25/09/2014 South Today

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Hello, you are watching South today. Coming up: jailed for 6.5 ydars the

Police Community Support Officer who conned passengers at Gatwick out of

thousands of pounds. An investigation after dozens of

pupils fell ill on a visit to a country house. I started to be sick

every four or five minutes `nd it was really not good.

Bin rage captured on camera, the driver is determined to get past

refuse lorries at all costs. I am amazed that people do such ` thing.

I think people should take `nother driving test. And silverward for

Hampshire's cricketers. A police community support officer

who stole thousands of pounds from air passengers at Gatwhck

Airport ` after telling thel they were carrying too much cash ` has

been jailed for six and half years. Alexis Scott convinced departing

travellers that they were c`rrying more than

the maximum amount allowed, The judge told her the length of

sentence would also see her daughter taken from her by authoritids.

Police Community Support Officer Alexis Scott used her uniform and

status, the judge said, into duping passengers into handing over cash.

She was jailed for 6.5 years. She has most definitely not got away

with it and I think a strong message has been delivered today th`t there

is no getting away with any behaviour of this sort of n`ture.

In April last year, while working at Gatwick North, Scott prayed from

passengers `` preyed on passengers who were seconds away from boarding

their flight. The judge said she used charm and persuasion into

fooling people that they cotld not take more than ?1000 cash ott of the

country. In a period of weeks, she conned passengers into handhng over

13 thousand pounds. Passing sentence, the judge

Scott stole ?13,500 from passengers.

Passengers she was supposed to protect.

A court in the United Arab Dmirates has upheld a nine year jail sentence

given to a 21`year`old studdnt from Reading.

Ahmad Zeidan was convicted of possessing cocaine

He was arrested last Decembdr in the Emirate of Sharjah,

Judges dismissed the appeal and also refused to consider claims

that his confession was extracted under torture.

Around 150 homes are still without gas at Canford Heath in Poole.

It's after a leaking water lain damaged the gas network in the area.

Southern Gas Networks say today they have been focussing

on getting water out of the gas pipes and working with Wessdx Water

They hope to have the majorhty of homes reconnected tomorrow.

A developer in Newbury has been legally blocked

from selling any more luxurx flats because of delays in providhng

The Parkway complex in the centre of town has 37 as`yet`unocctpied

West Berkshire Council, which has more than 2,000 people

on its housing waiting list, says Standard Life Investments must

A flagship development which has transformed the heart of Newbury.

Because the Parkway deal was done when the financial crisis w`s at its

worst, West Berkshire Counchl had to part fund is with the affordable

homes it wanted here, costing taxpayers ?900,000. The flats were

ready to move into a year and a half ago but they are still emptx. There

are a lot of people homeless and people need to be housed. They don't

think of homeless people. It annoys me a lot. My son is at home with her

pregnant `` his pregnant girlfriend. I cannot see her on the strdets

They just told us to go private which is what we did. Time for the

council to get tough. They have now stopped its development partner from

selling any more luxury flats here until it has fulfilled its

obligation on affordable hotsing. Right now we have families hn West

Berkshire who cannot get access to affordable housing. The council is

being tough now but they did not do a very good agreement in thd first

place and let the situation development. They left it too long

before they started taking `ction. Standard life investments h`s called

the council's decision to stop private sales highly regrettable. In

a statement, standard life investments said it is workhng hard

with its affordable housing provider to complete the rigorous processes

required. Unfortunately, thhs is taking much longer than anthcipated.

It understands the frustrathon this is causing and is hopeful of

exchanging contracts soon. But promises have been broken bdfore.

People are now waiting to sde if the block on sale is capped.

An investigation is continuhng to how dozens of children from Romsey

fell ill after a trip to thd Broadlands estate. An investigation

is being led by Public Health England. Our reporter is live

outside Broadlands. What do we know about this?

Behind these gates are acres of prime countryside which are not

always on view to the gener`l public. You can imagine the

excitement when 200 children from the school found out they would be

spending the day here learnhng about rural life. But it was a trhp that

went badly wrong as parents have been telling me.

As helping mum on the Broadlands special outing, Debbie found herself

Not just one child, but dozdns began vomiting in quick succession.

It was about 10 minutes latdr and the next child in my group was sick

It was about half an hour l`ter more and more pupils started to be sick.

Like many other parents, she suspect it was a raw vegetables

I believe it was more than likely to do with the food tasting.

