23/01/2017 South Today

Passengers are being bussed off to other airports because the fog is so

bad. Flights grounded, ferries

delayed and a string of crashes on the motorways -

as freezing fog and A campaign for life: parents call

on the government to test all pregnant women for an infection

that can be life I was due to be induced on the

thirsty only to find she didn't have heartbeat. It is really important

for mothers to have the test, it can mean the life of their baby.

Another crackdown on drivers who use their mobiles at the wheel.

It's the first time for me so it is a lesson learned.

The Prince visits Help for Heroes on Salisbury Plain.

Freezing fog and ice meant major travel disruption

There were 61 collisions on Hampshire's roads this morning,

There were delays to ferry services and flights were cancelled

Lewis Coombes is at Southampton Airport -

Lewis, not many flights from there today.

Usually at this time of the evening, Sally,

bustling with commuters returning home, or heading on an

Is passengers left for a warm and frustrated wondering whether they

will get on any flight at all. More than 60 flights cancelled in total

and a similar picture at Gatwick. A number of passengers have been left

grounded. When your Disneyland dream

turns into a nightmare. Having left Dorchester

at 3am this morning, this family should now be in Paris,

but instead they them on a different We should have flown

to Paris at 7:15 a.m.. The flight is meant

to be 6:45 tonight. There is no guarantee

that the flight will go tonight. To keep them entertained

here is very difficult. Other passengers were taken

to Bournemouth or Bristol to board I walked through the door

and the flight was cancelled and I had

to join a very long queue. I am trying to get to Edinburgh

after work tomorrow and it doesn't look like I am

going to get there. At Gatwick, planes were left

on the runway for over two hours. Gatwick seems to have found

they don't have the staff to escort passengers back to the terminal

which means further delays. A combination of ice

and freezing fog 14 accidents reported

in Dorset before 9am alone. An eight car pile-up

on the M3 added long heading South and it wasn't

any better for those trying to get

to or from the Isle of Wight. The Portsmouth car

ferry was running a two With Fastcat services

to and from the island not running quite as fast, everyone was left

dancing to the fog's tune. unfortunately it looks like the fog

is here to stay and the Met office has issued a severe weather warning.

The Yarmouth ferry has already been suspended tomorrow morning. The

advice is to check with your travel operator before travelling anywhere

tomorrow. There has also been advice about the impact air pollution could

have on your health, those with heart and lung problems have been

advised not to do any physical exertion outside for the next 48

hours. It's carried unknowingly by one

in four pregnant women. For their babies it can lead

to meningitis, sepsis, pneumonia, Group B streptococcus, or Strep B,

can be detected by a simple test - but currently it's not routinely

offered on the NHS. Today, families from across

the South were in Whitehall to hand in a 250,000 signature petition

asking for all pregnant women Anjana Gadgil has been to meet a mum

who had to deal with the devastating Jo was two weeks overdue when she

found that her baby was in full At that point it was too

late to save her life. I had to be induced on the first

day only to find that Later that evening,

I gave birth to Faye. I was also poorly

because I contracted the infection as well

and was in hospital for five days with septicaemia.

Group B strep is the most common cause of life-threatening

It carried by one in every four women

and can pass to the baby around birth.

In the UK, one baby a day develops group B strep infection.

Every week one of those babies will die.

One baby a fortnight survives the infection but is left

have universal screening but not the UK.

Today, a group of bereaved parents handed in a petition at the

because it has over a quarter of a million people signing

seeking change, setting the introduction of

a simple, safe test during pregnancy and then for women where group B

strep is found, for those women to be offered simple penicillin in

The evidence for bringing in this test is overwhelming.

It's frankly inexcusable that another

child should die of this wicked infection which is eminently

Public Health England said in a statement...

Jo went on to have another daughter, Georgia.

