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Hello, I'm sorry Taylor. Tonight, going underground, after 30 years of | :00:07. | :00:14. | |
talks, controversial new plans for a major tunnel near Stonehenge. This | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
scheme has now been proposed, it is a major disaster for the world | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
Heritage site. It really is. Let's take it on the table, yes. The | :00:24. | :00:32. | |
strike has cost the taxpayer ?60 million, but you were to cover the | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
cost of rail strikes in the future. Every parent's nightmare, a child | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
won't sleep, but can all children be taught the art of slumber? And girls | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
are back on the road again in the same car, sharing a fond memories of | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
a fond memories of the 1970s Raleigh. We decided the best bet was | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
to have paper knickers, so we won't have to worry about washing | :01:00. | :01:00. | |
knickers. Critics say it would | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
cause irreparable damage to a world heritage site, | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
but, after almost 30 years of debate, new plans | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
for the region's most controversial A tunnel - just under two miles long | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
- to bury the A303 as it passes There will also be a bypass for | :01:17. | :01:25. | |
the village of Winterbourne Stoke. The total cost of the scheme | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
is more than ?2 billion. Our transport correspondent | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
Paul Clifton is at the What do we know, Paul? Sourly, | :01:32. | :01:45. | |
successive governments have loved this idea, and then they've hated it | :01:46. | :01:51. | |
-- Sally. Years after the tunnel idea was resurrected, we have the | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
plans. Seven miles of dual carriageway, the centrepiece, a 1.8 | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
mile tunnel. Now, put this in perspective. In decade, no other new | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
road in southern England has cost this much money. At ?1.4 billion, it | :02:06. | :02:14. | |
is more than three times the price of the tunnel, 15 times of the | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
Weymouth relief road. And it is profoundly controversial. | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
The solution, make the whole route a dual carriageway. | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
The National Trust hopes it will eventually look like | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
It actually makes a big difference to the World Heritage | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
We will have 1.8 miles of clear space in the World Heritage | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
We would look to start construction in early 2020 and have | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
the road open, with all its benefits, by 2024. | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
But some people believe the proposed tunnel is much | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
If they're going to put a tunnel in, it needs to be long | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
enough not to do any further damage to the site. | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
With this scheme as now has been proposed, it's a major | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
disaster for the World Heritage Site. | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
And it is a shocking indictment on our | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
government, that it would consider damaging | :03:13. | :03:14. | |
a World Heritage Site in | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
Winterbourne Stoke will get a much-needed bypass, perhaps | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
through here to the north of the village, an embankment, using spoil | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
Yes, we campaigned for a dual, that could be a | :03:27. | :03:37. | |
dual tunnel, a dual carriageway, a dual anything, but we need what's | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
This is the most difficult part, but the | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
bigger picture is an expressway to the south-west, with average speeds | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
The A33 follows the line of an ancient route, one of Britain's | :03:51. | :04:08. | |
hideous roads. But it was not until six years ago that it was the main | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
road, it only took that role when lorries got bigger and they had to | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
avoid towns. Salisbury, Shastri. The tunnel idea appeared in 1989, after | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
Selby is planning the government decided it was a bad idea, it was | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
dropped. Two years later it was back, then a public enquiry approved | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
it. Ten years ago the cost reached ?500 million, so it was dropped, | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
again. Four years ago, the idea came back three thirds time, but now the | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
tunnel was to be much longer and cost more than twice as much. Then, | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
at Stonehenge, Prime Minister David Cameron made the promise. We have | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
managed the nation's finances carefully, the money is there in the | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
budget and you will see that in the Autumn Statement on Wednesday, is | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
this will go ahead. So, what happens next? Public consultation starts | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
now, and a preferred route will be fixed this summer. The target is to | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
start digging in three years' time and it will take four years to | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
build. What are the chances of this happening, it is the third attempt? | :05:17. | :05:26. | |
