:00:01. > :00:04.Hello, I'm Sally Taylor. Welcome to South Today. In tonight's
:00:04. > :00:14.programme: Hundreds pay their respects to a
:00:14. > :00:21.Royal Marine - a fantastic husband and an incredible father. LEA any
:00:21. > :00:25.the greatest bits for anyone could ever wish all, -- he gave me the
:00:25. > :00:29.greatest gift so that anyone could ever wish for.
:00:29. > :00:31.Life in prison for three men who conspired to murder a taxi driver
:00:31. > :00:36.over a property dispute. 100 years since the Royal Flying
:00:36. > :00:40.Corps was formed - we pay tribute to those magnificent men.
:00:40. > :00:48.And a final wash and brush up - we meet the Grand National dark horse
:00:48. > :00:52.in the running to make the ultimate tribute. I did not achieve or
:00:52. > :00:58.winning the Grand National as a jockey and it would be fantastic if
:00:58. > :01:06.I can do it as a trainer. I am sure this year we are getting a bit of
:01:06. > :01:09."He was a fantastic husband and an incredible father." Just one of the
:01:09. > :01:11.tributes paid to Sergeant Luke Taylor from Bournemouth who was
:01:11. > :01:14.killed in Afghanistan last month. The Royal Marine's funeral took
:01:14. > :01:17.place in Christchurch today. Before the service, the funeral cortege
:01:17. > :01:23.passed through the High Street, allowing the public to pay their
:01:23. > :01:31.respects. Roger Finn was there. As the coffin came down
:01:31. > :01:35.Christchurch High Street, so too did a wave of applause. Sergeant
:01:35. > :01:44.Luke Taylor was just 33 years old when he was killed. He had been a
:01:44. > :01:47.Royal Marine for 50 years, part of that working in intelligence. -- 15
:01:47. > :01:50.years. He had been fighting in Afghanistan just four weeks when a
:01:50. > :01:53.rogue Afghan army soldier shot him dead at the gates into the British
:01:53. > :01:55.base at Lashkar Gah. Hundreds came to this morning's funeral service,
:01:55. > :02:04.filling Christchurch Priory. Amongst them many colleagues from
:02:04. > :02:11.the Royal Marines. And, following the coffin in, Luke Taylor's widow,
:02:11. > :02:18.Nikki, holding the hand of their four year-old son, Roan. Sergeant
:02:18. > :02:21.Tyler was quite a remarkable character. He was full of energy, a
:02:21. > :02:27.great drive, great passion in all that he did and he was very much a
:02:27. > :02:30.family man, devoted to his wife, Nikki, and certainly to his son. A
:02:31. > :02:33.fantastic father. The congregation heard colleagues describe Luke as
:02:33. > :02:43.bursting with enthusiasm, brave, loyal, passionate and great to have
:02:43. > :02:43.
:02:43. > :02:51.around. And then his widow stepped up to make her tribute. Luke was
:02:51. > :02:54.and always will be the love of my life, my best friend. My soul mate.
:02:55. > :02:57.He gave me the greatest gifts that anyone could ever wish for - his
:02:58. > :03:06.love, his devotion, his laughter, and our beautiful son, who he doted
:03:06. > :03:16.on completely. After the service, a guard of 12 Royal Marines performed
:03:16. > :03:35.
:03:35. > :03:43.a traditional honour for a fallen It has been described as nothing
:03:43. > :03:47.less than attempted execution -- attempted execution, described by a
:03:47. > :03:57.judge who handed down life sentences to three men who murdered
:03:57. > :03:58.
:03:58. > :04:01.a taxi driver. One man higher at two are others to murder him.
