05/04/2014 South Today

Good evening. I'm Roger Finn with BBC News channel. We are back with

Good evening. I'm Roger Finn with the news for the South.

The Basingstoke MP, Maria Mhller, remains under pressure this evening

because of the row about her expenses. A recording of a telephone

call between one of her senhor aides and a Daily Telegraph reporter has

been released. The paper cl`ims it shows that in 2012 the adviser tried

to hamper its investigation into Mrs Miller's expenses. The Consdrvatives

deny that any threats were lade A key stage of the work to replace

worn out rail track around Southampton has been taking place

today. A 500`tonne crane lifted whole pre`assembled junctions into

place. The track and points are wearing out mainly because of the

increasing freight traffic from the docks. The project is costing ? 0

million and has meant line closures and disrupted journeys for thousands

of passengers. I appreciate nobody wants to be travelling on a bus when

they have bought a train ticket me included. All we can do is try to

make that as painless as possible for people. We appreciate it is not

great. We hope that people will bear with us. Due to the scale of it you

can see that behind me, there is no way of doing it without stopping

trains running. The amount of money being spent by

the South East's Ambulance Service on private ambulances has

A community in Oxfordshire hs operating the world's largest

locally owned Solar Farm. It's one of a growing number of renewable

energy schemes that are being run in the county by local communities

including five wind turbines. In January the Government annotnced a

plan to have a million homes powered by local renewable schemes by 2 20.

Energy is seen as being somdthing that is delivered remotely by big,

often foreign owned multinationals and people are so excited to have

the opportunity to install their own project and to be able to gdnerate C

themselves rather than being dependent on others.

And our current affairs programme, Sunday Politics, will be taking a

look at renewable energy tolorrow. It starts at 11am on BBC Ond.

In sport, Southampton and England striker Jay Rodriguez suffered what

looked like a serious knee hnjury in the Premier League game agahnst

Manchester City. Rodriguez was in tears as he was taken off on a

stretcher, clearly fearful that the injury could keep him out of the

World Cup, which starts in June Saints lost the match at thd Ethiad

4`1. In the Championship, Lewis Grabban

ensured it was a miserable return to his old stomping ground for Harry

Redknapp, as QPR lost 2`1 to ten`man Bournemouth. Despite having Harry

Arter sent off, it was the Cherries' fourth win in a row.

Elsewhere, play`off chasing Brighton were held to a 0`0 draw agahnst the

ten men of Barnsley. And a goal from Daniel Williams was enough to see

Reading beat Charlton at Thd Valley. In League One, MK Dons were 2`1

winners at Coventry. But Swhndon lost on the road at Carlisld 1` .

And in League Two, Portsmouth continued their fight for strvival

with a 1`0 win against Hartlepool at Fratton Park. But Oxford cotldn t

push into the play`off placds, they went down 2`0 at promotion rivals

Fleetwood. Non`league Sholing are headhng to

Wembley. The club, who play in the Wessex League, beat Eastbourne `2

in the second leg of the FA Vase semifinal. The Boatmen were all

level after the first leg btt won 4`6 on aggregate. They're the second

Hampshire side to reach a showpiece final this season after Gosport Town

played in the final of the FA Trophy last month. We will just enjoy this

one. We will enjoy the semifinal and it has been really hard work this

season. Tough draws in this competition and it is just

tremendous. It is difficult based to come to because of the size of the

pitch. Our first performancd was tremendous.

37`year`old jockey Leighton Aspell from West Sussex won today's Grand

National onboard Pineau De Re. But there was disappointment elsewhere `

Berkshire trainer Nicky Henderson's long wait for a winner in the big

race at Aintree continues. His best hope, Long Run ridden by Oxfordshire

jockey Sam Whaley`Cohen, fell at the tenth.

Now for a look at the weathdr with Dan Downs.

Good evening. It was they grey and damp through this weekend. We have

showers of light rain coming into this evening before later in the

night and early tomorrow, a heavier band of rain which is in. A mild

night, temperatures not falling lower than ten or 11 degrees. To

start tomorrow, we have somd coastal and hill fog around, plenty of rain.

It could be heavy for a timd. During the second part of the afternoon

into the evening, the showers could ease somewhat and temperatures

tomorrow similar to today, reaching 13 or 14. Rain around on Monday but

high pressure in the middle of the week means it will be drier and

brighter. That's all from us for now. We're

back tomorrow at 6:50pm. Goodbye. Good evening. We may have got to 18

Celsius today in parts of East Anglia but it was the bright spot in

an otherwise cloudy day and it is the cloud that will dominate

tonight, bringing splashes of rain and dryer moments as well

particularly in the north-east of Scotland but heavy bursts can't be

ruled out in the West, where it will be misty and murky and breezy later

in the night. The breeze is south to south-westerly and temperatures in

the morning higher than they should be in the afternoon this time of

year. Sunday, whilst milder, is going to be breezy and a bit matter

for many of you.