:00:00. > :00:22.Hundreds of veterans reunitd in Portsmouth for a special service
:00:23. > :00:40.Meanwhile, the Marines re`enact an amphibious landing.
:00:41. > :00:45.How patients here are waiting longer for their scans than anywhere else.
:00:46. > :00:53.By the time nine and a half weeks came I had been in hospital four
:00:54. > :01:01.weeks, been operated on twice and been home for four weeks.
:01:02. > :01:03.Following in the steps of Ben Ainslie.
:01:04. > :01:08.We meet the sailor who's tipped for huge success.
:01:09. > :01:12.The Princess Royal has led tributes to those who took part in the D`Day
:01:13. > :01:14.landings at a special event in Portsmouth.
:01:15. > :01:18.Veterans and serving members of the armed forces attended the sdrvice
:01:19. > :01:24.The port was the departure point for troops heading to Sword Beach
:01:25. > :01:29.in June 1944, the easternmost of the five beaches
:01:30. > :01:38.Today's event was the main ceremony in the UK to mark
:01:39. > :01:50.the 70th anniversary of the invasion, which falls tomorrow.
:01:51. > :01:56.Portsmouth is proud of the role it played in preparing for D`D`y and
:01:57. > :02:03.proud to be hosting this commemoration at the 70th
:02:04. > :02:08.anniversary. The chief of the Royal Navy took the salute as vetdrans of
:02:09. > :02:13.the Normandy beaches paraded with current members of the armed forces.
:02:14. > :02:28.Let us remember before God `ll who took part in the Normandy l`ndings.
:02:29. > :02:31.At the centre of the event, a ceremony borrowing a tradithon from
:02:32. > :02:40.the battlefield, drums piled up to make an altar. Stemming powdrful
:02:41. > :02:45.memories for those like this man who remembers his orders on the eve of
:02:46. > :02:54.D`Day. On the evening of thd 5th of June we were given a male, changed
:02:55. > :03:01.our money into French frying and forced to cruise up the Norlandy
:03:02. > :03:06.coast and attacked. We saw the torpedo coming through the water to
:03:07. > :03:17.our ship and it missed our ship and blew up at the Devils next to us. ``
:03:18. > :03:21.the poor people next to us. Many of the injured were brought back to
:03:22. > :03:28.hospital in Gosport, where this woman was a nice. I think of all the
:03:29. > :03:36.men who came back and did not come back. They were all young mdn. They
:03:37. > :03:44.had their lives in front of them. What does it mean for you to be here
:03:45. > :03:47.today? It means everything. The service marks the start of several
:03:48. > :03:53.days of commemorations in Portsmouth. This is about rdspect
:03:54. > :03:59.and to shore generations today and future generations what this meant,
:04:00. > :04:04.what people sacrificed, and it is an honoured to be the mayor to host
:04:05. > :04:10.this and to show the veterans that people do still care. Those who
:04:11. > :04:16.survived and those who did not return remembered by a city.
:04:17. > :04:18.After today's Drumhead Cerelony modern`day troops gave
:04:19. > :04:23.a display to the public of what an amphibious landing looks like.
:04:24. > :04:35.Sean Killick was there, and joins us now from Southsea.
:04:36. > :04:40.It is all very quiet, but it was a very different picture a few hours
:04:41. > :04:47.ago when thousands of peopld lined the promenade in special st`nds and
:04:48. > :04:49.were treated to an amazing display by the Royal Navy, the Royal Marines
:04:50. > :04:55.and the Dutch marines who combined to put on a display as a trhbute to
:04:56. > :05:01.those who took part in events 7 years ago.
:05:02. > :05:07.Royal Marines storming a be`ch as their predecessors did 70 ydars ago,
:05:08. > :05:11.but today it was both the. The Royal Navy, the Royal Marines and the
:05:12. > :05:18.royal Netherlands marines combining for a D`Day tribute. It was the
:05:19. > :05:21.biggest amphibious assault hn military history. Portsmouth was the
:05:22. > :05:26.main departure point for troops heading to Normandy. 150 military
:05:27. > :05:32.personnel took part in todax's demonstration. It involved ` dozen
:05:33. > :05:40.landing craft and several armoured vehicles. Among the crowds were many
:05:41. > :05:49.D`Day veterans. Very impressed. Very realistic. I admire the technology
:05:50. > :05:56.today. We did not have it in abundance haven't years ago. It
:05:57. > :06:01.brought back a lot of memorhes. I thought the whole programme was very
:06:02. > :06:10.well organised. Have they the new proud? Yes. One of those who took
:06:11. > :06:19.part told me he was humbled the veterans were there to see ht. It
:06:20. > :06:24.usually important, many people turned up and we have to show the
:06:25. > :06:33.generation who fought for us. The Marines staged a mock battld with
:06:34. > :06:37.the enemy patrol. Finally sdcuring the landing ground. One of those in
:06:38. > :06:43.charge said this was a celebration and commemoration. There is a motion
:06:44. > :06:49.attached to it, but I wanted to make sure that we got the displax right.
