:00:13. > :00:18.Sunday, we could even be talking about 25 degrees. For the rest of
:00:19. > :00:24.the week, dryer and warm with some sunshine around but the nights be
:00:25. > :00:26.chilly. That's all from the BBC News at six
:00:27. > :00:31.so Is ?4 million for a national park
:00:32. > :00:44.headquarters money well spent? Lost in the post,
:00:45. > :00:47.the mystery of the missing post And the plan to restore a piece
:00:48. > :01:11.of World War One history. I cannot believe someone would pinch
:01:12. > :01:36.it twice. In the plan to restore a piece of World War I history.
:01:37. > :01:40.He pretended to support the idea of becoming a martyr, to get attention,
:01:41. > :01:55.respect. A Portsmouth man charged with terrorism offences for going to
:01:56. > :01:59.Syria to train at a rebel camp has told a court that the arrangements
:02:00. > :02:02.he'd made to join military fighters was all a pretence. 31 year old
:02:03. > :02:06.Mashudur Choudhury was part of a group of five men who left
:02:07. > :02:09.Portsmouth for Syria last year. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Emma
:02:10. > :02:20.Mashudur Choudhury said today he had been pretending to be someone that
:02:21. > :02:23.he was not. He left Portsmouth in October last year, leaving behind
:02:24. > :02:28.his wife and two children. Together with four other men from the city,
:02:29. > :02:33.they flew out from Gatwick airport. In the weeks before leaving, he had
:02:34. > :02:38.been communicating with another man from Portsmouth who was already in
:02:39. > :02:43.Syria. He spoke of his desire to join the rebels today, the court
:02:44. > :02:49.heard his life in Portsmouth spiraled out of control. He had run
:02:50. > :02:53.up tens of thousands of pounds of debt and told lies to family and
:02:54. > :02:59.friends. He told the court he did not really wants to fight in Syria,
:03:00. > :03:00.but said, I was just pertaining to be someone, seeking attention,
:03:01. > :03:15.seeking respect. Tempted `` Mashudur Choudhury told
:03:16. > :03:20.the court that he arrived in Turkey and travelled to the Turkish border
:03:21. > :03:24.and then try to cross the border into Syria, but his group was turned
:03:25. > :03:32.away, and later managed to run through a gap in the fence and cross
:03:33. > :03:35.over. From there, they travelled by minibus. Mashudur Choudhury
:03:36. > :03:38.described seeing burnt out cars and buildings devastated by the
:03:39. > :03:44.conflict. He said he felt afraid, and at one point was told to duck to
:03:45. > :03:52.avoid snipers as they reached the Syria and city of Aleppo. Mashudur
:03:53. > :03:55.Choudhury has pleaded not to the to having travelled abroad with the
:03:56. > :03:59.intention of committing acts of terrorism. He told the court today
:04:00. > :04:03.that leaving for Syria just seemed like a solution to his problems. The
:04:04. > :04:07.other men from Portsmouth are still believed to be in Syria, but
:04:08. > :04:11.Mashudur Choudhury said it was always his intention to return. The
:04:12. > :04:15.jury will now have to decide whether the sentiment he had been expressing
:04:16. > :04:32.where his true feelings or whether it was all just an elaborate lie.
:04:33. > :04:36.recommend the and level of rises in allowances for
:04:37. > :04:39.councillors has resigned in protest, after it claimed it was ignored.
:04:40. > :04:47.All three members of the independent panel for Surrey
:04:48. > :04:53.The councillors instead voted for rises in their allowances greater
:04:54. > :05:06.than the committee had suggested, in some cases by as much as 60%.
:05:07. > :05:11.Built to impress, the claim tonight is that inside these elegant
:05:12. > :05:15.surroundings, those who hold sway here have lost sight of the economic
:05:16. > :05:19.reality for many of their electorates. In recent years,
:05:20. > :05:24.spending has had to be cut, for example, on libraries, so when an
:05:25. > :05:27.independent group was asked to look at allowances, they tempered their
:05:28. > :05:34.proposals to reflect the chill wind that has hit the economy here. Even
:05:35. > :05:38.so, the leader's pay wasn't due to rise by ?8,500. But that the last
:05:39. > :05:49.moment, the plans drawn up by the independent panel were ditched in
:05:50. > :05:56.favour of far more generous figures. We have given careful levels of
:05:57. > :06:01.assessing that have not been taken into account, and it felt to us at
:06:02. > :06:05.the money was just plucked out of the air. `` the figures. We wanted
:06:06. > :06:08.to make sure that the levels of allowances could be justified,
:06:09. > :06:12.because it is the council taxpayer who has to pay for these at the end
:06:13. > :06:16.of the day. In its defence, the County Council said today that the
:06:17. > :06:22.last time members allowances were reviewed was back in 2010, and since
:06:23. > :06:27.then, the authority has taken and 42 new responsibilities, driving up the
:06:28. > :06:29.workload for senior members. But the government department responsible
:06:30. > :06:34.for local councils today said that at a time when local government
:06:35. > :06:38.employees were seeing their pay go up by an average of 1%, counselors
:06:39. > :06:44.should lead by example him and there was, in their words, no excuse for
:06:45. > :07:01.counselors driving up overall costs at the expense of the taxpayer.
