:00:06. > :00:09.Hello, I'm Sally Taylor. Welcome to South Today. In tonight's
:00:09. > :00:14.programme: Must do better - teams of inspectors go into Portsmouth
:00:14. > :00:20.schools to find out why many have been near the bottom of the class.
:00:20. > :00:23.If we are not seeing a picture that is improving quick enough, then it
:00:23. > :00:26.is important that we continue to challenge the local authority to
:00:26. > :00:29.bring about more rapid improvement. Every little helps - more than
:00:29. > :00:35.1,000 jobs are being created at Tesco's new Reading distribution
:00:35. > :00:39.centre. From landfill to lorry fuel - how methane from rotting rubbish
:00:39. > :00:41.is being used to power a fleet of heavy goods vehicles. And just
:00:41. > :00:51.champion - a world class opening for a cycle route across
:00:51. > :00:57.Winchester's Hockley viaduct. fantastic, hopefully a lot of
:00:57. > :01:07.children will use it and they can follow my foot steps and keep the
:01:07. > :01:10.Olympic legacy going. Teams of Ofsted school inspectors descended
:01:10. > :01:13.on Portsmouth today to begin a week of intensive inspections in the
:01:13. > :01:16.city. It's only the second time Ofsted has taken this approach -
:01:16. > :01:18.they say they're doing it to find out why the city has a
:01:18. > :01:21.disproportionate number of under- performing schools. Their most
:01:21. > :01:23.recent figures show only 34% of secondary school children attend a
:01:23. > :01:26.good or better than good school. For primary school children the
:01:26. > :01:29.figure is just over 50%. Portsmouth City Council says performance has
:01:29. > :01:32.improved since those figures were published last year. It says the
:01:32. > :01:34.figure for secondary schools has now risen to 53.5% and 65% for
:01:34. > :01:44.primary schools. But, as Briony Leyland reports, the message for
:01:44. > :02:02.
:02:02. > :02:11.the city is still "must do better". Port mouth's Lord Nelson school is
:02:11. > :02:17.a good school and offstead rates some of its work as outstanding.
:02:17. > :02:22.But not so many schools are doing well. I live in a different area
:02:22. > :02:27.for both catchment areas for my two children. It depends how hard you
:02:27. > :02:34.want the fight to get them into the school. We have been lucky.
:02:34. > :02:38.council says progress is being made, but Ofsted is taking the step of
:02:38. > :02:41.inspecting seven in one week to get what it calls a powerful snapshot
:02:41. > :02:45.of their performance and the support they're getting from the
:02:45. > :02:50.council. I have been monitoring the progress of all my authorities and
:02:50. > :02:53.I'm clear that there has been improvement in Portsmouth, I don't
:02:53. > :02:56.dispute that. I still think that the standards are not good enough
:02:56. > :03:03.and that the expectations need to continually be high, to be
:03:03. > :03:06.challenged and the parents and the pupils of Portsmouth deserve a good
:03:06. > :03:11.education. Ofsted acknowledges Portsmouth faces challenge, such as
:03:11. > :03:17.high levels of deprivation. But it says similar areas have better
:03:17. > :03:23.provision. The council says it has made big improves, an extra �15.5
:03:23. > :03:28.million to raise standards has been protected in this year's budget and
:03:28. > :03:34.another �500,000 from a chair tabl - charitable fund. You're spending
:03:34. > :03:36.more than last year. Yes. Do you think its enough? At this time we
:03:36. > :03:41.have an upward trajectory and we are confident that we are doing the
:03:41. > :03:45.right thing and the schools will have additional school pupil
:03:45. > :03:51.premium and that will help them. Once Ofsted has completed its work,
:03:51. > :03:56.there are two possible jut comes. - - outcomes, either it will tell the
:03:56. > :04:01.council it is doing enough, or it will say it is not. And in that
:04:01. > :04:06.case, the council wit will face an Ofsted inspection 06 its own as
:04:06. > :04:09.inspectors look at its school improvement service. A Hampshire
:04:09. > :04:12.school severely criticised by a tribunal for excluding a pupil with
:04:12. > :04:15.disabilities after she claimed she was raped by fellow students, has
:04:15. > :04:17.been ordered to pay costs to her family. Stanbridge Earls school
:04:17. > :04:19.near Romsey, which provides boarding and day education for
:04:19. > :04:22.children with special needs, was found to have discriminated against
:04:22. > :04:25.the girl and to have failed to protect her. Her family will
:04:25. > :04:35.receive �80,000 in costs. The school says it is implementing
:04:35. > :04:38.
