:00:11. > :00:14.South Today. In tonight's programme. The cost of topping up - the
:00:14. > :00:20.businessman who is driven to distraction every time he fills up
:00:20. > :00:24.the tank. This is pretty painful, to find something that is that far out.
:00:24. > :00:28.Search for a stolen car - why the latest police appeal may draw a
:00:28. > :00:33.blank. The Isle of Wight man who shook the
:00:33. > :00:43.world and is revered in Japan. And did the horse Skyline bring home
:00:43. > :00:49.
:00:49. > :00:53.Good evening. We all like a discount and Chris Bunce thought he was
:00:53. > :00:57.getting one when he signed up for a diesel fuel card. With a fleet of
:00:57. > :01:01.vans to run for his small Hampshire electrical company, it would be a
:01:01. > :01:05.convenient way to control costs. But now it appears Chris has been paying
:01:05. > :01:09.more than you or I would at the pumps for at least the last two
:01:09. > :01:16.years. An administrative error is blamed and Chris thinks he could be
:01:16. > :01:19.�30,000 out of pocket. Ed Sherry has the story.
:01:19. > :01:26.It was meant to allow his drivers to Philip conveniently at a slightly
:01:26. > :01:36.reduced rate. When he realised there was a problem, Chris was shocked.
:01:36. > :01:43.When I look at how that could have helped our company, it is painful.
:01:43. > :01:46.BP say it is extremely concerned about claims and has asked UK fuels
:01:46. > :01:50.to investigate. It has acknowledged there has been an administrative
:01:50. > :01:59.error and by next week will re-examine every bill he has
:01:59. > :02:09.received. Chris was paying approximately �1.61 per litre. The
:02:09. > :02:11.
:02:11. > :02:17.UK average is. By the time you shop around, you use more fuel. I get it
:02:17. > :02:22.from the supermarket. It is getting beyond their means of a lot of
:02:22. > :02:26.people so something needs to be done. With five vans on the road and
:02:26. > :02:33.a business to keep afloat, the consequences could have been a lot
:02:33. > :02:39.worse. You don't notice it, but to look at it at the end of that term,
:02:39. > :02:44.it is pretty bad. We are not that big a company. If somebody try to
:02:44. > :02:47.take that amount of money in one hit, it would be devastating.
:02:47. > :02:52.That report came about when Chris himself made contact with South
:02:52. > :02:58.Today. Don't forget, if you've got a story, do tell us via email or
:02:58. > :03:02.social media. The details are on the screen now. Our next story also
:03:02. > :03:06.comes from a viewer's email. Jon from Berkshire was sent a police
:03:06. > :03:11.circular asking people to keep an eye out for two stolen vehicles, but
:03:11. > :03:16.part of the number plate details had been blanked out. When he asked why,
:03:16. > :03:26.he was told it was for data protection. Joe Campbell is in our
:03:26. > :03:30.Reading studio with more on this. Thames Valley Police, like a lot of
:03:30. > :03:33.forces these days, use the web to appeal for the public's help. We
:03:33. > :03:37.were contacted by Jon, one viewer here in Berkshire, after he spotted
:03:37. > :03:43.a request for help tracking down stolen cars. Details included make,
:03:43. > :03:47.model and colour and parts of the registration. Now, when Jon asked
:03:47. > :03:49.why just parts, he was told it was about data protection and meant to
:03:49. > :03:54.stop people tracking down the car's owners. We approached Thames Valley
:03:54. > :03:57.Police to ask if this was really the case and they told us, we send out
:03:57. > :04:00.the minimum amount of personal data to help in investigations and, in
:04:00. > :04:03.the case of car registrations, we will generally send out the make,
:04:03. > :04:07.model, colour and part registration as these are more likely to be
:04:07. > :04:11.remembered by a witness who can call us and help with the investigation.
