:00:00. > :00:27.goodbye from me. On BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where
:00:28. > :00:52.To what degree is it fair ` 1% for them but a 19% pay rise for the
:00:53. > :00:57.university boss. And making a splash ` but is it for the right reasons?
:00:58. > :01:18.One of our MPs is to take part in a TV talent show.
:01:19. > :01:28.The water continued to rise during the day, in Purley.
:01:29. > :01:35.It's all hands to the pumps in Purley. The Fire Service were called
:01:36. > :01:40.in to rescue an elderly couple, after floodwaters rose so fast it's
:01:41. > :01:47.trapped them in their home. I'm not coming back into the house. Is that
:01:48. > :01:55.the last time you left your house? I hope so! The only way to get around
:01:56. > :02:01.is by boat. Some have been marooned since the New Year. The school run
:02:02. > :02:06.was finally possible for one family. This is our first day trying to get
:02:07. > :02:15.them out, because we haven't had a boat before today. They didn't want
:02:16. > :02:21.to leave! Other journeys have proved as difficult. Two bridges that
:02:22. > :02:27.across the Thames have closed. Journeys of half a mile were taking
:02:28. > :02:34.over an hour. Some services on the trains were closed due to water on
:02:35. > :02:41.the line. In Purley, nearly 250 homes are considered at risk. We
:02:42. > :02:48.went out with a flood warnings. `` flood wardens. The Environment
:02:49. > :02:51.Agency have said they were due to start work on an embankment by the
:02:52. > :02:57.tens of this month, but can't because the whole area is flooded.
:02:58. > :03:02.All it can do is pumped out. But residents have told us that work on
:03:03. > :03:07.those defences should have started in September. As some properties
:03:08. > :03:23.flood for the first time, tempers run high. It's unbelievable! They
:03:24. > :03:29.think this is a joke! I've been to a lady, where the water is about an
:03:30. > :03:40.inch from her door. She's distressed, distraught. I'm just
:03:41. > :03:48.helping my neighbour. Waters are expected to rise another six inches
:03:49. > :03:52.tonight. They have worse to come. People who were forced to leave
:03:53. > :03:54.their homes because of flood waters, at Iford on the Bournemouth
:03:55. > :03:57.Christchurch border, have been allowed to return. Flood warnings
:03:58. > :04:00.for the lower Stour have been lifted, though river levels will
:04:01. > :04:03.continue to be monitored. Bournemouth Council says it will
:04:04. > :04:11.work with residents who are unable to return home because of water
:04:12. > :04:15.damage to their properties. An inquest has been opened into the
:04:16. > :04:19.death of a man from Guildford, who was swept out to sea on New Year's
:04:20. > :04:22.Eve. Harry Swordy, who was 27, was with a large group of revellers, and
:04:23. > :04:26.paddling in rough water, in the Purley hours, when he was washed
:04:27. > :04:29.away at Loe Bar near Porth Levven. Now, friends have launched an online
:04:30. > :04:41.campaign to get the storm named after Harry as a tribute to him. A
:04:42. > :04:45.woman, from Sussex, has been sentenced to three years in prison
:04:46. > :04:48.for being part of a gang who trafficked vulnerable women into the
:04:49. > :04:51.country for sex. Victoria Brown from Brighton was found guilty at Hove
:04:52. > :04:54.Crown Court yesterday, along with four men from Eastern Europe. The
:04:55. > :04:57.gang had installed fifty Hungarian women in their teens and twenties,
:04:58. > :05:14.in brothels and hotels in Bournemouth, Southampton, Sussex and
:05:15. > :05:17.Kent. The Portsmouth North MP, Penny Mordaunt, has defended her decision
:05:18. > :05:20.to become a contestant on the ITV celebrity talent show Splash. Her
:05:21. > :05:23.labour opponent has criticised the move as truly astonishing, at a time
:05:24. > :05:27.when some of her constituents' jobs are under threat at the city's
:05:28. > :05:30.shipbuilding yard. I spoke to her earlier and she began by explaining
:05:31. > :05:32.why she'd chosen to appear on the programme. Unions representing
:05:33. > :05:33.lecturers and support staff at Bournemouth University say they're
:05:34. > :05:45.insulted by the pay mac Is this the best way to raise
:05:46. > :05:55.money for charity, given the perception you are giving? People
:05:56. > :06:00.who are losing their jobs are not going to like this. MPs have to deal
:06:01. > :06:05.with a lot of issues. I was clear that if I was going to do this, it
:06:06. > :06:14.would be in my own time. I haven't taken time off from my work. I'm not
:06:15. > :06:22.profiting from it. MPs have to do a variety of things, some of which are
:06:23. > :06:26.light`hearted. But is this the sort of perception you should have as an
:06:27. > :06:35.MP? Look at the criticism the Nadine Dorries got for going on I'm a
:06:36. > :06:41.Celebrity. My fee is going directly to the Lido, and we're doing a lot
:06:42. > :06:44.of fundraising around that. I don't think I would get another
:06:45. > :07:02.opportunity to give that level of exposed areas to the charity. ``
:07:03. > :07:08.exposed areas You've got 1000 people losing their jobs at the BAE
:07:09. > :07:13.shipyard. I'm determined that shipbuilding will stay in this city.