It is without doubt one of the most controversial road schemes in the | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
entire country. Lots of people will hate it, locals broadly like it. | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
There will have to be a dual carriageway, the amount of traffic | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
the man said. It is a notorious bottleneck. But in transport terms, | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
it makes no difference whether the dual carriageway is on the ground | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
beneath it. The tunnel is really an environmental scheme to protect our | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
most famous ancient monument. Ultimately, whether it gets built | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
not depends on how much as a we are willing to pay to remove the traffic | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
from our global icon of Stonehenge. And at ?1.4 billion, it comes quite | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
a price tag. It is likely to go ahead, but there still time to yet | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
another change of heart. Paul, thank you very much. | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
After two days of strikes, drivers on Southern Rail | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
returned to work today - but not for long. | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
Industrial action will resume from midnight. | :06:14. | :06:14. | |
Tonight, we hear the story of Alex Prosser-Snelling from Horsham. | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
His daily commute to London has been disrupted for the last 10 months - | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
and it's got so bad, he now cycles for part of the route. | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
Two years ago, Alex Prosser-Snelling started commuting from Horsham to | :06:24. | :06:35. | |
London and the journey taken on a heart. For the past year it has | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
taken between two and five hours one-way, often requiring a route | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
involving car, train and bicycle. It has taken its toll and Alex and the | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
people with whom he usually travels. I have two small children so bedroom | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
is eight o'clock at night. Sometimes they will wait sometimes they won't. | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
I know people who've lost their jobs because of it and I know people who | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
to have a house move, people who've lost their relationship, the impact | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
is appalling. Alexeev a passenger representative on board said by | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
government to improve the government. He said the service is | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
not a normal franchise operations of the government should take greater | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
responsibility. When you buy your ticket, the money goes to the | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
government, said this is not a franchise, it's a contract and the | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
Department for Transport keeps revenue. Southern Dem commentate | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
you, it is a taxpayer who pays. It is the taxpayer that will pay the | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
extra compensation per season ticket holders, so this starts at the door | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
of the Department for Transport, namely to intervene much more | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
actively to get a resolution to this long-running dispute. Passengers who | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
like cannon fodder, we just wanted resolved and that really is a that | :07:49. | :07:58. | |
advancement -- responsibility for the Department for Transport. | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
It's been revealed that the government is to put clauses | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
in new rail franchise agreements that will allow employers to claim | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
back any revenue they may lose because of industrial action over | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
The Department for Transport say modernisation is needed, | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
but the RMT say taxpayers shouldn't be forced to foot the bill. | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
The role of guards is the cause of months of strike | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
Meanwhile, in Liverpool, plans by Merseyrail | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
to introduce the scheme are also proving controversial. | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
Today, the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn spoke | :08:28. | :08:29. | |
about the dispute to our political editor Peter Henley. | :08:30. | :08:31. | |
Southern Rail has to fess up and deal with the issue. | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
They've run a bad service, they've run short trains, | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
they've cancelled trains, they've still been paid | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
by the government to do it | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
and it is a very odd sort of contractual | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
government pays them whether they run | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
the service or not, and the | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
government retains the fare income from it. | :08:54. | :08:54. | |
The RMT tell us today that the government | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
new contracts for Northern Rail, for South West Trains, saying they will | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
reimburse them for future strike action. | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
Would you allow that to happen, do you agree with that? | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
seems a very odd way of doing things because | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
