:00:00. > :00:00.colder. It could be short lived. That is all from the BBC's News
:00:00. > :00:09.I am just checking whether the problem is with dragon. It Hello.
:00:10. > :00:14.I'm Sally Taylor. Welcome to South Today. In tonight's programme.
:00:15. > :00:22.Temporary sites for travellers in Poole but will it stop illegal
:00:23. > :00:24.camps? The council decides tonight. Although I am against the travellers
:00:25. > :00:28.being in the area, they need to Questions over whether Mike Hancock
:00:29. > :00:29.can stand as a candidate at the next general election.
:00:30. > :00:32.Be somewhere. Further frustration for businesses
:00:33. > :00:37.and travellers as work on a bridge over the Thames is delayed. And on
:00:38. > :00:50.the buses with the artist who has a ticket to ride for the sake of art.
:00:51. > :01:03.It is very unusual. I quite like it. I am trying something out.
:01:04. > :01:07.An emergency council meeting is under way in Poole this evening to
:01:08. > :01:09.try to resolve an issue which challenges local authorities and
:01:10. > :01:11.landowners across the region ` illegal travellers encampments.
:01:12. > :01:17.Poole doesn't have any official transit camps, making it harder to
:01:18. > :01:20.move`on trespassing caravans. So it's looking at setting up what it
:01:21. > :01:25.calls temporary stopping places but there's been an angry reaction
:01:26. > :01:38.around the two suggested sites. David Allard reports. August, 2013.
:01:39. > :01:42.An illegal travellers camp. They stayed for days. The police could
:01:43. > :01:45.not move them on because there is no alternative transit site in the
:01:46. > :01:50.borough to move them to. This waste ground could be a short`term
:01:51. > :01:58.solution. A temporary stopping place for the summer. It means police
:01:59. > :02:08.could move the legal campers here within 24 hours. What is better? To
:02:09. > :02:12.have our request `` to have our recreation grounds and sports were
:02:13. > :02:17.to lose is used instead? The majority of residents will want this
:02:18. > :02:28.to go ahead. Most residents are not in favour. They have to put extra
:02:29. > :02:31.security on. It is marshland. Although I am against the travellers
:02:32. > :02:40.being in the area, they do need to be somewhere. Is it right to put
:02:41. > :02:43.them in a place that is not healthy? A local councillor agrees. She is
:02:44. > :02:49.concerned about the effect on businesses. If the temporary
:02:50. > :02:54.stopping place does go ahead, they will put up security fencing.
:02:55. > :02:58.Businesses with very high`tech, expensive equipment. They have
:02:59. > :03:03.concerns. This is the other side being proposed. It is next to two
:03:04. > :03:09.major routes. There is a registered to substation. There is also a
:03:10. > :03:20.retail park. Most councillors are expected to back these two sites.
:03:21. > :03:24.They say it is not just NIMBYism. If nothing is done, it could be very
:03:25. > :03:28.serious. People could take the law into their own hands. That is not
:03:29. > :03:34.acceptable. That meeting is underway right now. Dozens of members of the
:03:35. > :03:48.public are here to hear that debate. Like other authorities, Poole has a
:03:49. > :03:55.duty towards travellers. The cost of turning those sites into suitable
:03:56. > :04:03.temporary stopping places, ?175,000. Compare that to the ?30,000 spent
:04:04. > :04:16.last year. There is a public consultation. That is when residents
:04:17. > :04:18.have their say. From what we hear today, they are not going to take it
:04:19. > :04:20.lying down. Liberal Democrats imports Portsmouth
:04:21. > :04:23.have begun the process of choosing a candidate to be Nick Clegg suspended
:04:24. > :04:29.Mike Hancock's membership last week, saying he was appalled by the
:04:30. > :04:32.results of an enquiry into alleged inappropriate behaviour. Mr
:04:33. > :04:40.Hancock's colleagues have been split as to whether to back him.