:07:02. > :07:06.Campaigners The High Court has ruled that
:07:07. > :07:10.the government acted "unlawfully" when it refused to release
:07:11. > :07:17.information about investigations into a Hampshire firm that makes
:07:18. > :07:20.products that spy on people. Campaigners claim that
:07:21. > :07:22.Andover`based Gamma International has been illegally exporting
:07:23. > :07:24.equipment that can intercept emails and remotely switch on webcams `
:07:25. > :07:27.allegations the firm denies. Yesterday, a judge ruled that
:07:28. > :07:30.HM Revenue and Custom's refusal to release any information
:07:31. > :07:32.about the firm was unlawful. It will now have to look again
:07:33. > :07:36.at its decision. It's four years since the South
:07:37. > :07:39.Downs National Park came into being. It gets 46 million day visits
:07:40. > :07:41.a year. And now, finally, the organisation
:07:42. > :07:44.in charge has got its own home. South Today has been given
:07:45. > :07:48.a first look at the South Downs National Park Authority's new
:07:49. > :07:50.headquarters at Midhurst. It was originally budgeted
:07:51. > :07:51.at ?1.5 million but has actually cost ?4 million,
:07:52. > :07:54.though it now includes community facilities and meets a rarely
:07:55. > :07:57.attained environmental standard. But is that a justifiable use
:07:58. > :08:05.of public money? claim that it was once a grammar
:08:06. > :08:12.school. HG Wells was a pupil and teacher here, and in tribute, there
:08:13. > :08:21.is that about this old building as forward thinking. It is only... The
:08:22. > :08:27.man in charge told me as the area's planning authority, it wants to lead
:08:28. > :08:31.by example. The building as client and this material to a considerable
:08:32. > :08:36.depth. There is more than a hand's that of insulation here. His brown
:08:37. > :08:43.roof has a natural insulation, and over here is air `` our solar array.
:08:44. > :08:49.This is a boiler which the whole of the is heated by. A lot of our work
:08:50. > :08:52.in the park, cutting down scrub, generates surplus which is turned
:08:53. > :08:59.into a palette and is used to heat our centre. Has a justified a use of
:09:00. > :09:05.public money and the financial times? Absolutely. We are a National
:09:06. > :09:09.Park and we have sent a benchmark will simply expect quality of all of
:09:10. > :09:12.those who build in or operate in the park, and it is only right and
:09:13. > :09:21.proper we demonstrate what we need by quality. The increased cost also
:09:22. > :09:26.covers a conference centre and theatre and a visitor centre.
:09:27. > :09:30.Communities and businesses looking around hoping puppies to the local
:09:31. > :09:38.economy. I think it will get us back on the map. It is wonderful to
:09:39. > :09:41.educate us about our local environment am of the natural beauty
:09:42. > :09:45.that we live in. The new headquarters will be officially
:09:46. > :09:49.launched as a community event at the end of July.
:09:50. > :09:52.Ways to help elderly and vulnerable park home owners was discussed
:09:53. > :09:55.Dorset MP Annette Brooke is demanding more transparency about
:09:56. > :09:59.Recently a constituent who runs the Justice for Park Home Owners
:10:00. > :10:04.But Annette Brooke believes there is still more to do to achieve fairness
:10:05. > :10:11.for the often vulnerable home owners.
:10:12. > :10:17.Many residents have reported feeling trapped in their homes. Many sites
:10:18. > :10:21.are only for people of the retirement age, therefore the need
:10:22. > :10:25.to move into a nursing home or some other form of residential care is a
:10:26. > :10:29.very real possibility. Having to give the park operator such a high
:10:30. > :10:32.percentage of the sale from their home reduces the amount that the
:10:33. > :10:40.seller has to put towards their care. Still to come: We are with a
:10:41. > :10:52.team working to get this lorry back on the road again.