:07:14. > :07:37.It's not affecting the work that I'm doing for the shipyard. It's my
:07:38. > :07:41.political opponents that are trying to cause this trouble ` if the shoe
:07:42. > :08:06.was on the other foot, I would be sponsoring them. An investigation
:08:07. > :08:10.has been launched into an offensive Facebook page, set up after the
:08:11. > :08:12.death of an Isle of Wight teenager. The page was created after
:08:13. > :08:15.14`year`old Kiri`Jade Hodgkinson from Sandown died in a collision
:08:16. > :08:18.last week. Police say the page, which has since been taken down,
:08:19. > :08:21.caused unbearable upset for her family and friends The Vice
:08:22. > :08:24.Chancellor, Professor John Vinney, received a 19% increase last year ``
:08:25. > :08:27.taking his total annual package to almost a ?250,000. A care home near
:08:28. > :08:31.Crawley, where residents were deemed to be at risk, is still failing to
:08:32. > :08:34.meet acceptable levels of care after four inspections. Francis Court in
:08:35. > :08:38.Copthorne was visited four times ` it opened in place of Orchid View,
:08:39. > :08:41.where five residents died as a result of the care they received.
:08:42. > :08:44.The most recent inspection showed signs of change, but the Care
:08:45. > :08:47.Quality Commission say more still needs to be done.Teaching staff were
:08:48. > :08:49.offered a 1% rise which they're currently fighting through
:08:50. > :08:56.industrial action. James Ingham is here with more. Have you ever seen
:08:57. > :08:59.an electric car on the motorway? You probably haven't, because most have
:09:00. > :09:02.a range of less than 100 miles between battery charges. A year ago,
:09:03. > :09:06.only three motorway services in the UK had electric car charging points,
:09:07. > :09:09.but soon every service station in the South will have one. It's
:09:10. > :09:13.claimed they can re`charge a car in the time it takes to stop for a
:09:14. > :09:15.coffee and a bun. Our Transport Correspondent Paul Clifton reports.
:09:16. > :09:22.New motorway charging points are being fitted at three or four per
:09:23. > :09:26.week. This one is in Berkshire. This car has a range of less than 80
:09:27. > :09:32.miles, so he stopped to recharge four times on the way up, and four
:09:33. > :09:39.times on the way back. That depends on the weather, the two rain, how
:09:40. > :09:44.fast you drive. With charges that are within 50 miles apart, it's an
:09:45. > :09:50.easy journey to drive from Charger two charger. A month ago, he could
:09:51. > :09:59.not have made that journey. The project to fit charging points is
:10:00. > :10:06.funded by Nissan. Charging is free, and takes less than half an hour
:10:07. > :10:13.will stop we identified the lack of charge as the main barrier to using
:10:14. > :10:19.electric cars. We came up with the idea of the electric highway, which
:10:20. > :10:33.is a network. By the end of the year, we will have installed many
:10:34. > :10:41.charging points. Nearly all were hybrids, combining a conventional
:10:42. > :10:45.engine with battery power. Of those, only one in ten runs on plug`in
:10:46. > :10:50.batteries alone. We are talking about two and a half thousand cars
:10:51. > :10:56.out of two and a quarter million sold will stop that number to
:10:57. > :10:58.commercially viable, the industry thinks that charging points for
:10:59. > :11:02.longer journeys need to be in place, so drivers can be away from
:11:03. > :11:25.home for more than one battery charge.