:04:11. > :04:14.They do add that in some cases they put out full registration numbers,
:04:14. > :04:16.so today we thought we'd put their claim about partial registrations to
:04:16. > :04:19.the test. How am I supposed to know what the
:04:19. > :04:21.missing letters are to find that car? I think it is easier to
:04:21. > :04:31.remember if you have only got half the numbers. You might not be able
:04:31. > :04:38.to remember the full one. As you say, it would be easier to remember.
:04:38. > :04:44.As long as you don't spot a license plate that is similar. You need more
:04:44. > :04:50.details than half the number plate. A lot of this information is
:04:50. > :04:55.publicly available anyway. I put in the registration of my own car and
:04:55. > :05:00.it was first registered in 2010, it was described as blue although most
:05:00. > :05:04.people would say it is grey. Most details you can find out by putting
:05:04. > :05:09.a car registration into various websites. But what you can't find
:05:09. > :05:16.out is the name of the person who owns it. To do that, you have to
:05:16. > :05:23.have sent off a form like this. They ask for a lot of details, a lot of
:05:23. > :05:26.information about yourself and also, for example, your reason. If you
:05:26. > :05:35.have been involved in an accident with a MIDI has not exchanged
:05:35. > :05:38.details. -- a person who has not exchanged details.
:05:38. > :05:42.A soldier awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross was killed by his own
:05:42. > :05:45.grenade during an enemy attack in Afghanistan, an inquest has found.
:05:45. > :05:48.Lance Corporal James Ashworth, of the Hampshire-based Grenadier
:05:48. > :05:51.guards, was killed as he stormed an insurgent position in Nahr-e-Saraj
:05:51. > :05:55.in Helmand Province last June. He was 23-years-old. The inquest ruled
:05:55. > :05:59.he was unlawfully killed when a shot hit his body armour, detonating a
:05:59. > :06:04.grenade he was carrying. Four people have been arrested today
:06:04. > :06:09.at the site of an anti-fracking protest in Balcombe in West Sussex.
:06:09. > :06:12.Some demonstrators blocked the entrance using an old fire engine.
:06:12. > :06:21.Preliminary tests have begun and drilling for oil is expected to
:06:21. > :06:23.start soon. Protestors believe it will lead to the controversial use
:06:23. > :06:27.of a technique called fracking to extract shale gas.
:06:27. > :06:31.The case against a man alleged to have infected two former girlfriends
:06:31. > :06:34.with HIV has been stopped because of his poor health. Henry Assumang, 35,
:06:34. > :06:38.had denied two counts of inflicting grievous bodily harm on the women,
:06:38. > :06:40.who cannot be named for legal reasons. The Crown Prosecution
:06:40. > :06:50.Service has applied for proceedings to be suspended following new
:06:50. > :06:52.
:06:52. > :06:56.medical evidence concerning his health.
:06:56. > :07:02.The Royal Berkshire Hospital has set -- spent the equivalent of 800
:07:02. > :07:07.nurses salaries as it tries to fix a new computer system. The rising bill
:07:07. > :07:10.for consultants has reached almost �17 million. More than 50 people are
:07:10. > :07:17.currently being employed to sort out teething problems with a patient
:07:17. > :07:24.records system. This sounds like this system has run into major
:07:24. > :07:28.problems. More difficult news for the computer system. It was supposed
:07:28. > :07:33.to provide bedside access to patient records and allow efficient boxing
:07:33. > :07:37.is of x-ray scans, appointments and surgery. At the moment it can only
:07:37. > :07:41.be used to make outpatient and some surgical appointments and doctors
:07:41. > :07:47.have complained that they can take 20 minutes to do that. But what the
:07:47. > :07:51.real worry is the cost. The Royal Berkshire Hospital has spent �28
:07:51. > :07:56.million on this system. That is �18 million more than necessary
:07:56. > :08:02.according to auditors. What the Freedom of information request has
:08:02. > :08:09.discovered, �16.6 million was spent on IT consultants. To give you some
:08:09. > :08:13.context, that money would pay for 790 junior nurses for a year. In
:08:13. > :08:19.response to the story, the trust has issued a statement and it said the
:08:19. > :08:23.trust has issued -- lessons to be learnt from the development. They
:08:23. > :08:27.continued to employ a number of interim staff who are supporting in
:08:27. > :08:31.the work to make sure that staff can continue to deliver high quality
:08:31. > :08:34.care to patients when using the system. They are currently working
:08:35. > :08:39.with the company that made the system to make the best use of this
:08:39. > :08:43.system. What is of considerable concern is that there is no time
:08:43. > :08:46.frame as to when the system will probably work.
