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In tonight's programme. so it's goodbye from me,

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"Shameful and an utter disgrace" - a children's charity calls

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on the government to enforce its law on adults sexually

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grooming youngsters online The toddlers who need

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a kidney transplant - why are so many youngsters

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As a gay man, I know how important it is to grow up with positive role

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models. The teacher who chose to come

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out to his students. If I can make a difference in the

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job I do, that is a great thing. how arsenic may have played a part

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in her poor eyesight. It's a legal loophole that

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could leave youngsters at risk. The NSPCC has condemned

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the government for not implementing a law that was set up to make it

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illegal to send a sexual The anti-grooming legislation

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was created two years ago, The charity says that's

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an 'utter disgrace'. In tonight's South Today,

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we have the story of a 15-year-old girl from Wiltshire who was sent

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sexual messages by Molly - not her real name -

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received the messages from a man we're calling Gavin who was involved

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with her local youth group. Molly's words are

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spoken by an actress. It was just pure innocence

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at the beginning. He used be just like "How's your

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family, what you doing?" And him telling me that his partner

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was in the bath, or asleep. He is just being overly friendly

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at the time, is what I thought. I got up for school and I went

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downstairs and I loaded up my laptop I just read the message

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and closed my laptop back down I'd get text messages from him

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when my parents weren't home and he'd be driving round my street

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trying to get me to go I'd make an excuse that

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I was looking after my sisters. One time it got so bad I had

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to crawl around on my bedroom floor There are a lot of people out

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there that are having, like, adults talk to them the way

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they shouldn't online. A lot more children could be

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protected from being groomed. It does happen a hell of a lot more

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than anybody would want to admit. We asked the government

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for an interview but they told us no one was available,

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instead they sent a statement saying they are looking

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to make an announcement The NSPCC says it wants

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immediate action. Earlier, I spoke to Lisa McCrindle

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the charity's Policy Manager, We have been waiting two years

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for this law to be available for the police to use

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to protect children. We have asked the MOJ

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to explain and asked if we can help to alleviate any challenges

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they may be facing. It is operational in Scotland

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and Northern Ireland. We need it to be available to police

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to use in England and Wales The law covers sexual

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messaging to children, whether online, text messages,

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through gaming apps, sending messages of a sexual

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nature to children. It may be asking them or telling

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them what sexual acts they would like to undertake

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on a child or would like the child to do to them or it might be

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asking them to tell them about the underwear

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they are wearing. Behaviour that you and I recognise

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as being deeply inappropriate between an adult and child

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and behaviour that we know is part Groomers will be using this to test

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children and escalate up. What we want to be able to do

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is for police to use this offence so they can intervene

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in the grooming process much earlier and prevent children from ending up

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in contact offences. What should parents look out

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for this type of grooming? Parents want to be looking

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for behaviour that is new contacts the children don't know,

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behaviour that is escalating so contact suggesting

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the child is beautiful, praising them but then maybe

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escalating and testing the waters and if parents have any concerns,

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they should be having this concerns, conversations

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with their children much earlier. Have the conversation before

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you are worried about anything, reassure your children if they have

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any concerns about contact online, they can come and talk

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to you so you can support them and get the support you need to take

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the next steps and take action. How to avoid mental health patients

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being arrested or taken to A? As we reported yesterday

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that's the challenge facing our local police forces,

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but what's the solution? BBC South Today has been given

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exclusive access to some of the region's mental health

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programmes aiming to give the right Our Home Affairs Correspondent

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Peter Cooke reports. These street triage team links other

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mental health worker and police officer who attend a emergency

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mental health course. The team advise those who need

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help to avoid them being taken This man called 999,

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saying he was depressed Yes, it does, but the thing

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is, when it goes away, You know, the mental

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health problems. Nobody knows what I'm

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going through, basically. The scheme will soon be

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operating seven days a week. We will get some instant updates

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on the background of people and it A team of mental health

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experts are on hand at the Royal Berkshire Hospital

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to support them. Elsewhere, the Isle of Wight runs

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an integrated programme where a police officer works

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with mental health professionals to decrease the number of people

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reliant on ambulances Just a washed-up junkie

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with mental health problems. I must be the worst service user.

