from this | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
Sunday. Currently they can get a special pass which allows them to | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
park up on double yellow lines and in restricted zones for �56 a day. | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
Under a new scheme they are being asked to pay up to �10 a day. From | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
Sunday, traders working in Weymouth will think twice before doing this. | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
This special pass costs �56 a year, but that is been scrapped by the | :08:46. | :08:54. | |
council. They will now have to pay �5 a day. Some will have to pay �10. | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
In it is a hike local businesses were not expecting. They could have | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
talked to was and said look at it from our point Scylla, which they | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
have not. We would have gladly pay a lot more to keep this | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
dispensation. It will affect our business. It will affect our work | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
Business a lot because I will have to charge back to the customers. | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
There are around 500 passes being used and it means they can park in | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
restricted areas like these, or on double yellow lines for more than | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
an hour whilst they carry out their work. But the council says summer | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
that is being abused. What we found is that the dispensation was | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
designed for vehicles to park where there is an intrinsic need to be | :09:39. | :09:47. | |
right next to their vehicle. It was not designed for a shop in town to | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
have their car outside their premises. Parking officers will | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
allow traders to off load goods in the town centre as long as they | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
move off afterwards. I have a double buggy and it is difficult to | :10:01. | :10:08. | |
get around in town when vehicles parked on the pavement. It is far | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
too steep. What traders like Stephen, they said they cannot | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
afford it and parking in a car park is just not practical. They are | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
planning on protesting next week. Ambitious plans have been approved | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
that could lead to thousands of jobs, hundreds of new homes and a | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
major boost for business in Hampshire. Gosport and Fareham | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
councils last night gave the go ahead to plans to redevelop the | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
Daedalus Airfield site at Lee on the Solent. In August the | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
government declared 24 enterprise zones around the country - the | :10:37. | :10:46. | |
airfield at Daedalus was one of them. We are aiming to create | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
around 4,000 jobs here in the marine, aviation and aerospace | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
sectors, focusing on advance manufacture ring. Massively good | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
news for Hampshire, great news for business and great news for the | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
local economy. HMS Liverpool has been officially | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
decommissioned today in Portsmouth. The Type 42 Destroyer arrived in | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
the city on Monday, ahead of today's ceremony. It marks the end | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
of 30 years service, which includes the Iraq war in 2003 and last | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
year's Libyan blockade. She will now be sold to the highest bidder. | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
Still to come - Reham is by the seaside, but will it be beach | :11:26. | :11:33. | |
weather. Yes, well all week we have enjoyed | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
some are like weather, but this weekend it will be more like spring. | :11:39. | :11:48. | |
It was they drive, but it will be a touch cooler. More than the | :11:48. | :11:57. | |
forecast later. -- more on the forecast later. | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
One of Hampshire's main roads will be closed for three months from | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
tomorrow for Network Rail to demolish and then rebuild a bridge. | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
The A27 near Romsey isn't the only bridge that's being replaced. The | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
main railway line from Southampton to the Midlands has already been | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
upgraded to carry larger freight containers from the docks. Now a | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
secondary route is being improved, too. It runs round Salisbury and | :12:14. | :12:22. | |
through Andover. On that route 17 have to be knocked down. | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
Beside the main road between Romsey and Southampton, railway workers | :12:27. | :12:35. | |
prepare for to borrowers -- tomorrow's big closure. After that, | :12:35. | :12:42. | |
no vehicles will cross this bridge for three months. His is all about | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
getting lorries off the road and on to the rail. The size of the | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
containers have increased. Internationally it is now nine for | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
six inches and there will not fit through our Victorian bridges so we | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
have to remove them and replace them. It Andover, this road has | :13:02. | :13:11. | |
been shut since Christmas Eve. Part of this busy bridge has been | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
knocked down. It will reopen next week to the relief of local | :13:15. | :13:22. | |
businesses. People coming in, popping in on their way home from | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
work, they are not coming in any more. More than a third of | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
containers are now the new larger global standard size that will not | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
fit under that bridge. By the end of this decade, nearly all | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
containers will be that size. The whole project will be finished next | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
year. Beyond that, there is a plan to stretch freight trains, making | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
them up to half a mile long. But in the meantime, drivers from Romsey | :13:53. | :14:03. | |
to Southampton face and long diversions. -- some long diversions. | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
It's one of the south's unemployment blackspots, but today | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
Bognor Regis has lost a centre which helps train people to get | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
back into work. The company which runs it says not enough people are | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
using its services. But some people say centre could have been better | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