:08:47. > :08:51.Plans to build a state boarding school for inner-city pupils in the
:08:51. > :08:54.heart of the Sussex Downs have been scaled back. The Durand Academy
:08:54. > :08:58.wants to open the school on the site of a former special school in
:08:58. > :09:03.Stedham, near Midhurst. But some residents are concerned about its
:09:03. > :09:07.impact in a national park. A revised planning application will no longer
:09:07. > :09:11.include the sixth form centre. Durand says it is still firmly
:09:11. > :09:14.committed to providing a sixth form later on.
:09:14. > :09:19.Network Rail has breached the terms of its operating licence on tracks
:09:20. > :09:24.in the south. The rail regulator says the infrastructure owner has
:09:24. > :09:26.failed to meet performance standards. The regulator says that,
:09:26. > :09:31.even allowing for last winter's extreme weather, Network Rail would
:09:31. > :09:35.not have met its targets in this region. Recently the heatwave has
:09:35. > :09:38.caused further disruption. The regulator says the railway has
:09:38. > :09:40.inadequate weather resilience and day to day maintenance was also
:09:40. > :09:43.poor. Margaret Thatcher described the
:09:43. > :09:46.Greenham Common peace women as very unpopular with locals and an
:09:46. > :09:50.eccentricity, according to government archives just released.
:09:50. > :09:53.Her comments were made in 1983 when a decision was made to deploy US
:09:53. > :10:02.nuclear cruise missiles to Berkshire. Women who opposed the
:10:02. > :10:05.move set up camp at the air base in protest, remaining there until 2001.
:10:05. > :10:14.Still to come in this evening's South Today, straight from the
:10:14. > :10:24.horse's mouth - Alexis on her debut at Glorious Goodwood.
:10:24. > :10:28.I came, I wrote, I finished, but how Pay and display or stand and
:10:28. > :10:31.deliver? Councils are being accused of ramping up parking charges to
:10:31. > :10:36.help their already stretched budgets. The latest figures confirm
:10:36. > :10:41.that town halls are generating huge sums. They show what's left once
:10:41. > :10:46.running costs are taken out of all the money collected. In Brighton and
:10:46. > :10:49.Hove, that was almost �14.5 million - one of the highest in England.
:10:49. > :10:55.Rushmoor, which covers Aldershot and Farnborough, had a �2 million
:10:55. > :10:58.profit. That's more than either Reading or Portsmouth. While in
:10:59. > :11:03.Surrey the County Council spent more than it collected, putting it at
:11:03. > :11:07.more than a million pounds in the red. Councils insist any surplus is
:11:07. > :11:14.put back into the transport budget. Steve Humphrey reports from
:11:14. > :11:20.Salisbury. Mention the phrase parking charges
:11:20. > :11:27.in Salisbury and you generally get a very robust response. Very
:11:27. > :11:33.expensive. I come from London, I thought outside of London should be
:11:33. > :11:43.cheaper, but it is just the same. come from Weymouth twice a week and
:11:43. > :11:44.
:11:44. > :11:48.it is even more expensive. How much did you pay for that ticket? �5.50.
:11:48. > :11:53.This shop owner believes the cost of parking is having a negative impact
:11:53. > :11:58.on trade. My customers don't come into Salisbury as often as they used
:11:58. > :12:04.to. People used to drop their children off at school and then come
:12:04. > :12:10.in for a copy. They don't do that so much. Figures obtained by the BBC
:12:10. > :12:13.show that the income from car parks in Salisbury has dropped from
:12:13. > :12:17.�180,000 a year since the higher charges were introduced in April
:12:17. > :12:23.2011. But the council points out that there has been a substantial
:12:23. > :12:27.increase in the number of passenger trips on the park-and-ride service.
