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