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Hello. Welcome to South Today. In tonight's programme: A minister for

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Portsmouth. The government appoints Michael Fallon to help the city

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recover from the naval shipbuilding closure. It depends what he is going

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to do. Hope fully he will try to save the dockyard.

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The chairman's out, but the manager pledges his future to Southampton.

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Unearthing the past. The historical hoard with items up to 3,000 years

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old. And the real story behind the

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reunion between the prisoner of war and the captor who tortured him. It

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turned out he had been as damaged mentally by being the torturer as

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the person being tortured. He's pledged to bring government

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departments and the city of Portsmouth together to fight for a

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better future. Michael Fallon, the new Minister for Portsmouth, spoke

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today as he was officially confirmed in a highly`unusual role. The former

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deputy chairman of the Conservative Party has been given the

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responsibility of helping to create new employment in the city,

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following the news late last year that naval shipbuilding will end

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soon, with the loss of about 1,000 jobs. But not everyone is convinced

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he can succeed. In a moment, we'll hear what the new minister had to

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say to me earlier. But first, our political editor has been gauging

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reaction to the appointment. A stormy day in Portsmouth, but the

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government is sending the city a lifeline in the shape of Michael

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Fallon, the business and energy minister who now has a third

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portfolio, from today he is Minister for Portsmouth, cast with banging

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heads together in government to help the city keep going once be a email

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nearly 1000 workers redundant. I have said previously that in times

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of crisis you use all the tools available to you and the trade

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unions broadly welcome ministerial intervention. Copy both theatres

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already to get work. If you go out of Portsmouth, there is jobs. In

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Portsmouth, there is none. Hopefully he will try to save the dockyard. Do

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you think they can still build ships there? Of course they can. He was

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not in Portsmouth today for the first day in his new job at the

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Local Government Secretary was. He happened to be visiting a local

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housing initiative. A senior minister with a lot of clout in

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government and somebody, given his position in this, who is going to be

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able to help the City Council, particularly on this gold agenda.

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The City Council welcomed the new minister but others said the move

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smacked of desperation. It is another scam. The Tories tried this

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with the Minister for Merseyside. All they are doing is turning

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Portsmouth into another museum city. It is these strange precedent.

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Alongside secretaries of eight for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales

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we have the Minister for Portsmouth. It is an unpaid job, but perhaps an

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admission that they were not doing enough, although nobody is arguing

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that he is not needed. Earlier today, I spoke to the new

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Minister for Portsmouth, Michael Fallon. I asked him why Portsmouth

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had been singled out for this attention ahead of any other city.

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It is a challenging situation that Portsmouth faces with the closure of

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the shipyard. It is a real virgin is to become a centre for the Maritime

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industry `` real opportunity. We want to make sure everyone is

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working together to make sure that happens. Is there a chance some

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shipbuilding could come back to Portsmouth? The decision has been

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made about the yard, but that is not the only Maritime industry in

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Portsmouth. There is a huge amount of additional work coming with the

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carriers based in Portsmouth and there is already a thriving Maritime

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and Marine industry including lots of smaller and medium`sized

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companies in the Portsmouth area. We have to make sure that we bring all

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these efforts to gather and drive forward private`sector job creation

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so that we are never again dependent on one particular yard. Can I issue

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more on that? What about the government, as they a chance of a

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change of policy where some shipbuilding could return? No, it is

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unlikely that they are going to change their minds. We have to seize

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the opportunity. This is about money as well. The leader of Portsmouth

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Council is saying to get anything off the ground you are talking about

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?100 million. Where is that coming from? It is coming from government.

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Is it just the city deal? It is coming and there is more coming

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through the regional growth fund which is another of my

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responsibilities and it is coming through the local enterprise

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partnership. How much of this is a political decision? It is a decision

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for the government. It is my job to make sure that all government

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ministers and apartments, the effort is coordinated, to make sure that

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all our efforts and funding streams are properly coordinated to give

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Portsmouth the future it deserves `` departments. This is a very

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particular challenge for this particular city and I am delighted

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to be asked to take it on. He once said that if his chairman

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left, he'd leave. So after Southampton Football Club chairman

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Nicola Cortese walked away from the Premier League outfit last night,

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fans were left wondering if the team boss would follow suit today.

