:00:03. > :00:05.Hello I'm Sally Taylor. Welcome to South Today. In tonight's
:00:05. > :00:07.programme: Conserving water - the hosepipe ban
:00:07. > :00:10.is enforced, affecting many households across the south,
:00:10. > :00:20.Coping with bereavement - the teenager raising money for the
:00:20. > :00:27.
:00:27. > :00:33.charity that helped her after she lost her parents. Isolated and
:00:33. > :00:36.lonely. I didn't talk to many people.
:00:36. > :00:41.And heroes below deck - the impact on Southampton families after the
:00:41. > :00:51.sinking of the Titanic. They didn't really stand a chance to get off.
:00:51. > :00:54.
:00:54. > :00:58.They were there and they let others We've been warned it was coming,
:00:58. > :01:00.but for many parts of the South the hosepipe ban is now a reality.
:01:00. > :01:04.Depending on where you live, there's now wide-ranging
:01:04. > :01:09.restrictions on how you can use water. In the Thames Valley, Thames
:01:09. > :01:13.Water and South East Water have a hosepipe ban in force.
:01:13. > :01:17.If you live in Sussex and get your water supply from Southern Water,
:01:17. > :01:19.you'll also face a ban. But Southern Water customers in
:01:19. > :01:24.Hampshire and the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth Water customers don't
:01:24. > :01:31.face the same restrictions. Our reporter Rachael Canter has
:01:31. > :01:36.spent the day Littlehampton, a town on the edge of the bans.
:01:36. > :01:40.This is little Hampton, surrounded by water and probably one of the
:01:40. > :01:45.last places in the country that you would expect a hosepipe ban and it
:01:46. > :01:49.has left many people bemused. -- Little Hampton. This woman can no
:01:49. > :01:55.longer use a hose to water her garden. I think it is a waste of
:01:55. > :02:00.time. They could save more if they mended a quarter of the leaks. It
:02:00. > :02:06.is going to take me a lot more time to keep the garden going. It will
:02:06. > :02:10.be hard work. And doing this is also banned. As an avid car cleaner,
:02:10. > :02:15.it is a disaster for me because cars don't work unless they are
:02:15. > :02:20.clean. And this woman will not be able to fill a paddling pool for
:02:20. > :02:24.her young son, but friends living a mile away do not have the band.
:02:24. > :02:30.Jacob is going to school up the road in September and he will have
:02:30. > :02:37.friends who can use their paddling balls because they do not have the
:02:37. > :02:41.hosepipe ban. It seems mad. We have introduced a ban that we think will
:02:41. > :02:50.give big dividends. It will encourage people to think about how
:02:50. > :02:55.they used water. -- used water. Breaking the ban could lead to a
:02:55. > :03:01.fine of �1,000, so agree with it or not, one thing for sure is this
:03:01. > :03:06.hosepipe is staying firmly shut away.
:03:06. > :03:09.It is not just households affected by the prolonged spell of dry
:03:09. > :03:15.weather. Farmers are also struggling with the drought.
:03:15. > :03:19.The drought is having a big impact on farmers. If we look at how
:03:19. > :03:28.bright the soil is here at this farm, you can see it is almost
:03:28. > :03:35.turning to dust. In this part of the world, rainfall has been below
:03:35. > :03:40.average in 20 of the past 25 months. Problems are stacking up for
:03:40. > :03:46.farmers? The a certainly are. It has not come as a surprise. They
:03:46. > :03:52.really need rain to establish their crops. Sir farmers with livestock
:03:52. > :03:59.and growing arable crops, they are all been affected? Yes. From a
:03:59. > :04:08.livestock point of view, a lack of rain affects the grass, so they
:04:08. > :04:12.need an alternative means the two feet the cattle. Also, with crops
:04:12. > :04:19.which had been planted recently, they need moisture to get them
:04:19. > :04:26.going. They do. The plant needs to be established so that its yield
:04:26. > :04:31.will be up to scratch. Thank you. So what farmers want is a long
:04:31. > :04:33.period of gentle rain. A freight train fire near
:04:33. > :04:36.Winchester is causing big disruption on trains between London
:04:36. > :04:38.and Southampton. The line at Micheldever has been closed. Buses
:04:38. > :04:40.are replacing trains between Basingstoke and Eastleigh and
:04:40. > :04:43.trains between Waterloo and Weymouth are being diverted via
:04:43. > :04:52.Havant. Passengers leaving London are reporting delays of more than
:04:52. > :04:56.three quarters of an hour. 40 firefighters are tackling a
:04:56. > :04:59.blaze at an industrial estate in Weymouth. It started at a property
:04:59. > :05:09.on Grandby Industrial Estate and has spread to two other units. It's
:05:09. > :05:13.
