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The scourge of the countryside. news teams where you are.

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Tough talk from councils on how to deal with fly-tipping Also

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What we want to do is catch these people, sees these people and crush

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them. We've got to take a strong stance on it.

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Also tonight: Despite calls to stand down, the Surrey council

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leader is unrepentant over the alleged council tax deal

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I'm guilty of putting our residents first.

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Who would you like to drop by on your 87th birthday?

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Well, for Pat in Sonning, it was her Hollywood heartthrob.

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It was delightful. And he's a very nice man, very handsome man. And he

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And a teenager's inspiring video about his disability that's

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touched millions of people, including Sir Elton John.

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We've all seen it, some of us have witnessed it,

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while others are left to clear up the mess.

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With some councils now starting to charge us to dump our rubbish

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and limit what we can throw away, many fear the problem

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In a moment we'll hear the frustration this is causing

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But first, Matt Treacy has been looking at just how widespread

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More and more rubbish is never making it to the tip -

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increasingly it's ending up dumped in quiet country lanes,

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Last year there were nearly 38,000 incidents

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of fly-tipping across the South - that's up 10% on the year before.

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That's equivalent to more than 100 a day -

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from sofas dumped over hedges to entire roads

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Staff at this charity shop in Boscombe have

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People pretending to leave genuine donations are actually dumping

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broken and worn-out items that can never be sold.

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What had been left is fly-tipping, it is not a genuine donation by any

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stretch of the imagination. I don't understand is who does this, and

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what they think they are doing. It is increasing each, you couldn't

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even see year by year, it is month by month and week by week. It is

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increasing, it is becoming a huge problem.

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Staff there say they're having to spend tens of thousands

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to clear all that's dumped at their shops every year.

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But much of the time it's local councils who have

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to do the clear-up - costing them close

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In Hampshire alone, the cost is close to ?700,000 a year,

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which has prompted their proposal to bring in a new fly-tipping

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manager, whose job will be to work across the county trying to find

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A lot of these criminal people who advertise they will take your waste

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away, they will have to have a licence. If they happened, and you

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don't check it and we find fly-tipping and can be traced back

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to you, you can be prosecuted for that. We want to catch these people,

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sees their vehicles and crush them, that is what we have to do, a strong

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stance about white tipping. -- fly-tipping.

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hours and new charges at tips are partly to blame

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For their part - Hampshire deny that, saying they've expanded

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the options for people being able to dump commercial waste.

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But people living in West Berkshire have been banned from using the tip

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in near-by Reading since their local council stopped

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As Nikki Mitchell reports, that's made it much harder for some

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Fiona Williams is desperate to clear out her garage.

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She lives in Mortimer and used to take the rubbish

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black wheelie bin to the complex in Reading.

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But since West Berkshire Council cut its funding to Reading,

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she and thousands like her now face a much longer drive.

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I have to travel to Newtown Road, which is about at

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I find it really frustrating the council didn't

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sort something out before they withdrew the funds

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West Berkshire Council's plan was to expand this

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recycling centre in Padworth, extending its opening hours and

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allowing people to take general waste there.

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But that requires planning permission,

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It's been delayed because we've had a threat

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In order to be able to resist the judicial review,

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we need to do deeper analysis of the effects of extending

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Padworth Way centre's capacity to take general waste.

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This is extremely frustrating for our residents in the east of the

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district, and I'm frustrated as well.

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The Council's environmental assessments will be costly and

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likely to take another six months to complete.

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In the meantime, the environment elsewhere is suffering,

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with longer car journeys to the tip and with

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an increase in fly-tipping by

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those who can't be bothered with the drive.

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So what's Fiona going to do with her garage?

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So this year at least, the spring cleaning will have

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An attempt to oust the leader of Surrey County Council over

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an alleged "sweetheart" funding deal with the government has failed.

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A motion of no confidence in David Hodge was called

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after he backtracked on a proposal to raise council tax by 15%.

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South Today previously revealed a secret recording of the council

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leader telling colleagues he'd obtained a "gentleman's agreement"

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from a Government minister - which avoided a local referendum.

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It was the backroom row that became embarrassingly public for the

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Conservatives. Cut the Prime Minister explain the difference

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between a sweetheart deal and a gentleman's agreement? Has there

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been a particular deal with Surrey County Council that is not available

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to other councils? And the answer to that is no. Today, the man who

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caused his leader to squirm was unrepentant. The Chancellor has

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announced extra funding for social care.

