:00:14. > :00:23.Good evening. Here are the headlines: Harrowed is the retail
:00:23. > :00:27.sector get back on track? Police hunting the killers of a man it
:00:27. > :00:32.dumped in a burning Ben appeal for sightings in 10 said and done
:00:32. > :00:35.streets. Getting to the heart of it - the
:00:35. > :00:39.Royal's move closer to the Premier League.
:00:39. > :00:49.Engineering the past - the tools belonging to one of the engineers
:00:49. > :01:21.
:01:21. > :01:25.are lost on the Titanic. But still below the national average.
:01:25. > :01:31.That town and city level the picture is confused.
:01:31. > :01:38.One survey suggested Reading had 19 % of shops and filled. Salisbury
:01:38. > :01:42.had nine %. Our Correspondent reports from Aldershot where the
:01:42. > :01:49.town is dealing with a tough time at the tills.
:01:49. > :01:59.Close, empty, to elect. Familiar signs. One in five shops here are
:01:59. > :02:01.
:02:01. > :02:11.vacant. A lot of shops are shutting down. The why? Rates are high.
:02:11. > :02:12.
:02:12. > :02:16.you a shopper? It is run down. It is busy. Not for me. It was not
:02:16. > :02:25.always like this. Some shopkeepers to remember the bustling town
:02:25. > :02:32.centre. A lot of businesses have gone. They have not been replaced.
:02:32. > :02:38.A lot of pounds shops now. The tenor of the town has been lowered.
:02:38. > :02:43.This is the latest shops shut. It shut three weeks ago. It joins 50
:02:43. > :02:50.empty units. At Aldershot is to turn its fortunes around it needs
:02:50. > :03:00.to persuade people to stay here and spend. The town is now looking to
:03:00. > :03:00.
:03:00. > :03:07.this in retail guru for help. �100,000 is not a massive amount.
:03:07. > :03:14.We will use that money to help some of their stores work with
:03:14. > :03:21.independence. This company opened last summer. A second shoppers plan
:03:21. > :03:27.for a wedding. In February saw a good rise in food fall. In March
:03:27. > :03:31.again, but there are not enough people coming into the town centre.
:03:31. > :03:39.Away from its empty shops changes on his way. This new centre will
:03:39. > :03:46.bring cinema, hotel and restaurant. The town will find out if it will
:03:46. > :03:48.get the Maryport has made over by the summer. Earlier I spoke to a
:03:48. > :03:53.spokesperson from the British Retail Consortium. I asked him how
:03:53. > :04:01.things were looking on the high street? Overall retail sales picked
:04:01. > :04:06.up a march. That was more about the early arrival of a sunny weather.
:04:06. > :04:10.People what fashion goods, garden good, things to do with leisure. It
:04:10. > :04:15.was not a fundamental change in where customers are. If people are
:04:15. > :04:19.still under a great deal of financial pressure. On the hall
:04:19. > :04:26.they are not prepared to be a big spending commitments. -- on the
:04:26. > :04:33.whole. It is not right across the board. Some are doing better than
:04:33. > :04:38.others. Why is that? That pressure on customers is compounding the
:04:38. > :04:43.difficulties that a lot of pounds of heart over a long period. This
:04:43. > :04:50.is to do with the cost of doing business, failure to invest, the
:04:50. > :04:57.cost of parking. Some of places are relatively less prosperous. Some
:04:57. > :05:02.towns have had more success with initiatives. That is interesting.
:05:02. > :05:07.One of the initiatives is the initiative of Mary Portas.
:05:07. > :05:13.Aldershot is bidding for �100,000. Is it as simple as just getting
:05:13. > :05:19.money end to the high street? can make a difference. Well done to
:05:19. > :05:23.all the towns to engaging in this. That is making at town-centre feel
:05:23. > :05:28.like a safe place where customers want to go to. That is all very
:05:28. > :05:32.important. The Government could be more ambitious on this. At the
:05:32. > :05:39.start of this month be slapped another �350 million on to the
:05:39. > :05:43.business rate bills. When you talk about �100,000, even 10 million, in
:05:43. > :05:48.terms of initiatives, that is trivial and not likely to make a
:05:48. > :05:51.huge difference against that the natural backdrop. Thank you.
:05:51. > :05:57.Hampshire Police have confirmed that a body found in a burned-out
:05:57. > :06:01.car in Southampton was male. Detectives are not sure who the man
:06:01. > :06:06.is. Firefighters found the body while dealing with a car fire
:06:06. > :06:09.yesterday morning. It is still not known how the person died. An
:06:09. > :06:13.initial post-mortem there was inconclusive.
