:00:00. > :00:11.In tonight's programme: Another day, another strike on Southern rail.
:00:12. > :00:13.The leader of the union behind today's industrial
:00:14. > :00:23.Members will tell us when they have had enough.
:00:24. > :00:25.The medical mannequins helping trainee midwives get hands-on
:00:26. > :00:31.The special clinic for children that helps them and their families get
:00:32. > :00:37.And we revisit The Adventures Of Portland Bill -
:00:38. > :00:54.the plasticine characters brought to life in a popular TV series.
:00:55. > :00:58.There's still no sign of a let-up in the misery for Southern rail
:00:59. > :01:00.passengers as a second drivers' strike this week draws to a close.
:01:01. > :01:04.The company did manage to run a very small number of trains today
:01:05. > :01:06.but most services were scrapped, including these carriages
:01:07. > :01:10.Commuters in Sussex who tried to drive into London found
:01:11. > :01:14.themselves caught in the backlog of a 13-car accident on the M23.
:01:15. > :01:17.In a moment, we'll be speaking to the leader of the union
:01:18. > :01:21.First, Steve Humphrey has been hearing about the impact
:01:22. > :01:34.It is very, very congested indeed and, of course, on the trains,
:01:35. > :01:37.I blame the Transport Secretary, Chris Grayling, and the government.
:01:38. > :01:40.They have had nine months to rectify the horrible situation of 300,000
:01:41. > :01:44.Once again, the drivers' strike has left most of Southern's
:01:45. > :01:47.trains in the sidings, and commuter Darren Ball has been
:01:48. > :01:54.I think I've stretched the goodwill of my bosses or my managing director
:01:55. > :01:57.as much as I can in order to have as many work-from-home
:01:58. > :02:02.A director of a city recruitment firm, Darren moved
:02:03. > :02:06.from Greenwich to Sussex three and a half years ago.
:02:07. > :02:08.So really stressful in terms of your relationship
:02:09. > :02:13.Yes, and my relationship with my partner and my stepson.
:02:14. > :02:16.They don't know what time I'm going to get home.
:02:17. > :02:19.Darren and his fellow commuters have suffered nine months of delays
:02:20. > :02:22.and cancellations on Southern and, when we went for a cup of coffee,
:02:23. > :02:27.he told me one of his biggest concerns is overcrowded trains.
:02:28. > :02:30.You've got anything up to about 100 people,
:02:31. > :02:33.all trying to squeeze in the one train door to get into
:02:34. > :02:37.Darren took these photos at London Bridge station.
:02:38. > :02:40.He says the situation is made worse when trains with fewer carriages
:02:41. > :02:45.It's a crush, it's a push, it's a shove.
:02:46. > :02:48.I'm pretty good-natured, I'm a pretty relaxed guy,
:02:49. > :02:51.but there have been some quite sort of shoulders and elbows and things.
:02:52. > :02:54.The long-running dispute on southern centres on the plan to give more
:02:55. > :02:59.drivers responsibility for opening and closing doors.
:03:00. > :03:03.Getting a train 35 or 40 miles from Hayward's Heath or East Grinstead
:03:04. > :03:05.in the London Bridge is not that complicated.
:03:06. > :03:15.The dispute centres on who should close the doors on the trains.
:03:16. > :03:18.It had been the guard's job but the company thinks drivers can
:03:19. > :03:23.do it after checking CCTV cameras for door obstructions.
:03:24. > :03:27.It's called Driver Only Operation or DOO for short.
:03:28. > :03:30.Mick Whelan is the General Secretary of the train drivers' union, Aslef.
:03:31. > :03:33.I asked him why Southern drivers were on strike when the union
:03:34. > :03:44.already has drivers opening doors on other services.
:03:45. > :04:03.Because we are an honourable organisation. We continued to do so.
:04:04. > :04:06.We seek to find a way forward. I accept that you are honouring an
:04:07. > :04:15.agreement that you said that safety is paramount. Either it is safe or
:04:16. > :04:20.not safe. Our view is that in the increasingly longer trains, 1100
:04:21. > :04:25.people, 13 platforms, and nobody on the train. The safety report
:04:26. > :04:29.recognises that some of the technology needs to be upgraded.