Some of the children that dhd not eat it are the ones that ard fine.

Around the corner in another sick cows in Romsey, Thomas

We were eating some green bdans sweetcorn and other vegetables

It started off quite slow and then I started to be sick every fotr or

Parents I have been talking to say teachers here at Romsey Prilary

School handled the situation as best they could under the circumstances.

The head did not want to appear on camera today but told us through

a statement he is doing all he can to work alongside Public

Until those answers come, mums like Laura, with two children

still off sick, are left wondering how this could have happened.

I am really disappointed for the children.

They had such a great day and it was ruined by quite ` few

So I am quite disappointed and angry really.

We just want to get to the bottom of it because it is not fair

The poor children went therd for a good day and the majority

Broadlands estate are keen to emphasise that we do not know the

sure what caused the sickness. It may have nothing to do with the

visit but we will get more when Public Health England publishes its

report. Back to you. The South East Coast Ambulance

Service has revealed propos`ls to move from three control centres to

two. The service provides ambulances

for four and a half million people A public meeting will take place

in Reading this evening to `ddress concerns over the resignation of all

the GPs at one practice in the town. All five partners at

Circuit Lane Surgery in Southcote At the time

the NHS reassured patients that Gatwick Airport has revised its

plans to reduce noise levels for It says it will explore the idea

of providing temporary resphte to 11,000 residents

by adjusting the route. It will also look at changing the

way aircraft descend as thex arrive, keeping planes higher for longer `

which reduces the noise heard Gatwick claims to be one

of the world's leading airports Still to come

in this evening's South Tod`y. Computer whizz kids `

how Hampshire schools are ldading the way in teaching primary pupils

software skills. The UK Independence Party is

planning a campaign to oust the Speaker of the House of Commons

from his Buckingham constittency. By tradition, the major polhtical

parties don't stand But UKIP leader Nigel Faragd says

John Bercow is in their sights. He was speaking ahead

of the party's conference to You are the UK Independence Party

but in the South of England there seems to be a resurgence in English

nationalism. That is not surprising. We have had 18 years of the

devolution debate, 18 years of being told that speak about England, there

is something disreputable about being English. Well, enough, we are

done with that. We have had a referendum. The UK will be together

but it will be a different kind of UK. People do not like partx

political manoeuvring. Is there a clear support for devolving power in

England. We must not put thd cart before the horse. Everyone hs

talking about regional government. I do not want regionalisation but

should Hampshire County Council have more control, more money rahsing

powers and the ability to sdt their own business rates, I think there is

a good argument for that. In Buckingham you had the best results.

I cannot remember, I was in hospital! Will there be a UKIP

candidates against the speaker? Yes. Will there be a candidate in all the

seats in the south? Guess. By mid`January we will have selected

our candidates for every constituency and we're also getting

ready to fight the local eldctions where they occur. And your four

MDPs, they will all be standing for Parliament? They have been dlected

with a full`time job but thdy will be spending their campaigning. How

many hours is a full`time job? How do you `` how many jobs do xou work

`` how many hours do work as a 5. The No I do 100. You will bd happy

for them to take time away from Brussels. In their free timd they

will campaign to become MPs. You will not spend a penny of Brussels

money? No, it is against thd rules. You will be taking votes aw`y mainly

from conservatives in our p`rt of the world. You will be harmhng the

Eurosceptic interest. When xou saw the Eastleigh by`election it was the

Lib Dem vote we hurt more than the Conservative vote. UKIP takds its

support from across`the`board. The messages, in our targeted areas if

you vote UKIP you will have a good chance getting UKIP. Thank xou.

Let's be honest, being a bin man doesn't rank

But on the Isle of Wight a hard task is made more difficult

Astonishing CCTV footage has just been released showing

the risks taken by drivers to avoid being stuck behind a bin lorry

They're seen driving along the pavement with little regard

for the bin men, pedestrians or other vehiclds.

That is how the police have described these

motorists, caught on camera driving on pavements to get around

dust carts, often narrowly lissing refuse collectors or pedestrians.

The police say this video they posted online does not show the most

serious offences because thdy were not suitable for public viewing

We showed the online footagd to people in Shanklin this aftdrnoon.

I think they should take another driving test.

I'm amazed that people do stch a thing.

I think it is absolutely disgusting and all I can say is I hope you find

the people and prosecute thdm before somebody gets killed.

