30/03/2017 South Today

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

From Marchwood to Estonia - military might leaves the south

as part of the largest Nato deployment to the region

After decades of the Army's vehicles being in sand camouflage

for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, they are now back

in green once more and once again facing the old enemy.

Brand new trains costing hundreds of millions of pounds are destined

A major stretch of the M4 will be closed this weekend. I will have all

the details and reaction from some of those living nearby.

And a love of rallying, speed and fun - the 72-year-old

reunited with her old car sets her sights on the

Armoured tanks left for Estonia today from

They'll join troops out there as the UK takes a leading

role in Nato's operation at the Russian border.

In total, 800 troops are being sent to the country.

120 soldiers from the Wiltshire-based 5th

Battalion The Rifles have already gone out.

The Defence Secretary said they would deter

Tensions between Estonia and Russia have increased as a result

This is the Army's heavy metal on the move.

In the last few days vehicles have arrived here from Bulford

in Wiltshire and Hayling Island just down the coast, ready to head east

on the biggest deployment of its kind since the Cold War.

The guys started at 8:30am this morning.

They will work all day and into the night.

We will change shifts, we will have another shift come on,

so guys will work through the night and they will get it done.

It is still operating in dark hours, not a problem, and the guys will get

on overnight and it should be be done by the morning.

This really is a case of back to the future.

After decades of the Army's vehicles being in sand camouflage

for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, they are now

back in green once more, and once again facing the old enemy.

Moscow's annexation of Crimea three years ago this month heralded

a rapid cooling in relations between East and West.

It also set nerves on edge in the Baltic states.

These pictures of those the Army trains against on Salisbury Plain,

with Russian tanks used in war games, make clear where the threat

If these scenes today impress, there will be no

complaints from those who've ordered this deployment.

This is about supporting Nato deterrence, and for us,

we can do that by just being in the country.

We are going out there to deter Russian interests in the Baltics,

but the main thing we are trying to achieve here is reassurance

of Nato allies and understand really at the ground level,

for the Rifleman, how he is supposed to work alongside an Estonian

soldier or a French soldier or a Dane.

With that in mind the Rifles will be spending eight months in Estonia.

Their Warrior vehicles aren't carrying the extra armour usually

fitted for combat zones, but the message

And if there ever comes a time that extra protection is needed,

A Sussex teenager has been speaking about the weeks

he spent living with the man who murdered his father, without

19-year-old Kane Manning from Portslade, moved

in with Colin Gale after his dad Mark - a former bomb disposal

Gale pretended to be one of Mark Manning's best friends -

and lied about his movements on the day his victim went missing.

Kane - who was 16 at the time - says he treated Gale

After the disappearance of his much loved father, Kane Manning was that

devastated and vulnerable. I relied on my dad a lot, money, support.

Without it is very hard. I have got my mum and she is there for me but

it is not the same, I had a bond with my father. He needed somewhere

to live and turned to his father's colleague a long-standing family

friend Colin Gale. I thought, Colin has got four kids and he was close

with my dad and when my dad was laid sometimes I stay with Colin and he

is the sort of person I can trust. -- late. He was last seen on the

19th of April 20 14. Three days later he was supported missing by

his family. In June 2014 police change the enquiry from a missing

person searched to a murder investigation. Mr Manning's remains

were eventually found last year more than two years after he had been

disappeared. It was beaten to death. Cain didn't start to realise that Mr

Manning had a thing to do with his father 's disappearance until police

discovered the body. I feel angry, shameful, at the time he brainwashed

me. He lied and lied. I am 16 years old, people are gullible when you

are 16. You take advice from the older person. I can look at it right

now and said to myself, don't trust anyone. Colin Gale was convicted of

manslaughter at Lewes Crown Court last month.

South Today has learned that brand new trains

for the region's commuters, costing hundreds of millions

of pounds, are destined to end up sitting in sidings.

On Monday the Government announced First Group and Hong Kong-owned MTR

Part of the deal includes an order for 90 brand new trains.

It has now emerged that those new carriages are to replace other

ones, that are so new they haven't even been delivered yet.

Our transport correspondent Paul Clifton has this exclusive report.

Next month, the first one will enter service,

Onboard, the latest technology, and lots of space to ease

overcrowding on some of the region's most congested routes.

The cost, ?200 million, for 150 carriages.

They will carry 8,000 extra commuters each day.

First MTR takes over South West Trains in August.

And it has decided it doesn't want them.

It has rejected the new trains before the German factory has even

Two years from now, they will be replaced with yet more new trains.

And First MTR doesn't want these trains either.

The suburban carriages are right in the middle of a full technical

So too are the trains which currently run to Reading.

They were refurbished only last year.

And yet, at the same time, these 30-year-old trains will be

brought out of storage, and dusted down to run

So why are hundreds of brand new and newly refurbished carriages,

worth hundreds of millions of pounds, simply being thrown away?

