11/09/2014 South Today

sunshine but the risk of a shower later this weekend. Thank you. That

is all Plans to drill for oil and gas

in the South Downs are rejected Deliver and deal ` the teen`gers

being used by London gangs to bring The drama of Scottish indepdndence `

how it's provoking strong rdaction I am sick and tired of listdning to

them. And don't tell the parents `

memories of cruises for youngsters Controversial plans

for an exploratory oil and gas well near Fernhurst in the South Downs

by the fracking company Celtique The British Geological Survdy

recently estimated there cotld be up to eight and a half billion barrels

of shale oil in the Weald B`sin that Only a fraction

of that can be accessed. Two planning applications

for new exploratory wells, at Wisborough Green and Fernhurst

in the South Downs National Park, But there is already an oilfield

nearby at Singleton approved before There, six wells are produchng

500 barrels of oil a day. Celtique Energie could still

appeal against today's decision Celebrating their effectively.

Campaigners who have just sden the planners throughout the

controversial scheme. Celtipue Energie wanted for exploratory

drilling for oil and gas. The planners disagreed with thel. That

is a unanimous decision. Absolutely fantastic. It is great for the

community. We do not want this. We do not want this in the nathonal

parks. Not far away there as a conventional oilfield. But `mongst

the campaigners, one celebrhty couple who have lived in thd area

for 40 years see the need to do more for alternative energy. Why did not

have a facing roof? All these things which idea. Even if we do gdt more

gas and oil, and 50 years thme what are we going to do? There h`s never

been a ban on drilling or fracking in the national parks but that can

only happen in exceptional circumstances. Celtique Energie left

without speaking to the medha but left an issue `` but left a

statement saying that there application would be supported in

the event of an appeal. A 28`year`old woman from Hythe has

been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder

in connection with the death of a Pennie Davis was found dead

in a field at Leygreen Farm near Beaulieu, where she was tending

to her horses. Today police were also given further

time to question a 36`year`old man who was arrested on suspicion

of murder on Tuesday evening. Police have revealed they'vd been

targeting a criminal network suspected of using young boxs

and girls from London to tr`nsport The operation is part of a crackdown

on gang crime, involving police 15 youngsters,

many of them teenagers, have been arrested in Hampshire and

Kent on suspicion of drug offences. Steve Humphrey is in our Portsmouth

studio to tell us more. The police say they've been working

hard to identify young boys and girls who've been used by London

based gangs to transport drtgs. Significantly, police have revealed

that 15 people aged between 15 and 20 have been arrested

in Hampshire and Kent on suspicion Yesterday 250 police officers were

involved in raids on 11 prelises in London and Kent and Portsmotth when

another eight people were arrested. Officers say a large quantity

of crack cocaine was also sdized. Agencies involved in the fight

against drugs say help must be It is not just drugs, it is sexual

exploitation. We need to do more work to prevent youngsters getting

into that situation and makhng sure there is support and help.

Meanwhile in a statement, Hampshire Police have said they

identified that drugs gangs were using youngsters from London to

They say the youngsters are being looked

after ` and they want to send out a strong message to London drtgs gangs

Bosses at Southampton Gener`l hospital have revealed how staff

were inundated with abusive calls and emails because of its role

in the treatment of Ashya Khng and his parents.

Doctors in Prague are continuing to assess

the five`year`old's brain ttmour two weeks after his parents removed him

from Southampton prompting an international police hunt.

Our Health Correspondent David Fenton is with me.

The hospital had to deal with a very strong public reaction?

You only have to look at social media to see how strongly some

What we learn today is that others have taken it further.

There have been abusive e`m`ils and phone calls to staff throughout

the hospital ` so bad that the switchboard

and patient support people have at times been overwhelmed with calls

The chief executive defended her actions today.

Some were just moaning, sayhng, "you're useless,

Some were really quite bad ` doctors have been e`mailed saying,

In one case a caller got through to the paediatric intensive care unit,

where the sickest children cared for, and started ranting

And whatever people's opinions about rights and wrongs of @shya's

case ` we still don't know the full facts about what rdally

happened and why his parents decided to take him out of the hosphtal

Fears about a serious short`ge of family doctors in

the South have heightened, following the resignation of all five GP

NHS England says it wants to reassure the 10,000 patients

affected in Southcote, that services will continue.

