:00:07. > :00:12.South Today. In tonight's programme: The desperate need for travellers'
:00:12. > :00:16.camps as Dorset Council says it needs more sites like this.
:00:16. > :00:26.The last shift, but what future now for the workers at Remploy as the
:00:26. > :00:26.
:00:26. > :00:32.factory closes? Hopefully, I will be able to get part-time employment in
:00:32. > :00:35.a shop. I like serving people. River safety. Another warning to
:00:35. > :00:38.stay out of waterways in the hot weather.
:00:38. > :00:47.And 50 years on, how the great train robbers were casing the joint in
:00:47. > :00:57.Southampton before their plans changed. I can't believe that those
:00:57. > :00:58.
:00:58. > :01:01.four were actually here, in Southampton, watching us do it!
:01:01. > :01:06.Dorset's police commissioner and some councillors are calling for a
:01:06. > :01:09.temporary travellers' site to be opened in the county. A shortage of
:01:09. > :01:13.transit pitches has been making it more difficult for the police to
:01:13. > :01:19.move on illegal encampments. A new site would be an interim measure
:01:19. > :01:22.while a longer term solution was found. The county has been forced to
:01:22. > :01:26.go back to the drawing board after an earlier large-scale consultation
:01:26. > :01:30.drew a blank. David Allard reports. "Welcome to Bournemouth" says the
:01:31. > :01:33.new sign, but not if you're a gypsy or traveller. The council here's got
:01:34. > :01:37.better at cracking down on illegal camps and says there's nowhere
:01:37. > :01:42.suitable for a permanent site. In neighbouring Poole, this
:01:42. > :01:45.unauthorised camp has sprung up at Haskells Rec. Today, the council
:01:45. > :01:53.applied for an eviction order but where should the travellers go when
:01:53. > :01:59.they leave? If they are moving them, they should get them somewhere
:01:59. > :02:04.else. They can't just move them with nowhere to go. They should go near
:02:04. > :02:09.the new Forrest or somewhere. should be a designated site for them
:02:09. > :02:12.but it's the responsibilities of the travellers. There's no easy answer.
:02:12. > :02:22.Long-term, Dorset Police and the county council say there's an urgent
:02:22. > :02:22.
:02:22. > :02:26.need for more sites so there's somewhere to move people to. It also
:02:26. > :02:29.helps to improve the quality-of-life because by definition, authorised
:02:29. > :02:32.sites of all the facilities they need. This site near Wareham is one
:02:32. > :02:36.of just three in the whole county and they all cater for long-term
:02:36. > :02:39.residents. There are no transit sites at all but the last attempt to
:02:39. > :02:42.find a solution got nowhere. All nine councils in Dorset agreed to
:02:42. > :02:46.work together, spending almost �250,000 on consultants. They
:02:46. > :02:50.scoured the county, drawing up a short list of 32 sites and 13 other
:02:50. > :02:58.locations worthy of further investigation. After a year of
:02:58. > :03:04.consultation, not one site had been accepted by local councils. It's
:03:04. > :03:07.from looking at all the evidence, all the possible sites and planning
:03:07. > :03:10.considerations around them. There isn't one that fulfils all that
:03:10. > :03:17.criteria. With the county council and police desperate for a solution,
:03:17. > :03:25.there's now a short-term proposal. When it comes to the transit site we
:03:25. > :03:29.open every year, there's real general consensus that that is the
:03:29. > :03:32.way forward and our counsellors at the moment are about to consider and
:03:32. > :03:35.debate whether to open up another temporary transit site. That
:03:35. > :03:39.decision will come in October but any agreement on more permanent
:03:39. > :03:42.sites seems a very long way off. Our political editor, Peter Henley,
:03:42. > :03:46.is with me now. Peter, the thorny issue of traveller sites has been
:03:46. > :03:54.dealt with at the top of government today? The Prime Minister was asked
:03:54. > :04:04.a question about it at one of his regular public meetings. There is
:04:04. > :04:10.