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Would it be achieved if we hadn't set out a strong statement, or

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mentioned social care in headlines? In Surrey, he faced down a vote of

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no-confidence in his own leadership. Liberal Democrat opponents pointed

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to miss sent text messages which sparked rumours of a sweetheart

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deal, and to a secret recording leagues to this programme. A series

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conversations place. It has been very damaging to their

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reputation, there's been numerous damaging headlines about Surrey

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County Council and the media. I think talk of secret deals and

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gentleman's agreements, that doesn't put Surrey in a good light. In the

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end, his fellow councillors backed David Hodge 47-8, his future, it

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seems, secured, although he didn't want to speak to us this evening.

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This was the last full meeting of Surrey Council before elections on

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May the 4th, and several cancers observed, that is when we have the

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final verdict on this episode -- several councillors.

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A cafe in Berkshire for people with dementia

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and their carers is facing closure because of a lack of funding.

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The Nature Memories Cafe in Thatcham launched in January.

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But the free service costs ?200 per session to run.

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Once you've had a diagnosis of any type of dementia, you can feel quite

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But coming to something like this, it sort of gives you the

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opportunity to mix and mingle with other people, you know.

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This is more than just a weekly coffee.

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People of all ages living with dementia can come

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But it still costs to host it, and the money has run out.

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It doesn't matter how many friends and family you've got, unless they

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are living 24/7 with somebody that's got dementia, they really don't

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understand, whereas everyone here, they know exactly what it is like.

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As well as the arts and craft to aid motor skills,

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But the Nature Discovery Centre needs to reopen to the wider

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public next month for the busy summer period.

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We just need somebody to step forward and help us out,

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So, we would like to run it for the rest of the year,

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well, for the next year, so we are talking

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It is roughly about ?200 per session.

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The memory cafe was a pilot scheme, the idea to make West

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Berkshire more dementia friendly and support

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We are really hopeful this will carry on, it has filled a huge

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need in our community here in Thatcham, and I'm

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sure in talking to people today, the feedback you've got is that this

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is somewhere they love coming and we are doing everything

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Many here say they will still try and meet up, but

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unless someone steps in, next week these tables will be empty.

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And many fear it won't be long before the

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A 26-year-old man from Hampshire has appeared in court in Basingstoke,

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charged with 16 counts of serious sexual offences against children

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Michael Ian Lee Gibbons from Dickens Way in Yateley

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is accused of committing offences against seven alleged

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victims in North Hampshire and Berkshire from 2009 onwards.

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He was bailed to appear at Winchester Crown Court in April.

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Stay weather is because Terry has learned has all the sport from

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Poole. We were the football club on the rotor summer, up or down, all

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staying with the status quo. The Biddick lament Poole Town face is

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coming up -- the predicament. The jury in the trial

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of a Hampshire businessman charged with the manslaughter of one

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of his closest friends in a boating incident has gone out

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to consider its verdict. Ryan McKinlay from Gosport

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was killed when the TurboJet Rib driven by 34-year-old Aaron Brown

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collided with the swimming platform of his yacht off the Isle

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of Wight in June 2015. His hired skipper, Paul Carey,

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seen here piloting the Rib before the fatal accident,

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and outside Winchester Crown Court today in the blue shirt,

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was found not guilty of driving too fast in contravention

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of shipping regulations. Protestors led by a woman

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from Dorset went to Downing Street today to hand in a petition

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demanding that rules surrounding the sale of static

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mobile homes be changed. They're angry that under

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current arrangements, owners have to hand over 10%

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of their home's value to the site They say the rule is outdated

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and needs changing. All these people behind me,

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and thousands over the country, are literally trapped in their homes

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by this 10% commission charge. That they have to give

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to the park owner. Basically, they cannot move

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on because at the end of the day, if they try to buy something different

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to what they already have, it's got to be inferior because they

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don't have the money after parting There's to be another rail

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strike by the RMT union The action will take place

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on Saturday the 8th of April, The dispute is over staffing

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and the role of conductors. Southern's owners had offered

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fresh talks if industrial King Alfred the great's statue, the

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giant lion, and the Charles Dickens Memorial, all public monuments that

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serve as artworks for all. But as tastes change and text and he

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develops, what does public art look like in the digital age? Our

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reporter is live, where a new piece of art has been unveiled. Do we call

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this a monument statue or sculpture or what? It is very, very modern.