government is then abdicating their responsibility on that. | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
Surely it is up to the franchisee, where they run | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
a service, to run it properly and to have good | :09:15. | :09:16. | |
relations with its staff, rather than have this back-up with | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
the government saying, it doesn't matter how | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
bad your relationships get, you will continue to get your | :09:23. | :09:24. | |
Is it the safety issue that you are backing the union on? | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
Because in Liverpool, they are introducing | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
driver only trains, and this is a Labour authority. | :09:33. | :09:34. | |
They've come to an agreement, I assume, on that in | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
Let's go back to the issue of Southern. | :09:39. | :09:50. | |
The safety issue, you've got packed trains, you've got one | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
driver with four seconds to decide whether or not the train is safe to | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
It only wants one mistake, somebody's hand trapped in a door, | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
bag trapped in a door, not spotted, we've got a dangerous situation. | :10:01. | :10:02. | |
The RMT say they are in dispute about driver operated trains on | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
I want them to come to an agreement on it, everywhere. | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
And let's just go back to the issue of | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
Southern, they've run a terrible service. | :10:13. | :10:14. | |
They've disrupted a lot of people's lives, and the strike is a | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
result of all of that service problem. | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
Surely it is up to the government to encourage Southern and | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
the union to get together and make an agreement on the safety issue, | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
just as much as I'm sure Joe Anderson in | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
Liverpool has come to an | :10:32. | :10:32. | |
How many of your MPs would join you on a Southern | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
They know it sends the wrong message to the | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
Well, the message to commuters is simply this, we want a | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
rail system that works, we want everyone to | :10:44. | :10:45. | |
nobody's interest to have a strike, it is in nobody's interests to have | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
disruption, but that's what happens when a company doesn't | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
recognise that there are legitimate safety concerns. | :10:54. | :11:06. | |
Later, warnings of icy conditions tonight. | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
Here's Alexis braving the wintry conditions. | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
Snow has been falling in many places, but wanted clears, big issue | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
tonight will be ice. I will have the details for you shortly. | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
Many of you may have seen snow today. | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
In some parts of the South, it's been a light flurry | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
And, as temperatures drop, people are being warned to stay safe | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
in the icy conditions, Let's join Ben Moore in Reading, | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
Yes, I'm sorry to disappoint you, we had quite a lot of snow and sleet at | :11:35. | :11:53. | |
about five o'clock until six o'clock, it cause a lot of problems, | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
but now we barely got a rather cold drizzle. It seems like a lot of | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
people left to work early expecting the snow, and it has calmed down. | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
But other travel, the airport around Southampton and Gatwick have | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
survived their dusting of snow, any problems they have were because by | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
those flights that were cancelled at Heathrow. The message from them is | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
do check before you travel. As Alexis just mentioned briefly, the | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
big problem tonight is going to be ice. The local authorities across | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
the South are saying this now that has fallen has melted, a lot of | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
water on the roads, with the freezing temperatures and night, | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
very icy conditions expected tomorrow. When the road will be | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
busiest at rush hour. The message is, do check everything, take the | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
roads, check the airports before you travel tomorrow. Whilst we may have | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
survived the worst night, it could cause trouble tomorrow. Alexis is | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
coming up shortly. Now, yesterday, we had an exclusive | :12:56. | :12:56. | |
insight into the work of the Children's Sleep Service in | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
Southampton. They treat highly unusual sleep | :13:00. | :13:00. | |
disorders, conditions In a moment we'll hear just why | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
childhood sleep is so important, first Chrissy Sturt reports | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
on another difficult case. He's very cheeky, since he was | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
a baby he was walking early, talking Ever since he was born, | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
Lucas has woken He screams and screams and screams | :13:18. | :13:28. | |
and screams and we don't know what's It's like he's almost having | :13:29. | :13:40. | |
a fit, you can't even You've literally just | :13:41. | :13:48. | |
