:00:11. > :00:18.Accusations of lack of care as an inquest begins into the death of
:00:18. > :00:26.this woman and 18 others. Acquitted of arson, three children
:00:26. > :00:30.started a fire in a playpark. She died from sudden death syndrome.
:00:30. > :00:34.Now her family is organising hard checkups for young people in her
:00:34. > :00:38.memory. And pillar to post, but who is
:00:38. > :00:43.responsible for this special delivery?
:00:43. > :01:00.I have seen people put things in it. A hearing into the deaths of 19
:01:00. > :01:04.elderly residents at a care home in West Sussex has heard allegations of
:01:04. > :01:07.neglect. The inquest was told that one resident of the Orchid View home
:01:07. > :01:10.in Copthorne was given too much of one drug, while another resident
:01:10. > :01:13.didn't get important medication. Sussex Police investigated some
:01:13. > :01:17.staff at the home but no action was taken. Mark Sanders is in our
:01:17. > :01:24.Portsmouth studio and can tell us more. A large number of people's
:01:24. > :01:38.deaths are being looked at this in inquest, aren't they? 19 in all. And
:01:38. > :01:42.all 19 were residents at the Orchid View care Home in Copthorne in West
:01:42. > :01:45.Sussex which closed in 2011. You can see their names listed here. The
:01:45. > :01:48.deaths of 13 residents aged between 77 and 95 will be examined in
:01:48. > :01:52.detail. Six other deaths will also be reviewed at the end of the
:01:52. > :01:56.hearing. All of them died in the space of 21 months. One of the
:01:56. > :01:59.significant things is that the care home was at the centre of a police
:01:59. > :02:02.investigation looking at allegations of neglect but no—one was ever
:02:02. > :02:08.charged with any crime. What evidence did the inquest hear today?
:02:08. > :02:16.The inquest heard from the family of Jean Halfpenny. She died in May 2010
:02:16. > :02:24.from a stroke. She was a resident of Orchid View. Her daughter Louise
:02:24. > :02:27.Halfpenny told the inquest in the weeks before her death her mother
:02:27. > :02:31.had been given three times her usual dose of the drug Warfarin. She also
:02:31. > :02:35.said, "If I had known what the conditions at Orchid View were going
:02:35. > :02:39.to be, I would never had placed her in there." She went on, "There was a
:02:39. > :02:43.lack of management, a lack of staff. The carers who looked after my mum
:02:43. > :02:46.were very good, but they didn't have enough time to care for my mum." In
:02:46. > :02:50.other evidence, the coroner heard that another resident was not given
:02:50. > :02:54.his three doses of insulin he needed each day. Also the food budget at
:02:54. > :02:59.the home was cut and that carers paid for residents' food out of
:02:59. > :03:02.their own pocket for two months. You mentioned a police investigation
:03:02. > :03:08.earlier, what more can you tell us about that? Well, two people were
:03:08. > :03:13.arrested by police on suspicion of manslaughter by gross negligence of
:03:13. > :03:17.resident Jean Halfpenny. But no charges were brought. Sussex Police
:03:17. > :03:20.said there was insufficient evidence to justify prosecution. Three other
:03:20. > :03:28.workers at the home were arrested over allegations of neglect, but
:03:28. > :03:32.again they were never charged. It's important to remember that an
:03:32. > :03:38.inquest is not a trial and we're expecting this inquest to last about
:03:38. > :03:41.three weeks. Three young boys have been cleared
:03:41. > :03:44.of arson after they started a fire at a play park near Chichester,
:03:44. > :03:49.causing more than £30,000 worth of damage. A large wooden galleon, part
:03:49. > :03:52.of a recently completed multi million pound refurbishment of the
:03:52. > :03:58.East Beach park in Selsey, was destroyed. The boys, one aged ten,
:03:58. > :04:03.and two aged 11, admitted setting fire to a ball of toilet paper but
:04:03. > :04:10.said they never intended to burn the equipment. Jo Kent reports.