She wants to prevent the tragedy of parents not getting to know their

And there is more information and advice on the website featured in

that report, on the screen for you. Almost 8,000 motorists were caught

using hand-held mobiles at the wheel in just a week during a major police

operation in November. The figures have been released

as a new crackdown starts today. It's all part of an attempt

to make driving whilst using a hand-held mobile as socially

unacceptable as drink-driving. 8am this morning and the rush-hour

rash of drivers on their phones is We are out with John

and Adam from Hampshire Police and they soon come

across this man using his device. He accepts what he has done and gets

a fixed penalty notice. On another road,

this man is texting. Even in slow traffic it's

an offence to use your phone. He also is pulled over

and given a ticket. We carry on and even with the added

dangers of today's fog, drivers That driver is now

about to get on his way, the fourth driver we have

stopped this morning and we have No wonder today's

figures show such a huge increase in the number

of drivers using their phones In a one-week nationwide

police operation last people were stopped

using a mobile phone. That's nearly four times

the number just two years ago. I think it's a combination

of education, enforcement on our part and changes

to legislation which the government have obviously planned,

and it has taken years for drink-driving to become socially

unacceptable and we need the use of mobile

phones while driving In 2015, Lee Martin was killed

by a driver using his phone. His brother said the

public must wake up People forget they should be

looking at the road and that is an easy thing to do

and people need to learn to not pick In March, the fines

and penalty points will double for drivers

using mobile phones. The law is trying to get ahead

of people using this behaviour More than 40% of junior doctors

admit to having fallen asleep So what happens when you put

a junior doctor behind the wheel of a car straight

after a busy night shift? The BBC's Inside Out programme did

just that at Berkshire's Transport Research Laboratory as part

of its investigation into the impact that working night

shifts has on staff. As Jon Cuthill reports,

the result was an eye opener. It's 8am and this junior doctor has

just finished another 13 hour night I cover intensive care and we had

a full unit of patients. If you'd like to come through to

the simulator and take a seat. To see how working

nights affects her driving we've brought

her to the transport research laboratory

in Our own perception of fatigue

level tends to lag beyond reality and by the time we realise

it we could already have made a Sam is put through a series

of tests on a virtual Just 19 minutes in she starts

having micro sleeps. It is a slightly

longer blink, up to 15 seconds duration, but neurologically

it's an indication that someone has For Sam and all drivers her results

come as a wake-up call And you can see much more

on that story on Inside Out The latest strike by

conductors has been causing disruption for passengers

on Southern Railway today. The company says it's managed to run

seven in ten services. Our transport correspondent

Paul Clifton is here - that's not far off a normal

service for Southern? The service even on a good day is

the worst in the country so today was perhaps 15% down on a normal

day. The bottom line is that during an RMT strike, most trains can now

run with the drivers controlling the doors. They have reached Portsmouth

and Southampton for the first time on a stripey and many Sussex

passengers have had direct trains to London instead of having to change.

Tomorrow a new law will be proposed to limit strikes on the railway. We

have recently seen strike action by a handful of people stopping 300,000

commuters getting to work or home to see loved ones and it is not

acceptable. That is why I believe a High Court judge should decide when

strikes on critical infrastructure are proportionate and reasonable to

stop the small number of people holding hundreds of thousands to

ransom. The RMT union who said today's strike was rock-solid takes

a dim view of that. It is a human right to withdraw labour and unjust

laws need to be broken. We are social movements and we fight for

social justice and it would be absolutely impossible to impose the

most terrible exploitation of this was allowed to become law so we have

to oppose it. What of it talks between the company and the drivers?

They held their fourth day of talks today was no word of progress and

the other union was excluded from the Cox. Its drivers will strike

tomorrow but compared with the 1000 Aslef drivers, the RMT has just 12

through the company will run a full timetable tomorrow.

A Hampshire man has condemned a court in Iran for rejecting

an appeal against his wife's five year prison sentence.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has dual British-Iranian citizenship.

The charity worker was detained when she took their young

daughter to Iran last year - on what's been described

Her husband Richard says his high profile campaign for her

At the family home today, the presents remain,

and wrapped for the celebration that never happened.

Weeks on from Christmas and still waiting for the return of her

granddaughter and her mother, jailed for five years in Iran.

I think most of us go to bed thinking about her, wake up

thinking about her, and it is always in your thoughts.

The rejection of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's appeal

against her jailing for unspecified security

related charges followed a

The success of events like this at keeping her

in the public eye were cited by her accusers as evidence of her guilt.