:05:13. > :05:19.not yet known how it started. Ignorance of the law is no defence.
:05:19. > :05:29.That is what a judge told a Southampton woman who admitted
:05:29. > :05:31.illegal loan sharking. Marylou Gonzales charged a higher levels of
:05:31. > :05:35.interest. Entering Southampton Crown Court
:05:35. > :05:39.this morning, Marylou Gonzales is not what you would call your
:05:39. > :05:44.typical loan shark, but earlier this week she pleaded guilty to
:05:44. > :05:50.carrying on a business without a licence, admitting to be illegal
:05:50. > :05:55.money-lending. Today, the judge sentenced the 43-year-old to 150
:05:55. > :06:00.hours of community service. He told her that ignorance of the law
:06:00. > :06:06.presents you with no defence. However, he did accept she did not
:06:06. > :06:10.know her actions were illegal. There was no evidence whatsoever of
:06:10. > :06:15.any indication of any violence, intimidation or any criminal
:06:15. > :06:20.activity. Marylou Gonzales was arrested last August after
:06:20. > :06:25.documentary evidence was found at her home. Whilst the extent of her
:06:25. > :06:31.home is unclear, trading standards believe she had up to 60 borrowers
:06:31. > :06:37.and records suggest that since 2005 up until 2011 when she was arrested
:06:37. > :06:43.she had lent out up to �50,000 and collected �130,000 with added
:06:43. > :06:46.interest. The judge heard that some borrowers within the Filipino
:06:46. > :06:54.community were grateful, but she offered no paperwork and people
:06:54. > :07:04.were and Claire as to how much they owed. Apparently, it is normal
:07:04. > :07:08.practice in the Philippines. Back home, people tend to turned to him
:07:08. > :07:13.for more lenders. Marylou Gonzales leaves here today with a criminal
:07:13. > :07:23.record and no chance of recovering the �70,000 back that she is still
:07:23. > :07:28.
:07:28. > :07:31.owed. A nurse from Reading has been given
:07:31. > :07:34.a special award for his pioneering work to combat Hepatitis C. Dean
:07:34. > :07:37.Linzey has developed a programme to target hard to reach communities.
:07:37. > :07:39.They can now take advantage of a little-known swab test which gives
:07:39. > :07:41.results in a matter of minutes. He's now working with community
:07:41. > :07:44.leaders in the area, as Joe Campbell reports.
:07:44. > :07:46.Jules Fox has no medical qualifications, but she's uncovered
:07:46. > :07:50.several cases of the so-called hidden disease of hepatatis C here
:07:50. > :07:58.in Reading. It's all thanks to a simple test that can tell if
:07:58. > :08:03.someone has the condition in just 20 minutes. It is very easy. You do
:08:04. > :08:11.not need a clinical area. There is no mess or any blood. It is easy to
:08:11. > :08:14.do and the results are delivered there and then.
:08:14. > :08:17.Jules was trained by Dean Linzey. He brought the scheme to Reading
:08:17. > :08:21.after years working overseas. His time in Africa showed that often it
:08:21. > :08:23.was best to get tribal elders to carry out screening for blood borne
:08:23. > :08:31.diseases among people who would otherwise have to travel for days
:08:31. > :08:36.to the nearest clinic. I would love to go back to some of the villages
:08:36. > :08:40.I have worked in and talk to some of the elders who are probably by
:08:40. > :08:49.now sitting on a lock it in a clearing same, the word you have
:08:49. > :08:53.done is been well down in the developed world. -- is being rolled
:08:53. > :08:55.out in the developed world. This time the swab shows it's an
:08:55. > :08:59.all-clear. But the success in revealing cases among drug users
:08:59. > :09:02.means a new trial is underway. Now a group of women from the Pakistani
:09:02. > :09:04.community are learning how to take the test to fellow members of
:09:04. > :09:12.another group with higher than average infection rates from the
:09:12. > :09:15.disease. Bournemouth Airport after the nose
:09:15. > :09:17.of a navy jet collapsed on the runway. The Sea Vixen's
:09:18. > :09:20.undercarriage is reported to have collapsed and the plane is tilted
:09:20. > :09:23.to one side. Bournemouth Airport say passengers do not need to
:09:23. > :09:26.change their travel arrangements as operations have not been disrupted.
