25/04/2012 South Today

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South Today. In tonight's programme...

Hampshire police are being investigated following the death of

a young man found in a bin. Open for business - the �20 million

rapid transit route. And disappointment for the marathon

runner who won't be going to the Olympics. It was a difficult thing

to watch Euro Olympic dream disappear after at 18 or 19 miles.

Hampshire Constabulary is being investigated following the death of

Jamie Dack, whose burnt body was found in a bin in Southampton

earlier this month. It has emerged that an alleged assault on the 22-

year-old was reported to police more than two weeks before he was

found dead. The force has asked the Independent Police Complaints

Commission to examine the actions of its officers. Rachael Canter has

the story. Jamie Dack's body was discovered

here on the Empress Road Industrial Estate by Firefighters on Easter

Sunday. He had been stabbed in the neck several times, put in a bin

and set on fire. Police say he had been kidnapped and held before

being killed. Just over two weeks earlier, on March 21st, officers

were told Jamie had been assaulted. Police were then contacted again

when Jamie was reported missing two days before he was found dead.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission is examining what

officers did after receiving this information. Its Commissioner said

today, "It is my duty to ensure we apply our independent scrutiny to

apply our independent scrutiny to hampshire Constabulary's management

of the assault allegation, as well as how information they received

regarding Mr Dack was progressed." Hampshire Constabulary says it

asked the IPCC to carry out an independent investigation, saying

today... "Hampshire Constabulary voluntarily referred the matter to

the IPCC. Detectives from the major investigation team are continuing

to lead the criminal investigation into Jamie Dack's murder for which

Jamie Dack had been staying here at a hostel for homeless young people

in the weeks leading to his death. Staff were working to find him a

permanent home. His family have called him a loving son and brother

who liked to chat and made friends easily. Three men and a woman have

been charged with Jamie's murder, false imprisonment and conspiracy

to rob. They are due back in court The jury in the trial of a man

accused of murdering his girlfriend has been shown CCTV footage of her

last night out. Emily Longley was from New Zealand but was living

with her grandparents as she was studying at Brockenhurst College.

The 17-year-old was found in Elliot These are the last moving pictures

of Emily Longley. The jury at winchester crown court was shown

this CCTV footage from Cafe Shore in Sandbanks, taken on May 6th last

year. Emily had rowed with Eliot Turner and gone alone with friends.

Oliver George, a mutual friend, said Mr Turner had criticised her,

saying she was dressed inappropriately and would attract

other boys. Emily told him she would wear whatever she wanted.

Eliot Turner suspected she was seeing someone else and followed

her to Cafe Shore. The jurors read text messages from her friends

claiming he had a hissy fit and tried to punch her. At this point

Emily leaves, shortly afterwards Eliot emerges. Oliver George told

the court he was shouting "She's ruined my life, she's twisted my

heart." The jury was also shown CCTV footage taken a week earlier

at the Bella Rosa bar in Canford cliffs. The prosecution allege Mr

Turner assaulted emily off camera, smashing her head against a table.

Seven days later the 17-year-old's body was found in mr Turner's bed

at his parent's house in The prosecution says he strangled

her. Elliot Turner denies murder and attempting to pervert the

course of justice. His parents are accused of covering up for him.

They also deny attempting to pervert the course of justice, and

The wild weather this morning seriously disrupted ferry services

and brought down several trees across the south. On Southsea sea

front, five storeys of scaffolding were blown down from the Royal

Beach Hotel. Luckily the painting team had not started work and no-

one was hurt. But the scaffolding fell onto half a dozen cars parked

below and some local residents had a narrow escape.

I thought maybe a tree had come down or something, but it wasn't.

Blair looked out of my window across the road and I saw it fall

down, with all the balcony, as well. I think I have a bit of the balcony

in my flat, because it blew across. I have a large piece of black cast

iron with loads of nails that smashed into my window.

More on the weather and its impact on the hosepipe ban, or not, lead

to run the programme, and we will have the forecast for you. -- later

on in the programme. The insurance company Zurich is to shed almost

180 jobs in Hampshire. More than 160 of those jobs will go at the

company's Whiteley offices, and the remainder in Farnborough.

The company says the job losses are the result of restructuring

following the launch of a new online car insurance product.