:04:38. > :04:41.recommendations both from Ofsted and the tribunal. The supermarket
:04:41. > :04:44.giant Tesco has confirmed that it will open a new distribution centre
:04:44. > :04:47.in Reading in May. It'll create more than 1,000 jobs. The company
:04:47. > :04:50.is closing three other centres and moving some employees, but it's
:04:50. > :05:00.promising to offer 85 jobs to people from the town who've been
:05:00. > :05:05.
:05:05. > :05:10.unemployed for more than six months. Joe Campbell reports. The race is
:05:10. > :05:16.on to complete the warehouse ready for it to open in two months time.
:05:16. > :05:20.It is a huge job, working on a building that could swallow the
:05:20. > :05:24.near by football stadium several times over. Look at the numbers,
:05:24. > :05:29.they go up to 160 and that is how many lorries this site will be able
:05:29. > :05:34.to handle once it opens for business in May. The trucks will
:05:34. > :05:39.leave here every hour, seven days a week to service some 4 hundred
:05:39. > :05:46.Tesco stores in the south from what those who are fitting it out say is
:05:46. > :05:51.one of the biggest sites of its kind in Europe. But is more the job
:05:51. > :05:55.that matter. It is over 1,000 jobs and part of that is what we have
:05:55. > :06:00.called a regeneration partnership and we have 50 regeneration
:06:00. > :06:03.partnerships in our stores. This is the first one we have done with a
:06:03. > :06:07.distribution centre. The partnership will guarantee jobs for
:06:07. > :06:13.long-term unemployed. That is important in a town that felt the
:06:13. > :06:21.loss of the old brewery that occupied the site. Reading is a
:06:21. > :06:27.magnet for hi-tech firms, but other jobs have been been declining.
:06:27. > :06:32.about previous experiences, I went on a training course and nothing
:06:32. > :06:38.happened. I'm still waiting for that phone call. Tesco won't tempt
:06:38. > :06:45.Adam here to abandon existing plans by joining the army. I won't do
:06:45. > :06:53.that. Why not? I need a job. You don't get paid enough. I think it
:06:53. > :06:58.is only �10 an hour. For others, the start of the recruitment
:06:58. > :07:00.process this week can't come soon enough. Rotting household waste is
:07:00. > :07:03.being used instead of increasingly expensive diesel to run fleets of
:07:03. > :07:06.lorries here in the South. The biggest landfill site in Surrey is
:07:06. > :07:10.being used to produce methane gas which is filtered and used as
:07:10. > :07:14.vehicle fuel - the first place in Europe to do so. The DIY chain B&Q
:07:14. > :07:16.is running 50 lorries on it. And other companies are trying it too -
:07:16. > :07:26.tapping into energy that would otherwise just vanish. Our
:07:26. > :07:32.
:07:32. > :07:37.Transport Correspondent Paul Clifton reports. This is is the
:07:37. > :07:42.biggest landfill site in Surrey. Millions of tonnes of waste slowly
:07:42. > :07:49.rotting. That releases methane gas. It is collected in these pipes that
:07:49. > :07:54.work like wells, drilled into the rubbish. Near biit is purified and
:07:54. > :08:00.clild until it becomes liquid. -- chilled until it becomes liquid.