:11:26. > :11:28.Unions representing lecturers and support staff at Bournemouth
:11:29. > :11:31.University say they're insulted by the pay rise given to their boss.
:11:32. > :11:34.The Vice Chancellor, Professor John Vinney, received a 19% increase last
:11:35. > :11:37.year `` taking his total annual package to almost a ?250,000.
:11:38. > :11:40.Teaching staff were offered a 1% rise which they're currently
:11:41. > :11:43.fighting through industrial action. James Ingham is here with more.
:11:44. > :11:46.Thanks Sally. Details of this latest pay rise come at a difficult time
:11:47. > :11:49.for universities, with campuses in the midst of a pay dispute `
:11:50. > :11:52.teaching staff campaigning for better salaries. Professor Vinney's
:11:53. > :11:58.19% rise takes his total package to ?244,000. It's an increase that's
:11:59. > :12:01.higher than the average given to captains of industry in the UK's top
:12:02. > :12:07.100 companies, where salaries went up by an average 14%. Bournemouth's
:12:08. > :12:10.boss is not the only one to benefit from large rises. Southampton
:12:11. > :12:13.University's leader Don Nutbeam was awarded almost six percent ` taking
:12:14. > :12:20.his total annual earnings to almost ?33.000. And at Winchester
:12:21. > :12:25.University, Joy Carter got a 12 per cent rise ` she now earns 222,000.
:12:26. > :12:30.Meanwhile university staff, who've had six years of pay restraint, are
:12:31. > :12:34.limited to a 1% rise. Most students I met on campus, whose ?9,000 annual
:12:35. > :12:43.fees contribute to staff salaries, thought the pot should be more
:12:44. > :12:47.evenly shared. I think it's unfair on the
:12:48. > :12:55.lecturers, seeing as they are doing the hard work. It depends on job
:12:56. > :13:04.roles. If he's doing more for the University, he deserves it. It does
:13:05. > :13:07.sound like a lot. Bournemouth, like many other Universities, benchmarks
:13:08. > :13:11.senior salaries within the UK and abroad, and against similarly sized
:13:12. > :13:14.public and private organisations. So how do they compare? Professor
:13:15. > :13:19.Vinney has a billion pound budget and fourteen hundred staff. The
:13:20. > :13:22.Chief Executive of Hampshire County Council, one of the largest in the
:13:23. > :13:29.country, has a similar budget, but seven times more staff. He earns
:13:30. > :13:33.slightly less. Surrey Police has a ?200 million budget, and four and a
:13:34. > :13:37.half thousand employees. The Chief Constable gets just under ?140,000.
:13:38. > :13:40.Bournemouth University has told us its most senior managers have taken
:13:41. > :13:52.on extra responsibilities, and they don't set their own salaries.
:13:53. > :14:05.Remuneration for its senior staff is Unions will resume their industrial
:14:06. > :14:08.action in the next few weeks, with more strikes at campuses across the
:14:09. > :14:15.country ` as this increasingly bitter battle continues.