:06:13. > :06:17.A husband and wife in Dorset are being treated in hospital after
:06:17. > :06:21.escaping from a house fire. The couple were forced to jump from the
:06:21. > :06:26.first four of their house to escape the flames. The woman Dulles her
:06:26. > :06:29.spine. Her husband is being treated for smoke inhalation. The Fire
:06:29. > :06:37.Service says part of the house has been it demolished. An
:06:37. > :06:47.investigation is under way. This couple had a lucky escape. The
:06:47. > :06:50.
:06:50. > :06:55.fire was into the first floor. They were very lucky. Police have named
:06:55. > :07:01.the woman killed in a fire in Guildford last month. The woman
:07:01. > :07:06.from Surbiton died after a fire broke out in a ground-floor flat. A
:07:06. > :07:09.57-year-old man, up injured in the incident, is receiving treatment at
:07:09. > :07:12.the rehabilitation unit. Four people are still being
:07:12. > :07:17.questioned by police is that and then on suspicion of murder
:07:17. > :07:21.following the death of Jamie Dack. Has badly burnt body was found in a
:07:21. > :07:27.wheelie bin on Easter Sunday on an industrial estate in the city. His
:07:27. > :07:33.family and friends today paid tribute to him.
:07:33. > :07:37.A loving son and brother who liked to chat and made friends easily.
:07:37. > :07:41.His parents were too shocked and upset to talk on camera today, but
:07:41. > :07:45.told the BBC they did not believe their son had any enemies.
:07:45. > :07:52.Jamie Dack had been staying here at a hostel for homeless young people
:07:52. > :07:56.in the weeks leading to his death. I have broken down in tears. I have
:07:56. > :08:04.not been able to sleep properly. I keep getting flashbacks of when I
:08:04. > :08:10.last saw have. He is in my mind. I keep seeing him. It is really
:08:10. > :08:16.upsetting. Jamie Dack worked here over the Christmas period. Today
:08:16. > :08:21.his former colleagues paid tribute to him, calling him a nice chap.
:08:21. > :08:25.They said he was a nice worker and very mild mannered.
:08:25. > :08:29.Forensic searches are continuing at this property. Police believe the
:08:29. > :08:33.body may have been moved in a wheelie bin it to this industrial
:08:34. > :08:37.estate. Firefighters discovered his burned remains here on Sunday.
:08:37. > :08:41.Police want to hear from anybody who may have seen at wheelie bin
:08:41. > :08:49.being pushed down this street and other neighbouring streets early on
:08:49. > :08:51.Saturday night or early on Sunday morning.
:08:51. > :08:59.Tonight four people are still being questioned by police on suspicion
:08:59. > :09:03.of murder. Detectives believe two teenage
:09:03. > :09:11.Nigerian girls to have gone missing in West Sussex may now be elsewhere
:09:11. > :09:17.in the country. The girls, both aged 15, disappear on Good Friday
:09:17. > :09:21.after leaving their foster homes for this Baptist Church. They had
:09:21. > :09:24.arrived unaccompanied from Nigeria and were in the care of Surrey
:09:24. > :09:34.social services. Detectives are appealing for help from anyone who
:09:34. > :09:38.saw them on Friday or since then. This horse sanctuary has less than
:09:38. > :09:42.one month to be Kate its site following the death of the
:09:42. > :09:49.landowner. Volunteers have been looking after adult -- volunteers
:09:49. > :09:54.have been looking after the horses for 20 years. They are looking for
:09:54. > :10:01.an new site. All the other horse sanctuary has our full. Everybody
:10:01. > :10:09.needs land for horses. It is very difficult. The sad thing is that a
:10:09. > :10:15.lot of these courses will have to be euthanasia.
:10:15. > :10:19.Still to come, sport and weather. Uneventful day at Hayle, showers,
:10:19. > :10:25.and thunderstorms. I will have the full forecasts later in the
:10:25. > :10:30.programme. And in sport and will have more on Portsmouth's future.
:10:30. > :10:35.And also how Reading are closer to a return to the Premier League.
:10:35. > :10:45.The South's most ambitious renewal energy project is reaching an
:10:45. > :10:50.landmark. Consultation ends next week. The proposal for over 200
:10:50. > :10:58.turbine switch theoretically could provide enough electricity for
:10:58. > :11:02.Dorset Hampshire and the Isle of Wight is facing opposition.