:04:30. > :04:34.Southern rail says it will do that so why not sit down with the table?
:04:35. > :04:39.We will sit down at the table when it is shown to us it is safe to do
:04:40. > :04:43.so and when the people have the ability to make an agreement. People
:04:44. > :04:48.are saying they were just upgrade the TV cameras. The ability for my
:04:49. > :04:55.people to assimilate 24 images and two seconds to is not exist. Read
:04:56. > :05:01.the first lines of the many repeated back to me. Tomorrow, a train will
:05:02. > :05:07.go to Brighton with just a driver on board yet there will be another
:05:08. > :05:12.train on the same line in the same type of train and a driver and the
:05:13. > :05:16.guard. Both drivers will be an Aslef. Where is the issue with this
:05:17. > :05:23.if one is on the track with a driver and be at the has a guard? Also, not
:05:24. > :05:29.all lines have the same method of working. That's from the same line.
:05:30. > :05:32.I was just about to explain that even on the same line, not all
:05:33. > :05:38.trains have the same method of working. Some of the trains have
:05:39. > :05:46.other people to dispatch them. Note to trains operation is identical. Do
:05:47. > :05:50.you go on the DLO train? I have driven them. I have experienced an
:05:51. > :05:55.everyday scene things that should not be happening. So you would not
:05:56. > :06:01.do it if it was not safe? I'd do like the rest of the public because
:06:02. > :06:05.there is no alternative for choice. Even non-strike days, you have got a
:06:06. > :06:12.continuing overtime ban running. Why? You are really holding
:06:13. > :06:18.passengers hostage here. You want my people to be working 12 hours a day?
:06:19. > :06:22.What we have found up the company who has run this for the last 14
:06:23. > :06:27.years, they had been under resource in the service and the state the
:06:28. > :06:31.High Court that they could not run 25% of their services without
:06:32. > :06:35.overtime. So you want goodwill on one part but want to disregard the
:06:36. > :06:42.very people who say it is unsafe. Is there anything you want to say the
:06:43. > :06:46.passengers? What we do normally is spent 90% of our time seeking
:06:47. > :06:54.investment in railways, seeking cheaper fares and a greener railway.
:06:55. > :06:57.We operate and campaign on behalf of the taxpayer. We do not want to be
:06:58. > :07:00.in this position and we do not want them to be in this position but
:07:01. > :07:04.we're not doing this for money and we're not doing this for better
:07:05. > :07:11.conditions, it is purely for safety. How much longer can your members
:07:12. > :07:16.strike and go on like this? We do what our members asked us to do.
:07:17. > :07:20.19,000 active train drivers nationally say that DOO is unsafe
:07:21. > :07:22.and want it challenged. We are doing that and members will tell us when
:07:23. > :07:34.they have had enough. The owners of southern rail to go to
:07:35. > :07:39.the Supreme Court in another attempt to stop the Aslef strikes. That will
:07:40. > :07:43.not be before the next ruck on Friday.
:07:44. > :07:45.Special armed police who guard the Berkshire factory
:07:46. > :07:47.where Britain's nuclear weapons were made feel they were made
:07:48. > :07:49.scapegoats for the failings of their senior commanders,
:07:50. > :07:52.A Ministry of Defence investigation into police patrols
:07:53. > :07:56.than 50 officers leaving the force or facing misconduct proceedings.
:07:57. > :07:59.But now an independent report has found that officers further up
:08:00. > :08:03.the chain of command were not considered for disciplinary action.
:08:04. > :08:14.Ben Moore joins us now form our Reading studio.
:08:15. > :08:23.Concerns were raised in spring 2013. There were even reports the officers
:08:24. > :08:27.were falling asleep on duty. The MoD launched an investigation.