:14:16. > :14:18.No`one from Bournemouth University was available to come onto the
:14:19. > :14:21.programme to explain the pay awards ` and the group which represents
:14:22. > :14:25.most universities, Universities UK, didn't have anyone free either. A
:14:26. > :14:28.short time ago, I spoke to Simon Renton, the president of the
:14:29. > :14:34.University and College Union. I asked him how angry his members were
:14:35. > :14:37.about this and other pay rises. I would like to say that they were
:14:38. > :14:41.disappointed by this unequal, uneven handed treatment, but I think they
:14:42. > :14:48.are now so accustomed to it, that they remain angry but I think they
:14:49. > :14:52.are not surprised. Is it not about attracting the best talent in these
:14:53. > :14:58.jobs? For example, the vice Chancellor of Southampton is from
:14:59. > :15:05.Australia. I have no doubt that if you wish to attract the best talent
:15:06. > :15:08.then decent salaries must be paid. That's precisely the argument that
:15:09. > :15:11.we made, in favour of our members who are university professionals,
:15:12. > :15:21.who are the best, the most dedicated talent you can find. The
:15:22. > :15:28.universities are made up principally of their staff. They are much more
:15:29. > :15:33.important than the vice chancellors are ` they come and go. Is that
:15:34. > :15:37.fair? We're not talking about educational institutions, so much as
:15:38. > :15:41.businesses they are running. Trying to attract from overseas, sometimes
:15:42. > :15:47.with premises overseas. This is a very different job, it's a business.
:15:48. > :15:50.I do see that point, but the reason it is a major export industry, one
:15:51. > :16:00.of the few remaining healthy exports that the UK still has, is based on
:16:01. > :16:04.its reputation for quality. It's the quality of the teaching and of the
:16:05. > :16:09.support staff, which makes it attractive to students from
:16:10. > :16:13.overseas. You've had many years of pay restraint ` do you anticipate
:16:14. > :16:21.that you will be striking again this year? Do you honestly think it will
:16:22. > :16:29.make a difference? Since 2009, we have lost 13%. We have had two days
:16:30. > :16:32.of strike action, together with other trade unions. Industrial
:16:33. > :16:35.action will certainly continue into this year, both in terms of strike
:16:36. > :16:54.action and action short of a strike, perhaps, including disruption of
:16:55. > :16:57.marking. A new centre has opened in Berkshire with the aim of dealing
:16:58. > :17:01.with what's been called the dementia time bomb. Reading's already one of
:17:02. > :17:04.a group of communities gearing up to deal with the growing number of
:17:05. > :17:07.people living with the condition. Now, the Town's university and local
:17:08. > :17:10.NHS have teamed up to carry out cutting edge research into dementia
:17:11. > :17:12.as Joe Campbell reports. Few universities can boast
:17:13. > :17:16.facilities like this. By working with the NHS, academics will gain
:17:17. > :17:20.access to patients with a personal interest in tackling dementia.
:17:21. > :17:26.Already, a list of areas worth exploring is taking shape. We know
:17:27. > :17:32.that diet and health are linked to the incidence of dementia, and the
:17:33. > :17:37.progression of dementia. That's one of the areas we will be doing a lot
:17:38. > :17:41.of work in. It's not just a set of new offices that's generating
:17:42. > :17:48.enthusiasm for the centre. To be able to help patients and advance
:17:49. > :17:51.clinical science is fantastic. The fact that we are collaborating with
:17:52. > :17:59.the University of Reading is a logical next step for where we need
:18:00. > :18:02.to be going. We've all seen the messages from charities, that with a
:18:03. > :18:07.little more funding, together, we can beat cancer or tackle heart
:18:08. > :18:12.disease. But dementia has always been something of a Cinderella. Now,
:18:13. > :18:19.it seems as though they're playing catch up. That's welcome news for
:18:20. > :18:30.Ruth, whose husband was diagnosed with Alzheimer's four years ago.