Southern Electric are taking on 200 new staff at their call centre in

Havant. The new employees will be ringing customers to make sure they

are on the cheapest tarif. The company employs 2,600 people in

Havant. It has already had applications from staff at British

Gas in Southampton, who learnt their jobs were under threat

earlier this week. We will definitely consider

applications. We want to look at the personality, but we are careful

to make sure the people we employ care for customers. We will

definitely considerate, and I know that about 20 people from British

Gas have already approached us about a bowl, so there is some

opportunity there. -- about role. A �20 million rapid

transit system linking Fareham and Gosport has been officially opened.

The disused railway line between the two towns has been converted

into a busway. It runs parallel to one of the region's most congested

roads. But how much difference will it make? Let's join our Transport

Correspondent Paul Clifton, who's in Gosport this evening.

It has taken decades of debate to get these buses on to a completed

bus way. Originally this was going to be a tram system, diving into a

tunnel beneath Portsmouth Harbour. That proved too expensive, so

instead we have these buses on a �25 million system stretching from

Gosport into Fareham. And passengers really like it.

Only buses are allowed to use this brand new road. There is one every

seven minutes. It is a much better transport link

for me to Fareham. I'd hate sitting in traffic, but as my one problem

with Gosport, it is one road income of one road out.

I don't think it will reduce traffic at all, which is what I

believe it was designed for. A small number of opponents took

their case all the way to the Supreme Court. That trick --

delayed construction by an ear. I personally don't think it will

make a lot of difference except you have some very classy buses burning

on the route. I don't think it will make any difference to the town at

either end. The A32 between Fareham and Gosport

is busy. What is not clear is how much traffic venue but this will

remove. We're talking about hundreds of

thousands of passengers using the past it -- service each year. A bus

carrying 50 people can take 50 cars of the road.

Compare it with the Cambridge guided bus way which opened last

summer. Using 60 miles of disused railway, it is the longest in the

world. It has already carried one million passengers, but it also

cost �180 million. In time, Hampshire plans to spend much more

than that. On the next phase and the one after

that, and after that, we will net - - need to spend about �2 billion

over the next ten years in South East Hampshire's overall transport

interest -- transport integration and infrastructure. Transport is

one of those things you need to measure over decades.

Passengers can keep up with BBC News and weather at the bus-stops.

But this afternoon most bosses here have been largely empty.

This is part of a bigger plant system. The council owns another

one mile of disused railway. It has planning permission, but does not

have the money. No one is willing to tell me how many passengers this

system is projected to carry. Will it really take cars of the

congested A32? It might. But, experience elsewhere it suggests

one up -- 1% or 2% of traffic is a likely figure.

Workers at Ford, which has a Transit van factory at Swaythling

near Southampton, are to be balloted nationally over industrial

action. The Unite union says the decision follows concerns over

plans to close the company's final salary pension scheme and what it

says are attempts to create a two- tier pay structure.

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

Going with the ice floe - rowing to the north pole. We hear about the

adventure from one of the intrepid rowers.

It is the diagnosis no-one wants to hear. Finding out you or a loved

one has cancer can be one of the most difficult events anyone has to

face. But a hospital that treats the disease in Berkshire is hoping

to make that news a little easier to handle. Former cancer patients

in Reading have helped create a film which will be given to

patients from today. Ben Moore reports.

My youngest was four years old. I sat them down and had to tell

them all that I had cancer. He to must surely be one of the most

frightening moments in life. -- it must surely be.

My daughter became upset, she was 13 at the time. I thought, if only

I had something I could have slotted in the DVD machine, we

could have sat there and I could have said to them, do you want to

watch something with me and learn a little about it?

Trudy has been fighting cancer for the best part of a decade and is

the driving force behind a simple idea.

There are different teams for different types of cancer...

And DVD that shows every facet of what a cancer patient will have to

go through, made by patient, for patients.

The Royal Berkshire Hospital diagnoses around 2,500 people per

year with cancer and many end up here on the chemotherapy ward, some

for up to six hours per day. The hospital says the fight against

cancer for the most part is in the mind, and with this DVD they're

hoping to prepare patients mentally for the fate of their lives.

The hospital already claims success in its cancer treatment. After

three years, 90 % of children treated are cured and 50 % of

adults. It insists the DVD in no way replaces conventional support

for patients. What often happens, even if you

come up with a relative or friend, you forget to ask things. There is

also an element that people like to take away things. With a DVD, it is

in addition to the face-to-face work, it does not replace anything,

it supplements it up. So at times you do not know what

the questions are, so sometimes you get the feel for, all, right, I

would like to know more about that. That is what that word means.