:04:10. > :04:13.frustration that power given to councils are not being used.
:04:13. > :04:17.same law should apply to everybody and just as you can't suddenly
:04:17. > :04:24.change your house without permission, you can't set up an
:04:24. > :04:26.encampment without permission. Didn't the Government change the law
:04:26. > :04:36.affecting travellers when they first came into office? They scrapped
:04:36. > :04:40.targets for the number of pitches in 2010. But it doesn't seem to be
:04:40. > :04:47.creating what is required. The traveller said they would like equal
:04:47. > :04:51.treatment as well. I don't consider they are addressing our needs. The
:04:51. > :04:59.council said they viewed 42 sides and said none were suitable. That's
:04:59. > :05:09.very hard to believe when they are building housing estates all over
:05:09. > :05:09.
:05:09. > :05:12.the area. Why can't one of those areas be allocated as a gypsy site?
:05:12. > :05:15.Are there more travellers than there used to be? There were 20,000
:05:15. > :05:18.travellers' caravans across the country, only 1,400 not on
:05:18. > :05:22.authorised sites, to reach agreement rather than to incurring costs of
:05:22. > :05:27.having to take children into care or fight long legal battles. Move the
:05:27. > :05:31.problem on elsewhere. Uninsured caravan, worth �30,000, was found on
:05:31. > :05:33.a travellers' site in Hampshire but the couple were told removing it
:05:33. > :05:36.might breach the new occupants' human rights. Hampshire Police says
:05:36. > :05:39.the case has been re-opened and officers are renewing their search
:05:39. > :05:42.for the caravan. It's been an emotional day at the
:05:42. > :05:45.Remploy factory in Portsmouth as many workers completed their final
:05:46. > :05:48.shift. The packaging factory, which employed people with disabilities,
:05:48. > :05:54.is closing as the Government shifts funding to help workers into
:05:54. > :05:57.mainstream employment. Some have been at the Portsmouth site for more
:05:57. > :06:07.than a decade and are concerned about their future. The Government
:06:07. > :06:09.
:06:09. > :06:14.and other employers insist other jobs can be found.
:06:14. > :06:20.Saying goodbye to their jobs, factory and way of life. Re-employ
:06:20. > :06:26.in Portsmouth is shutting up shop. This is a machine that makes boxes
:06:26. > :06:31.and would've taken three people to operate. At its height, rem ploy had
:06:31. > :06:36.83 factories across the country and employed 5000 members of staff. In
:06:36. > :06:42.Portsmouth, there were 49 people that worked here. Today that has
:06:42. > :06:48.dwindled to nine. It is quite humbling at times when you look at
:06:48. > :06:58.attendance records. Less than 1% absence. They will try anything.
:06:58. > :06:58.
:06:58. > :07:07.Rosie, it's about the next chapter. It's a sad event. I hope to do a
:07:07. > :07:13.part-time job in a shop. Government says it is in -- it is
:07:13. > :07:19.supporting rem ploy workers. Each member of staff has a personal
:07:19. > :07:27.caseworker for the next 18 months. might get a job and be made
:07:27. > :07:32.redundant a year later. Will the support still be there for us?