:10:53. > :10:55.It was a weekend bike ride that went disastrously wrong.
:10:56. > :10:57.Christchurch cycling enthusiast Ben Winter suffered serious spinal
:10:58. > :10:59.injuries when he had an accident on Canford Heath
:11:00. > :11:05.Eight years on Ben, who's 43, is back in the saddle and raising money
:11:06. > :11:21.This photograph of Ben was taken by his friend as he rode and unfamiliar
:11:22. > :11:26.bike over a drop. Guys together, a bit of bravado, the first guy went
:11:27. > :11:31.up and it was fine, and then I went off it, and I'm misjudged my speed,
:11:32. > :11:36.I misjudged everything, really, and I'd ended up going over the bars and
:11:37. > :11:40.landing headfirst on the ground about had `` eight feet below. He
:11:41. > :11:50.had broken bones in his neck and back. The best option was to air
:11:51. > :11:55.last ten `` airlift him. If I had moved, try to move my head or try to
:11:56. > :11:59.meet in any way, I could have paralysed myself. The fragments of
:12:00. > :12:04.bone all around, it is pretty horrible, fragments all around the
:12:05. > :12:08.spinal column, and if anything happens to the spinal column, that
:12:09. > :12:13.would be it. Major surgery followed, had eight years on, he has made a
:12:14. > :12:19.full recovery. This weekend, with 600 others, he will write more than
:12:20. > :12:23.50 others in a coast to coast event, raising money for the air ambulance
:12:24. > :12:27.service. One assumes that it is part of the NHS, but it is not to the
:12:28. > :12:33.best of my knowledge, and without them, I am positive I would not be
:12:34. > :12:40.here. If I was, I would not be at full capacity. Anyone could have
:12:41. > :12:43.been me, it was a normal day. The ambulance service needs to raise
:12:44. > :12:47.?1.7 million per year to keep flying, and all of that money comes
:12:48. > :12:51.from public donations. We rely totally on public donations to
:12:52. > :12:55.survive. We are very fortunate that we have that support, and we just
:12:56. > :13:00.hope that that continues. Bennet says that some laugh at his type,
:13:01. > :13:05.mammals, that is, middle`aged men in Lycra come of it he is not deterred
:13:06. > :13:09.by that. He is a more cautious creature, but one who considers
:13:10. > :13:14.himself lucky to have a chance to raise money for a life serving ``
:13:15. > :13:19.life`saving service. And good luck to Ben and his challenge.
:13:20. > :13:21.A wedding reception, a collector's backyard or a scrapyard.
:13:22. > :13:24.Those are the kind of addresses where its thought
:13:25. > :13:29.At least four have been taken from sites across the New Forest.
:13:30. > :13:31.Royal Mail is urging anyone with information about
:13:32. > :13:43.They have been part and parcel of the fabric of the landscape for over
:13:44. > :13:47.a century. As British as roast beef, double`decker buses and afternoon
:13:48. > :13:50.tea. But now the nation's distinctive red his boxes are under
:13:51. > :13:55.threat. The one just down the road from this part in the New Forest is
:13:56. > :14:00.gone, just a whole has been left behind. When did you first discover
:14:01. > :14:04.that the postbox have gone? When I came to a letter in its two posted!
:14:05. > :14:10.I walked up from the farm and there it wasn't! Her favourite postbox was
:14:11. > :14:15.replaced, but after that was delivered, the new box was also
:14:16. > :14:20.stolen. I really cannot believe that someone could pinch it twice. The
:14:21. > :14:24.scale of the deaths came to life after a radio presenter mentioned on
:14:25. > :14:29.his broad based programme that the postbox near his New Forest tom had
:14:30. > :14:37.disappeared. `` his breakfast programme. There is dashed there is
:14:38. > :14:42.just a hall where the postbox have been. It never crossed my mind
:14:43. > :14:46.anyone would steal it. How many of these you think have been stolen
:14:47. > :14:52.across the New Forest? We know one about half an hour that way is gone.
