22/05/2014 South Today


22/05/2014

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start to the weekend, some sunshine filtering through. By Monday feeling

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warm for If you have ever been of road, that

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is what it feels like. You are on a dirt track.

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New flats being snapped up by overseas investors, just one

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of the factors keeping first time buyers off the housing ladder.

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A ?100,000 deposit to put down so we didn't know where we were going

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wrong. Marking a moment in history ` the

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marines raising money for charity And Harry Redknapp signs

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for Bournemouth ` not Harry senior, Local authorities in the south are

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struggling to cope with a huge surge in claims from drivers for

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damage to cars caused by potholes. The extremely wet winter has left

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roads across And today was the last opportunity

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for councils to apply to central government for extra cash to help

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deal with the problem. Looking at Hampshire specifically `

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our largest local authority area ` the figures for pothole claims have

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shot up in the past three years. They've risen from just more than

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400 in 2011`2012, And almost 1000 more complaints `

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just under 1700 ` Our transport correspondent Paul

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Clifton has been finding out just how big a problem it is, and talking

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to some of those most affected. There are 80 repair teams like this

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in Hampshire, up from 50 a year ago. But this is just patching over

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the problem. The councils found that 300 sites

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where extensive repair is needed. The price tag is ?36 million

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and rising. Potholes are

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a particular problem for cyclists. This cycling club reckons

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there are more potholes At this site the riders pause

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for breath and beer. When we are cycling

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as a group it is only the people at the front who can see the potholes

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and everyone else depends on them. In a bad case you can come

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off your bike and damage yourself. You hope you don't get tipped

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off into traffic. If you hit it really hard

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that is when you can buckle. In Basingstoke taxi driver

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Simon O'Connor tries to avoid the most badly damaged roads

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like this one near a hospital. That can make journeys longer

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and taxis are obliged to choose the shortest route, otherwise

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customers have to pay more. If you have ever been off road like

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I have, that is what it feels like. A survey last month found that

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pothole repairs in the South were running at one third behind

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the average for England and Wales. In fact, the asphalt industry

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believes that it will take 24 years In terms of claims that have been

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made against us it is something like 1600, where as

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in a normal year it would be maybe We still don't know the extent

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of the damage, per instance to The infrastructure has taken

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a real pounding. Despite a winter without snow it

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appears the flooding has made Even with greater council teams

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at work. A 23`year`old man from Surrey has

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been sentenced to life imprisonment Joshua Ellis from Guildford was

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found guilty of murdering 54`year`old Neil Tulley at the

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family's home in August last year. The victim had been stabbed

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more than 60 times. Ellis will serve a minimum

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of 14 years. At a previous hearing

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his brother Jerome Ellis, who's 14, was found guilty of manslaughter and

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sentenced to six years in prison. Nations are together for the missing

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yacht after a week is lost contact. Relatives are hopeful with the US

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Coast Guard they can soon be reunited with their loved ones,

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while civilian crews are joining the mission. An international search for

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the missing yachtsman. Coastguard control in Boston and the will

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cruising club, both sides of the Atlantic scarring the ocean. The

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yacht which is based in Southampton was sailing back to the UK from

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Antigua. It started taken water a week ago, 1000 miles from Cape Cod.

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For birds have diverted for the miles north `` for boats. Their

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movements are being coordinated and tracked. It is the rule of the see

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you go to assist Mariners. We Up until now,

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overseas speculators have largely But the hunt for sites to invest in,

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further afield, looks set to risk local first time

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buyers being priced out of the Months off completion

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and already this block of flats is The boss of the firm tasked with

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selling them someone says they are the first sold en masse to

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an overseas investor, a sign Reading We have seen it with

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the block behind. We are attracting investors

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on a wider field.

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