:11:02. > :11:07.This stretches from south of the Isle of Wight took over the air.
:11:07. > :11:12.This man is part of a protest group. It's members are worried about the
:11:12. > :11:15.visual impact of the proposed wind farm. They have produced this
:11:15. > :11:20.computer animation which the EC is a fair impression of what the
:11:20. > :11:25.turbine is would look like. They say this would damage the feel of
:11:25. > :11:29.this World Heritage Site. People are prepared to make a few
:11:29. > :11:34.sacrifices because there is an energy crisis. I that is true. It
:11:34. > :11:38.does combine to balance in their end. This particular area or is
:11:38. > :11:43.close to the coast. And usually close to the course. With as an
:11:43. > :11:48.area of high sensitivity. We think this is a bad compromise here.
:11:48. > :11:53.was one of several zones designated for wind farms by the government to
:11:53. > :12:01.meet their international obligation to produce more green energy. The
:12:01. > :12:05.successful bidder has proposed using this section. The company
:12:05. > :12:09.says there are still working on the exact details, but visual impact is
:12:09. > :12:13.not the only consideration. have taken account of how we could
:12:13. > :12:19.seek to minimise the effect on shipping activities, sailing
:12:19. > :12:26.activities, the activities of other sea users. We are taken into
:12:26. > :12:31.account the Ministry of Defence practice areas. Some fear an impact
:12:31. > :12:36.on tourism along the Dorset coast. Opinion is divided however. There
:12:36. > :12:42.are substantial wind farms in North West. They're not particularly
:12:42. > :12:47.unsightly. It's would be a shame. This is the Jurassic Coast. People
:12:47. > :12:51.come to visit the beauty of the landscape. We need renewable energy.
:12:51. > :12:58.It is all very well saying not here, but when it comes down to it it
:12:58. > :13:03.will save the environment. Where do you put it?
:13:03. > :13:08.The proposal when form towards any other proposal ever seen in this
:13:08. > :13:14.region. Final details will be ready by the end of next year. The farm
:13:14. > :13:19.is due to be up and running by the end of 2020.
:13:19. > :13:28.The number of couples receiving IVF treatment funded by Berkshire
:13:28. > :13:33.Primary Care Trust has more than half. Figures obtained show that
:13:33. > :13:40.110 people receive funding last year compared to 240 the year
:13:40. > :13:46.before. Berkshire Primary Care Trust sees it reviews each request
:13:46. > :13:56.on at case-by-case basis. On to the sport now. You did well
:13:56. > :13:58.
:13:58. > :14:04.A massive result for Reading last night, keeping on Southampton's
:14:04. > :14:07.coat tails. One point was enough for them. The result kept Brighton
:14:07. > :14:12.and outside the championship play- off places.
:14:12. > :14:16.He would not have guessed the significance of the game for the
:14:16. > :14:26.teams judged by the joviality before the match. This free kick
:14:26. > :14:28.
:14:28. > :14:35.took a deflection and left the chance to draw level and Ashley
:14:35. > :14:40.Barnes was felled in the box. He picked himself up to take it but
:14:40. > :14:44.the keeper comfortably denied him - one of a number of saves on the
:14:44. > :14:54.night by the Australian postop Reading move level on points with
:14:54. > :14:56.
:14:56. > :15:02.The last two games, we have got two clean sheets and got six points.
:15:02. > :15:09.Fantastic. If we keep playing the way we played today, if we are able
:15:09. > :15:14.to maintain the key players and play the way that we play, it is a
:15:14. > :15:17.matter of time until we are in the Premiership. We will see how that
:15:17. > :15:20.affects the top of the table shortly. Portsmouth's hopes of
:15:20. > :15:24.remaining in the championship could be entered this weekend. Anything
:15:24. > :15:34.other than a Pompey win at Doncaster could see them in danger
:15:34. > :15:34.
:15:35. > :15:38.of relegation on Saturday postop. The closest Pompey came in a
:15:38. > :15:43.disappointing performance was Kelvin Etuhu's long-range effort,
:15:43. > :15:53.tipped over by Mike Taylor for top it could not be set up that of all
:15:53. > :16:08.