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Manager Mauricio Pochettino gave his answer at a press conference and our

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reporter was there for us. Good news for the Saints fans? Yes, there were

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some points last night when this club looked as if it might be in

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meltdown following the resignation of Nicola Cortese the and social

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media sites going mad saying that Mauricio Pochettino would be sure to

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follow. He was brought in and it was not a popular decision but he has

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improved the club and nobody wanted to see him leave. He said he was

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100% committed to Southampton. Players arrived for training this

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morning looking like it was business as usual but it was a different

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story behind the scenes. Division between chairman and Nicola Cortese

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the resulted in them handing in his resignation. The worry was that

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moderates the property nor would follow, but he put minds at rest. He

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knows of my decision to stay. I have spoken to him about it. I am fully

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committed to this club and the people working at this club, to the

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society as a club, and it would make no sense to leave in the middle of

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our parcels up there are still questions over the club's future.

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Appointing a new chief executive is a priority, but she would also be

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open to suggestions to sell. It was a division that has driven the club

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up the league. The feedback I am getting is that she is not a

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football fan. She is a business person so my gut feeling is that she

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already has a buyer. Then there are the players. The team has improved

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with my Pochettino in charge. `` Mauricio Pochettino. The manager is

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adamant they will be staying. I want to make something very clear, no one

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is for sale. My belief has not changed from one week ago. No player

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that I do not want to leave will leave. The assurances imply little

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will change on the pitch as the club continues to follow the path that

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Nicola Cortese reset them on. A lot will depend on the decisions in the

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boardroom. Mauricio Pochettino has 17 months left on his contract, but

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he has said he is determined to continue until the end of the

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season. He said when he told Nicola Cortese the he was staying he asked

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one thing, that the win on Saturday, he says that is where his

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focus lies. A jury have been to visit the site

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of a fatal shooting that took place in Southampton last year. Three men

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are on trial for murder after a man was shot dead at a flat in St

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Mary's. Police say the victim, Jahmel Jones, was a well known drug

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dealer in Southampton. A fourth defendant, a university academic in

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criminology, is also on trial, accused of helping the offenders

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escape after the murder. It's a worrying statistic that one

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in three people aged over 65 will have dementia by the time they die.

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One centre which provides care near Portsmouth is due to close and move

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to another facility four miles away. Nearly 4,000 people have signed a

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petition to save it. Your wedding day, family holidays,

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your grandchildren, memories most of us perhaps take for granted. Do you

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remember your wedding? Elaine has dementia. Sometimes she cannot

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remember her daughter's name let alone family holidays. On a

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day`to`day basis my mum is very confused. She does not necessarily

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know who she is or who I am or where she lives. She lives with her

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daughter but attends the Patey Day Centre in Cosham. The centre is so

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close and services will move to a centred in the middle of Portsmouth.

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People used to a certain environment, it can be very

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detrimental to them to have a sudden move. It is not the best for people

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affected with dementia in that kind of setting. There are over 2000

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people in the Portsmouth area with Alzheimer's, 300 of which are said

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to be severe. When the Patey Day Centre in Cosham closes, that will

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be down to six a daycare places. This move will provide ?100,000. We

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want to make sure that there is a smooth and seamless move for people

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and we want to work with the families to make sure that happens.

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If families decide they do not want to move to the centre, then our

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people will work with them to see if we can then post them to someone

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else that will be suitable. A petition to try to save the centre

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has attracted 3500 signatures. The decision will be voted on at a

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council meeting next month. For a lean and her daughter, they want to

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keep the care centre that has helped to keep a grip on fond memories. It

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keeps me in touch with people. I value the friendships there.

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Still to come: We reveal the actual moment a prisoner and his torturer

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met, which has been made into a major film.

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When you've suffered a spinal injury, it can often mean months if

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not years of rehabilitation inside a hospital. It can be a very lonely

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and depressing time due to the isolation patients can suddenly find

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themselves in. That's about to change thanks to the arrival of a

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specially`adapted mini bus at a spinal unit in Salisbury. It's hoped

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scores of people will find a new lease of life allowing them to make

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safe trips outside the hospital, all of which plays a big part in their

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recovery. This woman's life changed in August

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last year, a previous car accident precipitated a spinal injury which

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caused paralysis. The corridors of the spinal treatment centres have

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become her home for the past four months. The television have frequent

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contact with the outside world. A specially adapted bus is about to

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change her life. It means freedom. It means we can go out and do normal

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things. Even if it is taking us to the cinema or further afield, we can

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go to the theatre in Southampton. It is a ticket to freedom. Up until now