:04:41. > :04:43.Where do things stand? There are some totally opposite opinions. Some
:04:44. > :04:49.people are saying this is trial by media and Mike Hancock should be
:04:50. > :04:53.able to defend himself. Others feel that local people should put as much
:04:54. > :04:59.distance as possible from the MP. He is officially still a Cabinet
:05:00. > :05:10.member. Fellow councillors voted to support that on Friday. The process
:05:11. > :05:15.is going forward of selecting new candidates, and that Mike Hancock is
:05:16. > :05:31.not eligible to take part in the new selection. It was a narrow choice,
:05:32. > :05:35.ten councillors for and ten against. Jackie Hancock voted to
:05:36. > :05:42.support him. The most senior female councillor resigned in protest. She
:05:43. > :05:47.talked about what she called an unacceptable culture, especially
:05:48. > :05:54.towards women. I think Nick Clegg's stands need some serious looking
:05:55. > :06:04.at. He did know about the seriousness of the situation. I went
:06:05. > :06:10.to party headquarters in June, and I met with the chief executive of the
:06:11. > :06:17.Liberal Democrat party. I told them a fair bit about my feelings on the
:06:18. > :06:23.unacceptable culture. Strong words. Any response from the Lib Dems
:06:24. > :06:29.naturally? Not yet. She is urging Nick Clegg to intervene. Meanwhile,
:06:30. > :06:34.Mike Hancock is disputing that he has been deselected. Peter, thank
:06:35. > :06:37.you. Southern Water has issued a public apology after sewage and dead
:06:38. > :06:46.rats were washed up on the south coast. The waste has been discharged
:06:47. > :06:49.from an outfall pipe in Portsmouth ` after heavy rain and ground water
:06:50. > :06:53.inundated the sewage system. ?30 million is being spent on fixing the
:06:54. > :07:04.problem ` but work won't be finished until the end of the year. Steve
:07:05. > :07:07.Humphrey reports. A loss of sewage waste has been
:07:08. > :07:10.washed up here at Langstone Harbour over recent weeks because Southern
:07:11. > :07:14.Water's sewerage system has not coped with the amount of rainfall we
:07:15. > :07:31.have had. ? We have seen female sanitary products, hypodermic
:07:32. > :07:37.syringes, here but, unsightly waste. The last thing we want is for them
:07:38. > :07:47.to stay away. Southern waters of the problems have been caused by heavy
:07:48. > :07:54.rain. The problems are that there was a storm a few years ago but
:07:55. > :08:02.destroyed installation. We are in complete rebuilding process. We have
:08:03. > :08:13.been overtaken by the weather. ?10 million has been spent at Fort
:08:14. > :08:19.Cumberland. Clearing up the mess off the beach has taken a huge amount of
:08:20. > :08:25.effort over recent weeks. Everybody here is looking forward to the day
:08:26. > :08:29.when that new sewage system is brought into operation.
:08:30. > :08:32.There's anger over major delays to the reopening of a busy road bridge
:08:33. > :08:45.across the River Thames in Berkshire. Whitchurch Bridge in
:08:46. > :08:48.Pangbourne is being completely rebuilt, but the project has been
:08:49. > :08:52.dogged by delays during demolition and now, dangerously high river
:08:53. > :08:55.levels. It was supposed to reopen in April. But, as Nikki Mitchell
:08:56. > :09:01.reports, it's now unlikely to be back in use until July at the
:09:02. > :09:07.earliest. Work to rebuild this once to a halt before Christmas. The
:09:08. > :09:15.schedule is now three months behind. It is disappointing, because it is a
:09:16. > :09:24.ten mile round trip extra. Getting around can be a nightmare and we are
:09:25. > :09:27.spending more money on fuel. It has a big impact. Local businesses are
:09:28. > :09:33.suffering. Another three months is not what they want to hear.