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They got me through it. This has already reduced the number

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of people being sectioned. There were times when we had up

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to 21 sections per month and three the serenity integrated mentoring

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and interventions, we now have Do we select officers who want fast

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cars or offices with clinical human more of an emphasis so they come

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into the service looking at justice and that is a massive challenge but

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it starts with projects like ours. Surrey Police is now planning

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to introduce the project. Peter's here with me now -

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how has the support around There's been a realisation in recent

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years that different agencies have been working in silos,

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in isolation of each other. But have all been dealing

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with the same individuals with As we saw there are some good

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examples of how groups are now coming together to work in a more

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cohesive and collaborative way Instead they're trying to support

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people in the community. But the pace of change has

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been slow and that's Not all areas will have the money

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or resources to set up similar programmes -

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so they say it's about finding an efficient way

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of working which suits them. The Chief Constable of Sussex police

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has previously said: 'We have to stop treating

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PATIENTS like criminals - and START treating CRIMINALS

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like patients.' A young couple living

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at an apartment block say they're amongst dozens of people waiting

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to get back into their homes - nearly two weeks after a fire

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at the building in Portsmouth's They say they haven't been allowed

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to collect possessions, medication and clothes -

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and say the stress of the situation The company that manages

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the building says its unsafe The fire damage on the outside

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of the Roundhouse building at Gunwharf in Portsmouth

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is still clearly visible. Back on February 25th,

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hundreds witnessed the drama unfold. But one young couple say almost two

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weeks later they're still waiting I don't have any clothes, I am in my

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final year at university and my dissertation is due and I do not

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have my books. We have nothing. The main thing is my medicine, I have

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bad asthma, I need to have my inhalers and I don't have anything

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on me. Mark - not his real name -

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says he managed to grab a few I did not take my uniform so when I

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could not get back income I could not go to my shift. The stress

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caught up with me and I was sick. The lettings agency says it has been

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frustrated and inconvenient for the Firstport Bespoke Property Services

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says its very sorry they say the building suffered smoke

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and water damage in a fire which affected the electrical system and

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other services. The company says it's hoping

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residents will be allowed A woman is in critical condition

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after a three vehicle crash on the Hampshire and Sussex border. It

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happens at Row gate just east of Petersfield.

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Stay with us to find out about the power behind

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the Wessex Warriors as the team explains a new style

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There are calls for the resignation of Surrey County Council leader

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David Hodge tonight after further twists in the "sweetheart

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Letters released last night revealed the fury of some MPs who thought

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the county had been promised 40 million pounds of extra cash.

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The documents obtained after a BBC Freedom of Information request

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detail extensive negotiations to allow the County Council to be

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the first in the country to keep all of their business rates.

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But in Parliament today the Local Government Secretary

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answered Labour questions by saying no deal was done.

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The BBC has now published a letter from DCLG officials showing they did

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in fact offer Surrey more cash in a unique deal.

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Did the Secretary of State know about that letter

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Surrey approached the department, as do many other councils before

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a financial settlement asking for more money and they made

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a request being considered for business rates retention plan

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There's been a rise in the number of babies and very young children

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At Southampton General there are currently five children

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under the age of five who are waiting for transplants,

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Many will need regular dialysis while they wait for surgery.

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Our health correspondent, David Fenton reports

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from inside the special unit that helps keep them alive.

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Suleman spends three hours a day three times a week on a dialysis

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machine. He was given just a 1% chance of survival as a baby, but he

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If he didn't have this piece of equipment here, I don't know,

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we would really be struggling with him, so we are very

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fortunate he has responded well to this treatment.

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The team here sees many children with serious kidney problems.

