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Good evening. Welcome to South Today. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Service families say their complaints for improved | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
It doesn't seem like we're important enough to care about making | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
Calls for tougher sentences on the organisers of dog | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
fighting as the RSPA records an increase in incidents. | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
Three-year-old Marla's delight with her prosthetic arm | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
Instead of that, "Oh, poor you," we get a, "Wow! | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
I'm looking forward to getting to dry land again. | :00:36. | :00:45. | |
And Gosport's Alex Thomson pushes hard to the finish, | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
but has he got enough time to beat the Frenchman in the lead? | :00:49. | :01:12. | |
The armed forces covenant says accommodation provided to military | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
families should be 'of good quality, affordable and suitably located.' | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
Yet, tonight we can reveal that families in the South are living | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
Six months ago the firm in charge of maintaining them was threatened | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
with losing its multi-million pound contract unless things improved. | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
The Public Accounts Committee says they have, but that's not | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
the experience of residents as Lewis Coombes reports. | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
It's the battle that's closer to home. | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
Military families fighting for an acceptable standard | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
These are just some of the pictures sent to BBC South. | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
Kim is married to an RAF pilot based in Hampshire. | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
After 13 years, he's decided to leave his job, | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
partly due to the state of military housing. | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
A small leak from their boiler resulted in their lounge ceiling | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
being replaced as it took nine months to fix what was initially | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
Kim was heavily pregnant and recently diagnosed with cancer. | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
I just don't know what happens between the people being called | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
The process doesn't seem to work, the administration or the computer | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
It did affect my health cos I was just so stressed about it | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
and I was so focused about it and I felt so helpless. | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
Carillion Amey maintains 47,000 homes in a five year contract | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
If Carillion Amey is being paid by the MoD to do a certain job, | :02:26. | :02:33. | |
BBC South has been inundated with families on e-mail talking | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
about their experiences, but unwilling to do so on camera | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
over fears of the consequences it could have on their jobs. | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
It includes a solier of 22 years who's weighing up whether to leave | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
the military because he's embarrassed about the standard | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
of accommodation he's providing his family. | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
A group of MPs have been tasked with holding those in charge | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
Those wives are sitting looking after three kids | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
while their husbands are flying Typhoos out of Akrotiri. | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
That's not an acceptable support system. | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
It should certainly not be leaving families in the state of young | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
children and no heat, for example, and if that's happening, | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
MoD figures show the average rent fo an unfurnished three bedroom service | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
It's subsidised to help keep forces mobile, but families feel more | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
It doesn't seem like we're important enough to care about making | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
We expect our homes to be up to standard and then it | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
Carillion Amey has apologised to Kim and insists it is "working hard | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
for service personnel and their families and | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
focusing on how they can improve things further. | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
In a statement the MOD said "it will absolutely not hesitate to take | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
Earlier, I spoke to the MP Anne-Marie Trevelyan, | :03:56. | :04:06. | |
I began by asking her how things had changed over the past six months. | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
Carillion Amey have made some real efforts to progress. | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
They've improved their computer systems and tracking. | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
That side of things is now working much better. | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
The challenge that continues is, and it's something I raised | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
in the Public Accounts Committee hearing that we had yesterday, | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
is that actually stuff still isn't getting completed. | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
A plumber might arrive, have a look, work out that he doesn't | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
That can be logged as solving the problem and one | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
of the challenges I set the department yesterday was to get | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
some real clarity on what actually fixing the problem does look like. | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
So that Carillion Amey have nowhere to go on that. | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
1,300 complaints to the contractor in just one month. | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
So on the ground, are you actually hearing the true story? | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
Certainly families are contacting me and one of the challenges I have | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
acting as their advocate here in Parliament is that many | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
families still don't feel confident enough to actually contact me. | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
