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Hello. Welcome to South Today. In tonight's programme: A minister for | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
Portsmouth. The government appoints Michael Fallon to help the city | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
recover from the naval shipbuilding closure. It depends what he is going | :00:14. | :00:22. | |
to do. Hope fully he will try to save the dockyard. | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
The chairman's out, but the manager pledges his future to Southampton. | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
Unearthing the past. The historical hoard with items up to 3,000 years | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
old. And the real story behind the | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
reunion between the prisoner of war and the captor who tortured him. It | :00:36. | :00:45. | |
turned out he had been as damaged mentally by being the torturer as | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
the person being tortured. He's pledged to bring government | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
departments and the city of Portsmouth together to fight for a | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
better future. Michael Fallon, the new Minister for Portsmouth, spoke | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
today as he was officially confirmed in a highly`unusual role. The former | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
deputy chairman of the Conservative Party has been given the | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
responsibility of helping to create new employment in the city, | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
following the news late last year that naval shipbuilding will end | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
soon, with the loss of about 1,000 jobs. But not everyone is convinced | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
he can succeed. In a moment, we'll hear what the new minister had to | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
say to me earlier. But first, our political editor has been gauging | :01:31. | :01:38. | |
reaction to the appointment. A stormy day in Portsmouth, but the | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
government is sending the city a lifeline in the shape of Michael | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
Fallon, the business and energy minister who now has a third | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
portfolio, from today he is Minister for Portsmouth, cast with banging | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
heads together in government to help the city keep going once be a email | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
nearly 1000 workers redundant. I have said previously that in times | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
of crisis you use all the tools available to you and the trade | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
unions broadly welcome ministerial intervention. Copy both theatres | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
already to get work. If you go out of Portsmouth, there is jobs. In | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
Portsmouth, there is none. Hopefully he will try to save the dockyard. Do | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
you think they can still build ships there? Of course they can. He was | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
not in Portsmouth today for the first day in his new job at the | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
Local Government Secretary was. He happened to be visiting a local | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
housing initiative. A senior minister with a lot of clout in | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
government and somebody, given his position in this, who is going to be | :02:50. | :02:58. | |
able to help the City Council, particularly on this gold agenda. | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
The City Council welcomed the new minister but others said the move | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
smacked of desperation. It is another scam. The Tories tried this | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
with the Minister for Merseyside. All they are doing is turning | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
Portsmouth into another museum city. It is these strange precedent. | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
Alongside secretaries of eight for Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
we have the Minister for Portsmouth. It is an unpaid job, but perhaps an | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
admission that they were not doing enough, although nobody is arguing | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
that he is not needed. Earlier today, I spoke to the new | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
Minister for Portsmouth, Michael Fallon. I asked him why Portsmouth | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
had been singled out for this attention ahead of any other city. | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
It is a challenging situation that Portsmouth faces with the closure of | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
the shipyard. It is a real virgin is to become a centre for the Maritime | :03:55. | :04:01. | |
industry `` real opportunity. We want to make sure everyone is | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
working together to make sure that happens. Is there a chance some | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
shipbuilding could come back to Portsmouth? The decision has been | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
made about the yard, but that is not the only Maritime industry in | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
Portsmouth. There is a huge amount of additional work coming with the | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
carriers based in Portsmouth and there is already a thriving Maritime | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
and Marine industry including lots of smaller and medium`sized | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
companies in the Portsmouth area. We have to make sure that we bring all | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
these efforts to gather and drive forward private`sector job creation | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
so that we are never again dependent on one particular yard. Can I issue | :04:46. | :04:54. | |
more on that? What about the government, as they a chance of a | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
change of policy where some shipbuilding could return? No, it is | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
unlikely that they are going to change their minds. We have to seize | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