:08:28. > :08:29.As a result, six officers were dismissed for gross misconduct,
:08:30. > :08:32.25 officers resigned and 19 officers were required to attend
:08:33. > :08:35.But a freedom of information request has now found no-one above rank
:08:36. > :08:37.of sergeant was considered for disciplinary action, prompting
:08:38. > :08:45.This independent inquiry was carried out by an independent member
:08:46. > :08:54."A lack of direction resulted in the investigating team on site
:08:55. > :08:59."focusing on the low-hanging fruit rather than addressing the root
:09:00. > :09:04.The report strongly criticises senior MDP officers for a lack
:09:05. > :09:07.of proper supervision and a lack of response to problems
:09:08. > :09:10.Those who watch the site say, because of the secrecy
:09:11. > :09:12.surrounding the AWE, it's unclear whether these
:09:13. > :09:14.senior officers have faced or will face any action.
:09:15. > :09:17.There's no accountability, really, here and the Ministry of Defence
:09:18. > :09:20.police need to come clean with the public, be a lot more open
:09:21. > :09:22.about what's happened, what went wrong, why it went wrong
:09:23. > :09:25.and what they're going to do about it.
:09:26. > :09:29.But one thing we do know is that there is now a huge feeling
:09:30. > :09:31.of resentment across the Ministry of Defence police force -
:09:32. > :09:36.not ideal when guarding the UK's nuclear arsenal.
:09:37. > :09:39.The MoD says police officers are held to the highest standards
:09:40. > :09:41.and there was never any threat to the safety or security
:09:42. > :09:51.Police are looking for a driver who moved an ambulance
:09:52. > :09:55.Staff were in the back, carrying out emergency treatment
:09:56. > :10:00.It's thought the man released the ambulance's handbrake to move it
:10:01. > :10:03.and then drove his car into the empty space.
:10:04. > :10:06.It happened on Pelican Lane in Newbury two weeks ago.
:10:07. > :10:09.The man's described as white, in his 50s and driving a red Mini Cooper.
:10:10. > :10:13.Detectives say the patient could have suffered serious consequences.
:10:14. > :10:17.It was a very reckless act to undertake.
:10:18. > :10:19.Obviously, the ambulance could have moved forward.
:10:20. > :10:22.The individual would have had no proper control of that vehicle
:10:23. > :10:25.at the time and anything could have happened.
:10:26. > :10:28.It could have hit another pedestrian, it could have hit
:10:29. > :10:31.another vehicle and it put the lives of the patient and the crew in
:10:32. > :10:36.A controversial proposal to raise the salary of the chief executive
:10:37. > :10:40.of Arun District Council by nearly 6% will be voted on by
:10:41. > :10:45.The council says that the increase, to just over ?117,000,
:10:46. > :10:48.will bring Nigel Lynn's pay more into line with comparable
:10:49. > :10:51.councils and includes a performance-related award.
:10:52. > :10:54.Opponents say it's unfair at a time when other council employees
:10:55. > :11:03.are seeing a 1% increase in their pay.
:11:04. > :11:15.Later, we revisit an 80s children's TV series.
:11:16. > :11:24.Come with me the BBC South Today, where the weather is still to come.
:11:25. > :11:26.We will travel to 1983 with Portland Bill.
:11:27. > :11:28.A new centre using state-of-the-art simulators to train nurses
:11:29. > :11:33.and midwives has opened in Reading at a time when the NHS is struggling
:11:34. > :11:36.to recruit enough staff to care for mums and their babies.
:11:37. > :11:38.Part of the problem is finding enough hospital placements
:11:39. > :11:42.for trainees, so could technology be part of the answer?
:11:43. > :12:03.The bump may feel real enough. But the patient most definitely isn't.
:12:04. > :12:10.But this is no dummy. Linda gives birth like a real mum. So realistic,
:12:11. > :12:15.it is not the time viewing. The centre has opened. We were able to
:12:16. > :12:22.practice in our own time for our exams. It has been very valuable for
:12:23. > :12:27.us to have this invested for us and for the rest of the students within
:12:28. > :12:32.the university. My name is Claire, I am one of the nurses here. The
:12:33. > :12:37.mannequins come in all shapes and sizes and just like a flight
:12:38. > :12:41.simulator, the force trainees to make life or death decisions. The
:12:42. > :12:45.whole point of the Centre is that students can reserve their skills.