promoted. Our Sussex Reporter Sean Killick went along to meet some of | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
the people who say the centre has helped change their lives. Gathered | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
outside this training centre in Bognor Regis High Street some of | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
the dozens of people who come here each week. The centre runs courses | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
designed to help people learn skills, including literacy, | :14:31. | :14:38. | |
numeracy and competing. Earlier this month it was a mass ascent or | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
would close. A I am really angry. They did not give us a lot of | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
notice. I got a lot of help when I came here. I did a course and it | :14:48. | :14:55. | |
really helped to build up my confidence. This is a live signed - | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
- lifeline for so many people. It has helped so many people to go on | :15:00. | :15:10. | |
and find jobs and to get people off unemployment. The centre is run by | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
a private company that receives funding from the Government based | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
on the number of students. They declined our request for an | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
interview, but I have spoken to one of the managers of camera. She said | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
no-one is happy to be closing the centre. They say due to learn | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
numbers, the centre is not viable and has to close. However, some | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
people believe if the centre have been better promoted, it could have | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
been saved. The building is not advertised at all. There are some | :15:41. | :15:47. | |
pictures and photographs outside and NT shop window. They have not | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
advertised it. I've lived here for 40 years and I didn't know it was | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
here. The company said any student that has not completed their course | :15:58. | :16:04. | |
can do so at online or at their centre in Worthing. | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
The South is well known for it's rich culture and heritage, but it | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
seems in a sense the arts world is becoming a tale of two cities. This | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
weekend hundreds of smaller arts organisations will be cut off from | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
their main source of funding as the Arts Council brings into force its | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
new policy of funding fewer, larger organisations. Many of the smaller | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
dance, theatre and community groups fear they're being forced to leave | :16:22. | :16:32. | |
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This is what Hann Show Dance do, but today the studio is NT because | :16:41. | :16:49. | |
the art project have lost funding. In practical terms, three of our | :16:49. | :16:56. | |
staff finish from today. The main disappointment is in dance. A | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
political decision was made to take money from small organisations and | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
give it to bigger ones. On the flip side, there are council is been | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
generous to pick up bigger organisations. Take Chichester | :17:14. | :17:24. | |
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Festival Hall. It is getting a funding hike. Out of a nationwide | :17:26. | :17:35. | |
part, the South is getting �114 million. Is it fair there? There is | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
a thorough process for decision- making. We look at things like how | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
resilient the organisation will be in the future, how many people use | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
the facility, what the impact is on local people. There are a number of | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
categories of things we consider what we make funding decisions. | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
Arts Council say small groups Arnaud free to apply for a second | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
round of funding in the summer. People working in dards are | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
passionate about dance. It is easy to get angry, but that will not | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
achieve anything. We just have to carry on doing the work. In scenes | :18:12. | :18:22. | |
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it is not time for the final curtain just yet. | :18:25. | :18:32. | |
Let's hair what's happening with sport. This morning you were | :18:32. | :18:42. | |
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speaking to a Trevor Birch. Trevor Birch says there will be a | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
Portsmouth football club playing next season. In what form or in | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
what league remains the big question. Pompey's administrator | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
joined me for a special debate on this morning's Julian Clegg | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
programme on BBC Radio Solent. During an hour of questioning from | :18:56. | :19:03. | |
fans, treasured Burch maintained an upbeat, but realistic outlook. | :19:03. | :19:13. | |
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Total debts for Portsmouth are �50 million and he is still in talks | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
with potential buyers. Working on a restructuring of the club behind | :19:19. | :19:28. | |
the scenes and talking to interested parties. One of the | :19:28. | :19:36. | |
options could be a consortium. There must be someone out there | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
that will listen to what I and other people are saying about the | :19:39. | :19:45. | |
benefits of the club. There is a potential development idea around | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
the club. It is a club that has already proved it can go to | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
Premiership and hold its own. club's fans also stepped up their | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
bit to buy Portsmouth. It is great for the fans to rally behind and if | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
enough of them supported then it is in with their real chance. | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
staying in the Championship would help matters. Tomorrow, Pompey hope | :20:12. | :20:20. | |
for a second Conservative win when they face Burnley. -- consecutive | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
win. The big game of the weekend is for | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
Reading at Upton Park. It's second versus third as the Royals travel | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
to West Ham. Win and they go four points clear of the Hammers with | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
six games to go. Lose and the Royals fall back into the play-off | :20:33. | :20:42. | |
places. Let us talk like now to Adie Williams. A big game was so | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
much at stake, isn't there? Massive. It is the biggest game this season | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
for Reading and West Ham. Lots of pressure. I think the expectations | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
