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Romsey welcome to South Today. Tonight: The heat is on Surrey's | :00:06. | :00:13. | |
firefighters ahead of tomorrow's national strike. They claim they're | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
being bullied into working. Surrey's chief has taken a different | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
attitude. He has been provocative and playing games. A flare up over | :00:22. | :00:32. | |
plans for more than 100,000 solar panels. And top marks for this | :00:32. | :00:44. | |
restoration of a school mural. And the pride of Hampshire, how massed | :00:44. | :00:50. | |
military bands will put on the biggest remembrance festival outside | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
of London. Councils and fire brigades across | :00:52. | :01:05. | |
the South are bracing themselves for the first firefighters' strike in a | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
decade. A four hour walk—out is planned at midday tomorrow over | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
government plans for pension changes which will increase the | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
firefighters' retirement age to 60. It's down to individual fire | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
authorities to provide cover during the strike. In some places, | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
part—time firefighters and even members of the public will be | :01:19. | :01:26. | |
drafted in to help. But in Surrey, a private company will provide cover. | :01:26. | :01:34. | |
Staff there won't be allowed back on shift at the end of the strike and | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
will lose a full day's pay. Joe Campbell has been following the | :01:38. | :01:45. | |
story — he's in Farnham tonight. Officially this is a dispute between | :01:45. | :01:52. | |
the Fire Brigades Union and height what will. But if firefighters are | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
locked out of stations, they say they can't carry out checks on | :01:57. | :02:06. | |
equipment they would need if there was a serious emergency. We have | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
been looking at the arrangements for a serious emergency. They look like | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
Surrey firefighters. They're using Surrey's fire engines. But the team | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
going through their paces today are in fact employees of a private | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
company. We have the most up—to—date fire engines and cutting equipment | :02:26. | :02:33. | |
and breathing apparatus. They're doing fully fire fighting, they can | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
rescue people to the same stabbed ard. — standard. The role means | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
tomorrow these are the crews who will be answering 999 calls, as | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
remember firefighters go on strike over pensions changes. But what has | :02:47. | :02:55. | |
hangered the —— angered the crews is the way anyone walking out for four | :02:55. | :03:00. | |
hours won't get paid. All but one of other fire and rescue services has | :03:00. | :03:07. | |
reached agreement and they're negotiating with our officials. | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
Surrey's chief has taken a different attitude and he is being provocative | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
and is still playing games. Crews walking off for a limited time was | :03:16. | :03:23. | |
meant to make things difficult for the employers. The woman who heads | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
the employers here makes no apologies. If you don't come to | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
work, you don't get paid. If somebody gets to work and walks out | :03:33. | :03:40. | |
for four hours. They don't get paid for the four hours or the day. | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
Suspect that going to create animosity? It may do, but we have to | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
take a decision to deal with it. It is clear that people have been | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
advised if they take industrial action, they won't get paid for the | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
day. The Fire Brigades Union says that attitude is raising the | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
temperature of the dispute here in Surrey. And far from putting people | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
off going on strike, they claim their members' resolve is | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
stiffening. What impact it has had will only become clear tomorrow at | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
noon when the strike gets under way. The situation is there is no doubt | :04:18. | :04:27. | |
the crews we saw are better prepared to respond than the traditional | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
response from people in Green Goddesses, but how many will be on | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
call tomorrow is not clear. So how is cover going to be provided in the | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
rest of the South? Steve Humphrey has been looking at the challenges | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
the strike poses, and how each county is preparing to deal with | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
them. Yes, Chief Fire officers across the region have been busy | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
working out exactly how they'll cope. There'll be a huge reliance on | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
retained part time fire—fighters, who are not union members. Some of | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
our fire services have given BBC South Today estimates of how many | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
front line appliances will be available. Hampshire expects to have | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
around 38 fire tenders on call — normally there would be 76. They're | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
aiming to respond to calls in 20 minutes — the normal target is eight | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
minutes. Dorset Fire and Rescue expects to field 20 front line | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
appliances out of 40. On the Isle of Wight just two fire appliances will | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
be available out of a normal 12. Royal Berkshire won't be releasing | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
figures until tomorrow — they'll also be relying on non—striking | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
firefighters. Some them have so called "resilience contracts" to | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
provide cover during disputes. And specially trained members of the | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
public will make up at least one crew. Wiltshire hope to have over | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
50% of their appliances available — that's around 12 in place of about | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