:09:26. > :09:28.It's 30 years to the day since the military taskforce left Portsmouth
:09:29. > :09:31.to head to the Falkland Islands. Tonight, more than 250 senior
:09:31. > :09:33.commanders from the campaign are gathering at Pangbourne College in
:09:33. > :09:41.Berkshire to mark the anniversary. Our Defence Correspondent Caroline
:09:41. > :09:46.Wyatt is there for us now. It is a remarkable gathering. More
:09:46. > :09:50.than 250 senior commanders from the Falklands 30 years on. We are here
:09:50. > :10:00.at the Memorial Chapel. Many veterans had been going there to
:10:00. > :10:03.
:10:03. > :10:13.look at the war memorials. I and joined by one of the bike
:10:13. > :10:17.
:10:17. > :10:24.commanders. What do you remember about it? I was surprised and to be
:10:24. > :10:29.able to go and do that and succeed is wonderful. When you look back at
:10:29. > :10:38.the images and the ferocity of some of the land battles, in must have
:10:38. > :10:48.been frightening? War Kent quickly to us and to see the efforts to try
:10:48. > :10:56.
:10:56. > :11:01.and rescue the ship's -- ships was unbelievable. You now living
:11:01. > :11:06.Portsmouth. Have you stayed in touch with other veterans? Yes. We
:11:06. > :11:10.have reunions. We have one coming up in June and there are a lot of
:11:10. > :11:17.all friends here tonight. Otherwise, it is when you bump into people
:11:17. > :11:21.more than keeping things going. Thank you. We will let you go to
:11:21. > :11:25.the dinner and now back to the studio.
:11:25. > :11:28.A sailor whose vessel ran aground in high seas off Dorset had to be
:11:28. > :11:31.rescued by helicopter because he was too weak and cold to walk more
:11:31. > :11:35.than a few steps. The RNLI and coastguard were call to the scene
:11:35. > :11:40.at Chesil Beach in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Rescue teams
:11:40. > :11:44.tried to drag the vessel off the beach without success. The cold and
:11:44. > :11:50.exhausted man was airlifted to Dorset County Hospital.
:11:50. > :11:53.Plans for a new Ikea store in Reading have been approved. West
:11:53. > :11:56.Berkshire councillors voted in favour of the plans for a store
:11:56. > :11:59.near Junction 12 of the M4 at a meeting last night. Some residents
:11:59. > :12:09.and businesses oppose a new store, saying it could cause serious
:12:09. > :12:09.
:12:09. > :12:13.congestion on surrounding roads. Anyone reporting anti-social
:12:13. > :12:20.behaviour should receive a better response in future, according to
:12:20. > :12:28.Sussex Police. It is working on a report to recommend improvements
:12:28. > :12:34.for when police deal with reports of anti-social behaviour. Coming up
:12:34. > :12:38.- a woman who paid thousands of dollars to make sure an Olympic
:12:38. > :12:41.torch is returned to her family. A teenager from Sussex, who was
:12:41. > :12:43.orphaned at just eight-years-old, is training for a charity walk to
:12:43. > :12:46.help other children who have lost their parents. Chloe Willis's
:12:46. > :12:49.father was killed in a motorbike crash when she was just four. Her
:12:49. > :12:59.mother died four years later. About 24,000 children lose a parent every
:12:59. > :13:00.
:13:00. > :13:06.year - that's one every 22 minutes. Every Saturday for three away as
:13:06. > :13:15.Chloe and Amanda go walking. Not for fun, but for training. You're a
:13:15. > :13:20.enjoy it and you can talk about stuff. It is bad when you slip over.