the opportunity. This is about money as well. The leader of Portsmouth | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
Council is saying to get anything off the ground you are talking about | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
?100 million. Where is that coming from? It is coming from government. | :05:19. | :05:27. | |
Is it just the city deal? It is coming and there is more coming | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
through the regional growth fund which is another of my | :05:35. | :05:36. | |
responsibilities and it is coming through the local enterprise | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
partnership. How much of this is a political decision? It is a decision | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
for the government. It is my job to make sure that all government | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
ministers and apartments, the effort is coordinated, to make sure that | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
all our efforts and funding streams are properly coordinated to give | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
Portsmouth the future it deserves `` departments. This is a very | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
particular challenge for this particular city and I am delighted | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
to be asked to take it on. He once said that if his chairman | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
left, he'd leave. So after Southampton Football Club chairman | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
Nicola Cortese walked away from the Premier League outfit last night, | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
fans were left wondering if the team boss would follow suit today. | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
Manager Mauricio Pochettino gave his answer at a press conference and our | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
reporter was there for us. Good news for the Saints fans? Yes, there were | :06:29. | :06:39. | |
some points last night when this club looked as if it might be in | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
meltdown following the resignation of Nicola Cortese the and social | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
media sites going mad saying that Mauricio Pochettino would be sure to | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
follow. He was brought in and it was not a popular decision but he has | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
improved the club and nobody wanted to see him leave. He said he was | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
100% committed to Southampton. Players arrived for training this | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
morning looking like it was business as usual but it was a different | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
story behind the scenes. Division between chairman and Nicola Cortese | :07:13. | :07:20. | |
the resulted in them handing in his resignation. The worry was that | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
moderates the property nor would follow, but he put minds at rest. He | :07:25. | :07:35. | |
knows of my decision to stay. I have spoken to him about it. I am fully | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
committed to this club and the people working at this club, to the | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
society as a club, and it would make no sense to leave in the middle of | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
our parcels up there are still questions over the club's future. | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
Appointing a new chief executive is a priority, but she would also be | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
open to suggestions to sell. It was a division that has driven the club | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
up the league. The feedback I am getting is that she is not a | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
football fan. She is a business person so my gut feeling is that she | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
already has a buyer. Then there are the players. The team has improved | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
with my Pochettino in charge. `` Mauricio Pochettino. The manager is | :08:26. | :08:33. | |
adamant they will be staying. I want to make something very clear, no one | :08:34. | :08:42. | |
is for sale. My belief has not changed from one week ago. No player | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
that I do not want to leave will leave. The assurances imply little | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
will change on the pitch as the club continues to follow the path that | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
Nicola Cortese reset them on. A lot will depend on the decisions in the | :09:01. | :09:07. | |
boardroom. Mauricio Pochettino has 17 months left on his contract, but | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
he has said he is determined to continue until the end of the | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
season. He said when he told Nicola Cortese the he was staying he asked | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
one thing, that the win on Saturday, he says that is where his | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
focus lies. A jury have been to visit the site | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
of a fatal shooting that took place in Southampton last year. Three men | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
are on trial for murder after a man was shot dead at a flat in St | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
Mary's. Police say the victim, Jahmel Jones, was a well known drug | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
dealer in Southampton. A fourth defendant, a university academic in | :09:40. | :09:41. | |
criminology, is also on trial, accused of helping the offenders | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
escape after the murder. It's a worrying statistic that one | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
in three people aged over 65 will have dementia by the time they die. | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
One centre which provides care near Portsmouth is due to close and move | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
to another facility four miles away. Nearly 4,000 people have signed a | :09:57. | :10:06. | |
petition to save it. Your wedding day, family holidays, | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
your grandchildren, memories most of us perhaps take for granted. Do you | :10:11. | :10:20. | |
remember your wedding? Elaine has dementia. Sometimes she cannot | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
remember her daughter's name let alone family holidays. On a | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
day`to`day basis my mum is very confused. She does not necessarily | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