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Within 48 hours he was sitting up and eating and his denial and since

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then has been astonishing. Day-to-day, you wouldn't

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know to look at him. But the number of patients under

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the age of four is growing, The number under the age

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of four is increasing because we are diagnosing them

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better, looking after them better. Babies and toddlers can take a full

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adult kidney and thrive if they can find a donor. Sometimes that is the

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hardest part. Growing up in Hampshire,

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he was constantly bullied Later, when Daniel Gray was training

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to be a teacher, he was advised to hide his homosexuality being told

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it would give his students But now the 32-year-old secondary

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school teacher is hoping to become the positive role model

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he never had. He told our reporter Nikki Mitchell

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about his nerve-wracking decision This assembly hall was packed with

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students having their daily assembly. On the big screen was a

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video of me talking about LGBT history month and I came out to my

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students. The build up was nerve-racking, it was tense. As a

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gay man, I know how important it is to grow up with positive role models

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who support you, understand you and help you see it gets better. We have

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set up the culture club... There were shrugs and smiles and a couple

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of mouths fell open the generally the reaction was muted, only after

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the assembly did the reaction becomes stronger and more positive.

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I was relieved it went so well. I sat in the assembly going, oh, my

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God. He has come out, what is the reaction going to be? We are the

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most accepting generation, people are fine. I was shocked at first but

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not in a way, oh my God, she is gay but he came out and in confidence

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and I thought it was quite fantastic. Everyone talked about it

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but everyone reacted positively. It is a good feeling to know someone

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else is different and they are OK. Because I had such a horrendous

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experience at school, it has been important to me to come out to the

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students because I think I want to be the role model that I never had.

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My secondary school experience in Basingstoke I was bullied everyday

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for being gay, I did not know I was and they called me names and push me

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around in corridors. I was upset every day going home. The schools

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did not know how to deal with it but now the schools know how to deal

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with it. Our job as teachers is not just back curriculum but about

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building young people into competent, strong and individuals

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and that is why I have done it and I hope other teachers will see what a

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positive impact it can have. He is a role model.

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How popular is live music and is there still an appetite

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Today there's a big effort under way to try to check up on the health

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Southampton is playing a major role and our reporter Chrissy Sturt has

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been sampling what the city has to offer.

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With these incredible vocals, it is no surprise this student band loves

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going to gigs in Southampton. It is a vibrant, it is always happening,

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there was always something going on. The engine rooms by the docks so I

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knew Southampton would be a great place to study music. But they need

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help, if it was cheaper to hire venues, this band could perform even

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more. That is the kind of information the survey is after, who

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is listening to live music and why? We have a team of students from

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Solent going out to survey the live music scene looking at several

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venues and they are collecting data from the venues so we can get an

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accurate data picture of what goes on in the live music scene in

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Southampton. Let's go live to Chrissy now

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at The Engine Rooms in Southampton, where they're preparing to hold

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a live music event this evening. 600 students have bought tickets to

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be here tonight in the engine rooms, great atmosphere, they have come to

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see a band. Georgia, you are a student questioning people, what do

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you want to achieve with a census? The most important thing about the

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live music census is to raise awareness nationwide of how

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important these venues are. Are they facing threats? Yeah, there are a

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lot of things challenging small venues, the rise in business rates,

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exchange rates decreasing because of Brexit so it is a worrying time. And

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you want to see them survived? Yeah, it is integral to the music scene to

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have small venues because without a small stage artists can develop that

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sounds to play at larger arenas. And also promoters need to start

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somewhere small. Thank you so much. The Wessex Warriors are one

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of the newer Powerchair football Formed 18 months ago they're already

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making a big impact. They were named the Dorset FA's

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outstanding club of the year recently for the opportunities

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they're providing to disabled I went along to meet the players

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and have a go myself. They are warriors with heart on the

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pitch, the Wessex team spans all ages and disabilities. We tried to

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take out disability because that as it is turning up and playing and

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throughout the community there are so many examples of this throughout

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all disabilities. Many youngsters grow up dreaming of playing

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football. Power chair football has been a life changer for those like

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Adam. It is a sport I would not be able to do but now I can. I can make

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new friends and play. Lovely touch. As you can see, I am still getting

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to grips with using a chair, it takes skill and touch and precision,

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a tiny movement and you can be often away on the left wing. Each chair

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costs ?7,000 to buy. The funds are raised through a variety of sources

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and with every chair is a new player. Here we go. Goal! Not

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everyone can control the chair with their hands. Keith Harris uses his

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tongue. I became disabled after contracting an adult strain of flu.