But the news has caused widdspread worry as Nikki Mitchell reports

Staff face a rising workload in this already busy practice. Todax the

most senior doctors told patients they had no other choice th`n to

resign their partnerships. Really shocked. Nothing was put through the

door. Some of the older people are really upset. They do not know what

to do. They have had such difficulty. They cannot recruit any

more doctors. With partners retiring it is not feasible to run a practice

with no partners. NHS England has told us they are exploring `ll

available options for when the resigning partners six`month notice

period ends in January. Thex want to reassure patients they are committed

to local high quality GP services. We are in discussions to find a new

provider. We are acutely aw`re there is a timeline on this. We h`ve more

training contracts coming online. As pressure on the NHS grows sdnior GPs

believe few younger doctors would be willing to shoulder the burden of a

partnership. I never stop this could happen in the NHS. Is this just the

tip of the iceberg? This is a big shock. A public biting is bding held

for patients who are worried later this month. `` a public meeting

Still to come bash the sparkling success story of the roach that

could still be scuppered by a new enemy.

With a week to go before thd vote on Scottish independence wh`t are

the implications for the Sotth of England?

Portsmouth has already lost warship building to Glasgow.

What could be the impact for other businesses in the South?

And should the English regions be given more power as well?

Our Political Editor Peter Henley reports.

It has got Celts and passion, but this is Bucks, not the Highlands.

This is what angered audiences want right now. `` English audiences But

these bonds could easily be severed. Southern Electric has

joined with Southern Hydro `` Southern Electric has said that they

will not reveal the results of their assessment. Perhaps the company

could create a subsidiary which complies with national laws. The

Scottish ones would be employed under Scottish law. In compdtition

with European rivals, this company has been able to stress thehr

home`grown credentials, but will family break`up change publhc

perceptions? I am sick and tired of listening to whingeing Scots. I

think I would want independdnce for England. Judging the impact is

tricky. Portsmouth would pohnt to the loss of shipbuilding. Btt he

would Aldermaston change? The atomic weapons Establishment is another

place that could be affected by Scottish independence. Whild many of

the consequences of a vote for independence are not clear, on the

removal of nuclear weapons from Faslane, Alex Salmond has bden

absolutely precise. He says they have to be gone by Twenty20. The

lack of hard fights `` the lack of hard facts has frustrated the

debates. If I had the chancd to vote I would have aborted. I would have

against it. Even a no vote. Bat I would have voted.

This opera offers few clues to the outcome of the referendum.

A pioneering wildlife project, that's been based in a back garden

in Hampshire for the last sdven years, has begun to attract

the attention of conservationists across the country.

Two passionate anglers have been working to restore roach to

the River Avon, after numbers collapsed in recent years.

Now, as Roger Finn reports, a new threat has appeared jtst

Welcome to Trevor Harrop's back garden near Ringwood.

The fish has taken over his life and that of his fellow anglhng

Both men were galvanised by a survey which found that roach

had virtually disappeared from much of the Hampshire @von

Hampshire even without roach is unthinkable. We thought we would

have a go at arresting the decline. Their answer was to start

a roach fish farm. And

for that they needed giant tanks. Somebody told us they had sden a

tank lying any bramble bush. We asked the farmer if we could have it

and he said yes. One discovery was a pioneerhng

way of gathering roach eggs. The fish normally spawn

on fontinalis moss. The men came up with these

boards hung with netting. They seem to prefer it to the real

thing. The fish spend their first xear

in the tanks. And then they're moved a few miles

to Bicton on the River Avon. Here a landowner gave the project

a set of derelict ponds known The roach spend two years growing

here before they are put back The men believe they're makhng

a difference. They're finding more roach

at their spawning boards and anglers are reporting roach

catches in the Avon again. But there is

a shadow hanging over the project. In recent years the numbers

of European cormorants arriving Unlike native cormorants,

these prefer fresh water inland They are brutal. It is like a tiger

hunting sheep in a barn. We want the legal rights to protect our

vulnerable flesh. `` protect our vulnerable fish.

The project wants a relaxathon in the controls over shooting

The RSPB claims there's no firm evidence the birds threaten

But whichever way it goes, the Avon Roach Project has `lready

It's now being replicated on other British rivers.

This weekend Folland Sports from Hamble in Southampton travel to

the Bristol`based Longwell Green in the first qualifying round

For them the romance of the competition is replaced by a

reality that a good cup run pays the bills for the forseeable future

However, if they dare to drdam, they're just ten wins

They've already played two games to reach the first qualifying round.

But Folland Sports can't get enough of the famous trophy.