Every cancer patient will get a DVD at the point of diagnosis. Trudy

and the Royal Berkshire hope it will make a difference at the start

of a very difficult journey. Cancer patients will be a other cancer

patients. As April showers go the rain we've had so far this month

has been pretty remarkable. In the last 24 hours Wiggonholt, near

Pulborough in West Sussex, saw 27mm of rain, which is just over an inch.

But despite the deluge, hosepipe bans remain in force across much of

the region. So, is the wet spell set to make any difference to the

water shortage? Briony Leyland reports.

Do not everyone is as unruffled as the docks by the downpours, but as

the drenching continues we can take comfort that the rain is much-

needed. How much rain would ease pressure on water supplies? The

answer, according to the Environment Agency, is a lot more

than we have had so far. This will run off and disappear

very rapidly. This is a stream near all its food,

feeding into a river which supplies 4,500 people with water. After a

normal winter it would be flowing fast, but we have had two dry

winters and a very dry March. We have had about two quarters of -

- three-quarters of the rainfall in the past two years. It will not

make up for hundreds of millimetres of rain like and that will not

happen for another winter. The rivers are fed by rain, and

when there is enough of it water from the River Ouse is pumped in.

South East Water say that despite the wet weather level Savell

leaders and by 2% in the last three weeks.

The his reservoir should be full up and it is still only at 57 %, so

coming into the summer period we are still way off. We're looking

for weeks, if not months, of rain before we are close to resource

levels being back to where they should be. A all that means

hosepipe ban is will remain in place.

Keen gardeners Simon Hodson is resigned to a summer of self

reliance when it comes to making his garden grow. His top tip -

layers of mulch. But it's down to a good depth,

three off four inches. That reduces the need for watering

and gives healthier plants which are better able to resist pests and

diseases, and also drought. Water but sales soared in March, a

precious resource when the rain cannot fall fast enough.

Last summer a team of five rowers aimed to become the first to row a

boat to the magnetic North pole, a point that had only ever been

reached across solid ice. A BBC camera crew followed the incredible

journey for a documentary being shown tonight. In their tiny boat,

the team navigated some of the world's most remote seaways, taking

on fast-flowing sea ice that could crush their boat and roaming polar

bears. Rob Sleep from Lymington was part of the team, and he joins me

in the studio now. What was the idea behind the trip?

It was a boy's own adventure, the thing to highlight was the fact it

is now possible. Ten years ago it would not be possible to roll in

these waters because it would have been ice. That is presumably

something, presumably people talk about global warming?

Yes, the difference has stuck at -- is stark. We have been involved in

expeditions previously, but a three or four years ago it would not be

possible, it has changed that fast. How difficult is this? It was a 22

gauge any come and I understand at times you had to drag it across

ice? Yes, the first ten days we were

expecting ice and there was nothing there, which is a sign of how much

has melted. The second half it really kicked in. We had fast-

flowing ice. Presumably this is not a straight

line you were going, either. 450 miles from here to there, it was

not like that, was it? No, lots of weaving around, and you

would spend half an hour or an hour going in one direction only to find

it was blanked off and you would have become all the way back again.

The most dangerous moment for you? Being trapped in the race, having

to lift the boat, but probably the most dangerous would be dealing

with polar bears. We had one particular moment where a beer was

probably within five or ten feet of a tent with two of our Crook

slipping inside. What do you do in those situations?

We had all been trained, but fortunately we had one guy still

awake writing a blog and he distracted the bear as much as he

could whilst I got out with a really loud bang and that the shoot

in the air and it scares the bear away. We're so foreign to them that

they are on edge anyway. It is a fantastic adventure and you

have come back with amazing footage, and we will see more of it tonight.

Thank you so much for being with us this evening.

And you can see Rowing The Arctic And you can see Rowing The Arctic

And you can see Rowing The Arctic tonight at 10.45pm here on BBC One.

And now on to support. Chris Temple, listing to that one polar bears.

That was a little scary, wasn't it? Brighton and Hove Albion Football

Club has been given permission for a big increase in capacity at its

stadium at Falmer. The Amex, as it is known, only opened last summer,

but every match there has sold-out. Today the city council approved

8,000 more seats within the existing structure of the stadium,

taking the capacity to more than 30,000. The club says it will mean

an even greater boost to the local economy.

We have sold over 230,000 pies, and the lady that makes them has had to

expand her factory. We have sold thousands of pints of ale and they

have had to increase production. Everyone has benefited.