:12:27. > :12:32.The Cabinet member responsible for parking said, we believe we achieved
:12:32. > :12:35.a difficult balance of supporting the local economy, protecting public
:12:35. > :12:40.transport and encouraging people to use sustainable transport so that a
:12:40. > :12:47.pollution in the city centre is reduced. And the council says the
:12:47. > :12:54.number of visitors increased last year.
:12:54. > :12:56.Sport now and we are going to start with golf.
:12:56. > :13:00.We are celebrating some very impressive performances from women
:13:01. > :13:04.in sport today. Georgia shot a round of 68 and is
:13:04. > :13:07.the leading amateur at St Andrews after the first round. The
:13:07. > :13:10.17-year-old who lives near Bournemouth is one of the world's
:13:10. > :13:17.top amateur players and proved her talent in finishing her round with
:13:17. > :13:21.two birdies. She's two shots off the lead. You can follow it live on BBC
:13:21. > :13:25.Television. Surrey and Hampshire both have home
:13:25. > :13:28.ties in the quarter finals of this season's T20 competition. The
:13:28. > :13:31.holders, Hampshire, will host Lancashire at the Ageas Bowl next
:13:31. > :13:37.Wednesday evening. Before that, Surrey will host Somerset on Tuesday
:13:37. > :13:40.afternoon. Tonight, listeners to BBC Radio
:13:40. > :13:44.Solent can hear an hour of Portsmouth chat ahead of the club's
:13:44. > :13:47.first season in League Two. After a well documented fall from grace,
:13:47. > :13:57.Pompey have finally stabilised and they're the subject of the second of
:13:57. > :14:09.
:14:09. > :14:19.now. It is the people's lab and more than 10,000 season-ticket holders
:14:19. > :14:26.
:14:26. > :14:32.they did. Portsmouth head into this season as the country's biggest
:14:32. > :14:37.community owned football club. Do you feel different now? I do. Every
:14:37. > :14:43.I go into a match, I feel I am contributing to a club rather than a
:14:43. > :14:52.director or a shareholder that has taken our money. It is always great
:14:52. > :14:59.being a Portsmouth fan. Now is a fantastic time. We have seen a lot
:14:59. > :15:08.of relegation. It is time for promotion. The number of new
:15:08. > :15:14.arrivals is in double figures. seems different here. Everybody
:15:14. > :15:20.feels as if they have known each other for ages. We have not got the
:15:20. > :15:29.biggest squad so it means you have got to stay together as a group.
:15:29. > :15:32.have got to realise where we are. The foundations we have got to lay
:15:32. > :15:38.to make sure that financially we are on a secure footing and we have got
:15:38. > :15:42.players who want to be here and play for this football club. There is a
:15:42. > :15:48.lot of pressure because we are the favourites, and rightly so, because
:15:49. > :15:53.everybody involved in the club wants to go up. But what is success for a
:15:53. > :15:58.club that has bottomed out and, just three years ago, played Premier
:15:58. > :16:02.League football? Success is being here at the end of this season
:16:03. > :16:12.having given fans something to cheer about and 18 to be proud of. Whether
:16:13. > :16:15.
:16:15. > :16:18.that means a team that has been promoted. -- 18 to be proud of.
:16:18. > :16:25.have visited venues like Old Trafford and Wembley in previous
:16:25. > :16:35.years but this year it is a little different. The reality is Accrington
:16:35. > :16:35.
:16:35. > :16:39.and Oxford. I can't wait. A sell-out on Saturday against Oxford.
:16:39. > :16:42.The Pompey forum is on BBC Radio Solent from 7.05pm on 96.1FM.
:16:42. > :16:46.It's involved demanding physical tests, weeks of training and a
:16:46. > :16:49.steely determination. Today was the day that all of that had to come
:16:49. > :16:59.together as Alexis took part in the first race of the day at Glorious
:16:59. > :17:01.