:04:01. > :04:08.A quiet residential street where his father of three was gunned down
:04:08. > :04:15.and left for dead. His three would- be killers, these three men, are
:04:15. > :04:18.tonight starting live attendances. Mr Hussein would like to find
:04:18. > :04:21.everyone who has supported himself and his family through this
:04:21. > :04:27.horrific event. The family is pleased to see that justice has
:04:27. > :04:32.been done. The attempt on Mr Hussein's live came after a
:04:32. > :04:38.protracted feud between farmers in Pakistan, and an argument over a
:04:38. > :04:45.house had already left for one of Mr Hussein's relatives dead and Mr
:04:45. > :04:50.Hughes said's nephew in jail. It was an autumn night when Mr Hussain
:04:50. > :04:55.came home from work. He walked towards the front door and was shot
:04:55. > :05:00.three times. He told the court that he heard a noise like fireworks and
:05:00. > :05:05.felt a burning in his chest. As he fell to the ground, he looked up
:05:05. > :05:12.and saw a figure in dark clothing, pointing a handgun at him. After
:05:12. > :05:16.the shooting, the two men torched their stolen car but the attempt to
:05:16. > :05:21.cover their tracks failed. There was lots of circumstantial evidence.
:05:21. > :05:28.We had a numberplates that had been traced to a manufacturer in
:05:28. > :05:33.Birmingham and that led us on to the two men. When we looked at the
:05:33. > :05:38.phone records, they lead us back to the family dispute. The Hussain
:05:38. > :05:45.family did not want to appear on camera. Police still fear they
:05:45. > :05:51.could be reprisals. In sentencing, all three defendants to live in
:05:51. > :05:59.prison and with a ten-and-a-half year minimum sentence, the judge
:05:59. > :06:03.said that this was nothing less than an attempted execution. As one
:06:03. > :06:06.man was led from the dock, he shouted, thank you very much.
:06:06. > :06:10.A Southampton court had to be clear this morning during a hearing over
:06:10. > :06:13.the alleged murder of 22 year-old Jamie Dack. His badly burned body
:06:13. > :06:16.was found by fire crews on Easter Sunday in an industrial bin. Three
:06:16. > :06:20.men and one woman are charged with murder, false imprisonment and
:06:20. > :06:22.conspiracy to rob. Catharina Moh has the story.
:06:22. > :06:25.Appearing at Southampton Magistrates' today, Ryan Woodmansey,
:06:25. > :06:33.Andrew Dwyer-Skeats, Lee Nicholls and Donna Chalk, all aged between
:06:33. > :06:36.20 and 31 years old, charged with the murder of Jamie Dack. The 22
:06:37. > :06:41.year-old's body was found on Sunday after fire crews were called to the
:06:41. > :06:44.Empress Road Industrial Estate. As Donna Chalk and Ryan Woodmansey
:06:44. > :06:48.were led into court, they waved at the public gallery, which remained
:06:48. > :06:53.silent. The defendants spoke only to confirm their names, addresses
:06:53. > :06:56.and dates of birth. The prosecution told the hearing Mr Dack was
:06:56. > :07:03.kidnapped, held at an address in Southampton and attacked with a
:07:03. > :07:07.baseball bat. The next day he was stabbed to death, put in a bin and
:07:07. > :07:10.set on fire. As the defendants were led out, a member of the public
:07:10. > :07:14.shouted at one set of them and the court's public gallery was
:07:14. > :07:19.immediately cleared. The three men face an additional count of causing
:07:19. > :07:28.grievous bodily harm. All four have been remanded in custody to appear
:07:28. > :07:31.at Winchester Crown Court on Monday. Police are appealing for help to
:07:31. > :07:34.trace a man suspected of being involved in a fight on a street in
:07:35. > :07:38.Waterlooville, which led to a man's death. Police were called to Dove
:07:38. > :07:41.Close at 5:30am this morning. A 20 year-old man was taken to hospital
:07:41. > :07:44.where he was pronounced dead. Forensic examinations of the scene
:07:44. > :07:46.are taking place and police are trying to track down a suspect.