:09:34. > :09:38.Customers are annoyed. It has hit trade quite hard, especially the
:09:39. > :09:50.food outlets. We are very frustrated and disappointed. The flows are
:09:51. > :09:58.still very high. We cannot go on the river. The bridge company had local
:09:59. > :10:01.people wanted the project done by the summer months. The Environment
:10:02. > :10:07.Agency said no because it would have been to disruptive for boaters.
:10:08. > :10:12.Contractors say they are confident they will get the vertical columns
:10:13. > :10:16.in the riverbed by the end of March, so this sector of the river can be
:10:17. > :10:22.opened to boaters as planned before Easter. Drivers, though, will have
:10:23. > :10:27.to wait until July. There has been plenty of stormy
:10:28. > :10:34.weather this winter, but so far, we have avoided snow and ice. But when
:10:35. > :10:37.two workers from a major Hampshire employer approached the BBC
:10:38. > :10:40.complaining that they'd been paid less than the minimum wage and were
:10:41. > :10:44.working in unsafe conditions Inside Out began to investigate. You can
:10:45. > :10:47.see the story tonight at 7.30pm on BBC One. A little earlier the show's
:10:48. > :10:52.presenter, Jon Cuthill, told me more about the company involved. These
:10:53. > :10:57.two men had been working for a company called nationwide gritting
:10:58. > :11:02.services, and it runs a huge stockpile of salt in Southampton. It
:11:03. > :11:08.is so big you can see it from the main road as you drive past. The
:11:09. > :11:11.workers complained they had been paid less than the minimum wage and
:11:12. > :11:17.there has been working in unsafe conditions. Just to make it clear,
:11:18. > :11:25.they worked for NGS until February last year. They were so concerned,
:11:26. > :11:30.they said they used a mobile phone to video footage of equipment they
:11:31. > :11:38.say regularly gave them electric shocks, of wires dripping with water
:11:39. > :11:43.and poor conditions. They also said they were working 12 hour shifts
:11:44. > :11:49.with just a half`hour unpaid break, including Christmas Day and Boxing
:11:50. > :11:54.Day. And that they worked 14 days in a row before having a day off. What
:11:55. > :11:57.does the company say about the allegations? We have not spoken to
:11:58. > :12:01.them directly. They referred as to their legal team. Their lawyers say
:12:02. > :12:09.they deny the allegations, which they put down to disgruntled former
:12:10. > :12:19.employees. They pointed out the HSC has visited the site and are happy
:12:20. > :12:27.with conditions `` HSE. We have been unable to verify this. What about
:12:28. > :12:32.pay? An employment tribunal case was settled out of court by the company.
:12:33. > :12:37.They paid each of the men more than ?3000 with no addition of liability.
:12:38. > :12:41.The reason the company did it, it says, is for commercial reasons. It
:12:42. > :12:48.says it is down to money and it is cheaper to make that settlement.
:12:49. > :12:51.And you can see the full story on tonight's Inside Out starting in
:12:52. > :13:04.about 45 minutes here on BBC One. Still to come in this evening's
:13:05. > :13:08.South Today: battered by a tornado. That is what residents believe they
:13:09. > :13:11.witnessed. The Government calls small
:13:12. > :13:14.businesses the lifeblood of the economy. At a major conference today
:13:15. > :13:18.the Prime Minister was keen to show off what he's doing to help them
:13:19. > :13:21.grow. While the political focus has been about reducing red tape ` it's
:13:22. > :13:25.a more familiar problem that still seems to be holding back firms here
:13:26. > :13:32.in the South ` access to finance. Alastair Fee reports. Five Digital
:13:33. > :13:39.has been around for about two years. Their livelihood readily growing.
:13:40. > :13:46.The battle for businesses like them is underway. We focus quite strongly
:13:47. > :13:51.on new businesses, and entrepreneurs. Over the last 12
:13:52. > :13:55.months, that has definitely changed and has been improving. In London
:13:56. > :13:58.today, the Prime Minister took centre stage at the National
:13:59. > :14:02.conference of the Federation of Small Businesses. The message,
:14:03. > :14:09.nicking things easier by cutting red tape. `` making things easier.