24. West Sussex hope to have around 12 out of the normal complement of | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
25. Now this is the first time fire authorities have been required to do | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
full contingency planning for a strike. In disputes in 2002 and 2003 | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
there was a big military input — with the famous Green Goddess fire | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
engines which have now been withdrawn from service. But I'm told | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
there will be a strategic reserve of Navy, RAF and Army firefighters at | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
19 locations around the UK. Agreements are in place with the | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
Fire Brigades Union under which striking fire fighters would return | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
to work if there was a major incident with lives at risk. A | :06:24. | :06:34. | |
missing sailor from Dorset, whose yacht was found off the northern | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
coast of France, may have fallen overboard, according to his sailing | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
club. 62—year—old Jeff Cole from Weymouth is believed to have set | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
sail from the town early on Saturday bound for Swanage, but never | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
arrived. His yacht was found on Monday with no—one on board. Dorset | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
Police are investigating. Campaigners fighting a proposal to | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
build a solar farm near Mapperton in Dorset say it would wreck the | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
landscape. The company Good Energy wants to put more than 120,000 | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
panels on 150 acres of land on the Charborough Estate, which is owned | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
by the family of Dorset South MP Richard Drax. If approved it would | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
generate enough power for 6,000 homes, but opponents say it's not | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
the right place for development. Briony Leyland reports. It is hard | :07:12. | :07:24. | |
to believe on a murky morning, but it is claimed this part of Dorset is | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
one of the sunniest places in the country. That is one reason why Good | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
Energy wants to replace crops with a solar farm. The flags show the | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
proximate height of the panels. The project would generate electricity | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
for surrounding villages and beyond. But not everyone welcomes the idea. | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
I'm against it. I think it will be very ugly and it is an area of great | :07:52. | :07:58. | |
landscape valued, it is designated as such by the council. It is also | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
prime agricultural land on which a good can be grown. Good Energy say | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
the farm could make an important contribution to renewable energy | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
targets and be planted with wild flowers and sheep would graze there | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
too. It is well away from people's houses. Somebody is not going to | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
open the window and see the solar farm. It is well protected by trees | :08:25. | :08:32. | |
and the terrain. We do feel it is a good site. Good Energy would lease | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
the land from the Charborough estate owned by the family of Richard Drax, | :08:36. | :08:43. | |
the MP. Today the estate said the opinion of the local community was | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
sought prior to submitting the application. The site is well | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
screened at the end of the project the land will return to the existing | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
agricultural use. East Dorset council will consider the planning | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
application next month. If it is approved, work will start swiftly | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
with all the panels in place and electricity being general Raymented | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
as early —— generated as early as April next year. Plans for what it's | :09:12. | :09:24. | |
hoped will be the biggest Remembrance Festival outside London | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
were announced today. All the Army bands in the South of England will | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
converge on Southampton's Guildhall on November 8th. They'll join the | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
city's Philharmonic Choir in a tribute to the Armed Forces and | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
their families. It'll be compered by the Southampton Football legend | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
Matthew Le Tissier. Like all those taking part will be giving his | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
services free to raise money for the Royal British Legion. Ben Moore | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
reports. The brass is back. The unmistakable strains of a marching | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
military band marking the return of the festival of remembrance after | :09:51. | :09:58. | |
seven years. We have got some big people that want to bring it back, | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
so everybody is doing is for no fee and the Guildhall are giving us the | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
venue and stuff to make it happen. So the fact that everybody has just | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
come on board to make this come back is just brilliant. The Guildhall | :10:10. | :10:19. | |
will now host the biggest remembrance vent outside of London. | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
Complete with Albert Hall—style poppy drop and a 100—strong | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
philharmonic choir. The band and bugles of The Rifles will be one of | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
eight military bands performing from all over the UK and it will include | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
the Parachute Regiment and the Royal Corps of Drums of the Yorkshire | :10:34. | :10:48. | |
Regiment. There are a thousand tickets, the money raised will go to | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
supporting armed forces' families in need. Organising such a big event | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
demands military precision from top brass. I won't give too much away, | :10:56. | :11:03. | |
but it is a huge event and we have a different programme of music, we are | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