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There is me waving, I am not the piece of art. This is here. The man

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behind it is Adam. You are a local boy. What is this, and how does it

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work? It as a digital canvas wrapped around the building. We are

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delighted to have this opportunity to show a very playful piece that

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picks up on the members of the public's movements and translates

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them into abstract forms for them to interact with and get lost in and

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explore. And let go of anything. Why have you didn't? We wanted to take

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the normal experience of the interactive part display you find

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that an art gallery and take it onto the street so everyone can enjoy it,

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everyone in the community can experience a playful, engaging art

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piece that asks questions about space and how we cure rate our

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public area, and something that is interesting in the ever-changing

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landscape of our wonderful Worthing. It has even got to be reporters

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excited. Let's bringing Caryn, you from the Worthing trusts. Why did

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you get involved? We are a charity which works with local council, and

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it is exciting, it will help change the way people look at Worthing, get

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people down there and have lower, but also flag of the digital

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economy. It is a great example of it. It will engage people. The main

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thing is to come and play. And have a debate about digital art, what is

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art, digital art? Get involved. It got the thumbs up from these, what

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about these people here? Do you like it? Yes! Sally, you can see for

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yourself until the 2nd of April in Worthing. Great to see you waving,

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I've thought it was you I saw, I could recognise the gloves. You know

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me too well. Onto sport, and tonight Tony's

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at the club that doesn't quite know what it's short or long term future

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is, despite success on the field. Let's join him now at the Tatnam

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ground, home of Poole Town. By the way, no gloves. Let's get on

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with the sport. Interesting story, we are getting towards the end of

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the football season and fans are dreaming about promotion. On paper,

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in theory, that would be the scenario for Poole Town, going very

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well, winter nights and they're up into the play-off places. But this

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is a club which has come a long way very quickly, all the way to the

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Hampshire leagues and playing National League now. The ground

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isn't actually up to National League South standard. You can see they

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worked hard, but it is resembling the end of the school field. They

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have a big inspection next week from the National League. If they don't

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meet the requirements, they could be relegated, and all that at a time

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when putting so much evidence to try and get the club promoted. The

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improvements have been going on, we can see this bit of terracing which

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was opened at the weekend for their game here, a 3-3 draw. But they need

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to keep working to try and get this ground sorted. Otherwise, they could

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be in the creases duration of going promotion and ending up relegated. I

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spoke to the manager and asked them how he's kept the players' form up.

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At the start of the season there was a certain amount of apprehension as

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to what the league would bring and how we would cope in the league, and

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the players have been exceptional. To be in the decision we are in,

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within touching distance of the play-offs with six weeks is still to

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go, it's been a monumental effort. I must be honest, it's taken me by

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surprise, but they deserve an awful lot of credit. And against the

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backdrop of this uncertainty over the stage and your state is in the

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National League, to stay in this division, to get promoted, the fear

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of relegation, how have you managed to deal with it? Players are players

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insofar as they want to play football and concentrate on winning

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matches. It is easier for them, or at more straightforward to

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concentrate on the job in hand. The uncertainty around the club is not

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great in terms of dealing with sponsorship and trying to get things

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organised. And planning ahead, it just makes life difficult. I will be

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pleased when the inspection has taken place, and hopefully it will

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go our way. How confident are you you will get the green light and the

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club can stay at this level, if not go to the next one? I know there's

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been a huge effort from everyone. The fund raising has been difficult

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and a lot of people have stepped forward in terms of that. There has

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been the practicalities of getting stuff done in a short timescale, so

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there's a lot of people doing a lot of work to achieve that. From what I

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am told, we are positive about the inspection, but it is one of those

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things, until that happens and you get the tech in the right box, there

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is uncertainty. Yes, it is fingers crossed for his team. Onto the

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pitch, we are in March and look at the quality of the page, is

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fantastic. They've worked so hard. Behind the goal, that terracing, it

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is always had a covered stand but it is proper terracing now. Things

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going well for Poole Town, now they just need to prove they can get

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through the inspection. Southampton midfielder

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James Ward-Prowse says he will fulfil a "life-long

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ambition" if he makes his debut The 22-year-old has been

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called-up to the full England squad for the first time,

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alongside team-mate Nathan Redmond. He's now hoping that manager

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Gareth Southgate will involve him in the friendly against Germany

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in Dortmund tomorrow night. Firstly I am ready. The manager

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thinks that as well, otherwise he wouldn't have included me. It'll be

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a great occasion if I do so. I'm just looking forward to enjoying the

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week and making the most out of my time here and trying to improve.