:14:10. > :14:14.Legislation is unbelievably own arrest. You almost would not employ
:14:15. > :14:25.people, you would use contractors. Very difficult for businesses of
:14:26. > :14:30.below ten people to engage. 18 months ago, we caught up with Colin,
:14:31. > :14:36.an ex`banker who now advises new firms. The big issue was access to
:14:37. > :14:40.finance. As I improved? Lott will not go to the banks. They will try
:14:41. > :14:46.to get it from friends, family and other people. They feel they will
:14:47. > :14:49.get rejected do things are not comfortable with doing. The last
:14:50. > :14:53.budget contained a number of measures aimed at small firms. There
:14:54. > :14:58.was a ?300 million investment scheme to boost lending small businesses.
:14:59. > :15:04.They were given ?2000 cut in employers national contributions,
:15:05. > :15:08.and by Kevin as, benefited from the cancellation of the fuel duty rise
:15:09. > :15:12.in 2013. Removing the so`called barriers to growth is exactly what
:15:13. > :15:19.our Bournemouth `based production company needs. The announcement are
:15:20. > :15:23.welcome. I don't think it goes far enough, it is on the periphery.
:15:24. > :15:34.Small companies like is really need funding and proper funding. They
:15:35. > :15:42.employ three, and plan to take on more staff if the climate continues
:15:43. > :15:50.to improve. The message still hasn't changed. Free up money.
:15:51. > :15:55.On to sport an hour. Transfer window, end of the week?
:15:56. > :16:01.Yes. I think we will have a lot of gossip. Primarily about Southampton.
:16:02. > :16:05.Keep an eye on Redding and Bournemouth as well. As it gets
:16:06. > :16:08.closer to the wire, it is more exciting.
:16:09. > :16:12.Mauricio Pochetinno says he's not expecting Luke Shaw to go anywhere
:16:13. > :16:15.in the final days of the transfer window Pochettino reiterated Saints
:16:16. > :16:17.desire to keep their star players at the club during today's press
:16:18. > :16:23.conference ahead of their Premier League clash against Arsenal
:16:24. > :16:26.tomorrow night. He also refused to be drawn on Dani Osvaldo's future
:16:27. > :16:29.with the striker currently suspended following a training ground fight
:16:30. > :16:48.last week. But has he had an offer for Shaw? I focus on the match. When
:16:49. > :16:51.it happens, if it happens, I will be informed. Meanwhile Saints beat
:16:52. > :16:55.Yeovil at St Mary's to book their place in round five of the FA Cup. A
:16:56. > :17:02.first half penalty was converted by Guly do Prado, his first goal for
:17:03. > :17:05.more than two years. Yeovil refused to lie down, and Saints had to wait
:17:06. > :17:08.until the 69th minute to seal victory thanks to a first senior
:17:09. > :17:11.goal from Sam Gallagher. Confirmation then Southampton will
:17:12. > :17:14.play at Sunderland` their third visit to the stadium of light this
:17:15. > :17:18.season on the weekend of the 15th and 16th February. They've already
:17:19. > :17:22.lost there in the league cup and drawn in the league. Brighton are at
:17:23. > :17:24.home to Hull. Brendan Rodgers paid tribute to Eddie Howe and his
:17:25. > :17:29.Bournemouth side after Liverpool's victory at Dean Court. A sell`out
:17:30. > :17:35.crowd saw the likes of Luis Suarez in action. There was a rare glimpse
:17:36. > :17:41.too of Cherries owner Max Demin the man whose investment has helped turn
:17:42. > :17:44.the club around. Liverpool scored a goal in each half, Victor Moses's
:17:45. > :17:48.effort which beating Lee Camp at the near post. Then Daniel Sturridge
:17:49. > :17:56.finishing well in the second half to end any hope of an upset. While are
:17:57. > :18:08.very good and I would give credit to them. It is not easy when you are a
:18:09. > :18:15.manager, sticking your head out, but he certainly does that. They were
:18:16. > :18:18.excellent. There was Football League action this weekend too, Kris
:18:19. > :18:31.Temple's round`up starts after this town crier at Portman Road has
:18:32. > :18:39.finished. This fan will have gone home happy. It took into the second
:18:40. > :18:45.half for Ipswich to go in front. Redding had penalty appeals on the
:18:46. > :18:54.day and saw efforts go high and wide. They are still sixth in the
:18:55. > :19:06.table. Swindon lead against Shrewsbury. The goal of the game
:19:07. > :19:19.came from the visitors. Two late goals gave Swindon all three points.