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I cannot use my limbs. As a consultant said, the best muscle in

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the body is the tongue. You need many skills, including driving the

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chair. They are sensitive to drive. They are hard to drive and it is the

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first skill and then you think about the positioning and space and

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knowing where your team mates are. For those volunteers the reward is

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remarkable. I love it. I love to see them smile and have the opportunity

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that they would not have and one of the mums said recently she never

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thought she would have her sons football shirt on the washing line

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and that, to me, just says it all. A lovely group of people and get along

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and support them if you can. The women's lacrosse players...

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Estate is schools tournament Aogo 20 nations will compete at the event

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taking place in July for ten days and starts on the 12th.

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But one of the UK's greatest authors would have had trouble reading

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and writing towards the end of her life because she may

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Spectacles belonging to the Hampshire writer

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Jane Austen have only just been tested by optometrists.

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And thrown up some surprising results that cast new light

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Ben Moore has taken an exclusive look at the evidence.

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She may have been one of history's greatest writers,

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but for Jane Austin, just reading her novels would have

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Her spectacles have been at the British library

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in her writing desk for 20 years, but only now can they bring

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Back in the early 19th century, there were prescription similar

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to what we have today, so what we did was have somebody

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bring in a portable lens meter so that we could very,

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The first pair of glasses have a low prescription.

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Her second pair show her vision deteriorated before the final

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pair showed she lived in a very blurry world.

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This could explain why she died so young.

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The possibility of her being poisoned accidentally

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We know that arsenic can cause cataracts now and arsenic was often

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put into medication for other illnesses, like rheumatism.

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The spectacles are 200 years old and made from natural materials like

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tortoiseshell and glass but one thing we don't know is whether they

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were specifically prescribed for Jane Austen or whether she just

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bought them from a travelling salesman, the same way we do when

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buying reading glasses off the shelf. Luckily, using modern

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optometry we can see just what Jane Austin's eyesight was like. That is

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plus one. Quite blurred. But you can cope. This is plus three. Yeah, that

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is pretty blurred. Getting difficult. That is 475. I cannot see

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your face. I can only see my hand. So, one of the worlds greatest

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novelists would have had trouble reading and writing. She would have

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noticed the difference when the light was poor and overtime as she

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aged it would be have been more important to have a stronger

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prescription because your eyes need more help for reading as you age.

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The British library 12 in optometrists to offer opinions. A

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red chance to see things through the eyes of one of Britain's best love

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authors -- a red chance. A great story. I had no idea! I got my bit

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in defects but it will be cloudy. -- vitamin de fix.

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Christopher David took this picture of the morning sunshine

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This lovely picture of Abingdon was taken

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Lovely conditions and allowing temperatures to rise to 16 Celsius.

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In some areas at Heathrow it was 16.9. Overnight, we expect clear

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skies saved Chile at first, three Celsius but the arrival of the cloud

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mean temperatures will start to rise. -- chilly at first.

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Temperatures tonight by dawn will be down to six or nine Celsius. A

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cloudy day tomorrow, spots of rain in the morning and a fair amount of

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mist and fog on the coast and for the Isle of Wight. Some brighter

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spells developing for western areas and temperatures up into double

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figures, not as high as today. Ten to 11 Celsius. By the cloud and mist

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and fog tomorrow night, a good deal of cloud to start the weekend. It

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may be dense on Saturday morning and temperatures falling away to eight

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or nine Celsius. A good deal of cloud over the weekend, Saturday is

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the better day for dryness, they weather front moves in on Sunday but

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Saturday sees brighter spells in the afternoon further east slighty more

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cloud arriving later on with the arrival of a weather front by Sunday

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morning. That weather front pushes in, still uncertainty as to when we

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have the rain but some outbreaks of rain in the course of the day. Dry

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weather over the next few days, cloud, brightness tomorrow

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afternoon, and some mist and fog possible on Saturday, again, through

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the course of the day, brighter spells developing in the afternoon

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and some rain at times but next week it will turn more settled because

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high pressure will start building. Despite the cloud, send us your

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pictures. Does that mean next week is spring? Not officially but

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possibly. I pressure will develop. There'll be a news summary at 8pm

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and we'll be back at 10:30pm.

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