incorporating some Carl Jenkins from the Armed Man, which is a fantastic | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
piece of music. Buy a ticket, come along and see something slightly | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
different. The festival is on 8th November. The south will once again | :11:15. | :11:24. | |
march together for remembrance. Tickets for that event are available | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
from the Southampton Guildhall Box Office. And you can get in touch | :11:27. | :11:34. | |
online at the address on screen. Cuadrilla, the company which has | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
been carrying out exploratory drilling for oil in West Sussex, | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
says it's been very encouraged by the results of the process. The | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
drilling in Balcombe led to three months of anti—fracking protests | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
which have cost Sussex Police millions of pounds. The company says | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
its work there is done for now and is clearing the site. Drivers are | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
being warned to take extra care on the New Forest's roads after a spate | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
of accidents. Official figures show a sharp increase in the number of | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
animal casualties in the forest compared with last year. The latest | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
was on Sunday night when a pony died after a collision with a 4 x 4. | :12:04. | :12:10. | |
Still to come in this evening's South Today: Can Sir Ben Ainslie | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
help his team to an epic America's Cup comeback? The NHS Trust running | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
the Royal Berkshire Hospital is considering a plan to sell its | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
historic London Road building so it can be converted into one of the | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
Government's free schools. The grade two star listed building, which | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
features an imposing colonnade, was built in 1839 and currently houses | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
wards for chemotherapy and dialysis. The Trust says the plan is just one | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
option for the block which is expensive to repair and not suitable | :12:36. | :12:45. | |
for clinical use. A Berkshire school is celebrating the restoration of | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
three remarkable 1950s murals which in recent years have been hidden | :12:47. | :12:51. | |
under layers of paint. Two were uncovered and restored last year, | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
and now the third is also back to its full glory after being | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
faithfully repainted. Sean Killick reports. It's the culmination of a | :12:57. | :13:05. | |
decade's work, bringing back to life three murals installed when St | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
Crispin's School was built 60 years ago. The murals were painted over in | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
the 1970s and used for notice boards. In recent years two have | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
been uncovered and restored, but the third lay under so many covers of | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
emulsion it couldn't be recovered. So local artist Saskia Huning was | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
asked to repaint it. Patches of of the 1950s work were uncovered to | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
reveal the colours and an old photograph allowed Saskia to produce | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
a faithful replica of the original by Fred Millett. I was, yes, | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
slightly nerve—wracked by the fact that it had to sit with the other | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
two paintings and it had to look Fred—like. It was my painting and it | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
had to read as a painting as well as satisfying those other things. So | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
quite tricky, but I enjoyed it. It was really nice to do. Among those | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
at the official unveiling event was Fred Millett's widow, Judy, who | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
never dreamed she would ever see these works once more. Absolutely | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
joyful, because they have come alive again and they have been dead or | :14:10. | :14:18. | |
covered over for 30 years. It is just a miracle. Do you think Fred | :14:18. | :14:26. | |
would be impressed with the finished work? He would, yes. The artwork is | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
considered of historic significance in what is a grade two listed | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
building, a landmark of the post—war school building programme. This is | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
such an incredibly important school and people don't realise it looking | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
at the building outside, but it was the prototype development school for | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
the Ministry of Education and the murals were designed in by the | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
architects. So they're not an afterthought. They are a actually | :14:51. | :14:59. | |
part of the design of the school. St Crispin's is currently celebrating | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
its Diamond Jubilee and now also the restoration of one of the jewels in | :15:02. | :15:16. | |
its crown. Incredible stuff. Now the sport. It has been an exciting time | :15:16. | :15:27. | |
over the sailing. 1983 is regarded a as the most exciting Americas Cup. | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
Some time sips that? Yes, this year it is being called one of the | :15:34. | :15:45. | |
greatest sporting come backs in history Sir Ben Ainslie and the Team | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
USA crew won again in the America's Cup last night to make it five in a | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
row. To win the Cup one of the two teams — the other being challenger | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
New Zealand — has to reach nine points with a point for each race | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
won. The Americans started with a two point deficit and New Zealand | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
dominated at the start, but it's quite a different picture now. . The | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
first race of the Americas Cup goes to the Emirates team... It looks | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
like Team New Zealand have the 34th Americas Cup in the bag. Team New | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
Zealand is your winner. By race 11, they had reached match point with an | :16:15. | :16:23. | |