:14:53. > :14:57.There is one in ring what that is gone and someone said there is one
:14:58. > :15:02.and just down there. All of the postbox is stolen in the New Forest
:15:03. > :15:06.were attached to posts. It appears those built into walls are much
:15:07. > :15:10.safer. There have been a number of suggestions as to why postbox is
:15:11. > :15:16.like this are being stolen. Some people suggest it is because postbox
:15:17. > :15:19.is painted white are being used at wedding receptions so people can
:15:20. > :15:25.post in their gifts of cash and checks. The other suggestion is that
:15:26. > :15:31.boxes like this are being sold on the internet to collectors around
:15:32. > :15:41.the world. The Royal Mail is urging anyone with information about the
:15:42. > :15:45.postbox best to contact the police. Let's move swiftly on to sport. ( we
:15:46. > :15:51.were talking about the call of to the England squad `` last night we
:15:52. > :15:55.were talking about the call up to the England squad. You think back to
:15:56. > :16:01.the winter and the ashes, there was a scapegoat for England not doing
:16:02. > :16:05.very well. One player was very critical of the ECB. There has been
:16:06. > :16:07.a changing of the guard and it seems to have worked well.
:16:08. > :16:09.England selector James Whittaker says Michael Carberry's comments
:16:10. > :16:12.about his omission from the one day series in Australia
:16:13. > :16:14.are "water under the bridge" after the Hampshire batsman was
:16:15. > :16:18.Carberry was back in action for Hampshire today
:16:19. > :16:21.in their latest County Championship game at the Ageas Bowl.
:16:22. > :16:23.He appears to have benefitted from a new look to
:16:24. > :16:27.the England camp with former Sussex coach Peter Moores now in charge.
:16:28. > :16:40.We'll hope to hear from Carberry in tomorrow's programme.
:16:41. > :16:45.Hampshire have a slender lead going into the final day and they are
:16:46. > :16:50.going to play on until seven o'clock in that one tonight. The Morgan have
:16:51. > :16:56.two wickets left. On the one day of play left four Sussex. 335 run
:16:57. > :17:01.partnership between Ben Brown and Luke Wright in the first innings
:17:02. > :17:04.will stop Surrey need another 120 runs to complete what will be an
:17:05. > :17:08.excellent win in a low scoring game against Gloucestershire.
:17:09. > :17:11.One of the football season's more inspiring stories was Bournemouth's
:17:12. > :17:14.fans clubbing together for Burton Albions' to have free coach travel
:17:15. > :17:18.to an FA Cup tie. The original tie was postponed just an hour and a
:17:19. > :17:21.half before kick off in January so the Burton fans had
:17:22. > :17:24.Cherries supporters David Whitehead and Adrian Lee quickly launched
:17:25. > :17:37.a fundraising scheme to pay for the fans to come back
:17:38. > :17:42.It was a fantastic gesture and I think many football fans related to
:17:43. > :17:48.the Goodwill. You always hear stories about football supporters,
:17:49. > :17:51.but this is a good thing and we had some great supporters, all sorts of
:17:52. > :17:52.supporters from the cabal award, joining and and helping us raise
:17:53. > :17:59.money. The `` football world. Southampton manager Mauricio
:18:00. > :19:40.Pochettino is the bookies favourite to be roadworthy again for a host of
:19:41. > :19:44.Centenary events. We look at it quite warm and it is a lovely old
:19:45. > :19:51.thing, but it was a tool of war, wasn't it? It really brings it home
:19:52. > :19:56.to you, the sacrifice they made. The craft some were built at this plant
:19:57. > :20:02.in Basingstoke. The family firm had made cars and ships since the 1860s.
:20:03. > :20:07.In 1913, the war office came calling. They wanted a machine that
:20:08. > :20:12.would be reliable, would be easy to repair in the field, and they felt
:20:13. > :20:16.they could get all that with the J`Type. Men and women were working
:20:17. > :20:21.together for the first time in a factory and producing about 28 of
:20:22. > :20:25.these vehicles a week. Every vehicle was carefully expected `` inspected
:20:26. > :20:28.before being dispatched to the front. The steep incline of this
:20:29. > :20:41.hill outside Basingstoke provided eight type Rose test this record
:20:42. > :20:46.road test. `` a tough road test. This was an essential, the driver's
:20:47. > :20:55.manual. It says that running a vehicle exist at a speed over 60 mph
:20:56. > :20:58.is bound to bring trouble. This is my grandfather, his name was Oswald
:20:59. > :21:05.John Potter, and he is driving the lorry during the First World War in
:21:06. > :21:11.France. It makes you feel very rows, because of the type of job he was
:21:12. > :21:15.doing. `` very proud. The importance of the job he was doing. Earlier on
:21:16. > :21:23.in my career, I worked for the Ministry of Defence, and we have
:21:24. > :21:28.that connection. 5,000 of these types of aircraft
:21:29. > :21:38.were made during `` laureates were made. Once work converted, but not
:21:39. > :21:42.this one, she is one of few reserved as a military vehicle, but age has
:21:43. > :21:50.taken its toll, and in recent years, it has just been a static museum
:21:51. > :21:54.exhibit. Until now. She has been fully restored and is about to take
:21:55. > :22:03.to the road. Any last`minute problems? No. Running suite. OK,
:22:04. > :22:09.let's go! Fantastic, the work they did. That extra bit of work that
:22:10. > :22:14.went into everything. You can smell it, the noises that it makes, it
:22:15. > :22:20.tells a story. So, with a magneto East born and piston rings from New
:22:21. > :22:35.Zealand, there is a tab on the lanes of Hampshire once more. `` great
:22:36. > :22:41.good to see, and thanks to all of those who got involved.