:04:10. > :04:18.The pilot galleon has since been replaced with a new Mac identical
:04:18. > :04:23.version. —— and you identical version. It was the afternoon of
:04:23. > :04:29.Halloween when they decided to set their fire. They took Tyler paper
:04:29. > :04:37.from the public toilets and set a bowl of tissue on fire in a space
:04:37. > :04:45.underneath the pilot ship. What happened next could not have been
:04:45. > :04:51.expected. The pair 's —— the paper said Mike quickly to the material on
:04:51. > :04:57.the ground. The boys ran away quickly. The ship was engulfed in a
:04:57. > :05:03.matter of seconds. We were devastated. It had only just been
:05:04. > :05:11.installed. The park had to stay closed for over six months
:05:11. > :05:18.afterwards. All the children bussed over. The boys said they never
:05:18. > :05:24.intended to damage the ship. An expert report found that the floor
:05:24. > :05:33.surface was so flammable it had an inherent danger. As far as we were
:05:33. > :05:38.concerned, it is totally fire retardant and we had certificates to
:05:38. > :05:43.show that. I think there manufactured will be very surprised
:05:43. > :05:46.at this report. The verdict was clicked and unanimous, not guilty.
:05:46. > :05:51.The chairman of the bench told the young boys that because of their
:05:51. > :05:57.age, they could not have foreseen the consequences. He said that they
:05:57. > :06:02.hoped they would not play with fire again. An inquest has heard how two
:06:02. > :06:10.soldiers were killed by an Afghan policeman in a so—called insider
:06:10. > :06:13.attack last autumn. Corporal David O'Connor from Havant was among a
:06:13. > :06:16.group of Royal Marines who were escorting Army medic Corporal
:06:16. > :06:19.Channing Day in Helmand when they came under fire as they passed a
:06:19. > :06:22.checkpoint. The families of both soldiers were at the inquest from
:06:22. > :06:24.where Seb Choudhury sent this report.
:06:24. > :06:27.Army medic Corporal Channing Day and Corporal David O'Connor were out on
:06:27. > :06:33.foot patrol in Helmand province when they were killed last October.
:06:33. > :06:42.Corporal Channing Day was going to an Afghan base to teach people their
:06:42. > :06:45.first aid. Initial reports said that they were killed in a friendly fire
:06:45. > :06:49.incident, but later investigations found that it was an insider attack.
:06:49. > :06:51.A green on blue incident where Afghans turn on international
:06:51. > :06:54.security forces. Now, the coroner has already said here today that it
:06:55. > :07:06.is not to apportion blame, this inquest, but to find out exactly
:07:06. > :07:12.what happened. Royal Marines and soldiers out on patrol that day met
:07:12. > :07:27.up with an Afghan who was known to them he asked to join the patrol but
:07:27. > :07:37.was told no. He later shot dead the two soldiers. Both soldiers were
:07:37. > :07:45.killed by a single gunshot wound to the chest. It has been a very hard
:07:45. > :07:53.day. We were very proud of her and what she had achieved in her short
:07:53. > :08:01.life. It is just such a loss. For both families. The coroner delivered
:08:01. > :08:04.his conclusion, saying this was an unlawful killing and one that
:08:05. > :08:19.claimed the lives of two soldiers who had been described as
:08:19. > :08:23.exceptional. Two Dorset farmers say they feel let
:08:23. > :08:28.down by authorities after rubbish was dumped on their land. One of
:08:28. > :08:35.them carried out his own investigation.