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Good luck to James, hopefully he's in the team with Nathan Redmond.

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England against Jamie, always a huge game.

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When you are 87, you need to be a little careful about activities

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But Pat Adams from Sonning has thrown caution to the wind.

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As she approached her birthday, she let it be known that a visit

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from a certain high profile neighbour would be very welcome.

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Her people - at her retirement home - spoke to A-lister George Clooney's

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people and, to everyone's amazement, the Hollywood heartthrob

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At home on the red carpet, George Clooney has a domestic retreat on

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the banks of the terms. A fact that had not gone unnoticed by one

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committed clearly fan, Pat Adams. Like all residents here, she was

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encouraged to make a wish, and Pat aims high, requesting an audience

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with the charmer. Sat and waited and lo and behold he came. He said it

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was very nice to meet me and I said, not half as nice as it is for me to

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meet you. George Clooney didn't come empty-handed comic greeting is

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packed with flowers and a handwritten card. -- greeting past.

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I thought you would like some flowers. The flowers would last for

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ever but the flowers will. I'm keeping that card. I have shaken

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hands with George Clooney, I don't think I will ever wash my hands

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again. But of course I will. This is a day I will always remember for the

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rest of my life. As she well knows, the 35-year-old is firmly attached.

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He married this human rights lawyer in 2014 and are expecting twins. If

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the new dad needs a quiet escape from nappies and night feeds, Pat's

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door will be wide open. He's a very nice man, a very handsome man and he

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can call any time he likes. I love Pat. She is grey. Now I know what

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happened to the birthday flowers I was expecting. The red sofa is here.

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On to sport. Would you like to do sport? Shall we do the weather?

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People were out early this morning; this is

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And this is how Wareham looked first thing, captured by Rachel Baker.

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Thanks to Maureen Coles for this great shot of the waterfront.

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We are dry to start the western part will see rain. A few showers

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knocking around, people will see some dry skies, but this band of

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rain makes it away from the west. By morning, some parts will be wet.

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Overnight lows, not too bad, five to seven Celsius, but the winds are

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quite strong overnight. Into tomorrow morning, it is a wet start

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are most places and the morning you will season breaks. That rain

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clearing to the east. By the afternoon, some sunny spells of

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other and the top temperature around nine Celsius. With the lighter

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winds, it won't feel as feel as cold as today. Through tomorrow evening,

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another showery Storey, plenty of showers moving through the Channel.

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Some of those could be heavy at times. Overnight lows in the region

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of four or five Celsius for most places. Towards firstly, we can see

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the low-pressure that is dominating, natural feed into more showers for a

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time throughout the day. Some brighter skies for time but you

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would be wise to keep your umbrella to hand. That low pressure that is

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feeding in no showers stays through Thursday. We will see it finally

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move off on Friday. As we start a season high pressure builds. By the

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weekend, things are starting to look more settled, some warm sunshine to

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enjoy, but it will be chilly byte night. So, gardeners, take note. The

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next couple of days, it is a showery story, some bright spells, but nine

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Celsius the hive. Thursday is a rainy story, much the same for

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Friday but things pick up for the weekend. Thank you very much.

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A disabled teenager from Havant who made a video which has gone

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viral has received a phone call from Sir Elton John - who said

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Lewis Hine created it to mark his 16th birthday and it's

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now been viewed nearly seven million times on Facebook.

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He was diagnosed with a brain tumour at just 17 months,

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and the video follows his treatment and also the charity he's set

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up to help teenagers like him find friends.

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In his phone call, Sir Elton called Lewis

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The lovely Lewis. And what a video, it had to be moved to tears.

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And Lewis and his mum Emma will be telling their story on the BBC

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That is it, there is more at 8pm and 10:30pm. Join us tomorrow, goodbye.

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