I know you've set up this personal hotline. | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
Families don't want to use it because of reprisals. | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
They are concerned, they're not going to get in touch with you. | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
They're not confident about getting in touch with you. | :05:19. | :05:20. | |
I think that's the real challenge we have. | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
I have confirmation from the head of people for the Army that it's | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
absolutely fine for people to contact me on these matters, | :05:29. | :05:30. | |
it's got nothing to do with defence, this is all about housing | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
They can contact me privately anyway and we can work out how | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
The Carillion Amey team are getting much better | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
Otherwise people wouldn't be coming to us saying - | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
The MoD is still holding about ?4 million from the contractor | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
Do you anticipate they'll be hanging on to that even further and could it | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
be that if the contractor doesn't come up with the goods | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
and doesn't finish the job, they could terminate the contract? | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
Yesterday the MoD people that we had in Public Accounts Committee talking | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
to us were indicating that things had improved a lot | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
and that they were minded to continue for now because change | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
But I think we must be absolutely on top of this and I would urge | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
families to contact me privately, so that I've got a much clearer | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
Six months ago I spoke to you, we're speaking now. | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
What will have changed in six months' time, do you think? | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
I would hope that six months from now, I will be hearing | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
from many former families who are frustrated by not getting | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
the repairs done that they need so that their families | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
Southern Railway is to resume a full train service from next | :06:44. | :06:51. | |
Tuesday, for the first time since last summer. | :06:52. | :06:53. | |
It held talks with the drivers' union all day. | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
Aslef has suspended its strikes and overtime ban. | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
But the RMT union, which represents conductors, is still due | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
Southern says it will run four out of five trains that day, | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
including serving Portsmouth and Southampton for the first | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
Farmers say sheep attacks are on the rise and are calling | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
for tougher action against dog owners whose pets attack | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
In the last few days there have been fresh attacks in Sussex. | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
Farmers there have met the Police and Crime Commissioner Katy Bourne | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
Sussex is a very rural area, we have a lot of farms, | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
And these incidents are particularly distressing. | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
The farmers are saying - are you taking it seriously? | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
And my message to them is yes they are. | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
But my plead to the public is whenever you see it, | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
please do report it because intelligence is vital. | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
More than 400 calls about organised dog fighting in the South have | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
been made to the RSPCA in the past ten years. | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
Now the animal charity and other campaigners are calling | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
At the moment the maximum sentence is six months in prison. | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
A warning that Peter Cooke's report contains some distressing images. | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
The hidden world of illegal dog fighting. | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
But animal rights groups say it's also been found on our streets. | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
Rival gangs using animals as weapons. | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
There is a strong link to dog fighting with crimes such | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
as domestic violence, violence towards the elderly, | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
And that's why it needs to be a recordable offence, | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
rather than something that isn't properly recorded | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
Because if it isn't recorded properly then the resources aren't | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
put into investigating and catching the criminal. | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
Despite 422 calls about organised dog fighting to the charity | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
in the south since 2006, a tenth of the national total, | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
only 137 people have been convicted nationwide. | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
Now politicians and animal welfare groups want the current maximum six | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
months sentence extended up to five years. | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
Mike Butcher works as an investigations officer | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
He's been trying to catch those using dogs to fight | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
Even for any form of cruelty, six months nowadays is just outdated. | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
You get five years abroad in Europe, longer than that in America, | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
and we are in this country, we prosecute more dog fights | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
than anybody else probably, we probably catch more dog | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
Yet we're the lowest sentencing, so it's a bit weird, really. | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
Hello. Hello. | :09:43. | :09:43. | |
Both animal welfare groups are also calling for a register | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
of banned owners and a review of the Dangerous Dogs Act. | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
