:00:00. > :00:00.at Six. Actions in Ukraine
:00:00. > :00:09.Hello I'm Sally Taylor. Welcome to South Today. In tonight's programme.
:00:10. > :00:13.Families anxiously wait back here as the US coastguard contintes to
:00:14. > :00:16.search for the missing yachtsmen who were on their way
:00:17. > :00:31.I am sure we all hope we will find them alive and they will cole back.
:00:32. > :00:34.Alcohol awareness ` the pub that serves up lessons for teenagers
:00:35. > :00:39.Teaching out in the open, but should pre`school learnhng be
:00:40. > :00:47.And shining a light on history ` a rare sample
:00:48. > :01:02.of handwriting that tells the story of one of our greatest novelists.
:01:03. > :01:06.The US coastguard is expectdd to give an update in the next half hour
:01:07. > :01:10.on the search for the four British sailors missing in the mid @tlantic.
:01:11. > :01:14.The Cheeki Rafiki got into trouble on its way back from Antigu`.
:01:15. > :01:19.The Americans resumed their air search yesterday after mounting
:01:20. > :01:25.Today, an RAF Hercules from Brize Norton joined the search
:01:26. > :01:32.It's given renewed hope to the families of 23`year`old Jamds Male
:01:33. > :01:36.from Southampton and 21`year`old Andrew Bridge from Farnham.
:01:37. > :01:48.Let's go to Ben Moore live in Surrey.
:01:49. > :01:56.The Bridge family and friends continued to wait. Just 24 hours
:01:57. > :02:00.since the search resumed. It has been a busy house with people
:02:01. > :02:04.popping in and out. The famhly say they have gathered great support
:02:05. > :02:09.from that and they have takdn heart from the wider support around the
:02:10. > :02:14.world. They have also against strength from thinking about Andrew
:02:15. > :02:21.as well. We don't want to ever give up hope. He is in our hearts all the
:02:22. > :02:26.time. From this response, hd seems to be in everyone's heart. He is
:02:27. > :02:33.very giving and loving. It hs all coming back to us now. We are
:02:34. > :02:38.waiting for him. Andrew started sailing when he was
:02:39. > :02:45.very young, about nine years old, and at 22 he was considered an
:02:46. > :02:53.extremely spearing against skipper of the boat `` but`macro ``
:02:54. > :02:58.experienced skipper. Although it has been five days, there is sthll hope
:02:59. > :03:03.that these experienced yachtsman will be found safe and well. An
:03:04. > :03:07.announcement is imminent. Wd are expecting to hear from the TS Coast
:03:08. > :03:11.Guard within the next half hour and the family will also head up to the
:03:12. > :03:17.Foreign Commonwealth Office for another meeting tomorrow in London.
:03:18. > :03:22.We are also hearing that thd Hercules aircraft dispatched by the
:03:23. > :03:29.RAF has flown over the search area, and landed in Canada. It is being
:03:30. > :03:35.refuelled ready to start se`rching again at first light. There is still
:03:36. > :03:41.a long way to go. When you have four or five people staring out of
:03:42. > :03:47.Windows looking for what is the size of a basketball in the ocean, it is
:03:48. > :03:52.extremely difficult and tirhng. Similarly, with merchant shhps,
:03:53. > :03:58.their visual horizon is not more than about 15 miles so this is not
:03:59. > :04:02.an easy task. Well, there is still great hope
:04:03. > :04:09.remaining here that the four yachtsman will be found safd and
:04:10. > :04:12.well. Indeed, this is Andrew's boat. They are just waiting for hhm to
:04:13. > :04:13.come back and start working on that again.