:06:50. > :06:54.It is surely good to talk to some of the veterans involved and rdspect
:06:55. > :07:00.the effort they put in on that a 70 years ago. The Red Arrows p`id their
:07:01. > :07:06.respects. A dazzling displax in honour of D`Day.
:07:07. > :07:09.One of the most touching molents came soon after the display when
:07:10. > :07:13.some of those who had taken part topped with some of the vetdrans.
:07:14. > :07:20.19`year`olds and 90`year`olds talking with one another with mutual
:07:21. > :07:33.respect for what each other dead and still do. `` did.
:07:34. > :07:36.We will return to D`Day latdr on in the programme,
:07:37. > :07:40.Patients at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading are havhng to
:07:41. > :07:44.wait longer for their scans than at any other NHS hospital in England.
:07:45. > :07:48.The wait for MRI scans is especially bad with more than half of patients
:07:49. > :07:52.The hospital says it's workhng to resolve the problem,
:07:53. > :07:55.which has been caused by fahlures in machinery and monitoring software.
:07:56. > :07:57.Our Health Correspondent has been looking at the figures
:07:58. > :08:01.It almost sounds like the scanners have been breaking down?
:08:02. > :08:05.They put in two new MRI scanners last year.
:08:06. > :08:08.One didn't work properly, and there are software problems with
:08:09. > :08:10.While they were struggling to deal with that,
:08:11. > :08:14.And there were also problems with the ultrasound.
:08:15. > :08:18.What that's meant is that patients have been waiting luch
:08:19. > :08:24.She was told to wait two months for an emergency scan
:08:25. > :08:28.A week later she went into @ccident and Emergency with her husb`nd.
:08:29. > :08:33.My husband said to them he was not taking me home until they g`ve me
:08:34. > :08:37.a scan of some description, whether it was an MRI or CT scan.
:08:38. > :08:43.They agreed to admit me overnight for observation and the next morning
:08:44. > :08:48.I was unconscious, at which point they agreed to do the CT sc`n.
:08:49. > :08:54.Those images showed a tangerine sized mass in mx head.
:08:55. > :09:00.Alex has now had two operathons to remove that tumour
:09:01. > :09:14.How many patients are still waiting for scans?
:09:15. > :09:18.At one point more than 6,000 people were on the waiting list for scans.
:09:19. > :09:21.I understand that several htndred patients had to be sent to private
:09:22. > :09:22.hospitals because Royal Berkshire couldn't cope.
:09:23. > :09:25.The hospital knows it's unacceptable to have so many people waithng
:09:26. > :09:28.and they have been working hard to solve it.
:09:29. > :09:32.I think any delay for patients is regrettable and certainly wd
:09:33. > :09:35.apologise to any of those p`tients who have experienced that.
:09:36. > :09:39.We are keeping a very close track on it and we have actually had a plan
:09:40. > :09:44.all along to improve the services during the course of this p`rt
:09:45. > :09:48.of the year and going forwards and we will be on a recovery tr`jectory
:09:49. > :09:58.When these machines broke down there was a 40% increase in the ntmber
:09:59. > :10:01.of patients being referred, so it came at the worst possible time
:10:02. > :10:10.Good news is that both MRI scanners are now working.
:10:11. > :10:18.Join me in Berkshire to find out how this hillside played a vital role in
:10:19. > :10:24.training elite troops for a daring mission.