:07:46. > :07:54.They are appealing for any information that will help them
:07:54. > :07:57.locate 28 year-old Sean Thomas How much can you tell about a
:07:57. > :08:00.person in five minutes? Is it enough time to decide if they are
:08:00. > :08:03.worth voting for? Well, that is exactly what a specially selected
:08:03. > :08:13.group of people have been finding out for a political speed-dating
:08:13. > :08:18.
:08:18. > :08:27.event. Our political editor Peter Politicians want us to love them.
:08:27. > :08:30.At election time especially, they need our boats. But the Southampton
:08:30. > :08:36.residents at City College today were not going to be lulled by
:08:36. > :08:43.suites serenades. This was speed- dating. With just five minutes to
:08:43. > :08:46.get answers to tough questions. Karen wanted to impress on these
:08:46. > :08:54.politicians that they cuts are affecting disadvantaged young
:08:54. > :09:04.people. They do not understand how serious the issue is out there.
:09:04. > :09:04.
:09:04. > :09:10.bat is a sad situation? Yes. At the other end up the scale, this woman
:09:10. > :09:15.was pressing this MP. We cannot ignore the issues that will be
:09:15. > :09:21.facing us as a society for older people generally. The money has to
:09:21. > :09:26.be found somewhere or there has to be another strategy. It is not just
:09:26. > :09:29.the main parties. Here in Southampton, trade unions
:09:29. > :09:34.Socialists and the UK Independence Party who are also trying to win
:09:34. > :09:38.brakes on May 3rd. Some thought there simply is not enough time to
:09:39. > :09:44.decide. I could have done with ten minutes, really. Five minutes is
:09:44. > :09:49.pushing it. What is the most depressing thing small businesses
:09:49. > :09:53.need? We want to get involved in projects like the developments that
:09:53. > :09:58.has been announced in the next 20 years. Survey have had their five
:09:58. > :10:06.minutes. There is three weeks until we fed at the local election, so
:10:06. > :10:12.plenty of time to ponder the answers.
:10:12. > :10:17.Still to come, the Mayday messages from Titanic which helped to save
:10:17. > :10:20.hundreds of lives. One of two young Nigerian girls who
:10:20. > :10:23.went missing from Worthing has been tracked down in Spain after what
:10:23. > :10:27.police think may have been a case of human trafficking. The two girls,
:10:27. > :10:30.both aged 15, met when they arrived in the UK unaccompanied. They went
:10:30. > :10:33.missing on Good Friday afternoon, after saying they were going to
:10:33. > :10:37.church. The two girls later appeared in Valencia, having
:10:37. > :10:47.travelled there on false passports. One was stopped by border control
:10:47. > :10:49.
:10:49. > :10:52.but the other got through and is Now, as well as the centenary of
:10:52. > :10:54.the sinking of the Titanic, 100 years ago this week an organisation
:10:54. > :10:57.was formed which would change our armed forces and fundamentally
:10:57. > :11:01.change the way wars were fought. The Royal Flying Corps came into
:11:01. > :11:04.being on 13th April 1912 in Farnborough. It eventually became
:11:04. > :11:14.the Royal Air Force. Today a ceremony was held in Hampshire to
:11:14. > :11:18.
:11:18. > :11:23.The dawn of British military aviation, and Farnborough was right
:11:23. > :11:28.at the heart of it. Back then, this was an everyday sight in this
:11:28. > :11:34.corner of Hampshire. Today a replica biplane flew in to recreate
:11:34. > :11:42.that image. It was one of Britain's first purpose built military
:11:42. > :11:48.aircraft. And here it is in front of refurbished aircraft hangars.