:19:20. > :19:25.Portsmouth were left to rue a goalkeeping clanger. The scores were
:19:26. > :19:35.level, but then a second was grabbed. Trevor Carson let this
:19:36. > :19:39.effort slip through his fingers. Basingstoke Bison are still in the
:19:40. > :19:42.race for ice hockey's Premier League title they beat Sheffield Steeldogs
:19:43. > :19:45.6`5 on Saturday night. The Bison stormed into a four goal lead,
:19:46. > :19:48.Thomas Karpov and Ciaron Long among the goals. The visitors threatened a
:19:49. > :19:55.comeback and got to within one goal of the bison before, Joe Rand made
:19:56. > :19:58.it 6`3. A late fightback didn't prevent a Bison win, they're second
:19:59. > :20:01.in the table, Guildford lost to Telford and are third. Reading
:20:02. > :20:03.Rockets basketball team are celebrating after national success
:20:04. > :20:05.this weekend. The Rockets beat Newnham Neptunes by 93 points to 72
:20:06. > :20:20.in Worcester yesterday. If you've travelled anywhere by bus,
:20:21. > :20:23.you've probably found yourself gazing blankly out of the window. As
:20:24. > :20:27.the landscape passes by, you might not concentrate on that changing
:20:28. > :20:29.view. Not so for an artist in Bournemouth, who's been commissioned
:20:30. > :20:32.to record her journeys with pencil drawings. But this is conceptual
:20:33. > :20:36.art, which not everyone may immediately warm to. James Ingham
:20:37. > :20:40.has been to meet the artist at work. Boarding a bus not for anywhere in
:20:41. > :20:44.particular, but simply to enjoy the journey. Denise Poote is recording
:20:45. > :20:49.her view of a dozen routes around Bournemouth in a rather unusual way.
:20:50. > :20:59.Armed with just a pencil and paper, she's turning the trip into art. I
:21:00. > :21:05.draw whatever catches my eye as I go past. Part of the trees become part
:21:06. > :21:10.of the buildings and vice versa. It is a physical response of my hand on
:21:11. > :21:13.the paper. For someone who gets travel sick,
:21:14. > :21:20.this seems an unusual choice of studio, but it's that unpleasant
:21:21. > :21:23.feeling that first inspired her. You are looking out of the window into
:21:24. > :21:28.the distance when I am a passenger made me observe things I thought I
:21:29. > :21:34.could begin to capture without looking at the paper. I will end up
:21:35. > :21:36.with a record of those things, and I wanted to do locally.
:21:37. > :21:42.Bournemouth's Yellow Buses commissioned this work ` so do their
:21:43. > :21:49.regular passengers like it? Very interesting. Yes. Does it make any
:21:50. > :21:57.sense to you? I am trying to figure it out. No, not really. Sorry. What
:21:58. > :22:02.do you like it? It draws attention. It makes you want to find out what
:22:03. > :22:06.it could be. At a different things to all sorts of people. That is the
:22:07. > :22:12.beauty of this. There are all sorts of different styles out there. So,
:22:13. > :22:19.just looking now, what you make of it? There is a bit of Christchurch
:22:20. > :22:24.Priory somewhere in there. There is no way you could have predicted how
:22:25. > :22:30.it would come out before. That is right. It belongs to the journey,
:22:31. > :22:33.really. I am just making marks of a particular set of circumstances.
