06/08/2014 South Today

An inquiry is launched into the incident in Reading.

Operation Elliott ` a littld boy's fight for an operation that

It affects us every single day, that waiting and waiting and not

knowing. Picture perfect `

generations of the South's And a labour of love `

the Chichester college restoring a musical clock once owned by

Marie Antoinette. Thames Valley Police has latnched

an investigation after a pedestrian was killdd

in a collision with a policd car. An officer was also injured

in the incident It's been referred to

the Independent Police Complaints A focus of intense police activity,

where the road was sealed off from the early hours of the mornhng after

a police control car colliddd with a person and a police officer while on

an emergency call. The car had been sent to reports of an attempted

burglary at a cycle shop ne`r to where the collision happened. The

man died at the scene. The officer was hurt and taken to hospital. His

injuries are not thought to be life`threatening. A death lhke this

means Thames Valley Police have to call in an independent watchdog

Again, that matter was referred to the IPCC in the middle of the

night. Their investigators came out and my assistant chief went out to

deal with it as well. We take it very seriously. Somebody has died

and we need to find out what happened but it is very early days.

Police have not yet said whdther the man who died was involved in the

attempted burglary which sole living nearby had seen and heard. H got

woken up by a banding, a lo`d of scuffling and a bit more banding and

that's all I heard. It went on for about an hour. `` banding. H thought

it was just people messing `bout outside. I fell asleep, got up at

4am and the road was cordondd off. As rush`hour traffic was diverted

this morning, police investhgators continued their work at the scene.

The police car was taken aw`y by crane and the man's body was removed

by private ambulance. Stopphng distances were then tested with

experts braking sharply, skhdding this car to a halt. The tests appear

to be simulating the manoeuvres of the police car. Tyre marks on the

road show it may have braked hard before the fatal collision. The road

reopened around lunch time but detectives have continued their work

here at this bike shop wherd the attempted burglary was first

reported. That led to this patrol car being in the area.

Investigations will continud now to try to work out how and why the man

died as a result of a policd emergency call. Move from

According to the IPCC, there have been 44 fatal accidents

involving police vehicles in the South in the last ten years.

Thames Valley were second with 12 deaths.

There were five fatalities in Hampshire and one in Wiltshire.

Our home affairs corresponddnt Emma Vardy joins me now.

What does it mean for policd legally if they're involved in an accident

Well, Sally, police can drive above the speed limit in an emergdncy but

they're not above the law and officers can be prosecuted hf it's

found that they were dangerously while on duty. That isn't to say

that that's what happened in this case but the force will havd to

decide if there was any culpability on the part of the officer that was

driving this morning. Lawyer Sophie Khan, who specialises in cl`ims

against the police, told me earlier that in her opinion the number of

deaths due to police crashes is too high.

The police have to protect lives and they have to do

their duties but they have to do it in a way which is safe.

There cannot be a double st`ndard in the way that the police drive on the

They have to be careful in the way they drive

and they have to try to prevent any type of fatality or injury.

Questions will need to be asked as to why this man has died.

Is there a risk that police can overstep the mark in the he`t of the

moment when responding to emergencies? They have a lot of

strict training to try to prevent that but when accidents happen like

this, it can have a detrimental effect on public confidence in the

police and it can take up a lot of resources in investigating what

happened but the police havd to be seen to be impartial when they're

investigating accidents involving their own staff. As we heard

earlier, the IPCC are on thd scene investigating.

And new figures released today show that reports of rape in the

Now the force is planning a multi`agency approach to tackle

some of the most difficult `reas of crime.

Reports of rape are rising in the Thames Valley Police area.

They went up by 34% last ye`r and this year's figures are

Last year, the force solved more cases than ever before.

Today, the force's chief constable said rape was a priority.

She believes reports are increasing because victims `re more

We're saying to victims, if you have been the victim of a

We will listen and we will do everything we can to protect you.

In terms of the sort of casds that come forward, some of them `re less

recent but many are recent so it isn't just a case of saying,

Today she announced five new multi`agency safeguarding htbs would

be set up across the region where police will sit alongside social

workers, representatives from youth offending teams, probation `nd

health services to share information and work together more effectively.

We know that some of the problems are caused

when we have a bit of inforlation, social workers have a bit of

So in terms of sharing a common picture,

The hubs announced today will help protect vulnerable people in general

but they will have particul`r focus on tackling crimes like domdstic

Elliot Gower is seven and w`s born with cerebral palsy, as well as

He finds it hard to move around like other little boys.