8—1 margin. But then came an incredible come back and at the | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
heart of it Ben Ainsley, the most successful Olympic swimmer who was | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
moved from the training crew into the role of tactician, following a | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
costly American slip up in race five. Driving one of these boats is | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
probably one of the most intense experiences I've ever had. So I got | :16:36. | :16:44. | |
chucked in at the deep end with very little practice and sort of was | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
expected to get the boat round the course. It took a lot of focus. I've | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
never concentrated so hard in my life. The magic didn't happen | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
straightaway, Oracle lost the next two races. But since then they have | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
been unstoppable, closing down that 8—1 gap to 8—6, only the fourth | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
Americas Cup team to win five successive races. Last night's race, | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
the 16th was flawless. The defenders led from the start, their boat first | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
over the line by a sizeable 33 seconds. We have really got a huge | :17:08. | :17:16. | |
wave of momentum. The guys have been working hard. Last the short team | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
there until the early hours and the boat's going fantastic. If they can | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
continue their form, it will set up a thrilling finish. Race 17, yet | :17:26. | :17:29. | |
another chance for New Zealand to clinch it, takes place tonight. The | :17:29. | :17:41. | |
Poole Pirates have it all to do if they're to reach Speedway's Elite | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
League play—off final. The Swindon Robins had the upper hand at the | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
Abbey Stadium in the first leg of their semi—final last night, | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
cruising to a ten point lead after six heats. Hans Andersen scored 11 | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
from five rides. For the Pirates, Darcy Ward was the stand out rider | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
making 15, but it wasn't enough to overturn the deficit — the meeting | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
ending 52—42. The second leg is at Wimborne Road next Monday. And good | :18:03. | :18:12. | |
luck to Isle of Wight speedway, who face Dudley tonight in the National | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
League play—offs. Portsmouth boxer Ebonie Jones is through to the | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
second round at the Women's Junior World Championships in Bulgaria. | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
Ebonie — who's 15 and trains at the Heart of Portsmouth Boxing Academy — | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
won in three straight rounds in her fight against Ukranian Karyna | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
Voronina. Ebonie is the current European 50 kilogram champion after | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
she won gold over the summer in her first ever international competition | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
in Hungary. Southampton are in League Cup action tonight. On the | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
face of it an easy tie — they're at home to League One strugglers | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
Bristol City. Saints manager Mauricio Pochettino likely to put | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
out a very different team to the one that beat Liverpool at the weekend. | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
Adam Blackmore is at St Mary's this evening, Adam. Yes, you're right, | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
because Mauricio Pochettino has changed all eleven starters from | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
that team that won 1—0 at Liverpool. And yes, they will still be expected | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
to go through. Of course less than two years ago these two sides were | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
competing against each other in the Championship. Now 68 places in the | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
league separate them and City are still looking for a league win. | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
Saints will know that the Robins have disposed of Crystal Palace. | :19:22. | :19:30. | |
That should guard them against complacency. Now, just a reminder | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
we're still after your nominations for the BBC South Sports Unsung Hero | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
— someone or a pair who've made a difference to sport in your | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
community. The winner goes into the running for the national award at | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
the BBC Sports Personality of the Year show in December. For more | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
details go online to bbc.co.uk/unsunghero where you can | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
download a nomination form. If you don't have internet access there is | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
a phone number you can ring to have one posted. It's 0845 308 8000. | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
Calls cost five pence per minute from a landline, but from mobiles | :19:57. | :19:58. | |
could cost considerably more. We have had a couple of national | :19:58. | :20:18. | |
winners in the past. Thank you, Joe. Now onto the final film in our | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
series celebrating great gardens in the region, and tonight we visit the | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
Sir Harold Hilliers gardens at Ampfield near Romsey. The gardens | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
were created by Sir Harold Hillier in 1953, so this year marks their | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
sixtieth anniversary. And in that time, one of the most diverse plant | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
collections in the country has been brought together there, as Andy | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
McIndoe, Radio Solent's gardening expert has been discovering. The Sir | :20:38. | :20:55. | |
Harold Hillier garden is renowned for its collection of trees and | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
shrubs. This was originally the private collection of the late Sir | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
Harold Hillier, who established it here on 100 acres of land not far | :21:05. | :21:14. | |
from Winchester. In 1964, Sir Harold planted a boarder to celebrate the | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
establishment of his grandfather's original nursery in Winchester. In | :21:18. | :21:27. | |