:04:14. > :04:16.Thank you. A coroner has ruled that Olxmpic
:04:17. > :04:19.sailing gold medallist Andrew Simpson died as a result
:04:20. > :04:22.of an accident. The 36`year`old,
:04:23. > :04:26.who was from Sherbone in Dorset was killed in San Francisco bay
:04:27. > :04:47.in May last year whilst trahning Andrew Simpson was a hugely
:04:48. > :04:52.accomplished sailor. He won Olympic gold in Beijing in 2008 and took
:04:53. > :04:57.silver for years later in wdll `` Weymouth. His dream was to win the
:04:58. > :05:01.Americas cup but it was durhng training last May that disaster
:05:02. > :05:07.struck. He was sailing a catamaran with ten other crew members and they
:05:08. > :05:11.turned down wind when the port side Hull dug into the water and caused
:05:12. > :05:15.it to capsize. The inquest heard he was trapped under the yacht for
:05:16. > :05:22.approximately ten minutes. @ttempts to revive him began on the capsized
:05:23. > :05:26.vessel and continued but thdy were unsuccessful. He had sufferdd
:05:27. > :05:30.injuries to his head, neck `nd torso. The chief medical ex`miner
:05:31. > :05:37.for San Francisco concluded he had died from the trauma and drowning.
:05:38. > :05:41.The coroner recorded a verdhct of accidental death. Andrew Silpson's
:05:42. > :05:53.widow and his parents were hn court for the inquest. He loved s`iling.
:05:54. > :05:59.It is a sailor 's ambition to do top sailing and he loved it. Andrew
:06:00. > :06:03.Simpson's passion for sailing will live on. His young sons recdntly
:06:04. > :06:08.opened a centre in his name in Weymouth.
:06:09. > :06:11.A teacher from West Sussex has been j`iled
:06:12. > :06:14.for 13 years for sexually abusing young boys at two public schools.
:06:15. > :06:17.56`year old Jonathan O'Brien, who's from Bosham was emploxed
:06:18. > :06:21.at the Oratory School in Woodcote near Reading during the 1980s.
:06:22. > :06:25.He also worked at a school near Kidderminster.
:06:26. > :06:29.He was found guilty of a total of 22 counts of indecent assault
:06:30. > :06:37.We show our children how to cross the road and warn about the fire
:06:38. > :06:41.risks at home, so why not also teach them how to drink safdly?
:06:42. > :06:45.Today, a new pub for the over`16s opened
:06:46. > :06:51.It doesn't sell beer, but it will serve up lessons such as thd
:06:52. > :06:56.different strengths of drinks, how alcohol affects behaviour and the
:06:57. > :07:16.Propping up the buyer today is a class from Weymouth College. You are
:07:17. > :07:20.now up to 20 years, so you drink five times as many weekly units in
:07:21. > :07:28.one night as you're meant to have in the week. So, what did they learn? I
:07:29. > :07:33.let how much I actually drink and how much I'm meant to drink. Drink
:07:34. > :07:42.isn't the way forward. You don't need it to have a good night out. I
:07:43. > :07:49.enjoy myself when I'm out, but I might check when I go to cltbs. It
:07:50. > :07:55.is about knowing your limits and what the impact is on your body It
:07:56. > :08:01.is about looking after each other, first aid. Just generally bding
:08:02. > :08:09.responsible. The local addiction charity is also backing the drive.
:08:10. > :08:14.It is a laugh and joke until they are put in a risky situation and
:08:15. > :08:19.then it dawns on them. Until then it is binge drinking and putting
:08:20. > :08:25.themselves in risky situations. As well as the new bar, it takds
:08:26. > :08:29.classes of primary school children to learn about safety. Just over
:08:30. > :08:35.there is a mock farmyard and a fake beach. The new fake bar's official
:08:36. > :08:36.opening is tonight but anyone wanting a tipple to celebrate might
:08:37. > :08:41.be disappointed. A level crossing on the outskirts of
:08:42. > :08:45.Littlehampton is to be shut in the next few days despite a campaign by
:08:46. > :08:49.local people to keep it open. Padgett's Crossing in Angmering was
:08:50. > :09:07.the site of a fatal accident ` an Padgett 's Crossing is used by many
:09:08. > :09:11.people but there are no barriers, no gates nor warning lights. Ndtwork
:09:12. > :09:18.Rail is closing the Crossing which doesn't please some locals. It is
:09:19. > :09:24.not inherently dangerous. There is a very good view, a perfectly good
:09:25. > :09:28.Crossing. Seven years ago, ` teenager was killed by a tr`in here
:09:29. > :09:37.and eyewitnesses said the 18`year`old had been plaguing
:09:38. > :09:43.chicken. Level crossings relain by far the biggest risk on the railway.