:17:01. > :17:04.Goodwood. Sally and I were watching on. We can join her live. It was an
:17:04. > :17:11.amazing day. I think the most important thing is, did you enjoy
:17:11. > :17:16.it? I certainly did. I have got the champagne and water because I have
:17:16. > :17:25.been very dehydrated today. What glorious weather we have had at
:17:25. > :17:30.Glorious Goodwood. I have had the time of my life.
:17:30. > :17:37.Nine women, six furlongs, one very special race. Now it is really
:17:37. > :17:43.hitting home. I am so nervous. I am going to be back on this finishing
:17:44. > :17:48.line within 72 seconds in around three hours time. People are betting
:17:48. > :17:53.on how many of the ladies will fall off. It is easy for us to sit here
:17:53. > :18:03.and criticise. But coming down the hill at Goodwood, you turn to the
:18:03. > :18:06.
:18:06. > :18:09.right, we have had quite a few falls and unseated riders in the past.
:18:09. > :18:19.dressed up in my specially designed silks, I headed to the weighing
:18:19. > :18:35.
:18:35. > :18:45.Skyline. This has become one of our signature if events and it is
:18:45. > :18:54.
:18:54. > :19:00.symbolic as fighting against human hearts on its hindquarters. And a
:19:00. > :19:07.little bit of last-minute advice from Skyline's trainer. Just keep
:19:07. > :19:16.travelling. Then I am off. I even get some support from some familiar
:19:16. > :19:26.faces. It was a fast and furious start and within seconds I saw my
:19:26. > :19:48.
:19:48. > :19:57.not disappointed. As long as she has enjoyed herself. That is what being
:19:57. > :20:05.a jockey is. That is the pain I go through. Well done. You were
:20:05. > :20:11.brilliant. Since a kid, I have always dreamt of being a jockey but
:20:11. > :20:21.I was too tall. I have had my chance and it has been the best experience
:20:21. > :20:29.
:20:29. > :20:38.I was so proud of you, Alexis. Now you have had time to think about it,
:20:38. > :20:43.how do you feel? Just thinking about it, it is such a crazy thing to do.
:20:43. > :20:47.I was thinking a few months ago, what can I do that is crazy? As a
:20:47. > :20:52.little girl I wanted to be a jockey and I had five hours sleep last
:20:52. > :20:58.night. Not much if you think about it. I walked the course this
:20:58. > :21:02.morning, earlier on, and the spirits of the girls, everyone was so
:21:02. > :21:06.lovely, it was fantastic. Your horse looked suited to a longer distance
:21:06. > :21:11.and as you are coming across the finishing line, you were getting
:21:11. > :21:18.stronger and the front runners were puffing a bit. Talk to me about the
:21:18. > :21:21.physical effect of the race. start off fully fit but, going down
:21:21. > :21:26.to the start at the beginning, my legs were already like jelly because
:21:26. > :21:35.you have got to hold the horse. It really wants to gallop as you come
:21:36. > :21:39.out of the parade ring. The start, it started off fairly good, my legs
:21:39. > :21:45.went to jelly about three furlongs in, and then my arms went after
:21:45. > :21:55.that. The big question is, if you were asked to do this again next
:21:55. > :21:55.
:21:55. > :21:59.year, would you do it? Absolutely, without a doubt. Did not even
:21:59. > :22:09.hesitate. Fantastic. We are proud of you. Well done. Enjoy that
:22:09. > :22:10.
:22:10. > :22:13.champagne. Absolutely wonderful. Today is the centenary of the death
:22:13. > :22:17.of one of the Isle of Wight's most remarkable and influential
:22:17. > :22:20.residents. Chances are you've never heard of him, but he is revered in
:22:20. > :22:25.Japan and is almost certainly responsible for saving millions of
:22:25. > :22:28.lives in the years since he died. He is John Milne, the inventor of the
:22:28. > :22:32.seismograph and a pioneer in the study of earthquakes.