:22:42. > :22:44.And the J`Type will be making its first public appearances this
:22:45. > :22:50.year at the Aldershot Military Festival on June the 28th.
:22:51. > :22:59.A couple of heavy downpours today and a number of thunderstorms. There
:23:00. > :23:03.was train disruption. We are having a few more this evening, but they
:23:04. > :23:06.will gradually fade away. Let's take a look at your weather pictures.
:23:07. > :23:09.Mavis Hortin captured these cygnets in Arundel in West Sussex
:23:10. > :23:12.Blue skies and buttercups at Up Park in Hampshire photographed
:23:13. > :23:16.And a tranquil scene in the Tarrant Valley in Dorset captured
:23:17. > :23:25.The showers will date away this evening, and there is the risk,
:23:26. > :23:34.gardeners beware, of a touch of frost in the countryside am a the
:23:35. > :23:37.usual prone chili spots. Through the course of the nights under the
:23:38. > :23:40.clearing skies, touchy clouds here and there and the measures will
:23:41. > :23:48.follow away in the countryside. In the towns and cities, a low of 7`9
:23:49. > :23:53.degrees. A crisp, sunny start to the date tomorrow, lots of sunshine on
:23:54. > :23:56.offer and the high pressure will stay with us for the rest of the
:23:57. > :24:04.week, up to and including the weekend. In the sunny spells, with
:24:05. > :24:10.the light northerly winds, expect a high of 17, maybe 18 Celsius, so
:24:11. > :24:14.pleasantly warm, three or 4 degrees above today's temperatures, and it
:24:15. > :24:18.continues to get warmer as he had towards the weekend. A lot more
:24:19. > :24:24.cloud tomorrow night. A few clear spells initially, but increasing
:24:25. > :24:30.cloud from the north that will allow overtures to stay fairly mild. Blows
:24:31. > :24:34.up nine or ten Celsius. `` lows of. The high pressure is building even
:24:35. > :24:39.further through Thursday, Friday, Saturday and also Sunday. In the
:24:40. > :24:43.latter part of the weekend, we will see the high pressure gradually slip
:24:44. > :24:47.away, so do enjoy the sunshine over the next few days, because it will
:24:48. > :24:50.be short`lived, so a brief bit of summer for you before the end of the
:24:51. > :24:56.weekend, where it turns a bit unsettled. A slim chance of a
:24:57. > :25:00.shower, but should stay mainly dry. We are looking at fairly warm
:25:01. > :25:07.conditions, and temperatures could reach 21 Celsius, that is 70 degrees
:25:08. > :25:12.Fahrenheit. Sunny spells over the next few days, the slim chance of a
:25:13. > :25:16.shower and some areas, temperatures will climb their way up to the 20
:25:17. > :25:22.Celsius mark by the time we come to the weekend. Warming up. Thank you.
:25:23. > :25:25.be profiling Sir John Madejski. Multi`millionaire businessman,
:25:26. > :25:28.knighted for his charity work and the driving force behind Reading
:25:29. > :25:31.football club. But his commercial interests have taken a big hit
:25:32. > :25:34.during the recession and we'll be examining his reversal of fortune
:25:35. > :25:50.So make sure you are with us for that tomorrow. We will have the rest
:25:51. > :25:54.of today's these in sport. That is it from us. More at 8:00pm and ten
:25:55. > :25:57.to five p.m.. Thank you for watching. Good night. `` 1020 five
:25:58. > :26:17.p.m.. Can I make something clear to you?
:26:18. > :26:22.UKIP is not against immigration. We welcome immigration -
:26:23. > :26:26.we want immigration.