:08:00. > :08:05.This is the only place in Europe producing liquid biome thane and
:08:05. > :08:11.the landfill site here could power up to 1,300 lorrys a year for the
:08:11. > :08:15.next decade. The fuel is taken away by tanker. It is blended with
:08:15. > :08:23.imported liquefied natural gas. The two products are Kemically
:08:23. > :08:29.identical. We can deliver savings in cash, real terms cash of 20%
:08:29. > :08:36.compared to diesel. But we can also deliver significant carbon savings
:08:36. > :08:45.as well. Between 20 and 30%. miles away in Swindon the methane
:08:45. > :08:51.is used to powary fleet of 50 B&Q lorries. This depot supplies all
:08:51. > :08:58.stores in southern and south-west England and Wales. The lorries run
:08:58. > :09:02.on both diesel and gas. The cost of converting a lorry is around
:09:02. > :09:09.�25,000. The fuel is cheap enough to pay that back in two or three
:09:09. > :09:15.years. Are they any different to drive? No, once they come into dual
:09:15. > :09:23.fuel mode you don't realise. It is cheaper to run the trucks, and it
:09:23. > :09:29.delivers an environmental benefit. B&Q is the biggest customer for the
:09:29. > :09:38.fuel, but others have tried it out. The makers say the fuel is
:09:38. > :09:46.commercially viable, cheaper than diesel and largely going to waste.
:09:46. > :09:50.The man who murdered a Dorset mother has won the right to appeal
:09:50. > :09:54.against his conviction in Italy for another murder. Danilo Restivo
:09:54. > :10:00.while in prison here, an Italian court found him guilty of the
:10:00. > :10:04.murder of 16-year-old Elisa Claps. He will appear in court next month
:10:05. > :10:07.in it 4. Before returning to Britain to serve the rest of his
:10:07. > :10:14.sentence. Still to come in this evening's South Today: Dani steps
:10:14. > :10:17.up a gear to join cyclists on the a new route near Winchester. Tributes
:10:17. > :10:21.have been paid to a lively and bubbly 16-year-old girl killed in a
:10:21. > :10:24.scooter crash in Dorset. Jade Clark, who was a young fire fighter, died
:10:24. > :10:33.on the A31 near Ringwood on Sunday evening. The teenager, who was from
:10:33. > :10:36.Ringwood, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. The
:10:36. > :10:39.finishing post is in sight in the Eastleigh by-election, with just
:10:39. > :10:42.two days of campaigning left. And like any big race, there's no sign
:10:42. > :10:45.of the pace slackening over the last few furlongs. The race for
:10:45. > :10:48.votes is still a close one. Our Political Editor Peter Henley has
:10:48. > :10:50.been following the runners throughout the campaign - he's in
:10:50. > :10:59.Eastleigh once more tonight. So Peter - is there anyone coming
:10:59. > :11:01.through with a late run? Yes, no question that UKIP is the party
:11:01. > :11:11.closing fast on the leaders - their billboards are everywhere,
:11:11. > :11:15.
:11:15. > :11:21.supporters are buoyant and the winning post is in sight.
:11:21. > :11:24.Labour are also come up on the rails. With a day left, that
:11:24. > :11:27.finishing line is close. Who will win? It's the question only the
:11:27. > :11:30.voters can answer, but the money's moving to UKIP. On the streets,
:11:30. > :11:34.their message is simple - forcing even the Liberal Democrats to take
:11:34. > :11:37.a harder line on subjects like immigration. They should pay taxes
:11:37. > :11:39.and have a job. They should speak English, they shouldn't put a
:11:39. > :11:44.strain on Social Services, but the coalition has cut immigration by
:11:44. > :11:47.25%. But you're not going to put a limit on people coming into the
:11:47. > :11:50.country, which the Conservatives would like to? What we are looking
:11:50. > :11:54.at through Vince Cable is looking at allowing people to come into the
:11:54. > :11:56.country to help work this Britain. If we need somebody in like a
:11:56. > :12:01.specialist heart surgeon or something like that, we shouldn't