:11:48. > :11:53.From 36 airplanes in 1912 to 32,000 by 1918, the Royal Flying Corps
:11:53. > :11:57.week proved its worth in the First World War. If you imagine the army
:11:58. > :12:06.stepped in trench warfare, you could have an aeroplane flying a
:12:06. > :12:12.few 1000 feet above, or taking safety -- safely taking photos of
:12:12. > :12:16.the enemy positions. It changed the whole nature of warfare. Today an
:12:16. > :12:23.exhibition opened to those magnificent men and women who built
:12:23. > :12:30.and flew Farnborough's fabulous but flimsy flying machines. Men like
:12:30. > :12:35.this lieutenant. Proud for my dad and me to see family members
:12:35. > :12:39.involved. The Royal Flying Corps was any in existence for six years.
:12:39. > :12:44.In 1918 it merged with the Royal Naval Air Service to form the RAF,
:12:44. > :12:54.and this is the office of the man who made -- happen, Lord from
:12:54. > :12:56.
:12:56. > :12:59.charge. Vanbrugh -- a fan barrette has been at the forefront.
:12:59. > :13:03.marvellous day to reflect on the things that have not changed. The
:13:03. > :13:12.ambition of the people and the courage of those that serve.
:13:12. > :13:22.history encapsulated in today's fly past. With the modern-day Apache
:13:22. > :13:23.
:13:23. > :13:28.100 years of the rial -- Royal Flying Corps tomorrow.
:13:28. > :13:34.Sport and we are looking ahead to Saturday's Grand National. A great
:13:34. > :13:38.event. Talk about tradition and history. A great story to talk
:13:38. > :13:44.about tonight. It involves a little bit of history. When the trainers
:13:44. > :13:49.gathered together at Aintree this year many will remember Josh
:13:49. > :13:53.Gifford who died this year. The famous who won the race back in
:13:53. > :14:00.1981. Now one of his protege's will be hoping to follow in his
:14:00. > :14:07.footsteps with victory in one of the toughest races of will.
:14:07. > :14:13.It is 31 years since this caused overcame serious injury and his
:14:13. > :14:16.jockey beat cancer her to win the Grand National. Since the death of
:14:16. > :14:22.trainer Josh Gifford two months ago, there is one man who would
:14:22. > :14:28.particularly like to win the race in memory of his former boss. When
:14:28. > :14:35.the champion retired as deferred's main jockey, this map took over. A
:14:35. > :14:43.victory at Aintree would be an emotional achievement. By a road
:14:43. > :14:53.all the Nazi -- I wrote that horse. I did not win the Grand National as
:14:53. > :14:57.
:14:57. > :15:04.a jockey. It would be wonderful to As the final touches are applied,
:15:04. > :15:09.the tension is building. I am feeling the nerves coming are now.
:15:09. > :15:14.Very excited about it. He is feeling so well. He is probably the
:15:14. > :15:24.best he has ever felt so he can only be excited. Can't wait for the
:15:24. > :15:30.big day. The horse's moved to Sussex has paid off. We are very
:15:30. > :15:37.lucky here. There are two miles of bridleways and fantastic scenery
:15:37. > :15:41.and hill walking. It was starting from scratch with the jumping.
:15:41. > :15:51.Right back to basics. We built him up gradually and fortunately it did
:15:51. > :15:53.
:15:53. > :16:03.the trick. The arts are 66-1 for Tatenen to win the Grand National.
:16:03. > :16:08.Just think what a change of scenery A little extra to mention in this
:16:08. > :16:12.story, Tatenen's jockey will be Andrew Thornton, not only likely to
:16:12. > :16:18.be the oldest racer in the race at 39, but also the only one wearing
:16:18. > :16:23.contact lenses. Thunderstorms, lightning, not
:16:23. > :16:29.exactly cricketing weather but this was the scene a short time ago.
:16:29. > :16:34.Look at the Screen on the left-hand side by these floodlight. Ben Dando
:16:34. > :16:42.ironing. This was Hampshire's first County Championship game of
:16:42. > :16:52.December against Gloucester. They stayed on at the bit a bit longer.
:16:52. > :17:04.
:17:04. > :17:09.And tomorrow night, we are at St Mary's. It is the biggest game in
:17:09. > :17:16.the season so far, Southampton versus Redding.