:09:44. > :09:47.Last year, ten people died on them, there were ten collisions bdtween
:09:48. > :09:52.trains and road vehicles. There were seven and a half thousand ldvel
:09:53. > :09:56.crossings. In the last five years, Network Rail has shut 800 of them
:09:57. > :10:05.and in the next five years ht will remove 500 more. The train on this
:10:06. > :10:08.line can go at 70 miles an hour and it is difficult to judge th`t,
:10:09. > :10:14.especially if you have headphones on. It is unusual to find a campaign
:10:15. > :10:18.to keep a level crossing opdn but the decision here has already been
:10:19. > :10:27.taken. The Crossing will close on Saturday. Many more will follow
:10:28. > :10:34.Family doctors groups are w`rning there could be a shortage of GPs as
:10:35. > :10:41.many leave the profession e`rly One in five intend to retire earlier
:10:42. > :10:44.than they planned. Still to come: Peeling away the past, whosd
:10:45. > :10:56.handwriting is this? British children are the first in
:10:57. > :11:01.Europe to start school at fhve years old. Education chiefs have recently
:11:02. > :11:07.said they should be taught formally even earlier in nurseries. But one
:11:08. > :11:11.school near Southampton which teaches outdoors says it is worried
:11:12. > :11:17.it may be penalised under this new drive.
:11:18. > :11:23.The children of this centre are all three or four, preschool agd. They
:11:24. > :11:29.are learning under the forest to school principals. We are following
:11:30. > :11:34.their natural interest out of doors. It is an environment without ceiling
:11:35. > :11:39.all walls. They can follow their own interest and find resources. There
:11:40. > :11:44.is enough for everybody. It is outdoor `based activities lhke these
:11:45. > :11:50.that this centre believes are most beneficial for children. Thd nursery
:11:51. > :11:54.covers the guidelines set ott by the government for early years dducation
:11:55. > :11:58.but the head of Ofsted recently spoke out in favour of introducing
:11:59. > :12:03.structured, classroom `based learning in nurseries. We are
:12:04. > :12:07.concerned about the quality of provision in early years. It is one
:12:08. > :12:14.of the most vital times in ` child's life. If they don't have thd basic
:12:15. > :12:17.skills and social and emotional and learning skills necessary bdfore
:12:18. > :12:26.four and five, they do not start school well. The children's minister
:12:27. > :12:30.agrees but Britain is already out on a limb with its low school `ge is
:12:31. > :12:36.most Europeans do not start school until they are six. The staff here
:12:37. > :12:41.things structured tuition in schools will be too early. They are worried
:12:42. > :12:45.their method will be squeezdd out. We feel afraid that, although Ofsted
:12:46. > :12:52.inspectors appreciate and v`lue what we do, they won't be allowed to mark
:12:53. > :12:55.is as good or outstanding any longer because we do not follow thd very
:12:56. > :13:04.tight curriculum within a t`ble based setting. We put these concerns
:13:05. > :13:09.to Ofsted and it said that play is inherently educational but hts focus
:13:10. > :13:11.is ensuring the most disadv`ntaged children reach a good level of
:13:12. > :13:14.development before they start school.
:13:15. > :13:18.The head teacher of a Dorset school once named the worst in the country
:13:19. > :13:21.for GCSE results has resigndd. Cheryl Heron was given the task of
:13:22. > :13:26.turning around St Aldhelm's Academy in Poole. In 2011, just 3% of pupils
:13:27. > :13:30.got five good GCSE grades. The school recently hit the headlines
:13:31. > :13:34.after losing more than ?1 mhllion when it fell victim to an online
:13:35. > :13:42.scam. It has yet to get the money back.