But the Government says it already has the right laws in place | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
to tackle those using dogs for illegal purposes. | :09:54. | :10:01. | |
The Isle of Wight Council could elect a new leader this evening, | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
after surprise resignations earlier this week. | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
The Leader Jonathan Bacon and Deputy Leader Steve Stubbings | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
both stepped down on Monday, in what they said was a coordinated | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
effort to highlight the island's struggle with austerity. | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
The Council will meet at County Hall in Newport tonight. | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
Workers at the Atomic Weapons Establishment sites | :10:21. | :10:21. | |
in Aldermaston and Burghfield have been on strike today. | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
It's the first of two 48-hour strikes. | :10:26. | :10:27. | |
The action is over the long-running pensions row. | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
AWE has previously said it's committed to putting-in-place | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
arrangements, which ensure the long-term affordability | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
Later, we'll be joining Kris Temple in a pub for the latest on Gosport | :10:36. | :10:45. | |
sailor Alex Thompson, and here's Alexis. | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
I've been finding out why this beach in Southampton | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
'Give us more money or police services could suffer.' | :10:52. | :11:04. | |
That's the message from those in charge | :11:05. | :11:05. | |
today as they lobby the government for extra money. | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
The force needs to save ?23 million by 2021. | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
For which they've identified ?10 million worth of savings. | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
But that still leaves them needing to plug a gap of ?13 million. | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
The Chief Constable and the Police and Crime Commissioner claim they've | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
already made all the savings they can and they're | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
a victim of the national police funding formula. | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
Our home affairs correspondent, Emma Vardy, reports. | :11:33. | :11:41. | |
The thin blue line is being stretched ever more thinly. In | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
Hampshire, the force has lost hundreds of art is supposed in | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
recent years and it seemed a specialist teams cut back and more | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
than 30 police stations are said to have been closed or it is set to go. | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
Today, the Chief Constable appealed directly to the Government for more | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
money. I am concerned because I wasn't concerned I would have penned | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
a letter to the Minister. It is a very serious issue. The formula | :12:10. | :12:17. | |
isn't fair. What we do know is it's a great police force and we have | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
already made significant changes. We are a really efficient constabulary. | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
Today is about securing our financial future in the longer term. | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
Hampshire says it is around 25% underfunded compared with other | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
forces, getting less money for policing. But the Government is | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
changing the way it calculates how much each force should get. That's | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
why Hampshire is making its case now. In a number of places around | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
Hampshire, police have moved out of the traditional police stations and | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
into shared buildings with the council and Fire Service, like here | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
in Southampton Civic Centre. That is cheaper. Before it says it got out | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
all the savings that can in they need another option. The current | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
national funding formula which is two thirds of my money is not fit | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
for purpose. There is a process at the moment are updated and I'm | :13:07. | :13:08. | |
giving the evidence to the Minister to nature we get the funding | :13:09. | :13:13. | |
nationally and they are funding locally. Police are being forced to | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
get ever smarter to make their limited resources go further, like | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
here at the frantic innovations centre set up at Portsmouth | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
University where Hampshire now uses its students and volunteers | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
alongside experienced officers to help fight cyber crime. The Home | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
Office said today it believes there is no question the police still have | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
the resources to do their important work, but will be considering | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
Hampshire's case and that of other forces in the coming months. | :13:41. | :13:41. | |
Emma, if funding isn't increased for Hampshire, | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
It's been made very clear today that Hampshire Police do believe there | :13:45. | :13:53. | |
are services could be under threat. What police do, they assess risk and | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
then the deal with crimes as they happen. With resources being | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
stretched, the bark of that would have to be set that much higher. -- | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
bar. That could mean the police would not be able to attend as many | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
crime scenes as they once did I would have to get even less time to | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
the less serious offences. To some degree, that is already happening. | :14:14. | :14:16. | |
For example, some crimes are now dealt with over the phone where once | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
upon a time he might have had a police officer, to see you in | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
person. That's the kind of stuff for the public will not have the | :14:25. | :14:32. | |
difference. Is the Government decides to allocate funding to | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
different police forces is being reviewed now for the first time in | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
over ten years. The chance to influence this doesn't come along to | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
police forces very often. That's why we've seen Hampshire appealed | :14:43. | :14:45. | |