:07:32. > :07:37.Here's a business where a third of the staff have disabilities. It's a
:07:37. > :07:40.garage in reserve -- and refurbishing business. Other
:07:40. > :07:46.companies would do well to follow suit and encourage individuals to
:07:46. > :07:55.work to their strengths. We've got to teach people to look beyond a
:07:55. > :07:59.person's disability. And see the person. But times are tough for
:07:59. > :08:03.anyone who has just lost a job. Some fear their challenge may be even
:08:03. > :08:05.tougher. Up to 380 jobs at the Royal Mail in
:08:05. > :08:09.Portsmouth are at risk as the company's confirmed it's pressing
:08:09. > :08:12.ahead with plans to move its sorting operation to Southampton. Royal Mail
:08:12. > :08:19.says any transfer won't begin until next Autumn, adding that it's too
:08:19. > :08:22.early to say exactly how many jobs would be affected. The Communication
:08:22. > :08:24.Workers Union claims it's a further example of cost-cutting which will
:08:24. > :08:28.damage the service. A Wiltshire company has won the
:08:28. > :08:31.contract to make all the brakes on the next generation of inter-city
:08:31. > :08:34.trains, securing hundreds of jobs for years to come. The deal comes as
:08:34. > :08:37.Network Rail claims that investment in infrastructure has brought
:08:37. > :08:47.hundreds of millions of pounds to the region this year, much of it to
:08:47. > :08:54.small businesses. This factory makes brakes. Soon it
:08:54. > :09:00.will start making them for the new intercity express trains. For
:09:00. > :09:05.technicians, that means long-term job security. It's a valve that
:09:05. > :09:12.communicates with the train, tells the train what braking pressure to
:09:12. > :09:19.apply. This isn't just a �36 million order to fit the brakes on 600
:09:19. > :09:23.carriages. It's about a contract to maintain the systems. The trains
:09:23. > :09:29.will make their first appearance on the great Western in three years
:09:29. > :09:36.time. This is a mainline train replacement which is very rare in
:09:36. > :09:42.the UK. This has been quite a long time coming. It's a large contract.
:09:42. > :09:49.Refurbishment of a bridge over the Thames is underway. Grit blasting
:09:49. > :09:54.and painting the structure, structural stall repairs. Network
:09:54. > :09:59.rail says �1.3 billion are being spent this year in the south-east to
:09:59. > :10:04.improve infrastructure. There are 39 schemes in the Thames Valley alone.
:10:04. > :10:09.But only last week, it was towed by the rail regulator for not doing
:10:09. > :10:16.enough maintenance. This bridge can see behind me is one of several
:10:16. > :10:22.projects brought forward. government stimulus money, meaning
:10:22. > :10:27.when we spend it, it improves the local economy and business. Network
:10:27. > :10:36.rail's point is this: Spending on infrastructure does more than make
:10:36. > :10:39.journeys better, it also puts money into the wider economy.
:10:39. > :10:43.Still to come in this evening's South Today: Down to the wire.
:10:43. > :10:53.Hampshire keep their fans on the edge of their seats with a semifinal
:10:53. > :10:55.
:10:55. > :10:58.win on the last ball. The number of people dying in some
:10:58. > :11:01.of the South's waterways is worrying high, according to the Royal
:11:01. > :11:05.Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service. In the last few weeks, more than 20
:11:05. > :11:08.people in the UK have lost their lives in rivers, and several have
:11:08. > :11:11.been in Berkshire. With the hot weather there are concerns people
:11:11. > :11:17.are ignoring the normal safety rules. Ben Moore has been out on the
:11:17. > :11:26.river with one fire crew. Training the best to be ready for
:11:26. > :11:31.the worst. In the last few weeks, they have pulled by bodies from the
:11:31. > :11:40.water. It's been hard. They do the job all the time and we experience
:11:40. > :11:44.these things but it doesn't make it any easier. We have seen quite an
:11:44. > :11:49.alarming amount of instances we have had to attend with not good
:11:49. > :11:58.outcomes. Many were enjoying the river today but the need to calm
:11:58. > :12:02.surfers are unseen dangers. The water rescue team consists of 28
:12:02. > :12:11.highly trained firefighters they are based here in Redding but they have
:12:11. > :12:16.to cover a patch that is countywide. If you end up in there, time is of
:12:16. > :12:22.the essence. Despite the weather, the water is cold and it will call
:12:22. > :12:29.your body 27 times faster than being in the open air. When the body tries
:12:29. > :12:33.to protect itself, it becomes hypothermic. The blood in your body
:12:33. > :12:38.goes to your central organs. You may be the strongest swimmer but if you
:12:38. > :12:46.can't move your arms and lakes, the current water will take you under.
:12:46. > :12:50.The unit has state-of-the-art equipment. But in the end, the only
:12:50. > :13:00.guarantee the river won't claim any more lives is if people stay out of
:13:00. > :13:26.