:13:43. > :13:51.It is the last day of campahgning in local and European elections. Just
:13:52. > :13:54.20 local authorities in the area are holding ballots but everyond has the
:13:55. > :13:59.chance to vote in European elections. Labour has been
:14:00. > :14:08.campaigning in areas where people haven't bothered to vote in the
:14:09. > :14:13.past. I think political parties have got to realise we can't just fight
:14:14. > :14:17.for dwindling numbers of votes. We have to ask why are their dwindling
:14:18. > :14:23.number of votes and we have to ask what we are doing wrong and how we
:14:24. > :14:27.can put it right. The Peace Party is putting tp a full
:14:28. > :14:32.list of candidates. Its principle is to treat others at you with `` as
:14:33. > :14:37.you would wish to be treated yourself. It is for peaceful
:14:38. > :14:42.coexistence which has existdd in Europe for many years past. The
:14:43. > :14:49.Peace Party would build on that success story by scaling down the
:14:50. > :14:50.military, first amongst the smaller countries and then later with all
:14:51. > :14:57.countries in the union. So, two sets of elections, dach
:14:58. > :15:00.with a different voting system. That could be confusing
:15:01. > :15:03.so let's bring in Let's take the local elections first
:15:04. > :15:11.` they're not happening everywhere? Ones to watch include some
:15:12. > :15:16.of the big towns ` Reading, Oxford, Portsmouth, Southampton,
:15:17. > :15:20.Winchester, Basingstoke. Crawley in Sussex,
:15:21. > :15:37.Swindon in Wiltshire and Purbeck One viewer said he didn't know who
:15:38. > :15:43.his MEP is a a question we have heard a lot. I'll try and explain
:15:44. > :15:52.with fruit. That was popular last night. First past the popes for
:15:53. > :15:57.Westminster and the winner hs `` first past the post goes to
:15:58. > :16:00.Westminster. Europe is totally different. We are trying to elect a
:16:01. > :16:08.whole basket of different candidates. I brought you a whole
:16:09. > :16:13.bowl of fruit. Marvellous. There are ten MEPs for a constituency like the
:16:14. > :16:19.south`east. It is as big as Austria, the number of people voting there.
:16:20. > :16:24.How do we decide which ten go to Brussels? Well, you've got the huge,
:16:25. > :16:32.long ballot paper. You vote for a party. You put a cross. It hs
:16:33. > :16:37.simple. They will help you fill this in when you go to the polling
:16:38. > :16:42.station. Then we may elect to oranges, we may have to ban`nas It
:16:43. > :16:47.is done in proportion to thd votes for the party. Those ten individuals
:16:48. > :16:51.are your MEPs. It gives a whole new meaning to five a day. The
:16:52. > :16:56.blueberries have been going down well.
:16:57. > :16:58.Thank you. You can find a ftll list of candidates for the Europdan
:16:59. > :17:17.elections on the website. Now to the sport. Unusually, a rare
:17:18. > :17:20.opportunity for the Saints chairman to speak out. We didn't hear a lot
:17:21. > :17:25.from him when he was the ch`irman but here is something to sax on the
:17:26. > :17:30.future of some of their stars. The former chairman believes thd club
:17:31. > :17:35.risks undermining their recdnt success if they sell some of their
:17:36. > :17:40.best players this summer. Speaking since he stepped down coming he has
:17:41. > :17:45.told the BBC that the futurd of some of his players would not be in doubt
:17:46. > :17:49.if he had stayed there. The key is to keep those talents. You don't
:17:50. > :17:56.produce talents just to sell them. So, if you had an offer of `ny size
:17:57. > :18:05.for the top players, the answer would be? No. It would have been no
:18:06. > :18:13.money would have persuaded xou? Absolutely not.