:13:20. > :13:30.They are doing six miles today. They need to do 12 to raise money
:13:30. > :13:32.
:13:32. > :13:40.for bereaved children. We are doing the walk for a charity because they
:13:40. > :13:45.help me when I was younger when I lost my parents. Chloe lost her
:13:45. > :13:50.mother and father within a few years of each other. She found it
:13:50. > :13:55.impossible to talk to people about it. I was isolated and nobody knew
:13:55. > :14:00.how I felt. By up a visit to a camp for bereaved children changed all
:14:00. > :14:06.that. The centre run by a West Sussex charity encourages children
:14:06. > :14:14.to open up about their feelings. When the children meet other
:14:14. > :14:19.children and young people, they can say how it really is. On Saturday,
:14:19. > :14:28.Chloe and Amanda will be doing their bit for the 24,000 children
:14:28. > :14:35.who lose a parent every year. So far they have raised �116. Good
:14:35. > :14:45.luck to the girls. Hopefully they will raise a lot of money. Now the
:14:45. > :14:46.
:14:46. > :14:51.sport. Team GB are doing well in the cycling.
:14:51. > :14:54.It does bode well for the Olympics. The Great Britain women's cycling
:14:54. > :14:56.team, which includes Southampton's Dani King, has won gold at the
:14:56. > :15:00.world championships in Melbourne. King, along with Joanna Rowsell and
:15:00. > :15:03.Laura Trott in the team, broke the world record in the semi-final and
:15:03. > :15:10.then again in the final, beating Australia. King is a former Barton
:15:10. > :15:13.Peverell student. Another big weekend of Football
:15:13. > :15:16.League action coming up over Easter. Two rounds of games, Brighton are
:15:17. > :15:19.at Burnley tomorrow, aiming to stay in the play off picture and Reading
:15:19. > :15:27.will hope to take advantage of Southampton's inactivity by leaping
:15:27. > :15:35.to the top of the table when they play Leeds. Here's boss Brian
:15:35. > :15:39.McDermott. We have to enjoy it. This is what it is about at this
:15:39. > :15:47.stage of the season, enjoying the gains and live in each moment
:15:47. > :15:50.because we have put ourselves and a good position. -- in a good
:15:50. > :15:52.position. This weekend also sees one of
:15:52. > :15:55.football's fiercest and most passionate rivalries with the two
:15:55. > :15:58.clubs involved at a crossroads in their proud histories. Southampton
:15:58. > :15:59.host Portsmouth, Saints on the brink of promotion back to the
:15:59. > :16:02.Premier League. Portsmouth in administration, facing question
:16:02. > :16:06.marks over their future and in danger of being relegated. Quite a
:16:06. > :16:08.lot at stake for fans of both clubs, but actually, they quite like
:16:08. > :16:11.having each other around. To enable city's 17 miles apart and when
:16:11. > :16:21.Southampton and Portsmouth made on the football pitch, it is one of
:16:21. > :16:24.
:16:25. > :16:34.the most passionate derby games of all. They have not had the -- you
:16:34. > :16:42.want to get one over on your Opposition. This student wanted to
:16:42. > :16:52.understand more about the rivalry, so he made a film. In doing so, he
:16:52. > :16:54.
:16:54. > :17:01.bought old rivals together. He has got blue blood in him. Portsmouth,
:17:02. > :17:10.home of the Royal Navy. Southampton, or one of the largest merchant navy
:17:10. > :17:14.ports. No matter where the teams are in the leap, neither
:17:14. > :17:21.Southampton or Portsmouth fans want to see their rivals go out of
:17:21. > :17:25.business simply because the rivalry is so important. These men agreed
:17:25. > :17:30.on a lot when they came together. Both passionate fans and keen to
:17:30. > :17:33.point out that no matter how fierce the rivalry, it is only a game.
:17:33. > :17:36.On Saturday night, the South Coast Derby is one of the featured games
:17:36. > :17:40.on the Football League Show. That's at 11.50pm. All the goals from
:17:40. > :17:42.Monday's games will be on the show at 11.3pm, also on BBC One. The BBC
:17:42. > :17:47.website has extended highlights of every game and, of course, BBC
:17:47. > :17:50.local radio has commentary on them all across the weekend. Due to our
:17:50. > :18:00.Titanic special on tuesday night, we'll run through the highlights of
:18:00. > :18:01.