:08:35. > :08:40.In Hardy Country, a hearty mess. This rubbish was illegally dumped on
:08:40. > :08:43.fields near Milton Abbas in Dorset around a fortnight ago. The farmer
:08:43. > :08:46.reported it to the police but was told they were powerless to
:08:46. > :08:57.investigate as fly—tipping is a civil matter. There are various
:08:57. > :09:01.government agencies that seem to overlap and you're meant to report
:09:01. > :09:04.it to all of them but they all seem to be quite happy to issue the
:09:04. > :09:08.incident number and hope somebody else does something about it. Dorset
:09:08. > :09:10.Council says more than 2,000 fly—tipping incidents are reported
:09:11. > :09:14.to it each year and it only has resources to deal with waste on
:09:14. > :09:17.public land. Police in the county say they can only get involved if
:09:17. > :09:19.the rubbish causes a local danger. The Environment Agency does
:09:20. > :09:25.occasionally investigate, but only in certain circumstances. If it's a
:09:25. > :09:28.large load of waste, more than a tip load, ot if there's evidence of
:09:28. > :09:31.organised or criminal activity, and similarly if it's hazardous waste,
:09:31. > :09:33.something like asbestos, then the Environment Agency will get involved
:09:33. > :09:35.and investigate. Calum Sutherland farms near
:09:36. > :09:39.Sturminster Newton and also had waste dumped on his land last month.
:09:39. > :09:42.He investigated, tracked down the culprit and made them clear up
:09:42. > :09:45.rubbish. He thinks the authorities should have worked with him more
:09:46. > :09:53.closely. This could have deterred future fly tipping. If we don't do
:09:53. > :09:58.something about it, it's going to be a huge problem in the future.
:09:58. > :10:01.Farmers in Dorset see it has been a tough couple of years for the
:10:01. > :10:20.industry and that fly tipping is just one more unneeded cost.
:10:20. > :10:23.Still to come in this evening's South Today. The story of the plant
:10:23. > :10:31.hunters who helped create the magnificent Exbury Gardens.
:10:31. > :10:35.Anti—fracking campaigners in Balkan have ignored orders to leave. Sussex
:10:35. > :10:50.police have made six more arrests today. Campaigners say that drilling
:10:50. > :10:54.is unsafe. 22—year—old Claire Reed, from Hampshire, died in March after
:10:54. > :10:56.collapsing at a friend's hen party. She had a condition known as sudden
:10:56. > :10:59.death syndrome. Previously undetected heart conditions kill an
:10:59. > :11:02.estimated 12 young people every week. Today, Claire's family
:11:02. > :11:10.organised a special heart screening session, paid for in her memory. Ed
:11:10. > :11:21.Sherry reports. It is a simple ECG that costs just
:11:21. > :11:24.£35. As this cardiologist explains, it can diagnose potential serious
:11:24. > :11:27.problems. What tends to happens in these conditions is death is caused
:11:27. > :11:31.by the heart suddenly going into very rapid rhythm. It starts beating
:11:31. > :11:33.so quickly that it cannot sustain cardiac output. Rather than
:11:33. > :11:37.contracting in a synchronised fashion, it starts to flutter around
:11:37. > :11:43.and nothing gets out to the body and the brain. But this test isn't
:11:43. > :11:46.available on the NHS. Today, 100 aged between 14 and 35 attended the
:11:46. > :11:50.session in Eastleigh that was organised and paid for by the fund
:11:50. > :12:01.raising efforts of Claire Reed's family. I think she would be very
:12:01. > :12:04.proud. Among those tested were friends and family, including her
:12:04. > :12:07.cousins Michael and Melanie Hunter. I think other people need to get
:12:07. > :12:18.tested because it catches families by surprise and the awareness is
:12:18. > :12:21.getting higher. The charity Cardiac Risk in the Young regularly run
:12:21. > :12:26.similar screening sessions around the country. I think they would have
:12:27. > :12:35.been terribly proud of all the people that have donated. The family
:12:35. > :12:39.have also met with the health minister who's promised to look at
:12:39. > :12:45.whether it is possible to offer screening to all young people.
:12:45. > :12:49.Let's move on to sport. A big game for Ricky Lambert tonight.