:12:01. > :12:04.put a restriction on that. At UKIP headquarters, they say they have
:12:04. > :12:08.proved they're not just a one-man band and their message on Europe is
:12:08. > :12:11.winning support. People see on a day-to-day basis, they experience
:12:11. > :12:14.on a day-to-day basis what the EU means to them and it's typically
:12:14. > :12:17.very negative and therefore a party that's prepared to make that known,
:12:17. > :12:20.herald that message, keep on banging away with that message and
:12:20. > :12:28.to take that message on their behalf up to the House of Commons -
:12:28. > :12:31.that is what they want. A first UKIP MP would sit on the opposition
:12:31. > :12:34.benches, but Labour isn't giving up on the the protest vote, finally
:12:34. > :12:37.getting their their campaign into gear, sending big-hitting husband
:12:37. > :12:45.and wife team, Ed Balls and Yvette Cooper, dressed in UKIP purple, and
:12:45. > :12:48.insisting a swing to UKIP wouldn't hit them. Some might protest by
:12:48. > :12:50.voting UKIP. A lot of Liberals and some Tories will protest by voting
:12:50. > :12:53.Labour, because we're the alternative in Parliament, we are
:12:53. > :12:56.in opposition and we can actually form a Government at the next
:12:56. > :12:58.general election. That is a realistic protest, but people are
:12:58. > :13:01.also voting for really positive reasons, because they like Labour's
:13:01. > :13:03.programme and realise we represent their interests. Meanwhile, the
:13:03. > :13:09.Conservative election literature is now stressing David Cameron's
:13:09. > :13:13.pledges on a euro referendum and immigration controls. Voting UKIP
:13:13. > :13:16.here I'd like to tell the people of Eastleigh it's going to be a vote
:13:16. > :13:19.for a Liberal Democrat MP who wants an amnesty for illegal immigrants,
:13:19. > :13:24.who wants open levels on immigration and basically wants a
:13:24. > :13:27.federal Europe. So voting UKIP is... Sounds like you're worried about
:13:27. > :13:35.them. Totally not. All I'm worried about it getting out there, off
:13:35. > :13:38.this camera and meeting more people, Peter. Thank you. And with that she
:13:38. > :13:41.was off, leaving the centre of Eastleigh to the man with the
:13:41. > :13:51.megaphone from the Raving Loonies. People of Eastleigh, please vote
:13:51. > :13:52.
:13:52. > :13:56.for me! This is an unpredictable election and a late surge from UKIP
:13:56. > :14:01.or from Labour would take votes from other parties. And nobody
:14:01. > :14:05.knows the implications of all that. This is a race Sally, that is wide-
:14:05. > :14:08.open. Thank you. Well, it's not just UKIP arguing that this by-
:14:08. > :14:12.election is not just a two-horse race. In fact, for some of the
:14:12. > :14:15.contestants this is more of a Grand National. Alongside the Liberal
:14:15. > :14:18.Democrats, Conservatives, Labour and UKIP are ten less well known
:14:18. > :14:23.parties. We heard from five last night and here with the other five
:14:23. > :14:28.is Roger Finn. With the flag of Wessex around his shoulders, Colin
:14:28. > :14:30.Bex is leader of the Wessex Regionalists. The party wants self
:14:30. > :14:33.government for Wessex - an ancient area covering Hampshire, Berkshire,
:14:33. > :14:43.Devon and Dorset. He wants to win back control from Brussels and
:14:43. > :14:49.Westminster. These people in central government are war
:14:49. > :14:54.criminals, illegal war criminals. And genocide suspects. These people
:14:54. > :14:56.have no business in control of our lives. Jim Duggan from Horsham is
:14:56. > :15:00.standing for the Peace party. Seeking to reject military
:15:00. > :15:05.intervention and to promote respect, tolerance and compassion. I think
:15:05. > :15:11.we can bring a bit of calm and peace into the constituency and
:15:11. > :15:17.they have been very kind to us so far. I hope for not votes this time.