:18:01. > :18:11.the games on Tuesday lunchtime's programme at 1.30pm. On the first
:18:11. > :18:19.
:18:19. > :18:22.day of the new cricket season, How far would you go to get back a
:18:22. > :18:24.family heirloom? Kenneth Duncan was a distinguished athlete and key
:18:24. > :18:27.member of the British Olympic Association during the 1948 London
:18:27. > :18:30.Games. He was given an Olympic Torch in recognition for his work.
:18:30. > :18:35.Later, he passed it to a friend in America. Now, his grandaughter
:18:35. > :18:45.Isabelle has just returned from the US after buying his torch back.
:18:45. > :18:50.Isabelle joins us now. Thank you for coming in with the torch. It is
:18:50. > :18:55.fantastic. Why does it so important to get it back? It has huge
:18:55. > :19:02.sentimental value. My grandfather had it for most of his life, from
:19:02. > :19:12.1948 and will he died in 2005. I felt with the Olympics coming up,
:19:12. > :19:13.
:19:13. > :19:18.but talk should be in the country. So, I brought it back. At a cost.
:19:18. > :19:26.Yes. I negotiated for about six months and eventually agreed on a
:19:26. > :19:36.price. A bit more than I hoped for. $18,000, which is about �12,000.
:19:36. > :19:37.
:19:37. > :19:46.have to say, I did get an Olympic Order for that as well. He had a
:19:46. > :19:50.long history with a torch. In 1948, a major involvement in that? Yes.
:19:51. > :19:55.He was technical director of the torch relay, so he helped to co-
:19:56. > :20:00.ordinate the torch from southern Greece to London. At one point, in
:20:01. > :20:10.France he was led to Rolls Royce and cruised behind the runners in
:20:11. > :20:12.
:20:12. > :20:20.his Rolls Royce. Did he compete as well? Yes. It was long jump. He was
:20:20. > :20:25.a great athlete and he was a very good sprinter as well. He
:20:25. > :20:30.represented Great Britain on a number of occasions. With 2012,
:20:30. > :20:34.what is the significance? What does it mean to you to have this
:20:34. > :20:39.fabulous 1948 torch? It means a lot. My grandfather always said it would
:20:39. > :20:44.come back to London. I am sad he is not alive to see it. He was
:20:44. > :20:49.interviewed several times on television about this obviously
:20:49. > :20:55.wanted it to come back to London. It means a lot to me, very
:20:55. > :20:59.sentimental. A you go to put it somewhere saved? Definitely. Thank
:20:59. > :21:02.you for coming in. When the Titanic sank 100 years ago
:21:02. > :21:05.it had a profound impact on Southampton. Nearly 600 people from
:21:05. > :21:08.the city never returned. Most of them were working men with children
:21:08. > :21:11.and families to support. In the third of his special reports on the
:21:11. > :21:20.Titanic, Tom Hepworth has been to meet one woman from Bitterne whose
:21:20. > :21:30.family suffered more than most. Four of Angela Scarrott's relatives
:21:30. > :21:31.
:21:31. > :21:33.died on the Titanic. Behind the smiles of her grandparents wedding
:21:33. > :21:35.photo, a private tragedy Three of Angela's great-
:21:35. > :21:43.grandfathers and a great-great uncle worked in the bowels of the
:21:43. > :21:53.ship. Richard Baines was a greaser, Robert George Roberts was a fireman
:21:53. > :21:55.
:21:55. > :22:02.and Frank and William Long were Being a tremor was one of the
:22:02. > :22:07.hottest, hardest and dirtiest jobs on board. Titanic carried 3,500
:22:07. > :22:11.tonnes of coal. William Anne Frank would deliver it took 60 furnaces
:22:11. > :22:15.in wheelbarrows. They would also have to move it around in the
:22:15. > :22:25.bunkers so that it did not destabilise the ship. They are on
:22:25. > :22:30.forgotten heroes. -- they are unsung heroes. It is really sad.