The administrators running Portsmouth Football Club have made

four staff redundant today, including club ambassador Linvoy

Primus. Former player Primus had previously had his role reduced to

part-time. Up to 30 other staff have had their pay and hours cut.

Primus told BBC South he would maintain his links with the club.

Meanwhile, administrator Trevor Birch will hold a creditors meeting

at Fratton Park tomorrow. Surrey batsman Mark Ramprakash has

been disciplined by the England and Wales Cricket Board after an

incident in a recent game against Worcestershire. The 42-year-old was

given three penalty points by the ECB for using obscene, offensive or

insulting language. Ramprakash now has six points on his record, with

one further indiscretion likely to lead to a suspension.

Surrey play Durham tomorrow in the County Championship, while Sussex

will have England's Matt Prior back for their game against Warwickshire.

In Division Two, Hampshire host Leicestershire. Two sailors from

Southampton are racing close to the leading part of the fleet, in their

first ever transatlantic ocean race. Sam Goodchild and Nick Cherry -

aboard the 33ft Artemis - are four days into the AG2R race, from

Concarneau in France to St Barts in the Caribbean.

They are the only British crew in the event, and currently lie eighth

out of 16th boats. We will keep an eye on their progress as the race

continues. How do you deal with shattered

sporting dreams? That's what Hampshire's Louise Damen is facing

up to now. She went into Sunday's London Marathon on the back of

months of hard training in an attempt to book her place at London

2012. But, she fell short. So I went to find out today how she's

been dealing with the disappointment.

Everyone was talking about these three.

For Louise, the road to London ended on the roads of London. To

have a chance of taking the one available Olympic place, the

Winchester based athlete needed to finish as the first British woman

home. There was no holding back. I went out with pace and paid the

price for that a little later in the stages of the race.

Having giving up a job to focus on training full-time, Louise left

little to chance, but then came the realisation Olympic golds were

running away with her. The most difficult thing was

watching you Olympic dream disappear up the road after around

1890 miles. That is sport. A at 29, lilies is still relatively young

for a marathon runner. London is only her third race over

the distance, and she will be a prime age come the next Olympics in

Rio de Janeiro. There is plenty to look forward to,

the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Rio de Janeiro, the World Athletics

Championships in London, as well. Plenty of targets.

Soul, while pangs of disappointment prevail at the moment, by the time

the Olympics arrive in London, Louise will be a fan.

I love sport, obviously the teensy -- teensy be guys will run really

well and it will be great to see what they can do on the world stage.

I will enjoy it. -- Team Gb. There's been another remarkable

success for New Forest-based triathlete Barbara Walton. She took

gold in her age group at the European Championships in Israel,

to add to the title she won in Spain last year. Barbara, from

Exbury, only took up running to keep fit after a successful battle

against breast cancer, and now she's dominating the triathlon

scene across Europe. Family, Reading's promotion parade.

Where does it start? There are full details on that

their website, and there will be an open-top bus. Well done

entertainment. Get that sunshine out, that is what

I say. It is a little iffy for Sunday.

Is it? Potentially.

I don't think it will dampen the spirits.

No. Forget about the rain, you could have a rain dance, couldn't

you? We don't want any more rain.

Actually, we do. We have a lot more rain and the

forecast, unfortunately. I have some portals for Today, Eddie rain

at times come rumbles of thunder and like income as well. Parts of

Sussex, 27 mm. Just over one inch of rainfall falling in a short

period of time, in the last 24 hours. There is still a Met Office

warning in force for rain. That stays in force until around 11pm

this evening. Further showers, heavy, perhaps thundery with

hailstones. Gradually moving northwards, the heavier bursts

north of the M4 corridor. Temperatures overnight will be mild,

11 Aug ten Celsius. A further showers, liked by dawn. Gusts of up

to 35 mph. Limited brightness to start tomorrow, then some rumbles

of thunder, showers slow-moving, winds will be lighter than today,

temperatures up despite the showers, a high of 13 Celsius. Tomorrow

night showers will continue, particularly for the north of the

region. A low Mike -- a low overnight of eat-ten Celsius. --

eight Celsius or ten Celsius. There will be some sunny spells owns up -

- on Friday, on Saturday a low develops in the South, rain

arriving in the second part of the day. A wet end to start to become a

potentially a wet start to Sunday. Drier conditions will develop as

the day wears on. Here is the summary for the rest of the week.

Showers tomorrow, gale-force winds gusting along the south coast.