:18:31. > :18:34.When you're living with someone who you've known for a long time, and
:18:35. > :18:39.you see changes in them that you know could cause problems, you want
:18:40. > :18:42.to get help as soon as possible. No one can predict when a breakthrough
:18:43. > :19:01.may come, but the work starts tomorrow when patients arrive for
:19:02. > :19:04.the first clinic. After four days, exhibitors and say
:19:05. > :19:16.that big deals are being signed at the London boat show. Princess and
:19:17. > :19:18.caught up with southerly yachts. Last March, the West Sussex Yard
:19:19. > :19:24.stopped trading with the owner went bust. The brand has continued after
:19:25. > :19:31.the business was restructured. Today, a show of confidence. It's
:19:32. > :19:41.been an interesting period. Sales across the industry are moving
:19:42. > :19:48.forward. A positive outlook. A very good on the water show, generally. A
:19:49. > :19:52.different dynamic of customer. With more than 100 businesses from across
:19:53. > :19:58.the leisure marine industry, exhibitors from the South were a
:19:59. > :20:03.dominant force. Getting a sense of the deal is taking place isn't easy,
:20:04. > :20:08.but one boat builders sold three yachts on the first day. There is a
:20:09. > :20:14.tangible sense of optimism in this sector. We believe we are seeing a
:20:15. > :20:23.recovery in the UK boating market. Last year, there was good reports of
:20:24. > :20:28.sales across all sectors. That has been sustained over the last few
:20:29. > :20:34.months. We are very confident that 2014 will be good for the boating
:20:35. > :20:38.industry. This company makes waterproof dear. They have been in
:20:39. > :20:50.business for eight years and are growing steadily. There is
:20:51. > :20:55.definitely growth this year. We are certainly seeing an uplift in
:20:56. > :20:59.confidence. This industry is more resilient than most. Their exports
:21:00. > :21:04.are increasing, but the domestic markets still needs to pick up. To
:21:05. > :21:09.do that, attendance at shows like this is essential.
:21:10. > :21:13.He may have retired from Olympic sailing, but Sir Ben Ainslie has a
:21:14. > :21:16.very busy diary for 2014. He was at the London Boat Show, today,
:21:17. > :21:30.announcing his racing ambitions for the next year. This is what Sir Ben
:21:31. > :21:32.has lined up for 2014 ` the Extreme Sailing series. It's a glamorous
:21:33. > :21:36.global circuit, where the multihulls reach up to 30 knots. It's not
:21:37. > :21:39.called extreme for nothing. It's a very different type of racing, with
:21:40. > :21:43.very short courses. It's very close to the shore, so great for
:21:44. > :21:46.spectators. The racing is very close quarters ` quite often, the boats
:21:47. > :21:51.are wiping out and getting close to each other. We do a lot of races, so
:21:52. > :21:57.I guess it's a high impact type of racing. He's immediately pitted
:21:58. > :22:00.himself against another south`coast rival ` Lee McMillan from
:22:01. > :22:06.Southampton has been the winning skipper twice, and is the current
:22:07. > :22:14.series champion. We've got a strong line`up of British sailors in the
:22:15. > :22:17.Extreme Sailing, this year. That's fantastic, particularly as Ben is
:22:18. > :22:20.trying to put together an America's Cup team. Hopefully, if we can make
:22:21. > :22:24.a strong presence in the Extremes, it really shows what we're capable
:22:25. > :22:30.of, and gives us a good grounding for future cup campaigns. Last
:22:31. > :22:33.summer, Ben dedicated his record`breaking win at the Round the
:22:34. > :22:36.Island race to fellow Olympic sailor Ben Simpson, who died in a training
:22:37. > :22:41.accident in San Francisco Bay in May. Known to everyone as Bart,
:22:42. > :22:45.Simpson's sister Amanda, and some of his friends, came up with the idea
:22:46. > :22:48.of Bart's Bash. It's a mass participation event, and has been
:22:49. > :22:53.billed as the largest dinghy sailing event in the world. They were the
:22:54. > :22:57.ones who really camp up with the idea to have a global race of clubs
:22:58. > :23:01.all over the world, having a race at the same time on 21st September, to
:23:02. > :23:09.get as many people out there sailing in memory of Bart as we can. It's a
:23:10. > :23:14.fantastic idea. It's very fitting of his memory. The one thing then
:23:15. > :23:17.wouldn't be drawn on today was any more detail of his America's Cup
:23:18. > :23:24.campaign. We'll have to wait until the spring before any further
:23:25. > :23:28.announcements. Our next story is about a rubbish
:23:29. > :23:30.art exhibition. That's not a comment, because Lou McCurdy and
:23:31. > :23:34.Chloe Hanks make displays using pieces of plastic dumped or washed
:23:35. > :23:38.up on the Sussex sea shore. It's to raise awareness of the need to
:23:39. > :23:41.re`use and re`cycle. When Lou's sister`in`law came to see their
:23:42. > :23:47.latest work, she was amazed to see it included a shoe she'd lost on the
:23:48. > :23:51.beach years before. Ian Palmer has the story.