:17:16. > :17:22.E British Titanic Society -- the British Titanic Society has been
:17:22. > :17:28.around today to lay memorials in Southampton. Members of the society
:17:28. > :17:35.braved the weather to place their tributes to the musicians, who also
:17:35. > :17:39.received a wreath from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. And
:17:39. > :17:45.a service of remembrance will be held in Godalming in Sunday -- in
:17:45. > :17:52.Surrey this sundeck. It was home to Jack Phillips, one of 1,500 people
:17:52. > :17:57.who died in the disaster. He was the wireless operator whose SOS
:17:58. > :18:01.messages saved many of those who survived.
:18:01. > :18:05.We are at Charterhouse in Godalming where amateur radio enthusiasts
:18:05. > :18:10.have set up their own station in honour of Jack Phillips. They have
:18:10. > :18:14.even got Titanic's call sign. They have made contact with thousands of
:18:14. > :18:18.people around the world. They are on to Arizona and Easter Bush at
:18:19. > :18:26.the moment. They have also contacted Peru and India. For Jack
:18:26. > :18:31.Phillips the scent distress messages. It fell out of favour
:18:31. > :18:36.after the Titanic sank and was replaced by SOS. But that message
:18:36. > :18:40.nevertheless helped to replace -- save hundreds of lives.
:18:40. > :18:45.Jack Phillips learnt Morse code at the Post Office and went on to work
:18:45. > :18:48.on several liners after being employed by Marconi. The night's
:18:48. > :18:53.big Titanic sank, Jack and his colleague were busy sending a
:18:53. > :18:58.backlog of passengers messages. They received another warning, this
:18:58. > :19:08.time from the issue closes to them, the SS Californian. Dacre plight,
:19:08. > :19:11.
:19:11. > :19:19.keep out. You are damning might An hour later and Titanic was in
:19:19. > :19:23.trouble. Jack cent distress manages which were picked up by his old
:19:23. > :19:29.friend on another ship, which steams to the rescue. Freezing
:19:29. > :19:36.water began lapping at their ankles in the radio room. Jack doggedly
:19:36. > :19:46.continued to transmit. At one point, a stoker burst in and try to take
:19:46. > :19:49.
:19:49. > :19:56.it off him. The stoker try to take his life jacket. He would have had
:19:56. > :20:00.a life jacket in his locker anyway. Jack sent a message to the other
:20:00. > :20:10.ship, come as quickly as possible, old man. The engine room is filling
:20:10. > :20:16.
:20:16. > :20:20.That was the last anyone heard from Jack Phillips. He made it on to an
:20:20. > :20:24.upturned collapsible lifeboat but died and his body was never found.
:20:24. > :20:28.For two years later, the lodges memorial to one person lost on the
:20:28. > :20:33.Titanic was opened in got will ring. As you can see in this rare footage,
:20:33. > :20:43.hundreds turned up. Among the great and the good, Jack's father, on the
:20:43. > :20:47.right. Four women suffragists collected the money and they wanted
:20:47. > :20:52.something beautiful and something of use, something people could
:20:52. > :20:57.enjoy in future generations. Work to repair vandalism was completed
:20:57. > :21:01.with a lottery grant of more than �300,000, but she's not the only
:21:02. > :21:08.memorial. The one which hunk in the Post Office where he worked had
:21:08. > :21:11.been missing for years until very recently. A woman walked into the
:21:11. > :21:15.Post Office with this and donated it to the museum. Because we have
:21:15. > :21:21.been doing the research for the exhibition I knew right away what
:21:21. > :21:27.it was and I was absolutely amazed. It was made by Jack's old
:21:27. > :21:31.headmaster. It is very much in the Arts and Crafts tradition of their
:21:31. > :21:36.British -- Arts and Crafts tradition of a rounded education,
:21:37. > :21:44.been able to work with your hands. And Jack's headmaster said he was
:21:44. > :21:51.not very academic but did work well with his hands and had a good sense
:21:51. > :21:59.of duty. There was a Jack Phillips a day up until the 1950s. There was
:21:59. > :22:06.a poor rate and the flak was blown. Art has to read of recently and --
:22:06. > :22:11.that has died off recently but I hope we can revive it. They are
:22:11. > :22:15.trying to persuade a new pub chain to name its pubs the Jack Phillips.
