:00:00. > :00:00.about half hour's time, could overtake them with a
:00:07. > :00:10.Several hundred residents in a West Sussex village staged a protest this
:00:11. > :00:15.morning to try to stave off potential housing development near
:00:16. > :00:17.Worthing. They claim that Persimmon Homes are preparing a planning
:00:18. > :00:20.application to build nearly four hundred houses on the edge of
:00:21. > :00:23.Ferring, The protestors say there's been no public consultation, and
:00:24. > :00:25.argue that the scale of the development would overwhelm what
:00:26. > :00:43.they say is an already overcrowded area. It is not a question of not
:00:44. > :00:48.wanting anybody, we do not have room. Our doctors are at full
:00:49. > :00:51.stretch and capacity. Roads are in gridlock in the mornings. Our
:00:52. > :00:55.schools are all at capacity. We simply cannot take that many more
:00:56. > :00:59.people. Persimmon Homes had no one available for interview ` but issued
:01:00. > :01:01.a statement saying the plot of land adjacent to Goring Station is owned
:01:02. > :01:05.by Persimmon Homes, and a topographical survey was recently
:01:06. > :01:08.carried out. We have always made it clear to Worthing Borough Council
:01:09. > :01:14.that this site is available, and would be suitable for development.
:01:15. > :01:17.A criminal investigation has been started into a light aircraft crash
:01:18. > :01:25.three years ago at Witchampton in Dorset in which a man died. Orlando
:01:26. > :01:28.Rogers, who was 26 and a passenger in the 1930s Tiger Moth biplane,
:01:29. > :01:30.died after being airlifted to hospital. But the aircraft's pilot,
:01:31. > :01:33.Scott Hoyle from Broadstone, survived. Dorset Police have
:01:34. > :01:35.confirmed they're investigating the circumstances that led to the
:01:36. > :01:41.accident. They'll present their findings to the Crown Prosecution
:01:42. > :01:44.Service. As the South's farmers struggle to
:01:45. > :01:47.recover from the recent floods, there are concerns about the level
:01:48. > :01:52.of government grants on offer to help them rebuild. The condition of
:01:53. > :01:57.this field on a 1700 acre farm in Oxfordshire is a reflection of what
:01:58. > :02:00.many are having to cope with. And though the ?5,000 available for each
:02:01. > :02:12.farm will be welcome, the man who farms here is concerned it won't go
:02:13. > :02:15.far. The ?5,000, I will have spent it on this field and that is not the
:02:16. > :02:22.cost of doing the work, or the loss of the production through the milk,
:02:23. > :02:25.the beef, through everything else. Don't get me wrong, we are grateful
:02:26. > :02:32.for the many, it is not have to be done, but excuse the pun, it is a
:02:33. > :02:35.drop in the ocean. And you can see more on that story on our current
:02:36. > :02:37.affairs programme the Sunday Politics at 11am here on BBC One in
:02:38. > :02:50.the South. Good afternoon. Some of us started
:02:51. > :02:53.off the day with a grey day but we have blue skies as we had through
:02:54. > :02:59.the rest of the day. A bit breezy at times but get out of that and in the
:03:00. > :03:04.sunshine, it should be all `` should feel as early warm. This evening,
:03:05. > :03:13.variable amounts of cloud. Lengthy clear spells. Most places frost
:03:14. > :03:23.free. Tomorrow starts bright but cloud will thicken later. Staying
:03:24. > :03:28.mostly settled. That's all from us for now. We are back at 7:10pm.