:15:17. > :15:20.Which not be going to Westminster. But we will be here and we will be
:15:20. > :15:23.contesting for votes. Not quite so seriously, Howling Laud Hope is
:15:23. > :15:29.leader of the Monster Raving Loony Party. He's stood in several
:15:29. > :15:33.parliamentary elections and lives in Hampshire. I have been to
:15:34. > :15:41.Eastleigh and find it a happy place, but it could be better. We would
:15:41. > :15:46.like to see along the lines in Liverpool if they can change the
:15:46. > :15:50.aeroplane name to John Lennon. We would like the Southampton airport
:15:50. > :15:53.to be named Benny Hill. Christian Party candidate was a
:15:53. > :15:55.prison officer and is now a pastor. Kevin Milburn's main campaign is
:15:55. > :16:00.against the legislation creating same sex marriage, which he
:16:00. > :16:06.believes could undermine the family unit. This is because marriage is a
:16:06. > :16:11.unique institution in that only in marriage do a man and woman bring
:16:11. > :16:15.forward a child and the procaigs of the human race and that is how you
:16:15. > :16:18.and I got here. Danny Stupple is also campaigning against same sex
:16:18. > :16:20.marriage. He's a school governor who's lived in Eastleigh for 30
:16:20. > :16:23.years and he's standing as an independent. He believes the gay
:16:23. > :16:30.marriage legislation has been pushed through without a democratic
:16:30. > :16:36.mandate. What's happening is there was nothing in the manifesto about
:16:36. > :16:40.it. Any of them. There was nothing in the coalition agreement and then
:16:40. > :16:44.not even in the Conservative Parliamentary majority did it carry.
:16:44. > :16:51.Yet, it its about to change a major social institution without any
:16:51. > :16:54.reference to the people who could have voted for it. There are 14
:16:54. > :16:57.candidates in all in the Eastleigh By-Election, and here's a complete
:16:57. > :16:59.list of the contenders. You can also find them on our website at
:16:59. > :17:09.bbc.co.uk/news. And we have the result of the Eastleigh By-election
:17:09. > :17:12.
:17:12. > :17:15.on Friday, beginning in Breakfast Veterans who served on the Arctic
:17:15. > :17:18.Convoys during the Second World War are to finally receive medals in
:17:18. > :17:20.the next few weeks. The Government announced in December that the
:17:20. > :17:23.sailors were to get an award. Portsmouth veteran Eddie Grenfell
:17:23. > :17:27.was a leading figure in the long campaign to be recognised for their
:17:27. > :17:30.role in the war. More than 3,000 men died in the freezing waters of
:17:30. > :17:40.the arctic. The medals have gone into production and will be sent
:17:40. > :17:43.
:17:43. > :17:48.out next month. It was unbelievibly cold and continual bombardment by
:17:48. > :17:53.U-boats and aircraft. And the highest fatality rate of any naval
:17:53. > :17:57.campaign. So you can imagine why they feel this medal is deserved
:17:57. > :18:02.and I have had so many e-mails from people who are overjoyed to know
:18:02. > :18:05.they will be recognised for their supreme sacrifices. One of the
:18:05. > :18:08.oldest newspapers in the south has been re-launched to appeal to new
:18:08. > :18:10.readers. Local newspapers have suffered a fall in circulation due
:18:10. > :18:17.to increased competition especially from the internet. Chrissy Sturt
:18:17. > :18:21.reports on the rebirth of The West Sussex Gazette. It's very fragile
:18:21. > :18:24.and probably the only one in existence. Over the years, the
:18:24. > :18:28.paper has continually evolved and was even the first broad sheet in
:18:28. > :18:32.the country to embrace colour - radical at the time. Now it's
:18:32. > :18:37.changing again. 160 years on and the paper has just had another re-
:18:38. > :18:41.launch in a bid to appeal to the modern reader. But in the digital
:18:41. > :18:45.age of the smart phone and tablets, can it survive and still claim to
:18:45. > :18:55.be the voice of the county? It's current editor thinks so. He
:18:55. > :19:02.explains what is in the new look edition. We have put a lot more
:19:02. > :19:05.farming and agricultural columns back in. There is a lot more about
:19:05. > :19:08.the social scene in West Sussex. It is a true West Sussex paper.
:19:08. > :19:18.years on and West Sussex still has it rural identity, but whether the
:19:18. > :19:20.
:19:20. > :19:27.Gazette can remain relevant remains to be seen. Now sport and Tony is
:19:27. > :19:35.here. In a moment we will hear from Danny King. Yes a special treat. A
:19:35. > :19:37.big night of football tonight. League One is very close. After two
:19:37. > :19:40.consecutive league defeats, Bournemouth return to action
:19:40. > :19:43.tonight with a big game at home against Coventry City who are just
:19:43. > :19:47.two places below them in the table. Kris Temple's commentating for BBC
:19:47. > :19:51.Radio Solent, Kris any kind of win will do tonight won't it? Well it
:19:51. > :19:56.has been a shock to the system to fans who got used to life on the
:19:56. > :20:03.top of the table and they're now six. But the race is intriguing.
