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In tonight's programme. for news where you are.

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The true cost of using a mobile phone at the wheel.

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The day Meg met the man who killed her boyfriend.

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I don't want to hate you forever, I am not that type of person.

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Eventually I will probably be able to forgive you.

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Is this one of the most dangerous roads in the south?

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A BBC South investigation examines the record of the A34.

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An eight year wait - the widow who's been unable

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to lay her husband to rest after he was killed

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We can't go up and stand outside. We have got nowhere to go, we can't go

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to the grave or a garden of remembrance.

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A controversial disallowed goal and it's Cup Final

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These are the faces of people who have died in car

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crashes in the south - all of them victims of motorists

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This week, a new law comes into force which will double

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Well, one teacher from the south is calling for schoolchildren to be

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taught about the dangers of drivers using mobile phones.

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She has her own reasons for wanting to change the culture

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Matt Graveling has this exclusive report.

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Gavin was an Australian through and through.

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We'd talked about holidays potentially going out

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It was something we were both really looking forward to.

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He was on his way to work and then he was about six miles

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or so from work and then just didn't make it.

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Lewis Stratford - a 24-year-old painter and decorator

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from Oxford was driving - and arguing with his

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girlfriend on the phone - when he crashed into Gavin's car.

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I wish I could turn back time, change obviously not

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And from that moment I was just blaming everything on me.

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And I didn't want to get better then, I didn't want the physio,

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I didn't want the treatments, I feel like I've been kept

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here to pay for the mistake that I've made and punished.

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Gavin died of his injuries four days after the accident.

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Lewis has already pleaded guilty to causing his death

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When someone gets convicted of a crime or an offence you never

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get to see what that person's like and what

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Just days before he's due back in court to be sentenced,

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I want to ask what he was thinking, what possessed him to pick

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up his mobile phone behind the wheel - I want to know how he's feeling

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now, how it might affect him and to let him know how I'm feeling.

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Lewis agreed to meet Meg with our cameras present,

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and restorative justice councillor Helen Leney.

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An apology that's given in court is very often mistrusted by a victim

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whereas if a victim sits down face to face with the person who has

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caused the harm that can be enormously helpful in allowing

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victims then to be able to move on from what's happened.

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I'll never forget it ever and I'll never be sorry enough but I can't

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every time I say sorry it sounds a bit cheap, it just sounds not

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A little bit, but then so many people do it, so many people.

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I don't want to hate you for ever, I'm not that type of person.

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Eventually I will probably be able to forgive you. I just needed some

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questions answered first. for all schoolchildren to be taught

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about the dangers of using mobiles behind the wheel before

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they start learning to drive. Well, a little earlier, I talked

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to Meg from our London studios. And I started by asking her why

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she had wanted to have For me, it was about having hows and

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whys answered. I just needed a few answers to the puzzle and to put the

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pieces into place. You just said you had a lot of questions. Did he

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answer those questions? He did and he was very open about it and was

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able to show his compassion and stated that he didn't want others to

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feel sorry for him because he knew how much we had been through. How

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did you feel about meeting Lewis? That he understand why you wanted to

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meet him? The reason I have done it is to use this filming as a

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deterrent and to have this as a massive impact on people to stop

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them from picking up their mobile phone, and on both sides, I think it

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will really hit home with some people. New laws come out this week

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on the use of mobile phones while driving and they are supposed to be

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tougher. Do you think they are tough enough? I am emotionally charged by

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this but I don't think they are, ?200 and six points to some people

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as pocket money, so the idea of maybe raising the money and putting

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them through a diving we are we on this course where they see the

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impact using a mobile phone can have. We do it with drinking and

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drugs so why not mobile phones as well? How do you think we should go

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about changing this culture? The key behind it is education and to start

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at school, those who are due to a couple of years' time and have the

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younger generation are weird of the impact using their phones can have

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and hopefully that will then rub off on older generations. What is your

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simple message to drivers? Do not pick up the fallen and if it brings,

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leave it, and it will be there at the end of the journey. You might

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not make it otherwise and others might not either.

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And you can see much more from that extraordinary meeting,

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on Inside Out tonight at 7:30 here on BBC One.

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Meg's partner, Gavin, died on the A34.