:23:52. > :23:56.For three weeks, Lou McCurdy on the beach between Shoreham and Birling
:23:57. > :23:59.Gap. Little did she know, that one day, she'd pick up the shoe her
:24:00. > :24:03.sister`in`law lost four years earlier. It had only moved up the
:24:04. > :24:07.beach, about four or five beaches up, so 300 to 400 yards up from
:24:08. > :24:14.where she had it on, swimming that day. I suppose it's quite a funny
:24:15. > :24:18.story. Elaine McCurdy lives in Oxford, but on a visit to the London
:24:19. > :24:23.Road gallery in Brighton, she was astonished to find her long lost
:24:24. > :24:28.shoe was part of the exhibition. I was really surprised. I was walking
:24:29. > :24:38.along the shelves with my niece, and I said, I wonder if Louise will ever
:24:39. > :24:42.find my shoe? And, literally, at that minute `she was next to me and
:24:43. > :24:47.can verify it ` looked down, and there was my shoe. I picked it up
:24:48. > :24:51.and shrieked down the exhibition: Louise, you've found my shoe! Elaine
:24:52. > :24:54.kept the remaining shoe, on the off chance her sister`in`law would find
:24:55. > :25:01.it. However, tired of waiting, she threw it away. She bought them in
:25:02. > :25:04.Greece, and she went back to the shop, and they don't do this
:25:05. > :25:08.particular kind of shoe any more. So, she was a bit upset. I said I'd
:25:09. > :25:12.sell it on eBay! The exhibition of rubbish is trying to raise awareness
:25:13. > :25:15.about what we consume, and what we throw away, and the everlastng
:25:16. > :25:28.nature of plastic. Plastic memories ` lost and found.
:25:29. > :25:34.Onto today's weather, and Spike Holifield took this
:25:35. > :25:42.another band of rain on its way tonight. The high pressure starts to
:25:43. > :25:46.build. The rest the week should be slightly weaker. But rain band will
:25:47. > :25:51.clear through the Purley errors of the morning, particularly for areas
:25:52. > :25:55.south of Berkshire. Temperatures dropping to a mild seven to eight
:25:56. > :25:58.Celsius. The winners will start to increase through the course of the
:25:59. > :26:04.Purley hours of the morning. Tomorrow, it will be quite
:26:05. > :26:07.blustery. It should be an improving picture throughout the day, some
:26:08. > :26:16.sunny spells will develop. Drier end to the day with a high of nine
:26:17. > :26:22.Celsius. Tomorrow, there is still a risk of a shower. Temperatures
:26:23. > :26:26.falling away rapidly. The risk of ice and Patsy frost, as well.
:26:27. > :26:34.Reticulin Purley in the countryside. To or three Celsius, perhaps,
:26:35. > :26:41.perhaps down to the freezing. `` down to freezing. I dry start on
:26:42. > :26:44.Friday. It should stay may be driving through daylight hours. We
:26:45. > :26:50.are expecting this whether France to greet them, maybe light to moderate
:26:51. > :26:55.rain. That will arrive after dark on Friday, lasting through the Purley
:26:56. > :27:01.hours of Saturday morning. On Saturday, it should be a damp and
:27:02. > :27:07.cloudy start, with sunny spells for the rest of the day. Tomorrow, we
:27:08. > :27:10.can expect a few showers. Any showers throughout the day could be
:27:11. > :27:15.quite blustery, with strong south`westerly winds. Radiation the
:27:16. > :27:20.drive, with the odd scattered shower. The winds are lighter than
:27:21. > :27:29.tomorrow. `` Friday should be drying. The chilly start on Sunday,
:27:30. > :27:32.and the possibility of further rain overnight into Monday