None the less, today her husband was tried once

more to keep her story in

500 pages of the prosecution file was the media

campaign, showing she must be an important person because look

how much her husband has been campaigning.

Clearly nonsense and in terms of that meaning,

will we back down, we

Another thing another family said to me, whenever

they get cross or they are annoyed to keep doing it, so it

shows we do need to keep campaigning.

And the Foreign Office had meetings this week.

Iran's actions have been described as a

mockery of justice, by Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's employers.

They say that they are outraged by this

latest turn of events and have called on Tehran to reunite her

with her daughter and husband as soon as possible.

People have been wonderfully supportive to us and I

There must be someone somewhere who has got the

key to this, we just haven't found them yet.

Stay with us - Tony has all the weekend sport.

Alexis has the weather - more fog on the way.

It's back with a vengeance, dense fog patches already causing problems

this evening, the details shortly. The bill for protecting Portsmouth

from flooding is set to top ?150 million,

a government minister Most of the money will have to be

spent re-building Victorian defences in Southsea after storms breached

the wall in 2014. Environment Minister Therese Coffey

denied the city was soaking up money Our Political Editor

Peter Henley reports. Much of the city of Portsmouth lies

below sea level. When storms breached defences at Southsea, plans

were drawn up in a major reinforcement of the sea walls. Any

visit today the floods minister said the project looked ready to uproot.

The City Council said it would be a real amenity for the setting. To use

that seawall as almost a seating to watch some of the spectacular

sailing that goes on and to have some more cycle pathways and to make

it really safe, as much as we possibly can. This is just a

temporary solution to make a permanent new seawall will cost ?140

million. That money is probably on the way but the worry is that big

schemes like this soak up all the available funds. It leaves less for

rural areas. Areas like Hambledon have now seen major schemes but not

everywhere can be protected. In the rural areas, it is difficult to get

enough interested parties and money together to justify schemes that are

easily justifiable in a place like Portsmouth when you're protecting so

much in terms of number properties. It is a no-brainer. Some work has

already been completed. This line of granite imported from

Norway at a total cost of ?44 million. This is future proofed

against proposed estimated climate change impacts. Never the less we

will continue to encourage people to make their homes resilient as the

one thing I cannot promise is that no one will be flooded ever again.

When it comes flooding causes huge destruction and although the total

bill has now topped over ?150 million, compare to the loss

flooding would cause, the authorities believe it is a sensible

use of taxpayer money. Prince Harry has been in Wiltshire

today to see how former members of the Armed Forces are being helped

with mental health issues. The prince spent the afternoon at the

recovery Centre in Ted is worth what supports ex-service personnel and

their families living with anxiety, depression and stress. No stranger

to Help For Heroes, Prince Harry came today to learn more about the

field of mental health. They call at the head and wins service where men

and women find themselves dealing with depression, stress, anxiety and

something turning to alcohol. There is a risk at the moment that people

get used to experiencing low mood and anxiety and stress and think

they don't need support, so the more we can raise awareness and see their

stuff we can do and we can help you, if you can recognise those symptoms

and yourself. The Prince was shown the things they do and introduced to

people they help. They have found lots of ways to help people here.

This gives them space to think but also they are in the outdoors, using

tools and their hands and working as part of a team. I have got both

physical and mental issues that I need to address, I am no longer the

person I was when I joined the force. We would all agree it is a

therapeutic environment and we enjoy being out and enjoy the company of

Comrade is. Learning new skills and defining ourselves by what we can

do. Lots of friends are still battling through but they have been

pointed in this general direction by myself and other friends and

colleagues. It is invaluable. With Prince Harry highlighting the issue,

Help For Heroes hopes to remove the stigma of mental health problems.