:13:26. > :13:29.the water. All police officers will have to
:13:29. > :13:31.complete annual fitness tests from next year or face disciplinary
:13:31. > :13:35.action. The proposal follows a recommendation from a review of
:13:35. > :13:38.police pay and conditions. It found many officers aren't as fit as they
:13:38. > :13:44.used to be because they spend less time walking the beat. Tom Symonds
:13:44. > :13:49.has been to see the new test in action at the Surrey force.
:13:49. > :13:55.From a standing start, any of these police officers may have to chase a
:13:55. > :13:59.criminal that any time. Dale Jonsson estimates five times a month on
:13:59. > :14:08.average. Surrey police have already made this compulsory. They have to
:14:08. > :14:16.get to the line each time the beep sounds. It starts off slowly and
:14:16. > :14:19.speeds up and it is a test of agility as well as enjoy all rents.
:14:19. > :14:29.This is the minimum test all officers will have to be able to
:14:29. > :14:30.
:14:30. > :14:37.pass when these tests start next month. At the end, so no sweat for
:14:37. > :14:43.these offices. Everyone has the ability to pass this test. It's
:14:43. > :14:48.quite a low level. But it is the correct level as well. Compulsory
:14:48. > :14:54.fitness tests were recommended by a policing review because though
:14:54. > :15:04.sometimes it is physical, an increasing amount of policing is
:15:04. > :15:15.
:15:15. > :15:19.done from behind a desk or behind the wheel of a car.
:15:19. > :15:23.It's sunny now but I'm sure you can remember how wet and cold the winter
:15:23. > :15:26.was. It wasn't very nice for some of our wildlife, either. While you may
:15:26. > :15:29.cheer to hear that it's meant fewer wasps, it's also caused problems for
:15:29. > :15:33.some species of moths. The Butterfly Conservation now wants your help to
:15:33. > :15:36.report sightings of Tiger Moths so it can track changes in their
:15:36. > :15:39.population. Les Hill from Dorset is one of their experts and earlier, he
:15:39. > :15:42.told me why Tiger Moths are so important. Tiger moths are very
:15:42. > :15:48.important because the adults are the food source for bats, the larvae are
:15:48. > :15:54.food source for cuckoos and not so much the Tiger Moth, but others are
:15:54. > :15:58.important pollinators. We use the species to act as a warning sign as
:15:58. > :16:07.to the state of the environment. some are doing well and others I
:16:07. > :16:13.declined. The garden tiger, for example, we know has had a 92%
:16:13. > :16:22.decrease in abundance. The other example and we are looking out, the
:16:22. > :16:29.Jersey Tiger, it is now starting to spread north. The garden tiger has
:16:29. > :16:37.correlated with climate change itself. Conversely, the Jersey Tiger
:16:37. > :16:43.is enjoying the climate change. of us think of moths and think of
:16:43. > :16:53.them eating our clothes! That's far from the truth. 2500 species of
:16:53. > :16:53.
:16:53. > :17:01.Moth, only five eat natural fibres. It is far from the truth. What can
:17:01. > :17:07.we do in our gardens to encourage them? You can put nettles and
:17:07. > :17:17.thistles into a large container. Don't forget about the adults as
:17:17. > :17:25.
:17:25. > :17:35.well. If you want to report any sightings of the Tiger Moth or want
:17:35. > :17:49.
:17:49. > :17:59.any more information, go to the website. I haven't seen that many
:17:59. > :18:03.
:18:03. > :18:11.moths around and I was quite relieved! We were both saying, why
:18:12. > :18:18.when we both at the cricket last night!
:18:18. > :18:21.Hampshire's victory means they join Surrey at Finals Day next Saturday.
:18:21. > :18:24.Two of last night's winning side, Danny Briggs and Michael Carberry,
:18:24. > :18:34.received England Lions call-ups today to a side captained by
:18:34. > :18:34.