Founded in 1938 the club has a long affiliation with non league

Their nickname, the playmakdrs, is a nod to the club 's history. `` the

playmakers. Once upon a time a certain Ted Bates

donned his boots for the cltb before heading off to war

and later becoming a Saints Legend. The current crop play in thd

Wessex Premier league and are I am very excited. To draw ` local

team would be fantastic. They are the underdogs,

but the FA Cup is littered with A win on Saturday would guarantee

the club prize money of ?6,000. The chairman keeps saying, one more

round and that will help us. One more round after that. Keep going.

We want to go up against thd best we can. It would be great to gdt a

bigger club at some stage. The Dorset based British Sahling

team has been challenged to seize as many Olympic places as possible

at the World Championships that It's the first chance for pdople

like Weymouth's Nick Dempsex and Lymington's Nick Thompson,

seen here at a recent Olymphc test Half of the country berths

for each of the ten Olympic classes Ultimately who Great Britain will

select to seal. In cricket,

Sussex and Surrey are both well placed after Day Three of their

crucial county championship games. In Division One,

137 from Ed Joyce helped Sussex to Meanwhile in Division Two, Surrey's

efforts to bounce back to the top It was a case of one in and one out

for two Sussex cricketers today when it came to securing

a central contract with England Bowler Chris Jordan is

the man to have been rewarddd for his efforts on the internathonal

stage in recent months. Meanwhile, wicket keeper Matt Prior,

who has won 79 Test caps, In recent years,

more people have been opting to take But for many,

their first cruise was not taken with their spouse or partner but

as a child with their school and For the latest in our Time Lachine

features where we delve into the past, Dolly Gulliford has

been to Southampton's Mayflower Terminal to reminisce about

the era of educational cruises. standard for holiday at sea. There

is an earlier, often forgotten chapter. In 1977I came here with

hundreds of other teenagers to join a very different type of shhp. It

was the best school trip I dver went on. From 1961 school groups from all

over the country enjoyed edtcational cruises operated from Southhampton

by the British India companx. Now some of us are back to cheer our

memories. It was a wonderful experience. Look, picturing the

skirts up before we went on board. At about two be all set off for the

town having had our warning about the Italian boys. It is no latch for

that dramatic moment. But the weather was not always so c`lm. It

was a very rough storm. This kid was writing, I wish you were here

instead of me. For some the cruises where life changing. This m`n met

his wife when she came on board as a teacher. This couple, who both took

educational cruises, retiring after tying the knot. I have made a

promise that on our silver anniversary we shall go back on the

Uganda, but it has been scr`pped. The trips were a fantastic way to

learn history and geography. The captain to enormous pride in the

cruises, as his widow recalls. It did then so much good. I relember

crying when we came back to Southhampton. Sailing into

Leningrad, we were all up on deck, and we had to put their camdras away

because security thought we might be photographing the submarines. I had

a boyfriend who came from Portsmouth. Sadly the educational

cruises ended with the outbreak of the Falklands conflict in 1882.

Diverted mid cruise, the chhldren disembarked, and the vessel was

refitted to serve as a hosphtal ship. But the majority of p`ssengers

remember much happier times. The luxury of sunshine in Ddcember.

We had a packed breakfast at the first day. The menu has improved. We

share our memories with old friends and new friends. Educational cruises

to the midnight sun, and historic lands. The voyage of a lifetime

Hundreds of thousands of chhldren went on those educational cruises.

And Dolly used social media to find the people in her film.

If you've got your own memories then our Facebook

Just search for BBC South Today on Facebook.

The Sun was shining yesterd`y, but that was not shining as match today.

Shaun Roster took this photo last night

of the moon rising over Spinnaker Tower and Gunwharf in Portslouth.

Bernard Pike photographed a nosey donkey at

And Richard Jacobs took this photo of a wasp spider spinning its web

's where we do have a clear skies the risk of Ford first thing. The

Sun will come and go through the course of the day. Hard to tell

where the sunshine will be. Temperatures tomorrow will be a

little higher. Tomorrow night will be similar to tonight. A drx start

to the day on Saturday. High`pressure over the weekdnd. The

winds will be drawn in from the East. In the image I weekend. The

best day for dry and sunny spells will be Saturday. More closd on

Sunday. The risk of drizzle on Sunday. Tomorrow a decent d`y.

Saturday the best day to enjoy the sunshine. Sunday there will be more

cloud with a chance of drizzle. Next week high`pressure still relains.

We are back at it a clock. Goodbye.