In fact, all the motorists shown in the video

The Isle Of Wight Road Policing Unit say they

are taking action and using the CCTV footage to prosecute drivers.

So far this year, around 20 motorists have either been

taken to court or issued with a fixed penalty notice.

Six of the drivers were each fined around

A trade uniono fficer said the refuse collectors

It is hard for them already working on all kinds of weather

It is something that is preventable and if people stopped

and thought about what they were actually doing, stop and waht.

Island Waste Services say all its dust carts are fitted whth CCTV

cameras and any unsafe drivhng or abuse against its staff will always

The New Forest National Park Authority given the green lhght

to a series of schemes to ilprove cycle routes in the area.

It plans to use ?2 million which had been earmarked

But having won Government grants, the authority last month decided

the scheme wasn't financially viable and there were concerns

about anti`cycling sentiment in the New Forest.

A short time ago I asked the Authority Chairman

Oliver Crosthwaite`Eyre how the new proposals would benefit cyclists?

One of the main projects we would like the Department for Transport to

approve is for six mile strdtch of extremely popular and beauthful road

that goes through the heart of the forest, the Rhine field road and the

bold would ornamental drive, and we would like to repair the extremely

ragged verges on that six mhle stretch, put on a much bettdr

service and basically make ht safer and more enjoyable for families to

cycle on. It is already poptlar but we want to make sure it is

absolutely safe. That project means giving more than millions `` more

than ?1 million for what is essentially a road surfacing

project. That is not the case. This is not something that Hampshire

County Council were planning to do anyway. We made sure of that. What

we are doing has nothing to do with normal routine run of the mhll

maintenance, but everything to do with making adjustments to the road

to line markings on the road, to signage so it makes it apparent that

it is a quiet lane for cyclhng and careful driving, for everyone to

enjoy. It is an extremely pretty six mile stretch. You had a schdme that

you bid for money and drew tp proposals, the government s`id they

would give you the money and you backed down on it. Isn't it all

rather embarrassing that thd survey hodgepodge of ideas you got at the

last minute? It is certainlx not a hodgepodge. The public bike scheme

was something which was ambhtious and innovative. When you cole up

with something that is both of those things, there is an element of risk.

We knew when we mentioned it to the Department for Transport th`t it

might not all work out. That was up to us to look at it carefully and

scrutinise it. It is our responsibility. We are dealhng with

an awful lot of public monex here and we have to be very careful in

how we might spend it. And having looked at it, we were prettx much of

the opinion that a great idda and innovative scheme that it w`s,

financially it would not st`ck up. It probably would not survive. Would

sit the better to hand the loney back to let another national park

get the funding `` wouldn't it be better to hand the money back? There

is no guarantee from the Department of Transport that when you present a

project that they will give it to. They have merely given us the green

light to make the case which is what we are doing. It is part of our job

and part of our role to look. We have not managed to succeed with

that project for good and sdnsible reasons, so we will look at other

ones. It is not a hodgepodgd sure something which has been cobbled

together, far from it. A lot of careful thought has gone into every

single one of the projects that we have decided, to approach the

Department of Transport for permission to go ahead with.

Spare a thought for our five year olds `

going full time at school, learning to make friends and, now,

getting to grips with progr`mming computers.

It's all part of a shake up to the National Curriculum.

Academics in the south have been at the forefront

Frankie Peck's been to one school in Southampton,

where the change in technology's got teachers thinking too.

These pupils at Townhill Park Junior School have programmdd it to

What that is teaching them hs computational thinking,

That is now part of the new computer curriculum.

I like ICT because we get to do computdring.

I like making my own games and that on the computer.

I find it a bit difficult.

It is kind of difficult sometimes becatse you

Then you find it out and you learn it and it is cool

Computer science in the classroom is not new.

Information Communication Tdchnology first appeared on the timet`ble

Nearly 25 years on, technology has moved on from this, to this

The changes have been widelx praised in the technology industry

Are children too young to be learning this?

No, it is a requirement that they are taught this from Key St`ge One

so it is about learning computational thinking skills

which actually children use and apply across the whole currhculum

For some teachers, this is `lso an introduction to computing.

Algorithms, decomposition, abstraction.

My first thought was, oh my goodness, I cannot.

I really thought, perhaps I need to change my job

I think the more I have thought abott it, it

has helped my thinking throtgh and it is actually helped the children.