are more on West Ham. Brian McDermott's men are in brilliant | :20:57. | :21:07. | |
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form. There was a lot of rivalry between these two teams. Going back | :21:09. | :21:18. | |
to December, things got pretty nasty. It is the kind -- is it the | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
kind of thing West Ham will mention? Yes. Reading will focus on | :21:23. | :21:33. | |
the game. If Jimmy is selected, I don't think a little bit of stick | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
will bother him. We should also remember the tackle from Jack | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
Collinson because it was a nasty one and it got a straight red. | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
Reading have a tough few games in the next few weeks, haven't they? | :21:47. | :21:56. | |
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Absolutely. After West Ham, there's Leeds, Brighton. Hopefully there | :22:01. | :22:10. | |
will be an automatic spot for Reading this season for BO. -- this | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
season though. The leaders Southampton are live | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
with us here on the BBC tomorrow. Their game with Blackpool is on | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
BBC2. Saints have a five point advantage at the top after their 2- | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
0 win over Doncaster last week. Billy Sharp stepped up after Rickie | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
Lambert's injury, but Lambert is expected to be fit tomorrow as | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
Saints hope to take another step towards the Premier league. There | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
is a lot to play for for everybody. It is very close. Seven league | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
games to go for everybody and everyone will be saying one more | :22:38. | :22:47. | |
game, one more game. Their emphasis is to take one game at a time. Will | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
do everything we can to win. -- the emphasis. | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
Crawley Town players Claude Davis and Pablo Mills have apologised for | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
their part in Tuesday's mass brawl which broke out at the end of their | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
side's 3-2 success at Bradford. Davis was red carded, Mills is | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
facing a violent conduct charge. Tomorrow, Crawley are at Burton | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
Albion. Elsewhere in League Two, Aldershot will try to maintain | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
their slim play of hopes when they face 4th placed Shrewsbury. In | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
League One, Bournemouth caretaker boss Paul Groves has his first game | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
at home against Yeovil. And in the Championship, Brighton in 4th host | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
Middlesbrough in 5th - both sides very much hoping to consolidate | :23:19. | :23:27. | |
play off places, Albion drew 1-1 at Nottingham Forest last Saturday. | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
Reading's Kate Walsh will be nee of the subjects of the Olympic Dreams | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
programme tomorrow, here on BBC1. The Great Britain hockey captain | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
has been keeping a video diary for the latest edition. | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
Kate has been in the role since 2003 and the team's pushing for a | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
medal in London this summer after an impressive second place finish | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
in the Champions Trophy in January. It was their first ever major | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
international final and the 31- year-old skipper is now aiming for | :23:47. | :23:57. | |
Olympic success. I might be having the worst day of my life, but I | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
have to crack on with it. It is not good for the players if I'm having | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
a bad day. I just want them to think about their job and what we | :24:07. | :24:17. | |
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need to do. That on BBC One, tomorrow lunchtime. Also, good luck | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
to everyone doing the Ballmer and Reading half marathons. And now for | :24:22. | :24:32. | |
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the weather. Let's have a quick look at some pictures. It has been | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
gorgeous this week, but things look as if they are going to take a bit | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
of a change. Reham is in Bournemouth. It looks lovely way | :24:47. | :24:57. | |
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you're. It is absolutely gorgeous. We have | :24:58. | :25:06. | |
got used to this fantastic weather. We have had quite a bit of sunshine, | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
even though we started on a cloudy night. Things improved as the day | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
went on. We've had a lot of sunshine and now the cloud will | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
come back and fill in. We can see where it is encroaching. From the | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
north and west it arrive steadily through the night. As it spreads, | :25:26. | :25:34. | |
it will be a milder night and last night. Temperatures no lower than | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
six or seven Celsius as we head into Saturday. A rather grey | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
beginning for Saturday, unlike this past week. As we head into the east | :25:43. | :25:53. | |
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of the region, temperatures will be on the mild side. That cloud will | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
be stubborn to break them up that day. Temperatures will struggle | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
under any cloud, at best getting up to 12 Celsius at the end of | :26:06. | :26:14. | |
Saturday. Perhaps further south and west we could see temperatures rise | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
to 14 Celsius. That is still well above average for this time of the | :26:17. | :26:24. | |
year. But, of course, we have been spoilt this week. As we look at | :26:24. | :26:32. | |
Sunday, it is looking along brighter and of course we had the | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
Reading half-marathon. There will be sunshine and quite dry. From | :26:37. | :26:47. | |
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Monday though, cloudy and damp. Next week on South Today we'll | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
begin a series of special films about the Titanic. Most of the crew | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
of the ill-fated liner were from Southampton. More than 500 of them | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
died when she sank. We'll hear about one of the heroes of the | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
disaster, Sir Arthur Rostron. He was captain of the Carpathia, the | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
ship that rescued more than 700 of the survivors from the icy waters | :27:03. | :27:13. | |
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of the North Atlantic. He said it was the hand of God that guided him | :27:13. | :27:23. | |
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