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The road, which runs from Winchester up into the Thames Valley,

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seems to have more than its fair share of headlines

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And is it the fault of the design or the motorists?

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Our reporter Joe Campbell is near the A34, near Chieveley,

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As one of the team I am more than familiar with this would both from a

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motorist and from standing alongside reporting on crashes which have cost

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lives and change the lives of survivors forever, but is it a

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dangerous road? The BBC commissioned a team of experts to crunch the

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numbers and other transport correspondence reports on what they

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found. Who could forget the terrible crash

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last year that claimed the lives Tomasz Kroker was choosing music

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on his mobile phone instead His lorry ploughed

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into a queue of traffic. A car was crushed to

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a third of its size. Along with her sons Ethan,

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who was 13, and 11-year-old Joshua, and her partner's daughter,

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Amy Goldsmith, who was 11. In the last five years the road has

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been closed 56 times due to accidents in which people have

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been injured or killed. So is this road

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unusually dangerous? There have been a number of

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high-profile collisions on this road but when we look at the collision

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rate compared to roads of a more size we find it has a relatively

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good safety record. Research carried out for BBC South

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paints a picture of the A34. Over the last ten years,

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the number of crashes Broadly in line with

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the national trend. Some parts of the route

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are higher risk than others. The northern and southern

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ends are worst. There are different ways

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of measuring road safety. But the crash rate here on the A34

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is around one third less than the national average for this

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type of road. Let's compare it with similar

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roads in this region. The A34 is much worse

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than the A303 in Wiltshire. But it is safer than both the A3

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in Surrey and the A31 in Hampshire. The crashes here are mostly

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due to driver error. Not to the design of the road

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or the number of vehicles. There is an issue on this road with

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the variance of speed. When you have vehicles travelling at different

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speeds the risk increases significantly so it may be that

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smoothing traffic speed and increasing the amount of space

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between vehicles would be a significant step.

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Here, just over one vehicle in ten is a lorry.

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So we looked specifically at crashes involving heavy goods vehicles.

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Over the last ten years the rate has fluctuated.

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And it's ahead of the national average.

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The A34 has seen some truly horrendous crashes.

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But putting all the statistics together, we've found no evidence

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that it's significantly more dangerous than other roads.

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Those are the statistics but one thing is clear, those who are less

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alongside the road are unlikely to be changed in their conviction that

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something has to change, and to give you a personal perspective, coming

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here I had to brake sharply on two occasions when Lawrie spilled out

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with little or no warning. A case of bad driving or that when you have

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fast moving traffic and slow-moving the there is always the potential

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for the conflict. Thank you. And I'll be presenting a live

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debate on the subject, with three of our local radio

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stations, tomorrow morning, from the village of East

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Ilsley, in Berkshire. A care worker has gone on trial

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accused of stealing money from a 74-year-old man on a visit

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to his home at Littlehampton, At Chichester Crown Court,

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39-year-old Theresa Stratton is accused of theft from widower

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David Skerritt, who had Parkinson's The jury was played CCTV footage

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which the prosecution says shows Miss Stratton taking money

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from his wallet. She told police she needed

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petrol and Mr Skerritt Miss Stratton, from

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Littlehampton, denies theft. The train drivers' union ASLEF says

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it will resume talks The talks are aimed at resolving

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the ongoing dispute over the introduction

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of driver-only operated trains. A deal struck between union bosses

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and the rail company was rejected The RMT union, which

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represents guards, is not City of London Police have charged

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a Dorset man in connection with the sale of fake car

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airbags on ebay. Robert Czernik from Blackbird Close,

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in Poole, is alleged to have sold goods likely to be mistaken

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for a registered trade mark. He is due to appear before

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magistrates in March. Bournemouth father-of-three

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Stephen Mallon was fatally injured after being attacked by armed locals

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and pushed from a 16 foot ledge. Today, at an inquest,

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his family were told they are now free to bury Stephen's body -

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eight years after he died. A quiet Spanish village and an

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unlikely scene for the most violent of unprovoked attacks.

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Stephen Mallon and his two sons were set upon by 30 men armed

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with knuckle dusters, iron bars, belts and bottles.

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A night in Spain, that ensured this family woud never be the same.