:12:46. > :12:51.They can learn in a safe environment and it is safe but also safe for
:12:52. > :12:57.patients. Midwife numbers in the Thames Valley have risen 10% but
:12:58. > :13:02.live births are up half as much. The biggest problem is finding hospitals
:13:03. > :13:05.with the budget to find clinical placements for these trainees.
:13:06. > :13:09.Simulation centres are very important because we can do a lot of
:13:10. > :13:14.our training within the simulation centre and help relieve the pressure
:13:15. > :13:18.of the amount of places we need in practice. The need for trainees to
:13:19. > :13:22.metaphorically get their hands dirty, practising on real-life
:13:23. > :13:24.patients, is not going away any time soon.
:13:25. > :13:30.If you've got young children, did they have you up in the night?
:13:31. > :13:32.Many parents struggle to get their babies and toddlers
:13:33. > :13:35.into a good routine but, for some families, the problems
:13:36. > :13:39.BBC South has had special access to the work of
:13:40. > :13:40.Southampton's Sleep Disorder Service.
:13:41. > :13:42.It's just for children and, in recent years, the clinic
:13:43. > :13:45.It's under the leadership of one woman, Dr Cathy Hill.
:13:46. > :13:49.She's on a mission to give desperate mums and dads a good night's rest.
:13:50. > :14:03.Imogen has a typical light tap routine. She however wakes
:14:04. > :14:08.repeatedly through the night. She sleepwalks around the house and
:14:09. > :14:17.frightens her parents. Even though the wise up wide-open, she is sat
:14:18. > :14:23.bolt upright and is rocking. She walked down the stairs, completely
:14:24. > :14:26.asleep. Southampton's specialist leet service treat children with
:14:27. > :14:32.complex sleeping disorders, the hardest cases. By the time we see
:14:33. > :14:37.bees families, quite often those problems have been going on for many
:14:38. > :14:44.years. The parents have forgotten what it is like to sleep. Building
:14:45. > :14:48.on work that began in 1980, Cathy has done much to develop the
:14:49. > :14:53.service. It is now based in Southampton hospital and sees
:14:54. > :14:56.children from around the UK. The strongest, most powerful trigger the
:14:57. > :15:04.sleepwalking, if you have got those other tendencies there, is not quite
:15:05. > :15:09.getting enough sleep. Cathy is quick to diagnose imaging with behavioural
:15:10. > :15:13.insomnia and sleepwalking. Children will have a night terror or
:15:14. > :15:16.sleepwalk within one or two hours of falling asleep, and what is
:15:17. > :15:22.happening is that the child's brain is half asleep and half awake, so it
:15:23. > :15:26.will do complex things like walk around, climb, but they have no
:15:27. > :15:31.memory of it or no awareness of what they are doing. The brain is
:15:32. > :15:36.obviously. That is the slave wage of sleep when our brains are vulnerable
:15:37. > :15:44.to do this funny switch. -- that is the stage of sleep. She has really
:15:45. > :15:49.gone into not just image and ask, down to what she's doing at bedtime,
:15:50. > :15:55.why she's getting up. She gave us advice we need. We will. By
:15:56. > :16:00.measuring from just between your eyes to the back of your head. In
:16:01. > :16:04.Southampton, this high-tech sleep lab is used to investigate the most
:16:05. > :16:10.difficult disorders. Cathy designed it based on similar setups in
:16:11. > :16:14.Australia, adapting adult testing to sue for younger patients. Some of
:16:15. > :16:19.her other patients do not need help with sleeping but with staying
:16:20. > :16:25.awake. Falling asleep in class, falling asleep as soon as we get in
:16:26. > :16:31.the car, falling asleep at home and at times, in weird places. This is
:16:32. > :16:36.nothing unusual among college students per right now Chloe is
:16:37. > :16:42.medicated to stay awake. Her narcolepsy need careful management.