:12:49. > :12:54.It would be nice if England could get a win. Lambert will start again
:12:54. > :12:57.for Roy Hodgson's men. So far, it's two caps and two goals for Lambert
:12:57. > :13:05.who scored with his first touch against Scotland and again in
:13:05. > :13:12.Friday's qualifier against Moldova. He also set up a goal for the
:13:12. > :13:21.suspended Danny Welbeck. Do you know a player called Ricky Lambert? No.
:13:21. > :13:31.Who are your favourite players in the England team? Frank Lampard.
:13:31. > :13:46.Steven Gerrard. What about linking up —— Ricky Lambert? Does he play
:13:46. > :13:52.for Norwich? Norwich! Definitely Southampton. Good luck to
:13:52. > :13:56.them. If it's a big night for England's
:13:56. > :13:58.men, it's an important time in the women's game, too. England flopped
:13:58. > :14:01.at the European Championships in Sweden this summer, but will kick
:14:01. > :14:05.off their World Cup qualifying campaign with two games in the
:14:05. > :14:08.region later this month. Today, two of the team were coaching youngsters
:14:08. > :14:11.from Dorset down at the Goldsands. A captive audience for two stars of
:14:11. > :14:15.woman's football. Kelly Smith and Steph Houghton are getting used to
:14:15. > :14:18.the sort of attention as exposure to the game grows. It is crucial that
:14:18. > :14:22.you interact with communities so can inspire the next generation. The
:14:22. > :14:26.pair were helping coach youngsters at this school, among them young
:14:26. > :14:36.girls who are budding footballers. We have been practising dribbling,
:14:36. > :14:40.in pairs. I think it is quite good that we are here and there are
:14:40. > :14:44.people here from England's ladies. The opportunities that I had when I
:14:44. > :14:48.was a girl was nothing compared with what the girls get now. Women's
:14:48. > :14:54.football is on the television and they get the chance to go to
:14:54. > :14:57.international games. Kelly and Steph were helping to promote the first of
:14:57. > :15:06.two World Cup qualifiers in the south later this month. The first is
:15:06. > :15:09.Belarus in Bournemouth and then in Portsmouth against Turkey. World Cup
:15:09. > :15:15.qualifiers are always hard. Ultimately, the aim is to win.
:15:15. > :15:18.England's women had a disappointing summer, crashing out of the
:15:18. > :15:24.championships and the manager Hope Powell sacked in the aftermath. We
:15:24. > :15:36.should have performed a little bit better. We are looking forward to
:15:36. > :15:39.the new campaign though. And that campaign begins live here on BBC One
:15:39. > :15:43.on Saturday 21st September. BBC Three has live coverage Turkey game
:15:43. > :15:45.from Portsmouth on Thursday 26th. Poole Pirates kept their play off
:15:46. > :15:54.hopes alive last night with a victory in tough conditions at Belle
:15:54. > :16:10.Vue. A bit of work to overhaul the track. Paul established a lead
:16:10. > :16:16.again. —— Poole. The search is on for this year's BBC
:16:16. > :16:19.South Sports Unsung hero. It's your chance to nominate either an
:16:19. > :16:23.individual or a pair who have gone the extra mile to make a difference
:16:23. > :16:27.in a sporting community.This is the 10th year of the award, the winner
:16:27. > :16:30.or winners go into the running for the full national award at the BBC
:16:30. > :16:33.Sports Personality of the year show in December. For more details go
:16:33. > :16:36.online to bbc.co.uk/unsunghero where you can download a nomination. If
:16:36. > :16:42.you don't have internet access, there is a phone number you can ring
:16:42. > :17:01.to have one posted. It's 0845 308 8000.
:17:01. > :17:11.It is always very good. Cedar of Lebanon, Rhododendrons and
:17:11. > :17:14.Azaleas are all varieties of plants and trees that have been imported
:17:14. > :17:17.into the South. Air travel has made it easy but in
:17:17. > :17:25.the past, great expeditions were mounted to get the rare and unusual.