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When they came out of that Barbie were surrounded and cornered in. An

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armed mob waiting for them, two young lads with their dad and then

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being chased through those cobbled streets and being trapped, it is

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horrific. Spanish courts took five years to imprison just one man. He

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served five years for the equivalent of manslaughter and has been

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released. Long before Stephen's body was been

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released from Bournemouth Mortuary. It really is like a living nightmare

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and we got so used to Stephen being in the mortuary and it seemed really

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quite normal to us, which is really weird because it is abnormal. We

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cannot go up and stand outside the mortuary door, we have nowhere to go

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and we cannot go to a grave only garden of remembrance. Just awful.

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Stephen's two sons Peter and Carl have both been psychologically

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scarred and diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress.

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He dry fighting for his life and for our lives and we wouldn't be here

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without him. It is unfair, the amount of people that attacked us,

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just too much. It went on for too long. He didn't deserve to be left

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like that in the mortuary. Since 2014 the delay has been caused by an

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appeal process and the lack of legal aid.

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The Mallon Family have criticised Dorset Cornoer's Office for a lack

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of a communication - having made little or no contact.

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Today's Coroner Rachel Griffin apologised for the delays

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but in a statement blamed the Spanish judicial system -

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adding it was something beyond their control.

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A concusion of "Unlawful Killing" was heard.

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Stephen's funeral has now been scheduled for later this week.

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He would be so heartbroken to see really what his family has had to go

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through these past seven years. He would just want his children to

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recover and move forward from this. He was always laughing and joking,

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always smiling. He was just a lovely man.

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Alexis has the weather forecast later and some people

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Will the wet and windy weather continued? Some of us love it and

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some of us don't. On to sport and there really is the

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one big subject to talk about. A great day out for Saints fans but

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not the result they wanted and what about that disallowed goal? We ended

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a programme on Friday standing here and waving flags because that is

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what it will be remembered for. A flag that was incorrectly raised for

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offside, by most people's reckoning. The interpretation of the rule has

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changed but the current law stands and it brings into question whether

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football will change with the times you bet. And the company behind this

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new technology. We have featured Hawk-Eye and this could be one of

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the companies that comes in to bring the goal-line technology, or more

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than just the going technology, the changing decisions. They are testing

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it in the likes of Italy and the Netherlands. Taking goal-line

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technology to the next phase. World football's governing body FIFA

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will meet with the home nations this Friday at Wembley to discuss

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extending the use The venue is apt after

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what seems another example of human error in yesterday's EFL

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Cup final. Southampton were beaten 3-2

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by Manchester United but they were left to rue a critical

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early call which denied them a goal and their new star striker

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a potential Wembley hat trick. Full of praise for their team and

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frustration for the officials. The ones of this final will take time to

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heal for the Saints fans. We should be proud. We are gutted, we should

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have won that game. The march to Wembley began at Saint movies and

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match these don't come much bigger. Swamped by red and white. 15 days to

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prepare men they looked fresher what's on Manchester United fans

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still arguing the gall to any final back in 1976 was offside. Perhaps

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this was payback. Few believe Ryan Bertrand was interfering with play.

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You need those decisions to go for you especially any major final,

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playing against a team of the quality of Manchester United. It

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would have been massive for us as we got that. A cruel moment ruthlessly

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exploited by United before the break. Ibrahimovic's goal priceless.

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When Jesse Lingard made it two, some thought it was all over, but the

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Saints stamped and they grabbed one back and in a wonderful start to the

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second half, he would level. Gabbiadini has done it again! The

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game then came down to two headers, but with wood minutes to play,

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Ibrahimovic's hit the net, and soon after it was all over. Everyone is

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very sad. They must be proud of what we has done and we wanted to feel

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it. I didn't think we were going to get a single goal tonight. You could

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look at it in a negative way and we were in a cup final! I think we were

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the better team and the statistics will say that. We put the ball on

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the net three times and it should have gone to extra time. I really

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thought we had it at one point and we just needed one more goal.

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Revenge from 1976 but Saints won't forget this one in a hurry.

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A lot of the reaction has focused on the goal that wasn't

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In today's Daily Telegraph former Referee Keith Hackett describes

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the offside flag as atrocious and goes onto to say "Either way it

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should have been an easy decision and it is one that officials at this

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Saints legend Matthew le Tissier kept it short: "disgusting decision"

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The view from NBC Sports' Joe Prince Wright: "It was a shocker

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of a call and ultimately changed the outcome of the game."