:18:14. > :18:20.The Cherries need to reduce their losses from their recently posted
:18:21. > :18:28.?15 million to ?8 million bx December. The current rules have
:18:29. > :18:31.been called archaic. Bournelouth could face a chance for emb`rgo if
:18:32. > :18:38.they do not comply by the end of the year.
:18:39. > :18:43.Not a happy start for the English batsmen in his debut at the Oval. A
:18:44. > :18:48.communication breakdown saw him spill this easy chance in the field.
:18:49. > :18:55.When he came to bat, things got briefly better. This boundary lifted
:18:56. > :19:03.his confidence but then he got one to third man and was dismissed for
:19:04. > :19:09.seven. Sri Lankan won by nine runs. A one`day series starts tomorrow.
:19:10. > :19:13.Hampshire reinforce their position at the start of division two. They
:19:14. > :19:22.rolled Leicestershire 496 to complete a big win.
:19:23. > :19:29.For the country 's hockey players, their big focus of this year comes
:19:30. > :19:34.before the Commonwealth Gamds. Both are women and men's teams contest
:19:35. > :19:41.the World Cup in the Netherlands. England's hockey players usd the
:19:42. > :19:47.banks on the River Thames as a training base. Their work is geared
:19:48. > :19:51.to the World Cup which gets underway on May the 31st. Ten Reading
:19:52. > :20:00.players, five from the men's and women's team, have made it hnto the
:20:01. > :20:05.England squad. The whole sqtad has gelled well but having five of us
:20:06. > :20:10.from the club helps because you know where everyone will run. It will
:20:11. > :20:14.help us play together. With the exception of the Olympics, the World
:20:15. > :20:18.Cup is regarded as hockey 's biggest event and the England team will have
:20:19. > :20:23.their work cut out if they `re to reach the finals. The World Cup to
:20:24. > :20:30.us is the same as the Olymphc Games. The World Cup is the highest thing
:20:31. > :20:36.we can play in and it is thd best teams in the world. The Netherlands,
:20:37. > :20:40.it will be fantastic. The 12 best nations on the planet will be at the
:20:41. > :20:44.Netherlands next month. With that, and the Commonwealth games coming up
:20:45. > :20:50.at the end of July, it is a busy summer ahead for the England hockey
:20:51. > :20:53.stars. That tournament gets underw`y on May
:20:54. > :21:01.the 31st. Well done to them. Thank you. Now the mystery of the
:21:02. > :21:05.handwriting. Her words are still famous the world over severdd might
:21:06. > :21:10.surprise you to hear that vdry few examples of Jane Austin's
:21:11. > :21:13.handwriting survive. There `re no books or manuscripts and many of her
:21:14. > :21:17.letters were destroyed after her death. You can understand the
:21:18. > :21:21.excitement when a fragment of her handwriting turned up.
:21:22. > :21:30.It was stuck onto a letter by hurler `` nephew in 1870.
:21:31. > :21:38.Robust protection for a fragile piece of history. Inside thd climate
:21:39. > :21:43.controlled safe at this college near Chichester and artefact that has a
:21:44. > :21:47.story to tell. In 1870, 50 xears after Jane Austin's death, her
:21:48. > :21:52.nephew published a book abott his aunt and he sent it to a frhend with
:21:53. > :21:59.a letter glued inside with ` fragment of her handwriting. The
:22:00. > :22:04.conservation Department at this college was asked to stick the
:22:05. > :22:10.layers. We need to delegate lead separate them without causing
:22:11. > :22:15.damage. There is extra pressure because it is a Jane Austin script
:22:16. > :22:19.and there are few of those `round. Armed with blotting paper and
:22:20. > :22:24.Gore`Tex, this student has gently eased apart the first two of three
:22:25. > :22:28.layers. If we applied the moisture to the back of the sheet it will
:22:29. > :22:37.work up through the paper and soften the adhesive sitting on the back of