:16:08. > :16:12.As they fight to avoid relegation on the pitch, the search for a
:16:12. > :16:16.buyer for Pompey continues. They went into administration in
:16:16. > :16:19.February for the second time in three years. Today the
:16:19. > :16:27.administrator published a report on their finances and they do not look
:16:27. > :16:31.pretty. Bryony is at Fratton Park. How big are the depths? The club's
:16:31. > :16:35.total liabilities at up to �58 million. There are hundreds of
:16:35. > :16:38.creditors and reading through the list is like picking through the
:16:38. > :16:44.Yellow Pages because they're all manner of businesses from pizza
:16:44. > :16:47.parlours and forests to water companies and hotels. One of the
:16:47. > :16:53.biggest claims is from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, who
:16:53. > :16:57.say they are owed more than �10 million. The City Council is paid
:16:57. > :17:00.�61,000 and Hampshire Police authority �26,000. If and when the
:17:00. > :17:04.club is salt, creditors will not get all their money back. There
:17:04. > :17:09.will need to be an agreement and they will get just a proportion of
:17:09. > :17:12.what they are owed. The next step is a creditors' meeting on 26th
:17:12. > :17:16.April when they will be asked to agree the meeting - that the
:17:16. > :17:19.contents of the report and to set up a committee to represent their
:17:19. > :17:24.interests. What have the administrators been saying about
:17:24. > :17:28.the prospect of a new buyer? For the administrator says that they
:17:28. > :17:33.have been in discussion with a small number of interested parties.
:17:33. > :17:37.No offers have been made yet and liquidation remains a possibility.
:17:37. > :17:42.He says they have managed to stabilise the finances of the club
:17:42. > :17:45.to the extent that they will be able to fulfil all of this season's
:17:45. > :17:49.fixtures and they have tried to make the club as attractive as
:17:49. > :17:53.possible to potential buyers. He says he still believes they can
:17:53. > :17:57.find a buyer for the club before the money runs out and they
:17:57. > :18:04.continue to do all they can to achieve that. Fans will hope they
:18:04. > :18:08.Hampshire's cricketers get their competitive season under way as
:18:08. > :18:13.they begin life in Division Two. Danny Briggs will be key to their
:18:13. > :18:16.promotion hopes. It is the first time since 2005 about the county
:18:16. > :18:20.have found themselves in the second tie-up. They have got with a
:18:20. > :18:24.smaller, younger squad led by Jimmy Adams and they kick off tomorrow
:18:24. > :18:30.against Gloucester, with a Australian batsmen Simon Katich
:18:30. > :18:37.back as overseas player. What I ask is that the players give it 100%. I
:18:37. > :18:42.go out there with the right intent and the will to win. We will make
:18:42. > :18:47.mistakes but as long as we are doing all things bright and doing
:18:47. > :18:51.them the right way, we will come out on the bright side in September.
:18:51. > :18:54.In Division One, Sussex have Monty Panesar and Steve Magoffin
:18:54. > :18:59.available for tomorrow's game that Lancashire have. Surrey are making
:18:59. > :19:03.the short trip to play Middlesex at Lord's.
:19:03. > :19:07.Sarah is coming up with the weather in a moment.
:19:07. > :19:11.They made the ultimate sacrifice - the 36 Engineer officers on Titanic
:19:11. > :19:15.kept the ship's systems working as she took on water and sank after
:19:15. > :19:19.hitting an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton. By the
:19:19. > :19:24.time they were relieved of their duties, although lifeboats had gone.
:19:24. > :19:29.Not one survived. In another of our special report to mark 100 years
:19:29. > :19:34.since the Titanic was lost, and Engineer pays tribute to the memory
:19:34. > :19:40.of those men. My name is Stephen pain and I am an
:19:40. > :19:44.architect. I was the architect that designed the Queen Mary to. This
:19:44. > :19:48.memorial celebrates the 36 marine engineers that were lost on the
:19:48. > :19:56.Titanic. When this memorial was unveiled, it attracted a huge crowd
:19:57. > :20:01.of people. I would like to point out one particular name here.