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patients have had to rely on local taxi firms to take them out on short

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trips accompanied by a carer. This vehicle will allow a group of them

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to travel together. It has the thumbs up from patients. It is very

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good to get out if you are in here for weeks or months. It gets very

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frustrating. It's not only knocks you physically, it knocks you

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emotionally and mentally, and hopefully the bus will help people

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get back out into the real world. It is getting out on little adventures

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like this that help you to rebuild your life. It all starts with being

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able to leave hospital and go into the wider world and realise that

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life was on. A change is as good as the rest and with events such as the

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Chelsea Flower Show and a rugby match at Twickenham, the road to

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recovery has only just begun. A developer that wants to build 180

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homes on the site of an old school in Reading is mounting a legal

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challenge against the government. A planning inspector refused

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permission for Taylor Wimpey to build on the old Elvian site, where

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local people have been campaigning for a new free school. But Taylor

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Wimpey is challenging the decision, as it maintains Elvian is a viable

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site for much needed new homes. Councillors have accused the

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developer of trying to ride a coach and horses through local planning

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policies. It's one of the most important

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Bronze Age and Iron Age finds in the country. The hoard of ancient

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artefacts, excavated by archaeologists in Tisbury in

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Wiltshire, is being cleaned up ready for its first public appearance. The

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rare collection will be displayed in a new gallery at the Salisbury and

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South Wiltshire Museum this Spring. With each scrape, the tools of today

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are unearthing the tools of the past. The objects being cleaned make

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up 114 artefacts found outside Salisbury. Part of theirs is this

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bracelet and a spearhead that was found completely intact. Cleaning

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and restoring them to their original form is a painstaking process. It

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takes hours for each item. We use quite a few dental and doctors'

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tools. With the skull all I will be removing the soil layer at the top,

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anything that might disguise the object itself. We use the microscope

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to make sure we do not make any damage to the object. We want to

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keep it as intact as possible. What's interesting is this hoard

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contains what would have been ancient artefacts at their time of

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burial. The objects date from 1000 years BC to 800 years AD. It was

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almost like burying a museum collection back in history. It is

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incredibly exciting to have objects that have not been touched for

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thousands of years and, out of the ground and to have them in the

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museum, I can barely contain my excitement. It is a fantastic

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opportunity to excavate a whole or. Every time we lifted one object up

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we were red with a group of objects underneath. The artefacts have been

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unveiled, but the story behind them remains a mystery.

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It will be interesting when they go on display.

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Big news today, but Pochettino saying he is dear. `` staying.

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No person is ever bigger than one individual club. A lot of worry over

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the past 24 hours about whether something would fall apart. They

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have to move quickly and get something sorted out and they have

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to resolve that but there is no reason why the club cannot keep

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going. Nicola Cortese a was a polarising figure. A very good

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assessment from a former manager. He was the one who draws the club

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forward and the one who was making the decisions. I think he did an

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excellent job from a financial point of view but on the downside it lost

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its soul. I do not think he cared too much about the tradition or

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history of football club and I think a lot of people, it upset a lot of

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people. Brighton are talking to

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Bournemouth's top scorer Lewis Grabban after Albion triggered a

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clause in his contract by bidding ?1.1 million for him. Grabban's now

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discussing personal terms. Now, over the past year we've

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reported the continuing success of Portsmouth boxer Ebonie Jones. The

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Charter Academy pupil is already a European boxing champion in the 50

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kilo class. And last week, fighting for England, she won the Nations Cup

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in Serbia. Ebonie and the Heart of Portsmouth Boxing Academy coach

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Quinton Shillingford came in earlier and I started by asking her about

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her latest success. I was a bit more nervous going to

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Serbia than other tournament because one of the biggest teams was Russia

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and they are one of the top teams for boxing and there was Kazakhstan

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and I came up against them as well so I had Kazakhstan in the

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semifinal. I came up against a Russian in the final. It was tough.