:22:15. > :22:19.As you can see, technology has moved on since 1912. The only time
:22:19. > :22:25.most of us will hear more scope nowadays is when you get a text
:22:25. > :22:34.message on your mobile phone. That is actually remorse for a house
:22:34. > :22:40.arrests. -- that is actually more scope for S N S. You can come and
:22:40. > :22:46.see these men here on Saturday and Sunday afternoon.
:22:46. > :22:53.We invited relatives with stories are the Titanic to shed their
:22:54. > :22:57.stories with us. This woman's mother was on board.
:22:57. > :23:03.She heard a crash and then a shudder and a shiver through the
:23:03. > :23:09.ship. Then it went backwards and forwards to all three times and
:23:09. > :23:13.then the ship stopped. They are lots of stories like that one about
:23:13. > :23:17.relatives on board the Titanic. So many that we do not attack to show
:23:17. > :23:22.the more on Saturday. We have compiled them all online so they
:23:22. > :23:27.you can browse them at your leisure. Just go to the website. You can
:23:27. > :23:35.also catch up with the films we have had on side today in case you
:23:35. > :23:41.missed any of them. -- on South Today. The weather. Thunderstorms
:23:41. > :23:47.right across the South? Yes, that lightning at the cricket. And right
:23:47. > :23:50.across the South we have hap thunderstorms, lightning, hailed.
:23:50. > :24:00.People do really enjoy it thunderstorms but we have dramatic
:24:00. > :24:01.
:24:01. > :24:08.That was just after lightning struck and the telegraph pole
:24:08. > :24:12.caught fire, but it has now been restored. The family of this house
:24:12. > :24:19.were not hurt but they were left shaken.
:24:19. > :24:22.That the ban mining throughout much of the day. The hailstones as well,
:24:22. > :24:28.but glad to see these guys are gradually clearing through the
:24:28. > :24:35.weekend -- through the night. Will the next couple of hours, perhaps a
:24:35. > :24:39.few more storms, perhaps with hail and thunder. Gradually those
:24:39. > :24:42.showers ease away and we are left with clearing skies, temperatures
:24:42. > :24:48.as a result dipping down to freezing in some of our towns and
:24:48. > :24:51.cities. Cooler in the countryside. You can see a bit of frost to take
:24:51. > :24:56.this into first thing tomorrow morning. So mist and murk around in
:24:56. > :25:00.parts as well. But generally tomorrow, shaping up to be a bit of
:25:00. > :25:05.a crisp and bright start to the day. We will see their showers returning
:25:05. > :25:11.but for tomorrow, not quite as happy and not as many of them as we
:25:11. > :25:16.have seen today. So we will see some good sunny intervals and in
:25:16. > :25:23.those places temperatures are rock to around 14 degrees. Through to
:25:23. > :25:31.Brownite, a bit of a -- through to tomorrow night, a bit of a repeat
:25:31. > :25:35.performance. Damp into the early hours taking us into a bit of a
:25:35. > :25:43.slow start for Saturday morning. Another she won. A touch of frost.
:25:43. > :25:48.As we look ahead to the weekend, we can see these isobars coming from a
:25:48. > :25:52.northerly direction. That will bring as much cooler air. We have
:25:52. > :25:58.had some relatively mild conditions but starting to feel much fresh air
:25:58. > :26:01.through the weekend. Generally quite a cloudy picture. One or two
:26:01. > :26:06.showers. But few of them and there will be some brighter skies at
:26:06. > :26:10.times. In the overnight period we will start to see those