know who she is or who I am or where she lives. She lives with her | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
daughter but attends the Patey Day Centre in Cosham. The centre is so | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
close and services will move to a centred in the middle of Portsmouth. | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
People used to a certain environment, it can be very | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
detrimental to them to have a sudden move. It is not the best for people | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
affected with dementia in that kind of setting. There are over 2000 | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
people in the Portsmouth area with Alzheimer's, 300 of which are said | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
to be severe. When the Patey Day Centre in Cosham closes, that will | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
be down to six a daycare places. This move will provide ?100,000. We | :11:13. | :11:20. | |
want to make sure that there is a smooth and seamless move for people | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
and we want to work with the families to make sure that happens. | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
If families decide they do not want to move to the centre, then our | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
people will work with them to see if we can then post them to someone | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
else that will be suitable. A petition to try to save the centre | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
has attracted 3500 signatures. The decision will be voted on at a | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
council meeting next month. For a lean and her daughter, they want to | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
keep the care centre that has helped to keep a grip on fond memories. It | :11:52. | :12:01. | |
keeps me in touch with people. I value the friendships there. | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
Still to come: We reveal the actual moment a prisoner and his torturer | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
met, which has been made into a major film. | :12:12. | :12:20. | |
When you've suffered a spinal injury, it can often mean months if | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
not years of rehabilitation inside a hospital. It can be a very lonely | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
and depressing time due to the isolation patients can suddenly find | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
themselves in. That's about to change thanks to the arrival of a | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
specially`adapted mini bus at a spinal unit in Salisbury. It's hoped | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
scores of people will find a new lease of life allowing them to make | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
safe trips outside the hospital, all of which plays a big part in their | :12:44. | :12:51. | |
recovery. This woman's life changed in August | :12:52. | :12:59. | |
last year, a previous car accident precipitated a spinal injury which | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
caused paralysis. The corridors of the spinal treatment centres have | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
become her home for the past four months. The television have frequent | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
contact with the outside world. A specially adapted bus is about to | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
change her life. It means freedom. It means we can go out and do normal | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
things. Even if it is taking us to the cinema or further afield, we can | :13:24. | :13:31. | |
go to the theatre in Southampton. It is a ticket to freedom. Up until now | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
patients have had to rely on local taxi firms to take them out on short | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
trips accompanied by a carer. This vehicle will allow a group of them | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
to travel together. It has the thumbs up from patients. It is very | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
good to get out if you are in here for weeks or months. It gets very | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
frustrating. It's not only knocks you physically, it knocks you | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
emotionally and mentally, and hopefully the bus will help people | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
get back out into the real world. It is getting out on little adventures | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
like this that help you to rebuild your life. It all starts with being | :14:15. | :14:22. | |
able to leave hospital and go into the wider world and realise that | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
life was on. A change is as good as the rest and with events such as the | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
Chelsea Flower Show and a rugby match at Twickenham, the road to | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
recovery has only just begun. A developer that wants to build 180 | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
homes on the site of an old school in Reading is mounting a legal | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
challenge against the government. A planning inspector refused | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
permission for Taylor Wimpey to build on the old Elvian site, where | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
local people have been campaigning for a new free school. But Taylor | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
Wimpey is challenging the decision, as it maintains Elvian is a viable | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
site for much needed new homes. Councillors have accused the | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
developer of trying to ride a coach and horses through local planning | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
policies. It's one of the most important | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
Bronze Age and Iron Age finds in the country. The hoard of ancient | :15:10. | :15:11. | |
artefacts, excavated by archaeologists in Tisbury in | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
Wiltshire, is being cleaned up ready for its first public appearance. The | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
rare collection will be displayed in a new gallery at the Salisbury and | :15:21. | :15:29. | |
South Wiltshire Museum this Spring. With each scrape, the tools of today | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
are unearthing the tools of the past. The objects being cleaned make | :15:33. | :15:45. | |