:20:03. > :20:08.Two points cover the top six and that means Coventry are just below
:20:08. > :20:13.that play off zone, but they're the division's top scorers on the road
:20:13. > :20:18.and will test them. The bad weather has left the pitch in a far from
:20:18. > :20:26.ideal condition, it is bumpy and sparsely grassed. The last time
:20:26. > :20:29.born mouth last two in a row, they won the next five. Fans would bite
:20:29. > :20:32.your hand off for that again. Meanwhile, could tonight be the
:20:32. > :20:35.night that Portsmouth's wretched run finally comes to an end. Pompey
:20:35. > :20:38.fans haven't seen their team win for 129 days - their last victory
:20:38. > :20:41.came on the 20th October. Tonight they host mid-table MK Dons. Guy
:20:41. > :20:49.Whittingham's options are further depleted after defender Sam Sodje
:20:49. > :20:52.was sent off on Saturday. In League Two Aldershot have won their last
:20:52. > :20:55.two, and new boss Andy Scott takes his side to mid table Chesterfield.
:20:55. > :20:59.Other action tonight elsewhere in the South, Swindon - who are second
:20:59. > :21:03.in League One - host Bury, while in League Two Oxford are at the
:21:03. > :21:06.leaders Gillingham. Olympic hockey players will compete together on
:21:06. > :21:08.home soil in a major women's international event this summer.
:21:08. > :21:17.Reading players Kate Walsh and Helen Richardson were among those
:21:17. > :21:20.promoting the World League semi finals today at Bisham Abbey. The
:21:20. > :21:23.event is an eight-team eliminator, featuring England, who are
:21:23. > :21:26.captained by Walsh, and will see some of the world's best players
:21:26. > :21:30.returning to London. The lives showed we can put on good events.
:21:30. > :21:35.That is good for hockey. People do want to come here and they want to
:21:36. > :21:38.bring sporpts here. That is fantastic and it is great for the
:21:38. > :21:45.hockey family and another opportunity for them to see the
:21:45. > :21:48.Beth teams in the world play in London. Now Alexis is here in the
:21:48. > :21:51.studio, but she's been trying to keep up with an Olympic champion on
:21:51. > :21:54.her bike this afternoon, Dani King has just returned from the World
:21:54. > :21:57.Track cycling Championships in Minsk with yet another gold medal
:21:57. > :22:00.But today she was helping open a new cycle route around Winchester,
:22:00. > :22:03.and she invited a few of us to pedal along with her. Yes Dani King
:22:03. > :22:05.has returned from the World Track Cycling Championships and if you
:22:05. > :22:09.remember she got another gold medal. Yes, but today she was helping open
:22:09. > :22:16.a new cycle route around Winchester and invited a few of us to pedal
:22:16. > :22:23.along, but one kid tried to race her. Really not you? For half a
:22:23. > :22:30.century the Hockley viaduct has been in a state of disrepair. After
:22:30. > :22:34.months of restoration it was re- opened today by a well known
:22:34. > :22:40.Hampshire face. Hopefully a lot of young children will use it and they
:22:41. > :22:46.can follow my foot step and keep the Olympic legacy going. Olympic
:22:46. > :22:51.gold medallist and world record holder Danny King led 45 riders two
:22:51. > :22:59.miles along the newly extended national cycle route which connects
:22:59. > :23:04.Reading to the Isle of Wight. great to have such a long cycle
:23:05. > :23:11.route off road for everyone to you know keep fit on and enjoy the
:23:11. > :23:15.surroundings. It was exciting. Especially cycling next to her. I
:23:15. > :23:23.enjoyed that. Everyone can use it. And it has twists and turns which
:23:23. > :23:28.are fun to go around fast. viaduct was used for railway. It
:23:28. > :23:33.closed to passenger travel in 1960. But this line was very important
:23:33. > :23:37.during World War two and carried supplies from the north down to
:23:37. > :23:43.Southampton. Over 16,000 trains passed over it in the year leading
:23:43. > :23:49.up to D-Day. Even the old signalling post has been restored.