directly to the police minister, Brandon Lewis, very publicly today. | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
What we know is the Government will decide to make a decision on this | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
next month, whether they agree with Hampshire's case, Hampshire has told | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
us they think the Government is listening and that it does see this | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
kind of unfair deal and it believes it's getting. -- that it believes it | :15:03. | :15:04. | |
getting. Three year old Marla Trigwell | :15:05. | :15:06. | |
was born without a hand. It's never been an issue for her, | :15:07. | :15:08. | |
but now things could That's because she's just started | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
using a prosthetic hand. This was one made on a 3D printer | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
for just a few pounds. James Ingham has been | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
to meet her family. This was the moment Marla opened her | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
very special Christmas present. Her smile says it all - | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
this prosthetic hand It's a boost to her confidence and | :15:26. | :15:27. | |
it's a psychological boost for her. So, when she meets people, | :15:28. | :15:38. | |
instead of that, "Oh, Marla's hand was made | :15:39. | :15:40. | |
at a community workshop in Newbury Members of this club who love | :15:41. | :15:48. | |
working on technical projects offered to help, | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
turning a design that's freely To do it was actually not | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
very difficult at all. You've got the fingers, the palm, | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
the lower arm, the upper arm, the connecting pieces, | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
put them together and you can get I'm quite proud that this has turned | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
out better than I'd expected and it's really changing the lives | :16:12. | :16:19. | |
of young Marla and her family. Materials for this | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
hand cost only ?30. More traditional | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
prosthetics are thousands. And Marla wouldn't be | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
able to get one of them The NHS can't provide a functional | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
prosthetic until they're much older, Whereas with the 3D printing, | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
they're available now. She's three and a half | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
and she's already using one. Marla is very able with just her one | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
hand and she and her parents may decide never to wear a more | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
advanced prosthetic. But by using this lightweight | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
plastic hand, she will be better Marla's mum Joanne writes | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
a blog, with another mum, about their experience bringing up | :17:02. | :17:12. | |
daughters with Marla's condition. You can read that at | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
ontheonehand.co.uk. Sport now and this evening, | :17:16. | :17:23. | |
Alex Thompson has admitted that Vendee Globe glory is now | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
probably beyond his reach. But he is still going | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
and so are his supporters, Let's go live to Kris | :17:34. | :17:35. | |
Temple who is in a pub, a very special pub. | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
Kris. Tony was bouncing off that sofa last | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
night counting down to the thrilling We are here at the sea horse. The | :17:44. | :18:01. | |
reason we're here is because this pub, the landlord Alec Thomson 's | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
brother and Abbey. Here are a group of supporters that turn up every | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
Wednesday night. They have gone after the finish. The final 24 hours | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
sailing, Alex Thompson hot on the heels of the leader. Let's speak to | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
some special guests. Tracy is the assistant manager of the pub. You've | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
been left in charge. Tell us what's been drawing these people here. Alex | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
did it before he went to France and every Wednesday since he left they | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
have met, eating, not enough, and supported him all the way through | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
it. The are avid fans and I'm really proud of you all. You have live | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
Wednesday night chats with Alex. We've just had one. He called Abbey | :18:52. | :19:00. | |
and he talks every week and tells us what he's doing and has a chat. He | :19:01. | :19:11. | |
talks if the kids aren't here. He is the bit busy trying attack at the | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
moment. Simek easily got to step it up now. 300 miles to go. He's about | :19:16. | :19:23. | |
30 miles behind. A very tight finish. You've had this damage back | :19:24. | :19:32. | |
-- boat since November. Simek Alex's foils were revolutionary. They were | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
very quick. When he broke his foils, it was bad. He is a very experienced | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
around the world sailor and he's taken it in his stride. He's been | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
fantastic and kept on his heels all the way through it. What is this | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
last 24 hours going to be like? I'm not sure were going to sleep that | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
much. Can Alex do it? CHEERING | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
The pretty confident here at the Sea horse. Alex was very much in | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
positive spirit is hoping that he did take over the leader. We will | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
have the latest situation at our late bulletin. | :20:10. | :20:18. | |
Southampton's hectic fixture schedule continues tonight, | :20:19. | :20:20. | |
as they bid progress in the FA Cup at the second attempt. | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
Claude Puel's side host Norwich in a third round replay, | :20:24. | :20:25. | |
after being pegged back in the last minute in the original | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
Saints have lost four league games in a row, | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
but have a league cup semi-final next week too. | :20:32. | :20:33. | |
The winners tonight host Arsenal in round four. | :20:34. | :20:35. | |
Reading have completed the signing of Liverpool defender Tiago Ilori | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
The 23-year-old Portugese centre-half has moved | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
to the Madejski Stadium for an undisclosed fee. | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