:22:34. > :22:41.Love it or hate it, this is a view from a bus you've probably never
:22:42. > :22:44.seen before. Fascinating. More bad weather over the weekend,
:22:45. > :22:47.and on Saturday there were reports of a mini tornado over parts of
:22:48. > :22:51.Hampshire and West Sussex. Alexis will be here in a moment to give us
:22:52. > :22:55.her take on that. Roofs were ripped off garden sheds and trees felled
:22:56. > :22:58.across roads and train tracks. Although there were no reports of
:22:59. > :23:04.any serious injuries, some had a lucky escape, as Chris Robinson
:23:05. > :23:09.reports. Nestled in this tree is part of the roof of Christina's
:23:10. > :23:13.garden shed. On Saturday afternoon, she watched a strong winds ripped it
:23:14. > :23:20.apart. Homes were battered across part of the South. Her prize vintage
:23:21. > :23:29.car survived with barely a scratch on it. There is debris everywhere.
:23:30. > :23:37.Luckily, none of the horses were hurt. I am from Michu can. The
:23:38. > :23:41.midwest is quite tornado prone. I really do think this was a mini
:23:42. > :23:48.tornado. Nothing drastic like we get in the state. It looks quite
:23:49. > :23:51.familiar. This was the scene outside and over the leisure centre. A
:23:52. > :23:55.mother and her children had been sheltering under this tree when it
:23:56. > :24:03.came down on top of them. They escaped with just minor injuries.
:24:04. > :24:08.South West Trains reported some trains blocking part of a network.
:24:09. > :24:12.The driver was treated for shock when his car was trapped between
:24:13. > :24:15.branches. A massive branch was ripped off a tree here, crushing a
:24:16. > :24:37.roof. Chris Robinson. Was at a tornado? The Met Office
:24:38. > :24:41.cannot confirm because they do not have the evidence. They've is an
:24:42. > :24:49.organisation looking into it. They always send someone to have a look.
:24:50. > :24:53.A tornado gives a clearly defined damaged track.
:24:54. > :24:57.There was quite a track for that. You never know.
:24:58. > :25:00.Moody skies but a splash of colour in Mudeford in Dorset captured by
:25:01. > :25:03.Alan Smith. George Andrews took this photo of Portsmouth from East
:25:04. > :25:06.Wittering this morning. And Stephen Michelle captured a Great Egret
:25:07. > :25:13.which is in temporary residence at Blashford Lakes near Ringwood. We
:25:14. > :25:19.did see some sunshine today but tonight, the risk of further heavy
:25:20. > :25:22.rain. The Met Office have a yellow warning in place. This week, we are
:25:23. > :25:31.looking at blustery showers. It will turn slightly colder, and maybe
:25:32. > :25:37.introduce Frost and ice on untreated surfaces. Through tonight, we will
:25:38. > :25:41.see the rain showers, they will merge into longer spells of rain at
:25:42. > :25:50.times. Quite heavy in a few places. Perhaps some hair and thunder.
:25:51. > :26:04.Potentially, we could see up to an inch of rain. Lows tonight of four,
:26:05. > :26:17.five Celsius. Frost free and ice free, but the winds are blustery.
:26:18. > :26:25.Ltd brightness. If you catch sunshine, you will be very lucky.
:26:26. > :26:33.Temperatures up to around eight Celsius. Showers will continue
:26:34. > :26:42.tomorrow. They will not be as heavy. More unwelcome rain. Temperatures
:26:43. > :27:01.similar to tonight. It will be a wet start to the day we are looking at a
:27:02. > :27:09.slowly dying out scenario. There is the risk we could have some snow
:27:10. > :27:13.showers through Thursday. The Met Office do have a warning for rain
:27:14. > :27:18.for tonight and tomorrow. Thank you. That is it from us.