:23:49. > :23:54.It is a genuine London and south western signal and we found it in
:23:54. > :24:02.London and it does mean a lot and we intend to dedicate it to the
:24:02. > :24:08.railway men that helped make D-Day possible. The efforts of many
:24:08. > :24:12.organisations have wrought the -- brought the viaduct back to life.
:24:12. > :24:17.Winchester college let us use their land and it has been about team
:24:17. > :24:27.working to get the project. A part of history has now been restored
:24:27. > :24:27.
:24:27. > :24:34.for generations to come. Did you beat her? I tried. Tool little boy
:24:34. > :24:39.who was racing her did -- although the little boy who was racing her
:24:39. > :24:44.did beat her. At the moment she is receiving the freedom of Eastleigh.
:24:44. > :24:50.So she can drive sheep up the high street, or knock on someone's door
:24:50. > :24:54.to go to toilet. And David Smith also gets the freedom tonight.
:24:54. > :24:58.also gets the freedom tonight. is a real honour and the now the
:24:58. > :25:01.weather. Cold today. Roger Bishop spotted this heron in his next door
:25:01. > :25:04.neighbour's silver birch tree in Thame this morning. Good job you
:25:04. > :25:06.had your camera handy! The snowdrops are out en masse in
:25:06. > :25:10.Kinson, Bournemouth. A lovely photo, thank you Tony Pritchett. And even
:25:10. > :25:14.on a grey and gloomy day, we get sent some very arty shots. This one
:25:14. > :25:20.courtesy of Robin Boultwood in Swanage. A cold sh cloudy damp and
:25:20. > :25:26.dismal night to come. We hold on to the cloud. There will be limited
:25:26. > :25:30.brightness in the next few days. Tonight some light rain, although
:25:31. > :25:36.the pressure in the Solent is rising. A lot of cloud, some areas
:25:36. > :25:41.could stay dry. The rain will be on and off A low of three to four
:25:41. > :25:45.Celsius. So temperatures up a notch from last night. But still just
:25:45. > :25:50.hovering above freezing. A cool start to the day tomorrow. There
:25:50. > :26:00.will be a lot of cloud and some light rain and drizzle. We will see
:26:00. > :26:04.some brightness. Particularly in the north. Helped by this keen
:26:04. > :26:07.north-easterly breeze that will take the edge off temperatures, a
:26:07. > :26:11.high of five to six Celsius. It will be a cloudy end to the day for
:26:11. > :26:16.some of us. But clearing skies for other. Where we have the clear
:26:16. > :26:20.skies, temperatures could plunge down to freezing or just below.
:26:20. > :26:26.Means that could give the risk of a touch of frost first thing on
:26:26. > :26:30.Thursday morning. And some mist and fog patch, ice could be an issue as
:26:30. > :26:35.well. One to three Celsius, three along the south coast. So cloudy on
:26:35. > :26:40.Thursday. But it should brighten up during the afternoon. Particularly
:26:40. > :26:45.for northern areas with the cloud sinking south. A better day than
:26:46. > :26:50.today and tomorrow. Still a risk of rain and drizzle. Thursday and
:26:50. > :26:54.Friday high pressure stays in charge. We will again see some
:26:54. > :27:01.light rain and drizzle at times. Some areas could stay dry. So it
:27:01. > :27:05.will be a cloudy end to the week. A lot of cloud around and some light
:27:05. > :27:09.rain is possible. The north- easterly breeze will stay with us
:27:09. > :27:13.and take the edge off temperatures. They slightly below the seasonal
:27:13. > :27:18.average, six to seven Celsius. A lot of cloud, we are hoping that
:27:18. > :27:25.cloud will break up at some point for areas north of the M4 corridor.
:27:25. > :27:30.Thank you. That is about it from us. Tomorrow, well something a bit
:27:30. > :27:34.different. A A spot of archery. We told you about a young man with the