got to let him ride He struggles the next day, | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
his behaviour is really changing. He's not getting | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
the sleep he should. He should be getting at least | :13:58. | :13:59. | |
12, 13 hours a night. You never get a chance to actually | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
catch up on your sleep, you need to sleep for months, | :14:03. | :14:05. | |
I think, to be able to feel normal Lucas's broken nights seem severe, | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
but this family don't meet the strict criteria for a referral | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
to the Southampton sleep clinic. It would absolutely not be | :14:15. | :14:21. | |
right for every child with a sleep problem | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
We should only be seeing probably 5% or | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
less of children with sleep problems. | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
That leaves a care gap of families like this. | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
Too complex for health visitors, but not severe | :14:35. | :14:36. | |
enough Cathy's team at Southampton's sleep disorder service. | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
enough for Cathy's team at Southampton's | :14:44. | :14:44. | |
The answer is to train more community nurses | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
who can visit families in their own homes. | :14:48. | :14:49. | |
Rachel has now received such specialist help. | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
The vast majority of children can be taught how to | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
settle themselves to sleep that night and how to settle themselves | :14:56. | :14:58. | |
back to sleep when they wake up at night, which they will do naturally. | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
Cathy's aim is to train many more community nurses to meet these | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
You've got to be living it to realise how stressful and how bad it | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
Not only is the child not sleeping, the parents aren't | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
And we all know what that feels like, maybe on one tonight, | :15:20. | :15:30. | |
And we all know what that feels like, maybe on one night, | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
but what we don't know what that feels like it if it is happening for | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
Even though he's tired, and he tells me he's tired, | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
It can break marriages, it can ruin families, it | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
Earlier, I spoke to Dr Cathy Hill, who runs the clinic, | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
and she began by explaining why sleep is so important for children. | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
So, I think the starting point is, children spent half their lives | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
So, I think the starting point is, children spend half their lives | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
If there wasn't something fundamentally important about that, | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
So sleep cuts through everything in terms | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
terms of your mental health, so we tend to be only interested | :16:05. | :16:08. | |
in sleep when we're not getting it, and we | :16:09. | :16:10. | |
forget that when we are asleep, there are lots of amazing things | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
happening in the brain and in the body. | :16:14. | :16:15. | |
So, example, healing, learning, things that you've learned | :16:16. | :16:17. | |
in the day are actually stored away in your brain, | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
So, when this goes wrong, it has a big impact later in life, | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
Well, that's a really interesting question, potentially yes. | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
That information and research has just | :16:28. | :16:29. | |
started to evolve, but there's some very interesting data that suggests | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
So what is it, then, that triggers the sleep | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
So there is a whole array of sleep disorders in | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
The one that we most commonly see is what we call | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
behavioural insomnia, and the main principle | :16:46. | :16:47. | |
to understand that is that | :16:48. | :16:49. | |
all children, in fact all of us, naturally wake up multiple times | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
We don't remember it, they're often brief awakenings. | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
And what children have to learn to do is settle back to sleep after | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
And that's why it often goes wrong in young | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
And it's interesting what you have said in the films we've | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
seen, that children can learn and do learned how to sleep | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
seen, that children can learn and do learn how to sleep | :17:14. | :17:15. | |
So, is it our fault as adults that we are not teaching them | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
There's often reasons we can find as to why | :17:21. | :17:30. | |
Sometimes perhaps a child has got a physical illness, | :17:31. | :17:38. | |
and that makes it much, much harder for parents | :17:39. | :17:40. | |
And one of the top tricks for young children, and the | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
parents of young children, is to teach the child to self | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
soothe, to settle themselves to sleep at the | :17:48. | :17:49. | |
And how do you do that, what are the tricks? | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
Because there's something called sleep hygiene you talk about? | :17:53. | :17:54. | |
One of the things we say to parents is | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
imagine when your child naturally wakes at perhaps 11 o'clock at | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
Does their bedroom look exactly the same as when they | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