When he falls over and cuts himself, his blood doesn't clot `

His family has raised thous`nds of pounds for an operation that will

But the Operation Elliot calpaign has been hit by more problels.

Playing isn't easy for Elliott but it's still fun.

He has cerebral palsy and haemophilia.

With cerebral palsy, he's prone to falling over ` lot

and with haemophilia, he shouldn't follow because he'll bleed.

So anything to reduce the alount of falling over is a good thing

So family and friends raised ?6 ,000 to pay for

a private operation that will help Elliott stand up independently, but

He wasn't going to be able to have the drugs he needed to get through

the surgery because of his haemophilia, provided by thd NHS.

They're usually an NHS provided drug.

The drugs could cost hundreds of thousands of pounds,

NHS England have told the Gower family that they're

considering funding the operation but Elliott ndeds that

operation soon and his window of opportunity is slipping `way

It's actually devastating, H think, because it affects us every single

day, that waiting and waiting and not knowing.

Adding to the stress is the Government's recent announcdment

that they may start funding some operations like Elliott's,

so the money the Gower family have raised could be in vain.

It's difficult to be able to talk to the people about it

and ask them how they feel `bout the money they've helped us raise.

Life goes on and this familx is in limbo and whilst they waht

for a decision, they plan to focus on the positives.

It's not what you expect when you're having a baby.

You don't envisage that you're going to be in this life but I

We'll do whatever we need to for him.

Plans for a 24`hour Tesco stperstore next to Fratton Park in Portsmouth

have been approved by counchllors in the city.

Developers want to build on land at the Fratton end of the ground.

Money from the scheme will be used to fund

There had been concerns about traffic and noise `

with more than 4,000 people signing a petition against the plans.

Photos of five people wanted for drug offences have been released

The appeal follows what polhce describe as one

of the biggest drug operations in the county in recent years.

Raids were carried out in Boscombe last month and 34 people have been

A police spokesman said the men needed to be arrestdd

Still to come in this evening's South Tod`y:

How to avoid the pitfalls on The Great British Bake Off

The dreaded soggy bottom is something that everyone trids to

avoid. Everyone's dreading having a soggy bottom!

Let's join Jo Kent, who is at Cowes tonight with all

the sport, including a look at some historic images

from a very well known photographer on the high street in Cowes.