:16:43. > :16:45.My eyes are watering. Carefully timed daytime sleep has been part of
:16:46. > :16:53.her routine out the three years whether she is but a condition
:16:54. > :16:56.called cataplexy has been harder to solve. She collapses, she drops
:16:57. > :17:06.things, she cannot hold onto anything, all her grip is gone. Her
:17:07. > :17:10.head will go and she would just collapse and she slurs her words,
:17:11. > :17:17.her mouth goes to one side. She copes with it very well. It is what
:17:18. > :17:24.is, it makes who she is, and there is nothing we can do about that
:17:25. > :17:38.other than support her. We have a cheesy strapline. We want them to be
:17:39. > :17:43.at and achieving. Six weeks on, imaging and her family have made
:17:44. > :17:50.progress. You might not have heard of them but sleep fairies are
:17:51. > :17:55.everywhere. I just want to say well done for good sleeping. Cathy has
:17:56. > :17:59.suggested Imogen should have happened sleep very. She visits a
:18:00. > :18:04.night-time when image and sleeps well, leaving encouraging little
:18:05. > :18:09.letters. She has a sleep Ferrador that the fairy visits. I have had to
:18:10. > :18:13.be a bit more strict bedtime. The last couple of weeks have been great
:18:14. > :18:17.so we're doing really well. A full night's sleep for everybody.
:18:18. > :18:20.Onto sport and big night of football for Southampton in the League Cup
:18:21. > :18:22.semifinal and a trip to Wembley up for grabs.
:18:23. > :18:29.It's 30 years since Southampton last contested a League Cup semifinal
:18:30. > :18:31.and, such is the way that the footballing fate works,
:18:32. > :18:34.that was against Liverpool - the same opponents they face this
:18:35. > :18:55.evening in the first of two legs for a place in the final at Wembley.
:18:56. > :18:57.For Saints, it's part of a hugely busy January
:18:58. > :19:00.in which they could face as many as nine games.
:19:01. > :19:02.The halo has slipped slightly for Claude Puel's side
:19:03. > :19:05.in the last few weeks - three straight Premier League losses
:19:06. > :19:23.were followed by a frustrating FA Cup draw at Norwich at the weekend.
:19:24. > :19:44.This game against Liverpool, a good team, it is a good thing for us. We
:19:45. > :19:48.need to try to have good result. It is a fantastic opportunity for us.
:19:49. > :20:00.We did well to stop it was only a draw in the end. A really good
:20:01. > :20:04.performance. Sometimes, the temptation can be to rotate the
:20:05. > :20:08.squad. We know that Claude Puel well has rotated to some effect.
:20:09. > :20:11.On the team news front, Puel said that he wouldn't be
:20:12. > :20:13.playing want-away captain Jose Fonte, so Maya Yoshida
:20:14. > :20:18.is set to continue alongside Virgil van Dijk.
:20:19. > :20:23.Adam Larner is in the Liverpool side, Flamini, Sturridge.
:20:24. > :20:26.You can follow all the action, of course, live on BBC Radio Solent
:20:27. > :20:29.with Adam Blackmore and the former Saints manager, Dave Merrington.
:20:30. > :20:39.Dorset's Scott Mitchell has seen his bid to win a second BDO
:20:40. > :20:44.World Darts Championship end in tatters today.
:20:45. > :20:46.The Bransgore farmer, who won the title two years ago,
:20:47. > :20:48.crashed out this afternoon at the Lakeside to Belgian
:20:49. > :20:52.Mitchell, himself seeded number two, suffered a 4-2 defeat after missing
:20:53. > :21:01.He exits in the second round in Frimley Green.
:21:02. > :21:07.Staying on a Wembley theme, Oxford United moved a step closer
:21:08. > :21:18.to a quick return to the Arch in the Checkatrade Trophy.
:21:19. > :21:25.Do you know any of these iconic names?
:21:26. > :21:29.They're locations in the BBC Radio 4 shipping forecast.
:21:30. > :21:32.But, as well as being coastal stations, they also became
:21:33. > :21:34.the characters of a children's TV series, which first
:21:35. > :21:39.Alexis Green went to meet the man who co-wrote the music
:21:40. > :21:57.The 1980s saw the birth of the large number of children's TV programmes.
:21:58. > :22:07.But one that sticks firmly in my memory is based on this lighthouse,
:22:08. > :22:13.the adventures of Portland Bill. Oh, come with me to the rolling sea,
:22:14. > :22:23.where the weather is calm still... It was the brainchild of John Grace.