The owner of Dorset-trained horse Cue Card has confirmed that he'll | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
run in the Cheltenham Gold Cup in March, rather than | :20:49. | :20:50. | |
With his stablemate Thistlecrack the odds-on favourite | :20:51. | :20:59. | |
for the blue riband race, the Colin Tizzard yard had mooted | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
the possibility of Cue Card diverting to another race. | :21:03. | :21:04. | |
But owner Jean Bishop has said today that Cue Card | :21:05. | :21:07. | |
Here at the Sea horse, Alex is going to try and bring back the action. He | :21:08. | :21:20. | |
is going to try and call back in about an hour's time together is the | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
latest update but he is really tired. He's had a problem with an | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
anemometer and he is suffering from a lack of sleep. Fingers crossed, | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
Alex, you can do it. Everyone here at the pub is behind you. He has | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
certainly got the support, the support of so many people. We will | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
have all the news for you tomorrow and tonight on the late bulletin. | :21:44. | :21:44. | |
He's 75 years old and an ex pharmacology lecturer. | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
Yet, Richard Evans from Southampton, has chosen to spend his retirement | :21:48. | :21:49. | |
doing something completely different. | :21:50. | :21:51. | |
He's made it his weekly duty to regularly clean litter | :21:52. | :21:53. | |
from the city's Weston Shore beach - no matter what the weather. | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
This morning, I joined him on his cleaning round! | :21:58. | :22:07. | |
When I came to Southampton in 2001 and I walked down | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
on our Western Shore, I thought this is a lovely beach, | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
So I started picking it up and gradually it's taken on my life. | :22:16. | :22:27. | |
# I can see clearly now the rain is gone.# | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
Come rain or shine, retired pharmacologist Richard Evans | :22:33. | :22:34. | |
is found litter picking along the shingle of | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
A lot of it comes down if there's nice weather, | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
you get a lot of people down and people leave | :22:43. | :22:44. | |
Even though they've carried their food there, | :22:45. | :22:53. | |
they don't think to carry the wrappings away. | :22:54. | :22:55. | |
16 years of picking up litter is certainly not | :22:56. | :22:57. | |
His wife thinks he's barmy, but Richard's unpaid work | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
There's no doubt that Richard's an absolute star player | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
of ours and few have done more to keep Western Shore as clean | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
and green working partnership with the council as he has. | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
And it's a pleasure and a privilege to go litter picking alongside him. | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
The amount that he collects is phenomanal. | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
The famous 2014 Valentines Day storm, that brought incredible | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
amounts of lots of mud on this beach. | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
I think it's my way of trying to create heaven on Earth. | :23:30. | :23:44. | |
# It's going to be a bright, bright sunshine day.# | :23:45. | :23:53. | |
He is certainly a local hero. If we all did a little bit of that, we | :23:54. | :24:02. | |
would have a clean world. Lots of litter on our beaches but he is | :24:03. | :24:04. | |
helping clear it. Onto the weather. Very cold over the next few days. We | :24:05. | :24:17. | |
saw temperatures plunge last night going to around minus six Celsius. | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
This was the scene first thing. The glow of the sunshine over the water | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
in the Basingstoke with the morning frost. Temperatures dropped down to | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
around minus six Celsius tonight but tonight not as low. We are expecting | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
widespread frost with freezing fog patches. Temperatures tonight in the | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
countryside could drop as low as minus five. These are temperatures | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
in our towns and cities. Currently minus three Celsius. We will see | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
those temperatures tumble away. The farther north and west you are, | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
temperatures will be above freezing, it still the chance of frost through | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
parts of Oxfordshire. A lovely bright start of the day tomorrow | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
with frosty conditions in the morning, sunny spells in the | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
afternoon and cloud feeding in northern and eastern areas with | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
temperatures reaching a high of five or seven Celsius and the winds will | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
be light. In the evening, the cloud will thicken and it won't be as cold | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
as last night. Lows of around two or three Celsius, hovering above | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
freezing. Some clear spells and the chance of frost on Friday morning. | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
For most of us on Friday we will see a sunny spells but there is the | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
chance we could have the odd patch of rain. Not amounting to too much, | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
high-pressure remaining in charge of our weather. The best of the | :25:38. | :25:39. | |
sunshine will be very southern coastal counties. As we look ahead | :25:40. | :25:48. | |
to the rest of the week, tomorrow is a lovely sunny day, a chilly start, | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
more cloud the further north you are and we will see cloud started | :25:53. | :25:55. | |
filling from the east during the course of the day, arriving from the | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
north sea. Friday, some sunny spells and over the weekend there will be | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
varying amounts of cloud that we are hopeful that cloud will start to sin | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
and break with the breeze and we will see some sunny spells. | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
There'll be a news summary at 8pm and we'll be back at 10.30. | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
Hello. I hope you're well. I really do. | :26:18. | :26:57. | |
Because if you're not, then chances are the NHS won't be able to | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
look after you as well as it should. And that's wrong. | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
Because the Labour Party created the NHS 70 years ago on | :27:05. | :27:09. |