Yes, Sally, when you say th`t it can only be one thing. Anyone who has

been here will have walked past that shop, Beken, and I love white

institution. More later but first, we've come down to the pontoons on

the end of day five. It's fhlled up in the marina. The racing h`s just

drawn to a close and within the last hour, there has been an exhhbition

race for the victory class. We saw them in action a bit earlier on in

the week. They're a lovely classic old wooden keelboat celebrating its

80th anniversary, and they `re raising awareness about the class as

a fleet that sales out of Portsmouth. It was from one extreme

to the other because the big race today was the New York yacht club

challenge cup contested by the big racing yachts, including sole that

will be in the next round of the Volvo Ocean race. That was won by a

British boat. For all of thd crews here, a familiar sight on the water

will be the Beken Boat. Since 1 88 and through three generations, this

family firm has been photographing life on the Solent and their

photographs, including a shot of the Titanic, have made them famous right

around the world. But now rdtirement and the pressures of storing and

assuring `` insuring their photographs have meant that they

have put their whole archivd of 1 million images up for sale stopped I

had a look some of them earlier This is the view

my grandfather would have h`d back in 1888 when he looked out of his

bedroom window and saw the beautiful steamboats and liners and s`iling

yachts going up and down thd Solent. He said, "I can't draw, I c`n't

paint, so I'll capture them with My grandfather told me told me,

"always photograph a yacht `s if it was your lady friend, looking

its best, no wrinkles, no creases. Perhaps misbehaving a shade but not

being naughty in any way at all . Frank Beken soon made a namd for

himself using a self designdd camera He was going back home

and said he saw this new line, out of Southampton waters and

thought he would take some pictures He thought he could take sole more

pictures when it came back `gain And right at the top,

here is the original negative. The last picture of the Tit`nic

in UK waters. That was taken by my grandf`ther

in 1912. Beken has held successive

Royal Warrants ` with the Duke of Edinburgh here only

this week. In the '60s, Prince Philip bought

Bbloodhound racing yacht In another one, you can see him

with a very young Prince Ch`rles. The asking price for the Beken

archive ` ?5 million. I'd like to think that the whole

archive could go to a museul. If not,

it could go to a private individual but I think we would insist that

the archives are opened up. For 40 years, I photographed 40

round the island races, 40 Cowes Weeks and eventually,

you say it's time to move on Ken said he would be hanging up his

camera completely. Now time for a look ahead to the football season

and tonight it is the turn of Portsmouth. 15 months ago, there

almost wasn't a club but like a Phoenix from the financial flames,

it has risen. It's the biggdst club in League two and all of thd fans

want them to win promotion. I've been talking to the manager about

their chances. It's been called the Manchester

United of League two. Levels of support here at Fratton park are

unparalleled. When Pompey ldgend Randy Alford stepped in at the end

of last season, he went on to guide them to a 13 place finish. Now

expectations are high. `` Andy Alford. When I came in, we had five

wins and two draws. It far dxceeded anything I thought we could do but

we did it and the players dhd it and the fans did it. We all got together

and made sure that that happened so the expectation level is thdre but I

relish that. I actually likd that. I would rather it be that way rather

than people writing us off. Off the pitch we've done very well `nd we're

clearing the debt legacy as fast as we can and the guys are doing a

great job in giving me the biggest budget possible to try to bd as

competitive as we can offer the pitch. There have been eight new

summer signings, including the top scorer at League one Walsall last

season, and the former Southampton goalkeeper Michael Pope and this

player from its non`league neighbours. And for the first time

ever, they will have their own training base in the city. Ht's the

most exciting and stable tile there has been in the last three xears.

With the supports' trust holding the purse strings, things are on a much

more even keel financially so what the fans really want to do this

season is focus on the football Hopefully we will be pushing

play`offs or maybe automatic promotion. We're building on from

last season so we want to btild more chemistry. Win the league, go all

the way. Why not? I wouldn't talk about promotion and play`offs now

but I can guarantee that evdry time we step out on the pitch, wd'll be

trying our best to get a result for the supporters who make this club

tick. I have a chance to le`d this club and leave a legacy that will be

fantastic, if we can look b`ck and say, "look what we achieved".

Portsmouth play Exeter on S`turday. That's all the sport here btt we

hope to be back tomorrow and we should have a look at the charity

this year. Sorry about the break`up on the

picture but I don't think it's boiled your enjoyment of wh`t was

happening. A rare musical clock,

thought to have belonged to Marie Antoinette, has been restordd at

West Dean College in West Stssex. As Briony Leyland reports,

it's one of only a handful On the table, the battered heart of

a 250`year`old patient. Performing the surgery, senior conserv`tor

Malcolm Archer. He's checking each one of 2486 metal pins on the barrel

organ of one of the world's most precious musical clocks. We're

replacing the damaged pins. Each one of these pins and bridges operate a

key. Rather than a person playing an organ, this is the musician's hands,

if you like, and these open keys allow air to pass through to play

the pipes. The team here at the college have taken the clock to

pieces in the hope it will lake music once more. Made in 1765, the

clock stands at nearly eight feet when it is fully assembled. George

Pike was clockmaker to his Lajesty King George III in an era when

musical clocks were at the cutting musical clocks were at the cutting

edge of technology. It was the first, or a very early, forl of

recorded music. Many of these mechanical organs were made for

pieces that were specifically written by famous composers. So to

have and owned this for people in their own home, to be able to play

music by a composer automathcally, was a real status symbol.

MUSIC PLAYS it is believed to marry Antoinette,

the last Queen of France, mhght once have owned the clock before it found

its weight to England. Now ht is owned by the Temple News collection

in Leeds, where there has bden a huge fundraising effort to send it

to Suffolk for conservation. That sounds terrible! That the gtilty

one. They always have to be set and individually tuned. Different

departments across the Colldge are working to bring the clock back to

life, from storing the bellows and organ to brushing up the ornate

decoration. Initially, they looked like this. So following a sdries of

cleaning techniques, they wdre gradually lifted to look like that.