:22:38. > :22:41.this letter. Her nephew writes that the fragment is the handwriting of
:22:42. > :22:46.his aunt but not her words. He says it is part of a sermon copidd out by
:22:47. > :22:52.Herbert written by her brother, the Reverend James Austin in 1804. Men
:22:53. > :22:57.may get into the habit of rdpeating the words of our prayers by rote
:22:58. > :23:01.perhaps without thoroughly understanding, certainly without
:23:02. > :23:07.thoroughly feeling there full force of meaning. This is where the first
:23:08. > :23:13.`` that's sermon was delivered. This is where Jane Austin's fathdr was
:23:14. > :23:18.rest and when he retired, hdr brother followed in his footsteps ``
:23:19. > :23:25.rector. The words are simil`r to those written in her novel,
:23:26. > :23:31.Mansfield Park. I imagined ht coincided with the day he prepared
:23:32. > :23:39.his sermon. Did he work with her? That is the big question. Whether he
:23:40. > :23:43.was influencing whether thex composed it together, we can't
:23:44. > :23:48.really answer but we can qudstion it and the link back to Mansfidld Park
:23:49. > :23:52.makes it a compelling questhon. Jane Austen wrote on both sides of the
:23:53. > :23:58.fragment and the reverse has not been seen since it was stuck down
:23:59. > :24:03.150 years ago. Experts were planning to glue this final but then they
:24:04. > :24:08.discovered that the words bdcame clear when viewed under a lhght box.
:24:09. > :24:17.You can start to see this wording clearly. "great propriety
:24:18. > :24:27.preserved". Austin scholars will now ponder these words. We know there
:24:28. > :24:31.are other parts of the `` shmilar fragments and it will be fascinating
:24:32. > :24:36.to ring them together and rdassemble the jigsaw.
:24:37. > :24:40.This fragment will go on display later this year. The whole story
:24:41. > :24:46.behind it will take longer to uncover.
:24:47. > :24:54.That is very exciting and a real treat for Jane Austen lovers. A
:24:55. > :24:59.jigsaw putting it together. Moving on to the weather. A bit of a
:25:00. > :25:06.warning for tonight and tomorrow. Yes, thunderstorms are on the way.
:25:07. > :25:30.We had some sunshine today `nd a number of showers but tonight the
:25:31. > :25:53.rain will really start to creep in. Torrential, thundery downpotrs
:25:54. > :25:53.through the night and the Mdt office has issued a yellow warning valid
:25:54. > :25:55.from midnight tonight until 9pm from midnight tonight until 9pm
:25:56. > :25:57.tomorrow night. Heavy and thundery downpours making their way tp from
:25:58. > :26:02.yellows show the heavy bursts, yellows show the heavy bursts,
:26:03. > :26:03.gradually clearing in the southeastern corner. There lay be
:26:04. > :26:11.mist and fog patches, much like this morning.
:26:12. > :26:23.Some areas could escape the showers altogether. Temperatures will reach
:26:24. > :26:33.a high of 17 degrees Celsius and squally conditions. Showers will
:26:34. > :26:34.will edge up from the south with will edge up from the south with
:26:35. > :26:58.prolonged periods of rain on Friday. A number of showers will tr`ck
:26:59. > :27:08.northwards on Friday, merging to longer spells of
:27:09. > :27:45.only take weather pictures hf it is safe to do so. Thank you for
:27:46. > :27:56.watching and that is to find that one item
:27:57. > :28:01.that's going to change their life. Flames are beautiful. Made
:28:02. > :28:03.nice money, that did. Nice money. ?200,000?
:28:04. > :28:07.HE LAUGHS I mean, nobody, really and truly,
:28:08. > :28:10.can sell rubbish like I can. Meet the real-life
:28:11. > :28:16.Del Boys And Dealers... 'the Big Bumper Bank Holiday
:28:17. > :28:26.Comedy 50th Birthday Weekend.' Let's look at the history
:28:27. > :28:30.of BBC TWO with me, Simon Schama. 'Harry And Paul's
:28:31. > :28:35.Story Of The 2s - part of 'the Big Bumper Bank Holiday
:28:36. > :28:40.Comedy 50th Birthday Weekend.'