:10:25. > :10:26.We are in Weymouth as we medt the man who hopes to follow in the
:10:27. > :10:30.footsteps of Ben Ainslie. Five children
:10:31. > :10:33.and three adults have been treated for minor injuries after two school
:10:34. > :10:35.coaches collided in Berkshire. One vehicle ran into the back
:10:36. > :10:39.of the other on a hill closd to The coaches were carrying 70
:10:40. > :10:43.pupils and teachers from Westwood All those
:10:44. > :10:49.on board were wearing seat belts. The coach company TK Travel says
:10:50. > :10:52.it's cooperating fully with We are still looking to invdstigate
:10:53. > :10:58.what the cause of the collision was. What we can say is that the injuries
:10:59. > :11:02.resulting from that collision are believed all to be very minor and
:11:03. > :11:06.are being treated as a prec`ution. The children were
:11:07. > :11:08.a little bit surprised. They were strapped up and
:11:09. > :11:14.in a collar and everything dlse We assessed them
:11:15. > :11:16.and got their x`rays and evdrything A charity which supports asxlum
:11:17. > :11:23.seekers has raised concerns after a young man was found dead yesterday
:11:24. > :11:27.at The Verne prison on Portland The man was
:11:28. > :11:30.an immigration detainee and sources say the prison authorities believe
:11:31. > :11:35.he died of natural causes. But the charity says
:11:36. > :11:38.the prison regime at The Verne is Perched high above Portland Harbour,
:11:39. > :11:47.The Verne closed last Octobdr In March immigration detaindes were
:11:48. > :11:53.moved in and the plan was for The Verne to become
:11:54. > :11:57.an immigration removal centre with The Prison Service decided ht
:11:58. > :12:02.should still be run as a jahl. Yesterday morning, one
:12:03. > :12:10.of the inmates, Bruno Dos S`ntos, The police are not treating
:12:11. > :12:17.his death as suspicious. There are now over 100 detahnees
:12:18. > :12:20.in The Verne, all foreign n`tional offenders who have served
:12:21. > :12:23.their prison sentence and are being held indefinitely while the
:12:24. > :12:25.Home Office considers their status. A charity that works for asxlum
:12:26. > :12:29.seekers believes the prison regime The main concern is that
:12:30. > :12:35.the regime is much harsher, the lock`up is for far longer than in
:12:36. > :12:40.prison and communication with the So people feel very isolated
:12:41. > :12:47.from family, friends and lawyers The death
:12:48. > :12:52.of Bruno Dos Santos is being investigated by the Independent
:12:53. > :13:00.Prisons and Probations Ombudsman. A 48`year`old woman has been
:13:01. > :13:03.charged by police over a suspected A 22`year`old woman was left with
:13:04. > :13:08.serious facial burns after the incident
:13:09. > :13:11.at the Royal China restaurant Sau Lin`Hin of Mulberry Way in Ryde
:13:12. > :13:17.has been charged with causing Businesses are being warned that
:13:18. > :13:25.companies who call up and claim they can reduce their overhdads
:13:26. > :13:29.could end up costing them money An investigation
:13:30. > :13:32.by BBC South has found eviddnce that some firms are paying to have
:13:33. > :13:36.their business rates reduced only to find that the process is
:13:37. > :13:40.unsuccessful and leaves thel When this electronics company was
:13:41. > :13:51.contacted by a firm that claimed it could
:13:52. > :13:54.reduce business rates, they signed They gave us
:13:55. > :14:01.a very convincing case for why our I do not believe that case
:14:02. > :14:08.was ever based on reality. I think they were very happx to take
:14:09. > :14:13.the fee, do the minimum for it, which was put in the applic`tion,
:14:14. > :14:18.and then just walk away. Business rates are a tax
:14:19. > :14:21.on non`domestic properties. They are based on size,
:14:22. > :14:23.location and rent. The rate of the value
:14:24. > :14:27.of a premises is reviewed every five years and collected by the local
:14:28. > :14:31.authority but it can be complicated, which is why companies offer to
:14:32. > :14:35.look at them on your behalf. What many businesses do not realise
:14:36. > :14:38.is you can get this done for free by contacting the government
:14:39. > :14:41.department responsible, There is a lot of work the
:14:42. > :14:47.government has to be doing on the appeals process which would help in
:14:48. > :14:51.some way people to stop belheving they can short circuit the system
:14:52. > :14:54.and go through these companhes and I think the government needs to
:14:55. > :14:57.be doing more about that. On a south Reading industri`l
:14:58. > :15:00.estate, this company sells They paid ?700 to have
:15:01. > :15:05.their business rates looked at. Our rates are reasonably high
:15:06. > :15:10.for Reading but we seem unable to It is like one of those people who
:15:11. > :15:22.ring you up and pester you who have not really done the due dilhgence
:15:23. > :15:26.and are just taking advantage of us. The Royal Institute of Chartered
:15:27. > :15:29.Surveyors are the professional There are a number of companies
:15:30. > :15:58.that offer the service. While some have declined to comment,
:15:59. > :16:01.one says they adhere to a strict code of conduct,
:16:02. > :16:03.have served thousands And while it is acknowledged
:16:04. > :16:07.that some customers on occasions are dissatisfied, they say they
:16:08. > :16:10.always seek to put things rhght That is little comfort
:16:11. > :16:13.for those left out of pocket who say they will just have to put tp with
:16:14. > :16:17.this tax until it is next rdviewed Sport, and Bournemouth striker
:16:18. > :16:36.Lewis Grabban has joined Chris Jordan has received hhs first
:16:37. > :16:43.call up to the England Test squad after being named in the 12 for the
:16:44. > :16:46.first test against Sri Lank` which starts next Friday.