You want to do as friendly ` clean that is not going to damage the

surface. After five months of conservation, the clock is ready to

be set in motion again. The bellows are pumped by a clockwork motor

powered by weight. There ard eight different tunes to choose from and

there is visual entertainment, too, as scenes of 18th`century lhfe move

in time to the music. This tune has been identified and another was

recognised by a German studdnt passing by the department as a

well`known German Carol. MUSIC PLAYS

This song is quite famous so I knew exactly. I said, "oh, I know this

tune!" We did some research on it and we found out it was originally

used in Italy. It was adaptdd by a German band and since then, it is a

very famous Christmas song. Research continues to identify the shx other

tracks but the clock is now ready for its journey north, wherd it will

go on show in Leeds, set to please 21st century crowds just as it did

audiences more than 200 years ago. Now, we're hoping you might be able

to do a bit of musical detective work and help identify some

of the tunes the clock plays. Experts can only identify

a handful so we're posting ` couple And if you recognise any,

we'd love to know. You can get in touch

in the usual ways. We have already

received some answers. Jenni Hanney thought the first

tune was Ihr Kinderlein Komlet. While Ayesha Kerr thought it was

Bruderchen, Komm Tanz Mit Mhr. Your German is very good! I have

German relations, who are w`tching right now because I had to call them

to check! Shall we get onto the weather pictures?

A bit of unsettled weather hn the forecast but let's take a look at

your photos. David Canning took this photo of

a freight train in the sunshine in Geoff Baker photographed

Titchfield Abbey under And this great view of Worb`rrow Bay

near Tyneham was taken by We saw showers but they will

gradually fade away overnight. It will stay dry with some mist and fog

patches with the light winds. Showers are still possible through

the early hours but most pl`ces staying dry with clear spells and in

our towns and cities, a low of 14`15. A fresher feeling night than

last night. In the countryshde, temperatures could drop to dight or

nine. A predominantly dry start to tomorrow. Lots of sunshine

throughout the day. There is the risk of an odd stray shower but

you'll be an lucky to catch one Varying amounts of cloud through the

afternoon. A high of 23 or possibly 24, similar to today. With light

winds, it will feel fairly pleasant. A quiet night tomorrow

night. The skies in a few places, varying amounts of cloud and there

may be some mist and fog patches in places. Those of 16 to 17 tonight

and some places may be slightly higher so a muddy field. `` logos.

An area of low pressure pushing up from the Bay of Biscay will bring

rain, more likely for the southeastern corner. Drier

interludes for western areas and through Saturday, a ridge of high

pressure will start to building so it will stay mainly dry for Saturday

with the chance of a shower through the afternoon and the winds will for

lighter. Then there is a ch`nge coming about on Sunday. The former

hurricane Bertha, which has been downgraded to a tropical storm, is

making its way to us and it is expected to go south of the UK but

that is a bit uncertain at the moment so do stay tuned to the

forecast. We expect the odd stray shower tomorrow but a lot of dry,

sunny weather as well. Frid`y, maybe rain showers at times. We could have

some heavy bursts. The odd shower on Saturday but that is the best of the

weekend before it turns wet and windy on Sunday.

Bakers, get ready ` it's back tonight.

Fans of The Great British B`ke Off will be glued to the screen

And this year a father of four from Southsea will be flying

Enwezor Nzegwu works for the university by day

but spends his nights perfecting his pastries and trying to `void

Dani Sinha, once famous for her light sponge, has been to mdet him.

I've always loved cooking and baking became an extenshon

of that when I fell in love with pies and pastries and cakes and

things like that and I thought, "I really like making these thhngs "

Enwezor Nzegwu is one of 12 contestants who has m`de it to

His passion for baking started three years ago and just like the blaze

on his steak and ale pies, `` glaze he's hoping to shine, mindftl not

to repeat the same mistakes that previous contestants have m`de.

The dreaded soggy bottom is something everyone tries to avoid.

If you've got too much liquhd in a pie, that's what you'rd going

So everyone's dreading having a soggy bottom.

Getting the mix right is something that

the business consultant has been perfecting, spurred on by the baking

He's someone who really likds a challenge so he isn't going to play

safe and do things easily and take the safe option. He's got a lot of

technical knowledge that he will want to show off. The father of four

has already had plenty of rdquests to work his magic for friends and

family. This Friday, I'm baking something for some people at work.

So yes, lots of people have requested things, kind of

tongue`in`cheek but behind what they say, I think, "you really do want me

to bake you something!" As excitement levels are due to rise

faster than a Victoria sponge, Enwezor says he has no plans to give

up his day job. We will be glued! Good luck. That's

it for tonight. Good night.