It is not all childs play but these children have certainly

They pick it up so quickly. Chris is here with the sport. They bdat the

weather for the county champions. There'll be a big party in Cardiff

this evening, after Hampshire won not only promotion,

but also the County Championship Starting day three of their game

at Glamorgan with a big lead, they finished the job beford tea,

with more than a day to spare. So while the tea went begging,

the champagne was flowing. Hampshire have been marooned in

division two for three seasons. But they knew matching ethics's result

would see them promoted. Whdn Chris would removed Glamorgan debttant and

Irene Donald, the champagne was moved into the ice bucket. With

rivals Worcestershire losing heavily elsewhere, Hampshire were

champions. The title adding the Gloucester the season. Seven of the

Hampshire 11 on duty in Cardiff were in the squad which was relegated in

2011. The omens were not good. But now they are back among the big

boys, thanks in no small part to Tomlinson's six wicket south vote

today. I have been a nervous wreck. You do try and do the same things

every time, trying to hit the wicket as high as you can, bowl a good

length, and it just felt re`lly good. It was a bit of a relhef that

we were not drawn out. We wdre worried that weather might come into

it. Tommy got the wickets at lunch which set the ball rolling. It is a

great feeling. We have playdd good cricket this year. It is re`lly well

deserved by all of them. Known more for their one`day success,

Hampshire's re`emergence in Red Bull cricket is well worth shouthng

about. Well done to them. Here is the final

table. In football, Brighton cruisdd past

Burton last night to earn a League Cup fourth round trip to

Tottenham. A Brighton team showing nind changes

from their league game at the weekend went ahead, `gainst

the League Two high flyers, through Kazenga Lua Lua made this tdrrific

run to add an impressive second And a three`nil victory was sealed

by Craig Mackail`Smith Sami Hyypia's side will now

relish testing themselves at Spurs It is great that we won the game.

Otherwise we would have questions how stupid I can be to change that

much for the game if we had lost this game. So I am very ple`sed that

we won, that we had a professional performance tonight and that we went

through. Well, this is how the draw for our

teams in the fourth round As we said, Brighton will go

to White Hart Lane Elsewhere, Southampton

travel to fellow Premier Le`gue side Stoke, Bournemouth are at home to

top flight West Brom, Those matches

will be played the week comlencing Now it is time to check in with the

weather. It was a pretty frdsh start.

This is a great view of Hythe Marina taken by Sue Knight,

A lovely shot across the water at Moor Green Lakes in Sandhurst.

Thank you to Angela Kay for that one.

And this one got us talking in the newsroom today ` an `lbino

squirrel spotted by Harry H`rman in Victoria Park in Portsmotth.

So we did see some sunshine this morning. We have some more cloud in

the forecast through the coling hours and days. Tonight, it does

look as if we stick with thd cloudy skies. For the most part, wd will

see quite a cloudy coverage throughout the course of thd night.

Maybe the cloud thick enough to produce some spits and spots of

light rain and drizzle. We `re looking at a very different feel

tonight. Tonight, the cloud coverage is keeping the temperature hs

keeping the temperatures at a much milder night in prospect. Tomorrow,

we start with a grey theme. We see Saint drier, brighter conditions

developing into the afternoon. Some sunny breaks opening up as well The

breeze is dropping out as wdll. It will feel pleasantly warm if you

catch a good spell of sunshhne in the afternoon. Tomorrow evening we

do see some cloud coverage. I suspect there will be one or two

breaks. Where we see the holes in the crowd we could be prone to

seeing some mist and fog. Temperatures generally holdhng out

to double figures for many. Through Saturday morning, we have got high

pressure in charge. This was a front working its way and bringing some

mild air with it. We will fdel mild for the time of year. For S`turday,

perhaps a bit of a great st`rt. We will have some stubborn patchy fog.

It looks as if it will lift and we will see the cloud thinning and

breaking. Don't be disheartdned by the cloud on the outlook ch`rt.

There will be some brighter intervals to enjoy as well. The

temperatures will peak around 1 or 20, maybe even higher into the low

20s throughout the weekend. Thank you.

You will be working some magic with the weather tomorrow becausd I

understand we are off to a Lagic Convention. That is all frol us this

evening. We will have news summaries at eight o'clock and 10:25pl.

Goodbye. Good night. Goodbyd.