settled to sleep at the beginning of the night? | :18:03. | :18:04. | |
And almost always when we see children in clinic, there is | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
Whether it is the light show on the ceiling | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
when a child is falling asleep, the music that is playing, | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
the parent that is sitting alongside them, | :18:14. | :18:15. | |
And imagine yourself, if you woke up and your | :18:16. | :18:18. | |
room suddenly look different, you would struggle | :18:19. | :18:19. | |
You are one of only a few centres in the UK, you've got a huge waiting | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
You can't take all the referrals that come to you. | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
How frustrating is it that you can't help | :18:29. | :18:30. | |
practically every day, saying, when am I going to be seen? | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
And that's very frustrating, but obviously we | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
have the resources we have, we'd love to have more resources, and we | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
So it all comes down to money, does it? | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
And, if you'd like to find out more or support | :18:46. | :18:53. | |
Dr Hill and the team at the Southampton Child Health | :18:54. | :18:56. | |
Health Sleep Clinic, visit their website on | :18:57. | :18:57. | |
On to sport, with football. Saints won a 1-0. How we feeling? They will | :18:58. | :19:14. | |
feel all right, good results. There's just something in the back | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
of a mind which is they have some good chances maybe when 2-0, | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
Liverpool didn't do too much. They will be stronger at Anfield. That's | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
not complain, it's needed that is good. -- lets knock on playing, it | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
is good. 30 years ago Liverpool came out | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
on top when these two sides contested the semifinal | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
of the same competition. Last night it was Southampton | :19:42. | :19:43. | |
who dominated for long The only concern that they didn't | :19:44. | :19:45. | |
score more in this first leg. A minute after missing | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
out on a chance, Nathan Claude Puel's men were | :19:50. | :19:51. | |
playing with a flourish, something Saints fans haven't | :19:52. | :19:59. | |
always seen this season. Redmond nearly doubled | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
the lead before the break. A two-goal advantage | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
to take to Anfield Cedric made the wrong | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
choice here with a great And late on, Redmond | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
came agonisingly close Should they have got | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
more than one goal? Hopefully we can do the same | :20:18. | :20:26. | |
in a fortnight's time. Definitely should have had more | :20:27. | :20:38. | |
than one, but they should have had more than one as well, | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
more than We stopped the rot, we had a draw | :20:42. | :20:43. | |
at the weekend, we've got Fantastic game against a great | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
team, great players. I think it is the first | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
time since the beginning of the season, Liverpool, with | :20:53. | :20:54. | |
the one chance here in the game. Jurgen Klopp bemoaned | :20:55. | :20:59. | |
his side's lack of For Saints, Wembley is one step | :21:00. | :21:01. | |
away, but that is still a big We will be at Anfield | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
in a couple of weeks. Reading hope to secure a 9th home | :21:07. | :21:18. | |
win in 13 matches in the EFL Jaap Stam's men will no doubt be | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
hoping for a performance to erase memories of that 4-0 defeat | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
at Manchester United in the FA Cup. It will be a different game tonight, | :21:27. | :21:35. | |
and more important, that 4-0 defeat you mentioned at Old Trafford made | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
the headlines, but priority number one is promotion to the Premier | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
League. Reading so good in the championship, here at home where | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
they are looking for a six consecutive win. They will have to | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
do it without their captain Paul McShane, Cullen Harriet also out. | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
Reading third, QPR down in 17th, a win and they will move up to three | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
pints of second-place Newcastle. The weather isn't a worry, there has | :22:00. | :22:08. | |
been talk of snow. Cold and wet, but snow won't be an issue denied. The | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
goals at 10:25pm. Alex Thomson says his last chance | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
of winning the Vendee Globe races rests with a ridge of high pressure | :22:16. | :22:18. | |
close to the finish line off He still lies around 250 miles | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
behind the leader in the single There's less than a week | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
remaining for the front pair, Thomson and Armel le Cleach | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
as they sail north The Frenchman is maintaining his | :22:29. | :22:30. | |
lead despite the Gosport sailor gaining more speed | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
in the last few hours. Back in 1970 Bronwyn Burrell | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
was the youngest driver in the World Cup Rally from London | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
to Mexico, now half a century later she's been reunited with her car | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
and is competing again. At the age of 72 and living | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
in Hampshire village of Milford on Sea, she's planning to re-stage | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