:18:34. > :18:40.Sussex's Luke Wright, and both made their mark in last night's victory.
:18:40. > :18:49.Hampshire 's progress to a third consecutive finals day was thanks in
:18:49. > :18:58.part to the continuing form of Michael. A perfect platform. Today,
:18:58. > :19:02.he was named in the Lions squad. Everyone that comes down and watches
:19:02. > :19:12.him knows how powerful here's an oddly fantastic player he is. He
:19:12. > :19:16.
:19:16. > :19:23.can't be doing any more. He hit three sixes. Hampshire posted a
:19:23. > :19:28.total of 202 for three. The game would prove closer than expected.
:19:28. > :19:38.Danny Briggs, another England line, slowed them down with two wickets in
:19:38. > :19:43.
:19:43. > :19:53.two balls, including this one. But it was a close finish. You have to
:19:53. > :19:53.
:19:53. > :19:59.go as favourites. It's unusual. Normally, we are favourites.
:19:59. > :20:06.players are confident playing well. Hampshire 's pedigree is in
:20:06. > :20:09.evidence. They are hoping for more moments like this later this month.
:20:09. > :20:13.They will be big favourites. Britain's rowers have named a squad
:20:13. > :20:16.of 55 for the World Championships in South Korea. The team leave their
:20:16. > :20:18.training base in Berkshire next Thursday. In this first year of the
:20:18. > :20:22.Olympic cycle, GB rowing has experimented with different
:20:22. > :20:26.combinations and team members. The likes of Helen Glover and Polly
:20:26. > :20:29.Swann have paired up to dominate the World Cup regatta season with three
:20:29. > :20:39.golds while the men's eight have also tried out different rowers with
:20:39. > :20:46.mixed results. The result was awesome. The other result was
:20:46. > :20:53.terrible! But putting into context, and how we are turning that around,
:20:53. > :21:02.there is a lot to look forward to. All the crews were out there with
:21:02. > :21:12.more intense and readiness. That's a taste of what's to come. It was good
:21:12. > :21:17.
:21:17. > :21:26.to get a tight race. It was a big bow to challenge involving some of
:21:26. > :21:28.the worlds best offshore sailors. Cowes week concludes tomorrow and we
:21:28. > :21:31.will be there. Southampton striker Rickie Lambert
:21:31. > :21:34.has been included in the England football squad for next week's
:21:34. > :21:37.friendly against Scotland at Wembley. The 31-year-old has played
:21:37. > :21:40.in all four divisions and has earned his call-up to Roy Hodgson's squad
:21:40. > :21:50.after scoring 15 times in the Premier League for Saints last
:21:50. > :21:51.
:21:51. > :22:00.season. England play Scotland at Wembley next Tuesday night. Well
:22:00. > :22:04.deserved. Finally, come good! Today is the 50th anniversary of one
:22:04. > :22:06.of the most daring criminal acts in British history, the Great Train
:22:07. > :22:12.Robbery. 17 thieves hijacked the Glasgow to London mail train and
:22:12. > :22:15.stole over 100 bags of used bank notes. But as Alex Dyke has been
:22:15. > :22:25.finding out, they were considering a more audacious plan elsewhere in the
:22:25. > :22:31.South. Stopping a mail train, stealing
:22:31. > :22:38.banknotes, getting caught, then escaping prison! On the 8th of
:22:38. > :22:43.August, 1963, 17 thieves did exactly that. But another heist had been
:22:43. > :22:46.planned. Come to the docks and make its way up the road to the city.
:22:46. > :22:50.was harder to get money out of banks because they were not secure after
:22:50. > :22:55.the war so they were looking for money or valuable things in
:22:55. > :22:58.transit. A port like Southampton or Portsmouth, a lot of stuff moving
:22:58. > :23:03.around. So they started looking and concentrating on what might be able
:23:03. > :23:12.to be stolen from down here in the south. Several members came down to
:23:12. > :23:22.Southampton to watch how the gold was transported. They were very
:23:22. > :23:22.