2010, work started to extend and widen the existing border. And join | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
it more with the surrounding landscape. 30,000 plants went into | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
this border. Which is now 250 metres long, making it the longest double | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
border in the UK. It is about the same length as London's Tower | :21:43. | :21:53. | |
Bridge. The planting in the new border features perennials, grasses | :21:53. | :22:01. | |
and summer flowering shrubs. And everything is planted in big drifts. | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
Great colour combinations and the bees and the insects and butterflies | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
find it so attractive. Today, the borders are buzzing with life. This | :22:12. | :22:25. | |
magnificent mountain Gun, a native of Australia, is one of champion | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
trees in the garden. A champion tree is the tallest specimen of the | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
species in any garden in the UK and these garden have nearly 400. That | :22:36. | :22:43. | |
is remarkable for a Fahden —— garden that is only 60 years old. ConFeres | :22:43. | :22:53. | |
play an important role and the Dawn red wood. Yes #i9d is a plant that | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
was discovered in China. It was known as a fossil find. It was one | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
where it was believed with the dinosaurs, or historic times, that | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
plant died out and suddenly it was found in China. During the war. And | :23:09. | :23:17. | |
then it was brought out of China by an American. In 1983, Sir Harold | :23:17. | :23:24. | |
Hillier became one of only two people ever to be knighted for | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
services to horticulture. In 1977, Harold gave this guard on the | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
Hampshire County Council to manage as a charitable trust. His ambition | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
was to create the best collection of plants and present them as | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
attractively as possible. And do you know what? I think he succeeded. | :23:45. | :23:58. | |
And you can hear more about the legacy of Sir Harold Hillier's work | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
this Sunday on BBC Radio Solent's gardening programme, The Good Life, | :24:03. | :24:09. | |
from 12 o'clock. Now if you're a bit squeamish about spiders you might | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
want to look away for a few moments. Because a car fanatic from Grazeley | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
near Reading had a bit of a shock when he picked up a 60's American | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
car, only to find it was full of large black ones. The spiders, | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
thought to be the infamous black widow species, hitched a ride from | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
California where the car was originally imported from. The | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
relevant local authorities have been informed and we're told they pose no | :24:30. | :24:41. | |
threat to the public. Does that reassure you? I don't mind spiders, | :24:41. | :24:48. | |
but black widows, no. They're not you're average spider. But not the | :24:48. | :24:55. | |
hard core. We have had loads of spiders' webs with if due and the | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
moist air. So some pretty photographs sent in Pete Blunden | :25:01. | :25:09. | |
took this photo of the vapour trails in the sky over Teddy the horse in | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
Bishops Waltham. Arthur Dibble captured the Season of mists and | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
mellow fruitfulness in Thatcham this morning. And a piglet was enjoying | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
the sunshine on Emery Down in the New Forest. This photo was sent in | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
by Marc Baldwin. . So we have had some lovely photographs. Tonight, | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
like last night, some misand fog patches and they will reduce | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
visibility on the roads tonight and first 13 tomorrow. Under clearing | :25:33. | :25:40. | |
skies we will have mist and fog forming in the usual prone areas. | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
Temperatures down to 13 Celsius. So a mild mild night to come. The mist | :25:46. | :25:54. | |
will clear and we will see some sunshine. Not as much as today, but | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
warm in the sun with a high of 20 Celsius. So temperatures are still | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
above their seasonal average. But as we head to the weekend, they will | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
creep down to norm. Tomorrow night a similar scenario, a lot of cloud, | :26:07. | :26:13. | |
mist and fog. Maybe one or two showers drifting in from the | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
channel. Most places will stay dry with temperatures down to 13 | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
Celsius. Yet another mild night to come. The change comes about as we | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
head through the week and it is because of this low pressure | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
bringing weather fronts and some showers. Thursday should stay dry. | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
There is the risk of a shower, but most places will be dry, maybe with | :26:34. | :26:41. | |
some mist and fog. But an improving picture. There are some events | :26:41. | :26:53. | |
taking place this weekend. The first one we have for you is the | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
Michaelmas Fair in Alverstoke, Gosport. On this Saturday the 28th | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
September. There is Music, food, crafts and family fun from noon | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
until 4pm. The other event is the Barnes Green Half Marathon which is | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
on this Sunday, the runners start at 11am. The weather for both events | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
will be a little unsettled. So yes, it is turning unsettled through the | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
week, tomorrow will see some mist and fog. And for the rest of the | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
week we will see mist and fog first thing. So cloudy each morning. But | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
that could will break and allow some brightness. The winds will be light, | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
but they're increasing towards Saturday. And that signals a change, | :27:26. | :27:32. | |
maybe with some thunder storms by the weekend. Thank you, make the | :27:32. | :27:37. | |
most of it while you can. That is it for tonight. We are back tomorrow. | :27:37. | :27:43. | |
Good evening. | :27:43. | :27:46. |