the first leg of John Maguire caught up | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
with her in training. Wembley 1970, had a car rally marks | :22:57. | :23:09. | |
the handover of the World Cup hosting duties from England to | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
Mexico. Sir Alf Ramsey waves them off, and in car 20, three women | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
about to start a 16,000 mile race. We were away for six weeks, it | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
seemed like a lifetime. It wasn't a lifetime, it was a flash. Gosh, | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
there is those in our lovely green dresses and red jackets. On the | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
ramp, we are starting our huge adventure. We were young. I think I | :23:37. | :23:43. | |
was the youngest. The team was well-prepared, mechanically and | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
personally. We decided the best bet was to have paper knickers, so we | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
could discard them, not worry about washing. Such ingenuity might return | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
as almost 50 years on, she has recently bought the original car, | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
nicknamed Puff the Magic wagon, and they are ready to race again. What a | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
shame, she is no longer with us. She will love it. We are going to miss | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
her, we have to change a tyre. Should we take her out? See if we | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
can still do it. She hasn't driven competitively since the early 70s, | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
but you would never guess. In April they will drive to Portugal once | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
again, this time in a classic car rally. It's a bit more control | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
because of health and safety. You can't do what we used to do, please | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
do have one night sleep, not any more. The sport may have changed, | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
but the car and especially the driver looked as fast and furious as | :24:46. | :24:46. | |
ever. Come on, go, girls. Fearless! What a | :24:47. | :24:59. | |
ride. OK, onto the weather, you want to know what's going on. Still the | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
risk of snow and ice is the big issue. | :25:05. | :25:06. | |
Angela Walters took this photo of the snow settling | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
in the Chilterns this evening near Princes Risborough. | :25:10. | :25:11. | |
David Ryves sent us this picture via twitter of the snow | :25:12. | :25:13. | |
And Dot Williams took this picture of her snow man in Thatcham. | :25:14. | :25:23. | |
A few centimetres over the Chilterns and higher ground in Oxfordshire. | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
Overnight, once the rain, sleet and snow clears, there is a big risk of | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
ice on untreated surfaces. So the chance of one to snow showers | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
drifting in from the north-west, but mainly dry overnight tonight, and | :25:39. | :25:40. | |
through clearing skies, temperatures will fall away into minus figures, | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
even in towns and cities. In the countryside we could see a low of | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
minus four Celsius. A cold, frosty and very icy start to the day | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
tomorrow, the ground is damp. A big risk of ice do stay tuned to your | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
local radio station for the latest on the travel. Through the morning | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
tomorrow, we may see the odd snow shower, particularly the eastern | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
part, Berkshire, Surrey and also west Sussex, but otherwise a dry day | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
with plenty of sunshine, with feeling cold, bitterly cold north | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
westerly breeze digging in. Temperatures up to around four to | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
seven Celsius but feeling more like two or three, given the wind-chill. | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
Tomorrow evening and overnight, the chance we could have the odd snow | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
shower. It should stay dry and once again, with a light wind, a | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
widespread frosty start Saturday. Cold temperatures as well, falling | :26:32. | :26:37. | |
to around -1 Celsius in urban areas. Cold, frosty potentially icy start | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
to the weekend, but Saturday should be mainly dry, although there will | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
still be that keen northerly wind driving in that Arctic air, taken | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
the edge of temperatures. Feeling chilly with the weather front moving | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
south on Saturday, which may produce a wintry weather. Some rain and | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
sleet moving its way south across the country. As we look ahead to the | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
rest of the week, and into the weekend, lovely sunny conditions | :27:04. | :27:06. | |
both tomorrow and Saturday, although that cold, strong northerly winds. | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
That starts to ease over the weekend and we draw in some slightly milder | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
air from the Atlantic. Sunday, the chance of rain, also some rain on | :27:17. | :27:18. | |
Monday, but the ..and keep telling yourself | :27:19. | :27:19. | |
over and over, "This will end." Ladies and gentlemen, | :27:20. | :28:15. | |
the bride and groom. So what if I forgot | :28:16. | :28:15. | |
our poxy anniversary? Er, I think this year | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
was copper. 14th is poxy. Marriage is a marathon, | :28:20. | :28:22. | |
not a sprint. Like a marathon, | :28:23. | :28:23. | |
you have to keep on going... | :28:24. | :28:26. |