:23:23. > :23:29.professional. The van would drive straight to those doors there.
:23:29. > :23:34.Brown was one of the guards. These would open, we drove straight in,
:23:34. > :23:44.the door shut straight behind us, padlocked. And were talking about
:23:44. > :23:44.
:23:44. > :23:51.millions of pounds worth of gold and cash? She was carrying �8 million
:23:51. > :23:57.worth of gold bullion. Why did the gold train never get robbed? It was
:23:57. > :24:02.too well guarded and the guards were armed. Today, you've just found out
:24:03. > :24:08.that whilst you were here, guarding the gold bullion, four of the
:24:08. > :24:11.robbers were sticking out this branch of the Bank of England in
:24:11. > :24:17.Southampton for a potential robbery! I was gobsmacked when I was
:24:17. > :24:22.told that. I can't believe those four were actually here in
:24:22. > :24:26.Southampton, watching us do it. It worries me, to be honest excavation
:24:26. > :24:36.mark that must be incredible, to think that they were, doing your job
:24:36. > :24:41.
:24:41. > :24:43.and not knowing what is going on you can see from our weather
:24:43. > :24:46.pictures. A splash of colour at Compton Acres
:24:46. > :24:49.in Poole. Thank you to Jo Grierson for that beautiful photo. Roger
:24:49. > :24:54.Bishop captured the glorious weather over the fields of Emmington near
:24:54. > :25:04.Thame in Oxfordshire. And a bumble bee hard at work at Wakehurst Place.
:25:04. > :25:06.
:25:06. > :25:10.Alison Macknay sent that one in. Thank you.
:25:10. > :25:15.We've had some lovely sunshine today. More evening sunshine to
:25:15. > :25:18.come. One or two showers in the mix but they are fading away through the
:25:18. > :25:22.course of the evening periods and as we go to tonight, we will see the
:25:22. > :25:28.cloud building in from the West. That brings patchy outbreaks of rain
:25:28. > :25:32.with it in low cloud, missed and Merck in the picture, hill fog and
:25:32. > :25:42.coastal fog. Our overnight temperatures down to 15 or 16
:25:42. > :25:44.
:25:44. > :25:46.degrees. That wet weather is with us to start to the day tomorrow
:25:46. > :25:51.morning. But that band of rain tracks its way eastwards and behind
:25:51. > :26:01.it, drier, brighter skies, one or two showers, perhaps. Highs of 22 or
:26:01. > :26:06.23 degrees. Light winds. Tomorrow night, another fairly quiet night.
:26:06. > :26:11.Slightly cooler than the one to come so I suspect temperatures may be
:26:11. > :26:18.into double digits for much of the region. As we look ahead to the
:26:18. > :26:23.weekend, it looks like we will start to see a decent start on Saturday.
:26:23. > :26:27.There will be bright intervals. 12 showers in the mix but we will have
:26:27. > :26:32.good holes for the sunshine to come through. Overnight Saturday into
:26:32. > :26:40.Sunday, we have this front working its way through bringing rain for a
:26:40. > :26:42.time. We do have some events to look forward to this weekend.
:26:43. > :26:45.The Lambourn Festival starts on Saturday with a flower festival and
:26:46. > :26:50.fete and conditions are looking mostly dry and bright. On Sunday,
:26:50. > :26:53.the Winchester CycleFest Family day takes place. At this stage, it looks
:26:53. > :26:56.like any wet weather will clear through during the morning, so drier
:26:56. > :26:59.and brighter in time for the races! And it's the Worthing Birdman
:26:59. > :27:09.competition this weekend. Flying starts at lunchtime both days and
:27:09. > :27:10.
:27:10. > :27:15.we're expecting largely dry conditions each afternoon. Not doing
:27:15. > :27:20.too badly for the coming days. A damp start tomorrow, cheering up
:27:20. > :27:30.later in the day. One or two showers possible on Saturday but bright
:27:30. > :27:35.
:27:35. > :27:38.intervals as well and Sunday, brightening up yet again. On