:16:47. > :16:52.London Welsh have won promotion act to the premiership. They be`t
:16:53. > :16:57.Bristol in the second leg of the play`off final last night, giving
:16:58. > :17:05.them a 20 point win on aggrdgate and securing a return to the top flight
:17:06. > :17:08.season after being relegated. He has been dubbed the next Ben
:17:09. > :17:12.Ainslie but he is keen to bdlieve his own trail. The Weymouth `based
:17:13. > :17:25.sailor certainly has the winning habit. `` Weymouth`based sahlor
:17:26. > :17:30.Sailing to victory, Giles Scott has been in for a double form. Hs when
:17:31. > :17:37.this week was almost a procdssion at the Olympic venue. It is two years
:17:38. > :17:42.to the next Games but he is hungry. It is amazing how close the Games
:17:43. > :17:47.feels. You almost feel like you do not have a great till of tile. As
:17:48. > :17:53.you get closer, that imminent feeling becomes greater. He was in
:17:54. > :18:00.the form of his life in 2012. It was Ben Ainslie who represented Team GB
:18:01. > :18:06.and won gold. Now is the tile for Scots to emerge from his sh`dow The
:18:07. > :18:13.next Ben Ainslie. How does that suit you? I am not the next Ben @inslie.
:18:14. > :18:19.I am Giles Scott. I will never be Ben Ainslie. There is a lot I want
:18:20. > :18:28.to achieve in selling and hopefully there is more to come. He h`s mixed
:18:29. > :18:34.emotions, having fought an hntense battle with Ben Ainslie and losing
:18:35. > :18:39.out to selection. It is where I lost the Olympic trials and wherd I
:18:40. > :18:45.watched the Games. It was an interesting situation was ultimately
:18:46. > :18:50.without the selection `` throughout the selection then was trying to
:18:51. > :18:59.assert his dominance and I was trying to break that down. The
:19:00. > :19:05.competition stayed on the w`ter which is a good thing. The leading
:19:06. > :19:10.Olympic contenders will head to Rio de Janeiro this autumn. I al a
:19:11. > :19:15.believer in wanting to win dvery competition and I do. It is going to
:19:16. > :19:22.be a big learning calves. It will be the first time I have been to Rio de
:19:23. > :19:31.Janeiro during Games time. He could be the next big thing in Brhtish
:19:32. > :19:46.sailing. We can return to the 70th
:19:47. > :19:50.anniversary of D`Day. We tangled to what was a secret training ground
:19:51. > :20:03.for a top`secret D`Day misshon. It prepared them for one of D`Day's
:20:04. > :20:08.most important battles. With its spectacular views `cross
:20:09. > :20:12.four counties, this is a mecca for walkers but anyone who tried to come
:20:13. > :20:19.here in the spring of 1944 would have found all of this countryside"
:20:20. > :20:26.as an elite unit appeared for a secret mission. `` prepared. The
:20:27. > :20:32.mission was to disable four placements built by the Gerlans on
:20:33. > :20:40.the Normandy coast so the Allied forces could land. We coverdd the
:20:41. > :20:47.beach six miles away. We fldw six miles a minute, it would have caused
:20:48. > :20:58.carnage for the fellas landhng. It had to be silenced. Photogr`phs
:20:59. > :21:04.reveal that bombing of the `rea had failed so The Parachute Reghment was
:21:05. > :21:07.given the task to finish thd job. It was so well fortified area liquor
:21:08. > :21:22.was needed for the troops to practice on. The man who devised the
:21:23. > :21:26.plan is, `` is in this picttre. He decided upon here, one of the main
:21:27. > :21:35.reasons was that was quite secret. It was very difficult for access.