:20:01. > :20:08.Father was known as Bob. He lived in Romsey and was the youngest of
:20:08. > :20:13.14 children. -- Arthur. Six died in infancy. At 14, he left school and
:20:13. > :20:22.began an apprenticeship at this garage. He then went on to a
:20:23. > :20:29.shipbuilder's in Southampton. He joined the White Star Line in his
:20:29. > :20:34.youth. He would have had as Senior Engineer supervising him and been
:20:34. > :20:38.responsible for many of the routine, mundane jobs in the engine-room. I
:20:38. > :20:42.went to meet his great nephew, who lives in Romsey and still has
:20:42. > :20:48.engineering in his blood. Was Bob looking forward to his voyage on
:20:48. > :20:53.the Titanic? Probably not. He was due to get married the weekend it
:20:53. > :20:58.was sailing across the Atlantic and he was advised that if he did not
:20:58. > :21:05.go on and take the voyage, he would be likely to jeopardise his chances
:21:05. > :21:10.of promotion. A understand you have some tools to show me. Yes, I have
:21:10. > :21:19.a set of tools that I found in my grandfather's tool chest when I
:21:19. > :21:26.moved into his house. I saw Arthur's name engraved in it. Like
:21:26. > :21:32.most things, you bought your own tools or had them made and took
:21:32. > :21:38.them to get your name engraved on it. We have some other tools that I
:21:38. > :21:43.inherited from the family. I found these. I don't know what these
:21:43. > :21:49.tools do. I have no idea either. That is a tremendous link to the
:21:49. > :21:58.man. You tend to feel that you've got to know him a bit more, because
:21:58. > :22:01.you find these improvements and it is something -- implements and it
:22:01. > :22:06.is something that becomes real rather than just being a put the
:22:06. > :22:14.club. There were 36 enter the ring of this has on the Titanic and not
:22:14. > :22:18.once the pipe. -- engineers on at the Titanic. His thoughts must have
:22:18. > :22:25.been of her room, his fiancee, all the things that he was leaving
:22:25. > :22:33.behind. -- of a home that. A white star official came here to see
:22:33. > :22:37.Bob's bar that the family home to offer compensation. He replied,
:22:37. > :22:45."You Dare of any money? No amount of money can bring my son back. Go
:22:45. > :22:50.away.". We are here at the Abbey and these two plaques commemorate
:22:50. > :22:57.all but ward of. One was paid for by subscription and the other by
:22:57. > :23:04.his family. Plaques on other man but they only tell part of the
:23:04. > :23:13.story. -- honour the man. We have a special programme on
:23:13. > :23:18.Sunday. This actor played Captain Smith in James Cameron's Hollywood
:23:19. > :23:28.film. He will be looking at the impact of the tragedy on the City
:23:29. > :23:30.
:23:30. > :23:39.of Southampton. But is at 4:50pm on The rain we wanted has come. Is it
:23:39. > :23:49.stay in? It is coming and going again. Good news for the gardeners!
:23:49. > :23:50.
:23:50. > :23:56.Some lovely pictures today. Derek moat to dodge the showers.
:23:56. > :24:06.This is al-Ahly RTE picture that reflects the day's weather nicely.
:24:06. > :24:08.
:24:08. > :24:12.-- and it RTE picture. The bluebells have been blooming.
:24:12. > :24:15.Tracey captured this springtime seen.
:24:15. > :24:19.With this springtime theme we have April showers coming and going
:24:19. > :24:23.through the course of the day. There have been some hefty bursts.
:24:24. > :24:27.The greens and yellows on the map are from Elliott today, showing
:24:27. > :24:37.where the really heavy downpours have been. There has been hell
:24:37. > :24:42.macro and thunder. -- there has been hailed. Things are drying out
:24:42. > :24:46.and coming down tonight. We should start to see the last of the
:24:46. > :24:52.thunderstorms by 8pm. This showers ease and become dry heading towards
:24:52. > :24:59.midnight. Where we see clear spells, temperatures could get down to
:24:59. > :25:06.freezing in some places. Cooler in rural areas. We are expecting a
:25:06. > :25:10.touch of frost. Some brightness around. We will see the cloud of
:25:10. > :25:15.the ring back in and the return of those showers. There could be some
:25:15. > :25:21.heavy ones with hail and thunder in the next but if you manage to dodge
:25:21. > :25:29.them, some present breaks. Temperatures peaking at 14 degrees.
:25:29. > :25:35.Despite pleasant. A few clear spells and cloud breaking apart.
:25:35. > :25:40.Another chilly one. Temperatures down into minus figures for some of
:25:40. > :25:45.our towns and cities. Friday, a repeat performance. We start with
:25:46. > :25:52.some brightness, gradually seeing more showers, and the southern
:25:52. > :25:57.coast will steer clear of the bulk. As we head towards the weekend,
:25:57. > :26:02.sunny spells, scattered showers. It looks like temperatures are
:26:02. > :26:10.starting to drop away so it becomes cooler by day and overnight, some
:26:10. > :26:15.sharp frosts. Sunshine and showers into the weekend. The winds picking