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One from yours truly as Gabbiadini scored his second "that's

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Lloyd sent us this picture of supporters gathered in Dubai.

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And here's the red and white turnout in New York City.

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Good turnout as well. One other piece of news from Southampton, the

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club's director of scouting Ross Wilson has been targeted by Rangers

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as their new director of football. The Glasgow club are restructuring

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their setup after losing Mark Warburton. Lots of other football

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this weekend, here is the round-up. The first of two mega matches at the

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annex in four base, well beaten by an Albion side that fought them on

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the break. This neat control helped put Brighton into a first-half lead.

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Albion picked the moment in the second half putting the game to bed,

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Jamie Murphy outpacing the backline. Chasing the game, the Reading

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defence was threadbare. The points sealed ten minutes from time.

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Tomorrow night a capacity crowd sees Newcastle visit. Eddie Howe's

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Bournemouth haven't won in 2017 and on Saturday they suffered their

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fourth consecutive defeat in the league. They won an early penalty,

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but Locke wasn't on the site as the shot took a wicked deflection to

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equalise. More eyes on the keeper, flapping at the corner and suddenly

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they were 2-1 up. Five points above the drop zone. Portsmouth are on the

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up, three goals in the last 20 minutes. Gary Roberts putting them

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one up and look at this one from long range. Into stoppage time we go

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and plenty of space to make it three goals and points, hunting the top

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three. Very good. Just to say, a lot of football the last few days and

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the big match coming up but also sailing.

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The Duchess of Cornwall has praised the skill and spirit

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of soldiers returning home to Hampshire from Iraq.

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She spoke to soldiers of The Fourth Battallion

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"The Rifles", in Aldershot, about their recent

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deployment helping to train Iraqi security forces.

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Friends and family watched on as it rained heavily on the parade

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More to continue and we saw a bit of a lovely puddle jumping deadlier. We

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had some lovely rainbows. A bit of a blustery day and blustery conditions

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continuing through this week. It was a cold and wet start

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to the day on Hythe Pier. This picture was sent

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in by Penny Wade. Camilla Woodhouse captured a double

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rainbow in Duntish in Dorset. A cold and blustery start and there

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will be sunshine at times as well and a brisk wind on occasion.

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Clearing skies and that may be the case overnight with the chance of

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one to two wintry showers the further north you head, slightly

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more rain towards the Isle of Wight and the temperature falling to

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freezing. HLA start and mainly dry, one or two wintry showers and lots

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of sunshine. During the course of the day we see the showers rolling

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and maybe went to the over high ground but sleeps next and as well,

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the temperature reaching a high of eight Celsius and the wind risk from

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the West. Showers rattling their way through and the showers will

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continue for some tomorrow night. For most it will be dry with a few

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clear spells and the temperature falling to freezing in the

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countryside, these are the temperatures in our towns and

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cities, so the chance of ice on untreated surfaces and a dry and

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bright start for Wednesday and through the course of the afternoon

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rain starts to push up from the south mainly affecting southern

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coastal counties, still a bit of uncertainty as to how far north the

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rain will be but the further north you are we hold onto the sunshine

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through most of the day, highs 8-10. Thursday is the highest with a rich

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of high pressure building and decent amounts of sunshine although the

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wind starts to increase and the next weather system will arrive through

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the course of Friday and that rain band on Friday could be quite heavy

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at times. This is just an indication of the weather on Friday because of

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his a few days away but we hope it clears in the evening with the

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temperature reaching a high of nine. A few days away, things can change,

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but rain or showers and feeling chilly with sunny spells at times.

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That's it from others, more later but tonight we leave you with some

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of the images of the fans from yesterday's cup final. Good night.

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Go on! Gabbiadini has done it again! Ibrahimovic puts Manchester United

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3-2 up! Manchester United three, Southampton two. They hardly deserve

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it. I thought we were brilliant tonight. They had lost with honour

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and pride. To be in the Lords,

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you have to be punctual... literally have to slam

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the door in somebody's face. What right do they have

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to tell ME about my fashion sense.

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