:22:32. > :22:37.An exhibition of his life has opened at Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of
:22:37. > :22:42.Wight and Roger Finn has been to see Earthquake Wizard dead. The Daily
:22:42. > :22:45.Mirror on this day exactly 100 years ago. John Milne was a mining
:22:45. > :22:48.engineer who travelled to Japan where he transformed the world's
:22:48. > :22:52.understanding of earthquakes. The Carrisbrooke Castle Museum inherited
:22:52. > :22:55.much of his archive and has put some of it on display. One of the
:22:55. > :23:02.visitors today was John Milne's great nephew from Australia, who has
:23:02. > :23:06.made a documentary about his ancestor. On the first day he
:23:06. > :23:10.arrived in Japan there was an earthquake. He had arrived there
:23:10. > :23:13.partly because the government had opened the country to foreign
:23:13. > :23:20.experts and engineers and they needed to solve the problem of
:23:20. > :23:25.earthquakes so he built the horizontal Enderlin seismograph
:23:25. > :23:30.which was the first one that could measure earthquakes. In Japan,
:23:30. > :23:33.earthquakes are a real problem and they cause a lot of deaths. He
:23:33. > :23:37.pioneered safe buildings and earthquake engineering. A lot of
:23:37. > :23:42.lives have been saved. In gratitude, the Emperor gave John Milne a rare
:23:42. > :23:49.honour - the Third Order of the Rising Sun. The hope is that the
:23:49. > :23:52.exhibition will spread Milne's renown to a new generation. We do
:23:52. > :23:57.have an exhibition open until the end of October and it is wonderful
:23:57. > :24:02.to see so many local people coming in and discovering who this amazing
:24:02. > :24:04.man was. And he lived here, a mile away. From his home in Shide, Milne
:24:04. > :24:08.and his Japanese wife organised a network of earthquake detectors
:24:08. > :24:17.around the world and became the focus for the growing science of
:24:17. > :24:24.seismology. Tonight, at the Art Centre in Newport, they are having a
:24:24. > :24:28.special showing of a documentary and right beside it, they have just
:24:28. > :24:31.unveiled these murals celebrating the life of John Milne. We might not
:24:31. > :24:40.have serious earthquakes in this country but once we had a man who
:24:40. > :24:50.taught the world about them. We will remember that name now. Now
:24:50. > :24:53.
:24:53. > :25:03.year so far. And we have got plenty of photos to tell that story.
:25:03. > :25:16.
:25:16. > :25:20.and tonight is going to be pretty hot as well. The temperatures are
:25:20. > :25:24.gradually inching down over the next few hours but it is going to be a
:25:24. > :25:29.rather murky night to come. Tonight we will see a clear skies for much
:25:29. > :25:34.of the region to start. As we go into the early hours, the cloud
:25:34. > :25:41.starts to build in from the West. It may bring some scattered showers.
:25:41. > :25:46.But temperatures not getting much lower than 15 Celsius. Tomorrow,
:25:47. > :25:51.Friday, we start on a cloudy note. That cold front working its way
:25:51. > :25:58.across bringing outbreaks of showery rain. It is going to bring with it
:25:58. > :26:05.some sharp showers and we may hear the odd rumble of thunder. But by
:26:05. > :26:09.around midday, we will start to hear things chirrup. Still some showers
:26:09. > :26:14.into the afternoon but we should see fewer of them. Temperatures still
:26:14. > :26:20.pretty decent but not as hot as today. Feeling warm but not as hot
:26:20. > :26:25.as today. Overnight tomorrow, through the evening, one or two
:26:25. > :26:30.showers. I suspect you will see a little bit of cloud building up.
:26:30. > :26:35.Still feeling relatively humid. As we go into the weekend, Saturday is
:26:35. > :26:41.not looking too bad. A little bit breezy with sunshine and showers in
:26:41. > :26:46.the mix. The showers are likely to be on the light side. A pretty
:26:46. > :26:52.decent start on Sunday with some sunshine around. Cloud will spill in
:26:52. > :27:02.from the West. Later on, that band of rain arriving. We do have some
:27:02. > :27:20.
:27:20. > :27:30.events coming up and we start with not doing too badly. Still feeling