:22:30. > :22:33.They knew they were not going to get a place on the lifeboat.
:22:33. > :22:36.One of Angela's grandfathers, Robert George Roberts, lived here
:22:36. > :22:39.at Wheelers Court and probably wouldn't have joined the crew if it
:22:39. > :22:49.weren't for a chance encounter Less than a year after the Titanic
:22:49. > :23:00.
:23:00. > :23:03.sank, Tom Thorne married Florence. The families left behind were
:23:03. > :23:10.catered for by the relief fund, but William Long's wife couldnt cope.
:23:10. > :23:14.The family lived at Marine Terrace, near Bevois valley.
:23:14. > :23:20.Two years after losing her husband, Eunice Long put her two eldest sons
:23:20. > :23:23.William and George into the Barnardo's home in Southampton.
:23:23. > :23:27.have got children myself and the thought that I could not cope, I
:23:27. > :23:31.could not look after my children, to send them off somewhere, that
:23:32. > :23:35.must have been awful for her. In 1921, a year after his brother
:23:35. > :23:37.died, 14-year-old George was put on a ship and sent to live in Canada.
:23:38. > :23:40.He was one of thousands of disadvantaged children who were
:23:40. > :23:45.effectively deported under the child migration scheme to provide
:23:45. > :23:48.what was called good white stock to the colonies. Many suffered
:23:48. > :23:58.physical and sexual abuse and were told wrongly that their parents had
:23:58. > :23:59.
:23:59. > :24:04.died. Gordon Brown's apology two years ago came too late for George.
:24:04. > :24:08.We are truly sorry. They were let down. The FA sorry they were
:24:08. > :24:13.allowed to be sent away at the time they were most vulnerable. We are
:24:13. > :24:16.sorry that instead of caring for them, this country turned its back.
:24:16. > :24:19.Keith Scarrott's still trying to find out what happened to George.
:24:19. > :24:23.He knows he married in 1927 in London, Ontario. It's unlikely his
:24:23. > :24:26.mother was there. Another wedding with the parents missing.
:24:26. > :24:29.On Tuesday we'll have a special South Today live from the new Sea
:24:29. > :24:39.City Museum in Southampton. Our series of films on the Titanic
:24:39. > :24:50.
:24:50. > :24:55.continues and Tom Hepworth travels You might guess that is the Olympic
:24:55. > :25:00.torch. Unfortunately we do not have that clipped, but Tom will be
:25:00. > :25:04.travelling to Canada and we will have that story for you on Tuesday.
:25:04. > :25:12.And now for the weather. We have been talking about hosepipe bans.
:25:12. > :25:22.Is the rain coming? It says. But first, let us have a
:25:22. > :25:26.
:25:26. > :25:34.There is a promise of rain, but tonight will be dry and cold. Quite
:25:34. > :25:39.a bit of frost heading away as well. Temperatures taking a sharp drop.
:25:39. > :25:49.The cloud is dissipating as we speak with clear conditions
:25:49. > :25:51.
:25:51. > :25:56.arriving as we speak. Temperatures down to freezing point. Widespread
:25:56. > :26:06.frost, but a bigger. For Good Friday. Lots of sunshine at first.
:26:06. > :26:07.
:26:07. > :26:13.That cloud comes in from the north later in the day. There will be
:26:13. > :26:23.patchy rain by the evening, but it will be insignificant. A cloudier
:26:23. > :26:25.
:26:25. > :26:31.and milder night. Saturday, a grey, dull day. Very few breaks in that
:26:31. > :26:38.club developing, but it should be predominantly dry. Generally, much
:26:38. > :26:47.cooler with a north-easterly breeze. Sunday, some rain on and off
:26:47. > :26:51.throughout the day. Again, it will be quite mild. Monday, we have some
:26:52. > :26:57.serious rain heading out what way. A cold front coming in which will
:26:57. > :27:07.give us a wet start. Further rain is heading our way as we head
:27:07. > :27:14.
:27:14. > :27:22.towards next week. Here is a It is going to be dry tomorrow,
:27:22. > :27:28.barely dry on Saturday, rain on Sunday, lots of rain up by Monday.