:22:24. > :22:27.Sadly, you passed away in 2004 but his colleague, Nick Parsons,
:22:28. > :22:33.co-wrote the music. John entered a photographic competition and won it.
:22:34. > :22:39.It was based on the three plus the scene characters. As a result of
:22:40. > :22:45.that, he was contacted by a film fare who made the wombles in
:22:46. > :22:49.Paddington. The director asked if you would like to make the series
:22:50. > :22:54.and John said, I will write the script, would you like the music? So
:22:55. > :23:01.we collaborated. It was a nice project to work on. One day, Ross
:23:02. > :23:05.was having a terrible time, trying to scrap the steps clean. Most of
:23:06. > :23:15.the characters were named after sea errors and coastal stations around
:23:16. > :23:17.the British Isles. West 40s, north-westerly, six -- eight.
:23:18. > :23:25.Portland Bill was the main character and manned the lighthouse. Two
:23:26. > :23:33.Seabees altogether, 26 episodes and stories. The theme tune is the most
:23:34. > :23:38.memorable. Come with me, to the rolling sea, where the weather is
:23:39. > :23:45.common still. We will have some fun, the adventures of Portland Bill! It
:23:46. > :23:48.has lasted for years and even now my students will come to me and say, do
:23:49. > :24:02.you still write music for Portland Bill?
:24:03. > :24:09.Overnight tonight, we are expecting very chilly conditions and tomorrow,
:24:10. > :24:17.the chance of snow. A lovely scene today. Blue skies overhead. Very
:24:18. > :24:21.chilly conditions overnight. The winds will increase in strength,
:24:22. > :24:27.very windy. Coming in from the north-west, taking the edge of
:24:28. > :24:30.temperatures, but mainly dry by the odd isolated shower. Temperatures
:24:31. > :24:35.could drop as low as three Celsius. The winds will be very strong
:24:36. > :24:39.tomorrow. Light spells first thing but clouding over very quickly and
:24:40. > :24:43.the Met Office have issued the yellow snow warning. The risk of
:24:44. > :24:50.heavy snow in many places tomorrow, which could cause is. Through the
:24:51. > :24:55.day, rain first which will help temperatures rise joined the
:24:56. > :25:00.morning. A northerly breeze digging in. The potential for snowfall. More
:25:01. > :25:05.likely for air is not a boxer. Intense rain at times, up to 30
:25:06. > :25:09.millimetres in an hour, and the strength of the winters well. You
:25:10. > :25:15.need keep three key ingredients for snow, the cold air from the north,
:25:16. > :25:20.the right wind direction and intense rainfall. The risk of snow
:25:21. > :25:24.everywhere tomorrow evening, whisking eastwards and clearing most
:25:25. > :25:31.places tomorrow night but then the big risk is following the snow and
:25:32. > :25:34.rain. Temperatures tomorrow night, in the countryside, minus three
:25:35. > :25:40.Celsius. In our towns and cities, minus one Celsius. A risk of snow
:25:41. > :25:47.and ice with this feature drifting down the eastern part of the
:25:48. > :25:51.country. We could see snowfall for the rush-hour. Really intense winds
:25:52. > :25:57.coming in from the north, making it feel bitterly cold. The big risk of
:25:58. > :26:01.snow tomorrow almost anywhere. Stay tuned to the forecast annual local
:26:02. > :26:35.radio station. Don't forget to send us photos as well if you can.
:26:36. > :26:38.I think my political beliefs are really quite straightforward.
:26:39. > :26:41.I believe that our country needs to work for everyone.
:26:42. > :26:44.Not just for the rich, not just for the privileged,
:26:45. > :26:46.not just for those who know the right people or who've got
:26:47. > :26:50.the loudest voices, but a country that really works for everyone,
:26:51. > :26:55.has the opportunity to be who they want to be.
:26:56. > :26:58.In order to make sure that the country works for everyone,
:26:59. > :27:02.Standing up for the vulnerable, for the voiceless,
:27:03. > :27:07.against those who feel that they're strong and powerful.
:27:08. > :27:10.If you're doing the right thing, then you must do that however
:27:11. > :27:14.difficult it is, even if there seems to be an easier path to take.