:17:26. > :17:29.We have invited Andy McIndoe, Radio Solent's gardening expert to take us
:17:29. > :17:33.on a tour of the south's exotic flora each Tuesday for the rest of
:17:33. > :17:36.September. He begins his journey in Exbury gardens.
:17:36. > :17:39.Exbury was built in 1726 and covers over 200 acres. Country estates in
:17:39. > :17:56.the 18th century were all about the vistas. This remarkable Cedar of
:17:56. > :18:00.Lebanon was planted in 1729. That's nearly 300 years old. Can you
:18:00. > :18:05.imagine, you know, the people that planted this tree would never have
:18:05. > :18:09.seen it looking anything like this. Lionel de Rothschild bought the
:18:09. > :18:12.estate in 1919 and began collecting on a global scale, employing some of
:18:12. > :18:22.the world's most renowned plant hunters, including George Forrest
:18:22. > :18:25.and Frank Kingdom Ward. He was summoned and said, rather
:18:25. > :18:31.pathetically, but it's my wedding day today. And he said, get married
:18:31. > :18:37.and them come straight down and you can go on honeymoon tomorrow. I need
:18:37. > :18:41.you now! He built an arboretum on the top end and in order to make the
:18:41. > :18:45.hole for the tree, they didn't have mechanical diggers in those days,
:18:45. > :18:49.they put a stick of dynamite in and boom! And popped in the tree.
:18:49. > :18:52.Simple, really. Grandfather would make copious and detailed notes
:18:52. > :18:56.about where he would plant his plants. He knew the garden
:18:56. > :19:00.intimately — this area is dry, this area has got more clay, this area
:19:00. > :19:04.has got more gravel. If a plant wasn't thriving in one place, he'd
:19:04. > :19:11.up and he'd move it to another place to try and get it right.
:19:11. > :19:17.Many of the plants found by the plant hunters can be seen here at
:19:17. > :19:19.Exbury in the gardens. They include original rhododendrom specimens
:19:19. > :19:21.brought back by Frank Kingdom Ward and a pink lotus tree brought back
:19:21. > :19:40.by George Forrest. Plant hunting is a tradition that
:19:40. > :19:43.continues today with head gardener George Amberson taking an expedition
:19:43. > :19:45.to India in 2010 to collect seed which has since been propagated
:19:45. > :19:52.ready for introduction into the gardens. Almost a sub tropical
:19:52. > :20:01.region, we saw this growing by the gravel track. We took a couple of
:20:01. > :20:05.seeds and here we are, a few years later, in flower. That would be a
:20:05. > :20:08.really good garden plant. It could be. We have to try them outside, to
:20:08. > :20:12.harden them off. Get them out, go through a couple of hard winters and
:20:12. > :20:17.make sure that they are hardy enough.
:20:17. > :20:25.It's great to see that the Exbury tradition of collecting and
:20:25. > :20:31.preserving plants continues today. Who knows? Maybe this little plant
:20:31. > :20:34.will be in all of our gardens in a few years.
:20:34. > :20:38.Andy McIndoe who'll be back with another report next Tuesday. And you
:20:38. > :20:42.can hear more about the tradition of plant hunting at Exbury on BBC Radio
:20:42. > :20:54.Solent's gardening show The Good Life this Sunday from 12.
:20:54. > :21:01.Under the weather. We are going day by day.
:21:01. > :21:06.A bit of a mixed bag again today. Some lovely sunny skies, but some
:21:06. > :21:41.rain as well. For western parts, a clear spell,
:21:41. > :21:49.patchy rain in the East. As we go through the early hours, we start to
:21:49. > :21:53.see that patchy rain spreading east. We are expecting clear spells here,
:21:53. > :21:59.overnight temperatures of ten or 11 degrees. The pressure chart tells
:21:59. > :22:04.the story quite nicely for the coming day. Some wet weather
:22:04. > :22:11.arriving, further outbreaks of rain on Friday and the weekend as well.