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Tough, but top of the podium. What a year. What is it down to? Her

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personal commitment and dedication. Also the coaches. Running out on

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Christmas Day. There was no respite. The dedication you need to get to

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the top. Great Britain boxing are watching now. You go up to Sheffield

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quite often. Yes. I see Nicola Adams up there. I was nervous to get into

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a spa but I still wanted to do it because she is the best in the

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world. I feel more confident. Does it make you think that the Olympics

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is the goal? Yes. I would love to do what she has achieved. I would love

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to get old. You are only 15, you have to balance this with your

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schoolwork, how do you manage to do it? It is hard balancing both

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because I want to put my efforts into boxing but the school are very

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supportive and they must believe in me and think I could be in the

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Olympics. They allow me time off for boxing and if I have to catch up

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they will help me. It is a tremendous story. How far can she

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go? She is still young. No one wants to load pressure, but she is

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certainly proving to be quite a talent. She has boxed for England

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these times and has got a medal every time. `` three times. Boxing

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is the sport you love. Yes. Hopefully there will be more girls

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wanting to do boxing. You are proving an inspiration to many.

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Good news today for their club mate, ABA heavyweight champion Greg

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Bridet. He's been called into Great Britain's podium squad for training

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next week. That means he's with the elite British boxers training for a

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place at the Rio Olympics. A lot of success coming out of that

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club. We have an extraordinary story of

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reconciliation for you between a British prisoner of war and the

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Japanese man who had helped torture him 50 years earlier. Eric Lomax was

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one of the so`called forgotten army, the thousands of troops treated like

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slaves as they built the Burma railway. Eric's search for his

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tormentor is the subject of the new film The Railway Man, starring Colin

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Firth. But the real`life meeting between the two was captured by a

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Hampshire film`maker for a documentary that's also being

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released. Imprisoned, tortured, mentally

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scarred. Allied prisoners of war in Thailand during World War Two. Set

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to work building the Burma railway. Among them was Eric Lomax. When a

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hosepipe full of water is poured over one's face and down 1's throat,

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there is not much an individual can do about it apart from weeks to be

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drowned. Eric survived, but the horror never left him. A combination

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of sleepless nights coupled with nightmares, flashbacks of various

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kinds, even in the daytime. In 1991 Eric was interviewed by Hampshire

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film`maker Mike Finlason and let slip some startling news. He

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suddenly stopped and said, for 50 years I have been trying to find the

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man who interrogated me at the time, he vanished after the war, I

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have phoned him. `` I have located him. Mike persuaded Eric to let him

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capture the reunion on film, and travelled with Eric and his wife

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Patti to Thailand. No`one knew what to expect. We did not do this

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lightly. I talked to psychiatrists. It took a long time to decide to

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meet him. This was the moment the tortured and the torturer finally

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met. To our amazement, he spoke to him in Japanese, we did not know he

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do any Japanese. When you were tortured,

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do any Japanese. When you were had been as damaged mentally by

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being the torturer as he had been being tortured. It was very moving.

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We were all very moved. Nagashe had evaded justice after the war. But as

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a Buddhist, he was desperate for Eric's forgiveness. Eventually, Eric

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said he could never forget but he would forgive him Both men have

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since died, but Eric lived long enough to see his story filmed for

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the big screen. Both ended up being happier people. He's played by Colin

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Firth. He described him as the blood brother. That is amazing. He said,

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there comes a time when they heating has to stop. `` the hating.

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Did it stopped raining today? We have had some information from the

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Met Office to say it has been wet and mild so far this winter. Sunny

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spells captured at Bournemouth Cliffs today by Tim. John took this

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photo of a squirrel sheltering from the showers in Dorchester Borough

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Gardens. And David took this photo of a rainbow at BBC Oxford. After

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taking the photo he was off to find the pot of gold.

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We see further rain and showers, unwonted rain falling. Longer spells

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of rain. The winds will ease during the second half of the night. There

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will be some drier periods but a lot of showers to be had. A mile right

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to come. `` mild night. There will be some bright spells and drier

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periods. The west will see the best of any brightness. Showers will

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continue through the afternoon but they will be few and far between.

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Temperatures 9`12. The showers continue tomorrow night. A few dry

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periods before a band of rain keeps in from the English Channel. The

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rain could be on the heavy side, but some drier periods as well as

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temperatures falling to 6`8. A start to the weekend but it not stay that

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way. Low pressure down towards the south of the UK, the winds coming up

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from the south, rainwater likely for Dorset and Wiltshire, drier

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conditions, more cloud for eastern areas. A pretty damp end to the weak

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and the showers will continue through the weekend. Tomorrow we are

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expecting heavy torrential downpours with thunderstorms. Saturday, longer

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spells of rain for western areas. Limited brightness. As we head

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towards Sunday it is probably the best day of the weekend to get out

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and about. Perhaps a frosty start which could linger for western

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areas. Monday should be slightly drier.

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Our next bulletin is at 10:25pm.

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