up 114 artefacts found outside Salisbury. Part of theirs is this | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
bracelet and a spearhead that was found completely intact. Cleaning | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
and restoring them to their original form is a painstaking process. It | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
takes hours for each item. We use quite a few dental and doctors' | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
tools. With the skull all I will be removing the soil layer at the top, | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
anything that might disguise the object itself. We use the microscope | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
to make sure we do not make any damage to the object. We want to | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
keep it as intact as possible. What's interesting is this hoard | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
contains what would have been ancient artefacts at their time of | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
burial. The objects date from 1000 years BC to 800 years AD. It was | :16:27. | :16:36. | |
almost like burying a museum collection back in history. It is | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
incredibly exciting to have objects that have not been touched for | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
thousands of years and, out of the ground and to have them in the | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
museum, I can barely contain my excitement. It is a fantastic | :16:51. | :16:58. | |
opportunity to excavate a whole or. Every time we lifted one object up | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
we were red with a group of objects underneath. The artefacts have been | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
unveiled, but the story behind them remains a mystery. | :17:06. | :17:17. | |
It will be interesting when they go on display. | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
Big news today, but Pochettino saying he is dear. `` staying. | :17:25. | :17:34. | |
No person is ever bigger than one individual club. A lot of worry over | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
the past 24 hours about whether something would fall apart. They | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
have to move quickly and get something sorted out and they have | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
to resolve that but there is no reason why the club cannot keep | :17:49. | :17:56. | |
going. Nicola Cortese a was a polarising figure. A very good | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
assessment from a former manager. He was the one who draws the club | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
forward and the one who was making the decisions. I think he did an | :18:06. | :18:14. | |
excellent job from a financial point of view but on the downside it lost | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
its soul. I do not think he cared too much about the tradition or | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
history of football club and I think a lot of people, it upset a lot of | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
people. Brighton are talking to | :18:31. | :18:32. | |
Bournemouth's top scorer Lewis Grabban after Albion triggered a | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
clause in his contract by bidding ?1.1 million for him. Grabban's now | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
discussing personal terms. Now, over the past year we've | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
reported the continuing success of Portsmouth boxer Ebonie Jones. The | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
Charter Academy pupil is already a European boxing champion in the 50 | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
kilo class. And last week, fighting for England, she won the Nations Cup | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
in Serbia. Ebonie and the Heart of Portsmouth Boxing Academy coach | :18:56. | :18:57. | |
Quinton Shillingford came in earlier and I started by asking her about | :18:58. | :19:05. | |
her latest success. I was a bit more nervous going to | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
Serbia than other tournament because one of the biggest teams was Russia | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
and they are one of the top teams for boxing and there was Kazakhstan | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
and I came up against them as well so I had Kazakhstan in the | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
semifinal. I came up against a Russian in the final. It was tough. | :19:26. | :19:33. | |
Tough, but top of the podium. What a year. What is it down to? Her | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
personal commitment and dedication. Also the coaches. Running out on | :19:40. | :19:47. | |
Christmas Day. There was no respite. The dedication you need to get to | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
the top. Great Britain boxing are watching now. You go up to Sheffield | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
quite often. Yes. I see Nicola Adams up there. I was nervous to get into | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
a spa but I still wanted to do it because she is the best in the | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
world. I feel more confident. Does it make you think that the Olympics | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
is the goal? Yes. I would love to do what she has achieved. I would love | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
to get old. You are only 15, you have to balance this with your | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
schoolwork, how do you manage to do it? It is hard balancing both | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
because I want to put my efforts into boxing but the school are very | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
supportive and they must believe in me and think I could be in the | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
Olympics. They allow me time off for boxing and if I have to catch up | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
they will help me. It is a tremendous story. How far can she | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
go? She is still young. No one wants to load pressure, but she is | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
certainly proving to be quite a talent. She has boxed for England | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
these times and has got a medal every time. `` three times. Boxing | :21:03. | :21:12. | |
is the sport you love. Yes. Hopefully there will be more girls | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
wanting to do boxing. You are proving an inspiration to many. | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
Good news today for their club mate, ABA heavyweight champion Greg | :21:25. | :21:27. | |