:21:36. > :21:40.The Hill would act as a but for the fire. To give us the best thmes of
:21:41. > :21:49.success and survival. He was a hard past master `` past master. This man
:21:50. > :21:55.has not seen these fields in 70 years. Most of the attackers were
:21:56. > :22:01.planned by parachute at night but he was part of a smaller group with an
:22:02. > :22:10.even more dangerous role. Hd wanted 60 men to volunteer to crash land
:22:11. > :22:23.inside. One of the officers begged and pleaded to go in the glhder he
:22:24. > :22:27.was a volunteer. He said, I am not going to send my regular officers on
:22:28. > :22:39.a suicide mission. He did not tell me that. One officer referrdd to the
:22:40. > :22:46.mission as a stink of a job. The cardinal was anxious about details
:22:47. > :22:50.leaking out. He gave his men the night off and that has to come into
:22:51. > :22:56.town. The young woman so eager to make conversation were membdrs of
:22:57. > :23:00.the workforce. Their task w`s to try to engage the men in conversation
:23:01. > :23:04.and get them to divulge det`ils of their secret mission. Despite the
:23:05. > :23:09.attentions of the young wom`n in the pubs of nobody, not one man breathed
:23:10. > :23:16.a word. Today, nothing remahns of the training ground, the only key a
:23:17. > :23:23.simple stone memorial. You can be the best soldier in the world, but
:23:24. > :23:31.bullets can be fired. There's a lot of luck attached to survival. It is
:23:32. > :23:36.very sad. The troops returndd to their base on Salisbury Plahn, ready
:23:37. > :23:40.to put their plan into action, but little could prepare them for what
:23:41. > :23:46.was actually happening on that daring D`Day mission.
:23:47. > :23:50.We will have a special programme tomorrow night marking the 70th
:23:51. > :23:56.anniversary of the D`Day landings. Our reporter is in France.
:23:57. > :24:01.Join us for a special progr`mme tonight live in France. 70 xears ago
:24:02. > :24:08.British soldiers came ashord here in Normandy. We will be telling the
:24:09. > :24:14.story of one of those soldidrs from Dorset. We will be finding out about
:24:15. > :24:25.the mission to disarm the Gdrman gun battery which is just the fdw
:24:26. > :24:29.colonic `` kilometres down the road. We will be with the veterans, so
:24:30. > :24:34.many of them from the south, who have made the journey to relember
:24:35. > :24:41.their comrades. Join us tomorrow night live in France.
:24:42. > :24:45.That is at the later time of 7pm. At 7pm tonight we will be live in
:24:46. > :25:15.Normandy. It was a much better day.
:25:16. > :25:25.It goes downhill on Saturdax. A display in honour of D`Day veterans
:25:26. > :25:28.captured by Sean. Tonight is a fairly quiet nhght with
:25:29. > :25:34.clear skies and the risk of one or two mist patches in the usu`l spots.
:25:35. > :25:41.Under the clear skies, maybd the odd shower. Temperatures dropping away
:25:42. > :25:49.to single figures. Possibly lower temperatures in the countryside The
:25:50. > :25:55.winds are fairly light. This and Falkirk will clear tomorrow with the
:25:56. > :26:01.old shower. It is a decent `nd Friday like today. Temperattres will
:26:02. > :26:06.reach 23 Celsius with a light southeasterly wind. The wins
:26:07. > :26:14.tomorrow are southeasterly, drawing up the mild air from the continent.
:26:15. > :26:20.70 years ago temperatures wdre around 10 degrees lower than that,
:26:21. > :26:29.the winds drawing in cooler air so choppy conditions on the 6th of June
:26:30. > :26:35.1944. Tomorrow night we can expect some settled conditions unthl the
:26:36. > :26:38.early hours of the morning when it turns fairly unsettled from the
:26:39. > :26:43.south west and the south with the band of thundery showers moving up
:26:44. > :26:50.from France. Quite a humid night to come. The winds will start to
:26:51. > :26:56.pick`up. Band of rain or showers will reach its way up from the
:26:57. > :26:59.channel on Saturday. The Met Office have issued a yellow weather
:27:00. > :27:08.warning. There could be loc`lised flooding full of that will clear
:27:09. > :27:12.through Saturday night. You may have some sunshine on offer. The showers
:27:13. > :27:17.may not affect everyone. Sole areas could they drive. We have hhgh
:27:18. > :27:25.pressure coming in from the Atlantic. The thunderstorms will be
:27:26. > :27:54.hit and mist. Join us tomorrow. It's a weekly selection
:27:55. > :28:03.of hand-picked stuff from Radio , and then it's delivered
:28:04. > :28:06.straight to you.