Straight on to sport and let's stop football and look ahead to

Wednesday. I went to see their manager today and he was talking

about they deem it would be to get Southampton to a major cup final,

more on that coming up. Southampton ended a four game losing

streak in the Premier league and will head to Anfield

in a confident frame of mind after a convincing win over

Leicester yesterday. The champions were no match

for Saints in the midday sun. James Ward-Prowse swept

in a fine first goal. Jay Rodriguez thumped in a second

by reacting first to the lose ball They had a goal disallowed for

offside early in the second half. Then Shane Long was bundled over

in the box and Dusan Tadic completed Did you strike it as cleanly as you

would have liked? I can't even remember, sometimes a bagel in and

if you hit it too sweetly it goes on to the stand but I am just pleased

to get the goal and it is a massive result going into Wednesday, gives

us confidence and belief. In the Championship, Brighton's

dramatic win over Sheffield Wednesday on Friday night briefly

put them back on top of the table. Newcastle promptly won on Saturday,

but tomorrow Chris Hughton's men can go back to the summit if they beat

Cardiff in their game in hand. Reading have dropped to fifth

after their loss at Derby. They really drop points if they

score first saw the omens were good when they led at Derby through John

Swift. The home side followed that with three balls on the bounce.

They fought to the end, this header the last, but tomorrow they have a

key game against Fulham. Eddie Howe raised much of his side's defending

in the 2-2 draw against Watford but undone by two corners from the

physically powerful visitors. Italy in the second half it was level as

Joshua King completed a fine move to slot in the equaliser. Bournemouth

are still to win in 2017 and any chance of that changing probably

vanished when Troy Deeney punished them again from a set piece. Home

games are certainly entertaining. Benik Afobe took his goal well to

earn a point. Real quality goals and they worked really hard for them so

disappointing to give that away. Bournemouth are 12th in the table

and have cup weekend off before hosting struggling Crystal Palace a

week tomorrow. Portsmouth didn't play as the pitch

at Crawley was frozen, So Pompey player Christian Burgess

went on social media to ask if anyone had

a game on he could watch, Burgess then got a reply

from Bransbury Park under 12's. Sure enough, he turned up to help

out at training and give the players an experience

they would never forget. That is great! Footballers are not

all bad at all. There was disappointment

for Team Solent Kestrels men and women's clubs this weekend

on the basketball court, they lost their national

final to Northumbria Worthing Thunder maintained

their unbeaten start to 2017 at home with this victory over

London Lituanica in what was a warm up in the league before

their National Trophy semi Lyonell Gaines scored 37 points

including nine rebounds. And the freezing weather no doubt

made ice hockey players feel Basingstoke Bison and Bracknell Bees

squared off in a local derby. The Bison came out resounding

winners scoring five unanswered Bracknell remain a place off

the bottom of the table while Guildford flames are sixth

after one win and one Worried about that fog actually. The

big issue overnight tonight and tomorrow is fog, again. That is

right and we have had freezing fog lingering in many places today so

the temperature tomorrow could be even lower.

John Lewis photographed the dense freezing fog at Barton on Sea.

This eerie picture of the fog in Blandford was taken by Greg Stretch.

And Rebecca Beusmans captured a frozen bubble

The start on a foggy note. The weather for the week ahead, it will

start to feel less called by the end of the week with the lot of dry

weather this week but bitterly cold temperatures, particularly on

Thursday, and overnight tonight, some really dense fog patches. The

Met office have a fog warning in force. This is up until midday

tomorrow, solemn pomp polices the fog may not even left. Some bright

and sunny spells with lows overnight of potentially minus five. A

bitterly cold start to the day with lingering fog patches that may stay

with us through much of the day. Some of the fork me left into low

cloud and quite cold temperatures with the lack of sunshine but where

we see sunny spells, a high of five Celsius. He called into the day and

once again freezing fog will develop through the early hours of Wednesday

morning. We are expecting it to be more densely further east you are.

The further west you are, the milder the temperature, dropping to

freezing or just below. We are hoping the freezing fog will start

to thin and left. This allows for some bright and sunny spells of on

Thursday, a filament of cloud. A bitterly cold day, and Europe at the

moment around freezing so the temperature will be very cold on

Thursday but with plenty of sunshine. A dry and sunny day. This

weather front is expected to arrive through Friday, some patchily and at

times and a lot of dry weather and on Friday after the potentially

frosty start we see bright spells with the temperature reaching a high

of 5-7. A contrast to today, with some places heading just 2-3. The

weekend less called and mainly dry with some sunshine.

That's it from us this evening, tick here if you have to be out and

about. Tomorrow you will want us to a new sport, cyclo-cross. That's all

from us, good night.