Bridet. He's been called into Great Britain's podium squad for training | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
next week. That means he's with the elite British boxers training for a | :21:31. | :21:39. | |
place at the Rio Olympics. A lot of success coming out of that | :21:40. | :21:41. | |
club. We have an extraordinary story of | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
reconciliation for you between a British prisoner of war and the | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
Japanese man who had helped torture him 50 years earlier. Eric Lomax was | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
one of the so`called forgotten army, the thousands of troops treated like | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
slaves as they built the Burma railway. Eric's search for his | :21:56. | :21:58. | |
tormentor is the subject of the new film The Railway Man, starring Colin | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
Firth. But the real`life meeting between the two was captured by a | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
Hampshire film`maker for a documentary that's also being | :22:06. | :22:13. | |
released. Imprisoned, tortured, mentally | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
scarred. Allied prisoners of war in Thailand during World War Two. Set | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
to work building the Burma railway. Among them was Eric Lomax. When a | :22:23. | :22:33. | |
hosepipe full of water is poured over one's face and down 1's throat, | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
there is not much an individual can do about it apart from weeks to be | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
drowned. Eric survived, but the horror never left him. A combination | :22:42. | :22:49. | |
of sleepless nights coupled with nightmares, flashbacks of various | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
kinds, even in the daytime. In 1991 Eric was interviewed by Hampshire | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
film`maker Mike Finlason and let slip some startling news. He | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
suddenly stopped and said, for 50 years I have been trying to find the | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
man who interrogated me at the time, he vanished after the war, I | :23:07. | :23:14. | |
have phoned him. `` I have located him. Mike persuaded Eric to let him | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
capture the reunion on film, and travelled with Eric and his wife | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
Patti to Thailand. No`one knew what to expect. We did not do this | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
lightly. I talked to psychiatrists. It took a long time to decide to | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
meet him. This was the moment the tortured and the torturer finally | :23:35. | :23:48. | |
met. To our amazement, he spoke to him in Japanese, we did not know he | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
do any Japanese. When you were tortured, | :23:56. | :24:05. | |
do any Japanese. When you were had been as damaged mentally by | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
being the torturer as he had been being tortured. It was very moving. | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
We were all very moved. Nagashe had evaded justice after the war. But as | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
a Buddhist, he was desperate for Eric's forgiveness. Eventually, Eric | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
said he could never forget but he would forgive him Both men have | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
since died, but Eric lived long enough to see his story filmed for | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
the big screen. Both ended up being happier people. He's played by Colin | :24:30. | :24:42. | |
Firth. He described him as the blood brother. That is amazing. He said, | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
there comes a time when they heating has to stop. `` the hating. | :24:50. | :25:04. | |
Did it stopped raining today? We have had some information from the | :25:05. | :25:15. | |
Met Office to say it has been wet and mild so far this winter. Sunny | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
spells captured at Bournemouth Cliffs today by Tim. John took this | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
photo of a squirrel sheltering from the showers in Dorchester Borough | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
Gardens. And David took this photo of a rainbow at BBC Oxford. After | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
taking the photo he was off to find the pot of gold. | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
We see further rain and showers, unwonted rain falling. Longer spells | :25:38. | :25:48. | |
of rain. The winds will ease during the second half of the night. There | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
will be some drier periods but a lot of showers to be had. A mile right | :25:53. | :26:02. | |
to come. `` mild night. There will be some bright spells and drier | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
periods. The west will see the best of any brightness. Showers will | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
continue through the afternoon but they will be few and far between. | :26:13. | :26:21. | |
Temperatures 9`12. The showers continue tomorrow night. A few dry | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
periods before a band of rain keeps in from the English Channel. The | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
rain could be on the heavy side, but some drier periods as well as | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
temperatures falling to 6`8. A start to the weekend but it not stay that | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
way. Low pressure down towards the south of the UK, the winds coming up | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
from the south, rainwater likely for Dorset and Wiltshire, drier | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
conditions, more cloud for eastern areas. A pretty damp end to the weak | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
and the showers will continue through the weekend. Tomorrow we are | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
expecting heavy torrential downpours with thunderstorms. Saturday, longer | :27:05. | :27:13. | |
spells of rain for western areas. Limited brightness. As we head | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
towards Sunday it is probably the best day of the weekend to get out | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
and about. Perhaps a frosty start which could linger for western | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
areas. Monday should be slightly drier. | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
Our next bulletin is at 10:25pm. | :27:36. | :27:37. |