:22:11. > :22:22.Through the course of Wednesday, a pretty decent start, Chile but good
:22:22. > :22:32.brightness first thing. Cloud thickening. That band of rain
:22:32. > :22:39.continues on its journey Southeast words. Becoming drier and I'll make
:22:39. > :22:46.the temperatures of 12 or 13. On Thursday, perhaps starting on angry
:22:46. > :22:49.and damp note, but drier intervals developing before we see further
:22:49. > :22:56.outbreaks of damp and drizzling conditions. On Friday, it looks like
:22:56. > :22:59.we do have those outbreaks of rain in store. For the weekend, we do
:22:59. > :23:24.have some events coming up. Similar conditions for Portsmouth.
:23:24. > :23:29.And for the launch of the cycling Festival, cloudy conditions with
:23:29. > :23:34.outbreaks of light, patchy rain. The summary for the coming days.
:23:34. > :23:38.Tomorrow, starting on a decent note that the brain arriving later. A
:23:38. > :23:42.bright start on Thursday, further rain for Friday.
:23:42. > :23:49.Lovely, thank you. Think back one year. We want your
:23:49. > :23:57.help on this story. Do you remember those gold postboxes that we had for
:23:57. > :24:01.the Olympic medal winners? They were in recognition of the
:24:01. > :24:04.athletes achievements. We found another post box where you
:24:04. > :24:11.need special abilities to make use of it. It is a bit colour, but in an
:24:11. > :24:15.unusual location. It is not on the banks of the
:24:15. > :24:21.Thames, in midstream on one of the bridge supports.
:24:21. > :24:27.Dear Sally, lovely day on the Thames, wish you were here. All we
:24:27. > :24:34.need now is a post box. I don't believe it. It is definitely a
:24:34. > :24:43.talking point. People are always asking about it. I took some
:24:43. > :24:48.photographs of the post box. I was thinking of sending the photographs
:24:48. > :24:56.to one of these Waterway magazines. It is unusual. It is something of a
:24:56. > :25:02.mystery. If you want to find out what is going on on the River, come
:25:02. > :25:06.to one of the Lock keepers. What do you know about this post box? Not a
:25:06. > :25:13.lot other than it suddenly appeared in late April. Have people been
:25:13. > :25:18.asking you about it? Absolutely, and I have not got a clue. I know
:25:18. > :25:29.nothing about it other than it is there. Was that a postman? He will
:25:29. > :25:36.know. We are looking into it, but we are stumped as well. You have not
:25:36. > :25:39.been enter collect anything? I have managed to get a lift on a boat and
:25:39. > :25:48.we are going to try and see if we can use this post box. I think you
:25:48. > :25:53.have seen it up close. Yes, we were coming up with when we saw it. We
:25:53. > :25:56.could not believe it. We will give it a try to see if we can get a
:25:56. > :26:14.postcard in there. This is as close as we are going to
:26:14. > :26:19.get. With a helping hand, we can probably pop listen and get the card
:26:19. > :26:28.on its way back to you. —— pop this in.
:26:28. > :26:35.Extraordinary. It is quite interesting. Some people think it is
:26:35. > :26:42.touring theatre company who left it there. Others think it may have been
:26:43. > :26:49.on the side of a local house and the front plate has been stuck on the.
:26:49. > :26:58.It has got us thinking. What about unusual locations for postboxes?
:26:58. > :27:08.What about here? And this one. I'm sure I spotted it there.
:27:08. > :27:11.Do let us know if you know of any. Before we go just a quick word about
:27:11. > :27:14.something special in tomorrow night's programme. Engineers working
:27:14. > :27:17.on a radical new flood defence scheme at Selsey in West Sussex have
:27:17. > :27:22.started to breach the giant shingle bank there which has held the sea at
:27:22. > :27:25.bay for hundreds of years. We'll be there as the sea starts to come in
:27:25. > :27:33.in what they're calling the biggest coastal realignment in modern
:27:33. > :27:41.British history. Make sure you are with us tomorrow
:27:41. > :27:43.night. Let us know if you know about that post box. Good night.