:00:11. > :00:14.Good evening to you ` I'm L`ura Trant with the news in the South.
:00:15. > :00:17.A BBC South investigation h`s found children as young
:00:18. > :00:20.as ten are being reported to the police for sharing explicit photos
:00:21. > :00:22.of themselves and fellow pupils over mobile phones and social media.
:00:23. > :00:26.On some occasions, police have begun prosecuting
:00:27. > :00:32.In Dorset, officers have latnched a schools crackdown,
:00:33. > :00:39.Our Home Affairs Corresponddnt Emma Vardy has this exclusive report
:00:40. > :00:43.Some of the scenes are playdd by actors.
:00:44. > :00:47.I knew what was going on was really, really wrong, but he always used to
:00:48. > :00:52.blackmail me into doing stuff I did not want to do.
:00:53. > :00:56.In private messages over Facebook, 14`year`old Lizzie,
:00:57. > :00:59.whose name we have changed, told us that she sent explicit
:01:00. > :01:05.I remember one night we had a massive argument and then he
:01:06. > :01:09.messaged me on Facebook sayhng yeah, we can forget all about this if you
:01:10. > :01:25.He forced me so much. Lots of pressure.
:01:26. > :01:27.He wouldn't talk to me if I wouldn't send them to him.
:01:28. > :01:29.He wouldn't talk to me for three days.
:01:30. > :01:42.Eventually, Lizzie's mother saw the pictures, and contacted the police
:01:43. > :01:48.who spoke to both teenagers and deleted the photographs. We spoke to
:01:49. > :01:54.police forces across the Sotth to see how it is being dealt whth.
:01:55. > :01:56.Under the Freedom of Information Act, we obtained details
:01:57. > :01:58.of sexting incidents reportdd by teachers showing a sharp rise
:01:59. > :02:02.Schools told me that they h`ve been confiscating and checking
:02:03. > :02:04.youngsters? phones and deleting pictures in front of parents
:02:05. > :02:07.and the children involved and say that they are increasingly referring
:02:08. > :02:18.Last year, Thames Valley Police dealt with 40
:02:19. > :02:27.They dealt with 66 cases last year, more than the year before. They say
:02:28. > :02:34.that they have dealt with students as young as ten years old sdnding or
:02:35. > :02:40.receiving indecent images. The police say that whether or not the
:02:41. > :02:43.children are consenting, it is a criminal offence. But they say that
:02:44. > :02:48.they want to educate rather than criminalise children.
:02:49. > :02:54.But the Internet safety teal in Dorset say that we may well see more
:02:55. > :02:56.cases involving children ending up in court in the future.
:02:57. > :02:58.The Department for Education says children will
:02:59. > :03:01.soon be taught about staying safe online from the age of five.
:03:02. > :03:03.Earlier, we asked Jonathan Taylor, a former Metropolitan officdr who
:03:04. > :03:06.specialised in child protection and now works as an advisor on
:03:07. > :03:11.This is something I have known about and that society has known
:03:12. > :03:14.about for a long time, many years, but we are still talking
:03:15. > :03:18.And the only thing that is changing is the percentage of the chhldren
:03:19. > :03:22.involved is going up, and the age of the children involved is gohng down.
:03:23. > :03:25.A lot more needs to be done, not just by law enforcement,
:03:26. > :03:28.but by schools and by parents to understand the issues and what can
:03:29. > :03:39.A man who absconded from Ford Open Prison in West Sussex two wdeks ago
:03:40. > :03:42.48`year`old David Blood walked out of the prison after being j`iled
:03:43. > :03:46.Yesterday, he was arrested in Southgate Street in Winchester.
:03:47. > :03:50.Tomorrow, Blood is due before magistrates charged with
:03:51. > :03:55.They say lightning doesn't strike twice.
:03:56. > :03:58.But try telling that to 15 families in Berkshire.
:03:59. > :04:01.They were flooded due to a burst water pipe three months ago and
:04:02. > :04:06.Having dried out, many had just started the work of
:04:07. > :04:13.Only to be devastated by another flood, from the same water pipe
:04:14. > :04:17.David Allard has been to medt some of the unlucky homeowndrs.
:04:18. > :04:20.When this has been your homd for more than 40 years,
:04:21. > :04:37.A lifetime of work and bringing up a family here. Sorry. At the loment,
:04:38. > :04:38.it is all for nothing. John and Dymphna's home flooded
:04:39. > :04:41.first on March the 6th. Until last week, the drying out
:04:42. > :04:53.and repairs were going well. We were plastering the wall, and
:04:54. > :04:56.then at 3:15pm, the pipe burst and the lads were trying to keep the
:04:57. > :05:05.water out. Both of the pipe bursts happened
:05:06. > :05:12.about 15 metres away, sending all the water down to these gardens
:05:13. > :05:17.The whole of the ground floor was submerged. You can see the two
:05:18. > :05:23.levels of flooding. We cannot believe it has happened agahn. My
:05:24. > :05:24.wife was in tears. Once was an accident, the second time, ht just
:05:25. > :05:28.should not have happened. I read the families a statelent
:05:29. > :05:31.South East Water gave the BBC. South East Water says it's
:05:32. > :05:44.investigating why the pipe burst We are doing everything that we can
:05:45. > :05:48.to stop this from happening again. They have not contacted us `t all to
:05:49. > :05:54.reassure us or offered `` offer an apology.
:05:55. > :05:59.South East Water are investhgating why the water burst happened again
:06:00. > :06:00.and acknowledge the distress that it has caused.
:06:01. > :06:03.But these families are unlikely to be home before Christmas.
:06:04. > :06:05.Two in three of the South's rail travellers think their journey
:06:06. > :06:09.Most passengers are also very dissatisfied with the way train
:06:10. > :06:12.In a detailed survey by Passenger Focus, overall satisfaction remains
:06:13. > :06:16.about the same as a year ago, with close to four in five of passengers
:06:17. > :06:19.The rail industry says the figures reflect performance during some
:06:20. > :06:22.of the worst winter weather since the railways were built.
:06:23. > :06:25.Onto cricket, and Hampshire have gone top of the T20 Blast South
:06:26. > :06:27.Group with a win against Gl`morgan in Cardiff tonight.
:06:28. > :06:30.Half centuries from Michael Carberry and Jimmy Adams helped Hampshire to
:06:31. > :06:40.a score of 170 for 6, beating South Wales side by six runs.
:06:41. > :06:43.A quiet night come under the clear skies.
:06:44. > :06:47.Temperatures in the countryside all fall into single figures.
:06:48. > :08:39.So with those clear skies, parts of Oxfordshire a low
:08:40. > :08:41.So with those clear skies, some rain in Cornwall, Devon and
:08:42. > :08:45.into Somerset. Possible thunderstorms. This rain is heading
:08:46. > :08:46.to Glastonbury, as advertised for