They are specially built for Southern England's

They are currently destined to sit in sidings.

The cost of new trains has tumbled since the last contracts

New manufacturers are competing for orders.

And production lines have all been set up.

Mainly because the cost of borrowing money has tumbled too.

That knocks hundreds of thousands of pounds off

It makes a new train cheaper even than one

It's a bit like walking into a car showroom,

and being offered a brand new vehicle from the factory

for less money than the identical demonstrator that is already sitting

The bottom line - I'm told by several industry sources that

hundreds of millions of pounds of investment in passenger

trains for this region will simply go to waste.

No-one will talk about this on camera, because the new contract

is still inside the ten-day cooling off period before it

The Department for Transport told us that although it specified

the service it wants, it is up to First MTR to choose

A major section of the M4 will be closed in both

It's part of a series of works planned over the next few weekends

between Junction 12 and 13, but some locals say they've only

just found out and it will cause major disruption.

Sean Killick is live in Theale for us this evening.

Good evening. The M4 here has been busy all afternoon. It is rush hour

now and it is still very busy. But tomorrow it will fall silent, not a

card inside. The M4 will be closed in both directions between junctions

12 and junctions 13 from Friday night at 9pm until 6am on Monday.

Some people luckily have complained about a lack of bloggers including

this farmer I spoke with. -- locally.

Well, what I was slightly upset about, I have been

going round the farmyard and various different people I have been

speaking to, they do realise the M4 is actually going to be closed

And they say, "Rosemary, your talking rubbish as normal.

But actually it is going to be shut for, you know, two, three days

which is going to have a huge impact on everybody.

But the Highways Agency website I feel that is

There is nothing on there that I can find that is actually

The closures are to enable maintenance work on two bridges.

They go over local roads underneath there, two local lanes and they are

being closed as well for up to three months. We spoke to high with

England and we put to them the complaints from locals about lack of

notice and this is what they told us. -- highways England.

We have written to a lot of local residents and to businesses,

conducting interviews such as these just to raise the profile.

And if anybody wants to get more information they can subscribe

to receive updates on our website, and that way they will be aware

of the future closures that we have got planned for May and onwards.

There are two more weekends of closures planned. The dates have

been amended with those. Starting on Friday May the 5th and Friday May

the 12. Thank you very much. Just to remind you BBC local radio is the

best place to get you information about the roads and it is the

junctions between 12 and 13 and it is over the next few weekends, so if

you can avoid the area altogether it's probably best to do so.

A lorry driver who killed a Southampton motorcyclist has been

57-year-old Roy Woods from Tidworth in Wiltshire pleaded guilty

to causing the death of Alan Couper by dangerous driving.

The accident happened when Woods was distracted by a phone call

and collided with two motorbikes in Leckford in April last year.

A troubled NHS Trust in Sussex is set to receive

a ?30 million investment in its emergency care provision.

It comes as a new boss takes over the Trust -

which entered special measures last year.

Marianne Griffiths is from the Western Sussex Hospitals Trust -

and will now also be in charge of the Brighton and Sussex

She says the hospitals - in Brighton and Haywards Heath -

are constrained by their current A departments.

We have a challenge in BSUH about achieving this 95% A target.

Part of the constraint around that is physical,

so the way the A is setup and its services doesn't quite

physically fit what we need for our current state.

Later Tony has the sport and Alexis is here with the forecast.

Today was the warmest day of the year so far and the warmest day of

the week. I will have the rest of the week's whether for you shortly.

-- weather. A light aircraft has

crashed into the sea off Emergency services were called

shortly before 4pm this afternoon. Two people are reported to have

escaped from the plane. They swam ashore after it came down

quite close to the beach. I was just surprised. You can't

believe that you just see a plane and you know something is going to

happen, it is so quick, it was so quick if thing was to run the bit to

see if there was anything you could do. On arrival at the scene, a small

aircraft was just off the beach partially submerged full stop two

people within the plane have swum ashore and thankfully would appear

to have minor injuries and just in shock. From the accounts of

witnesses that have seen the incident there is a suggestion the

plane has lost power and the pilot has guided the plane safely onto the

water. Our reporter Claudia Sermbezis is live at the scene. The

emergency services are still there? That is right. Literally in the last

few minutes the plane has been dragged out of the seat and they are

pulling it further up onto the beach and the reason why they want to do

that, they want it to get it up tonight because they didn't want it

in the sea overnight, they wanted it up for the environmental

implications. Probably in the morning they will take it away so

they will try get further onto the beach. It is incredible. The people

I spoke to resolve this incident said this plane suddenly just

collided almost slowly, no sound, the engine sort of spluttered and

the next thing they knew it was just ditched into the sea but they said

the pilot really did a textbook landing and it was absolutely

incredible to see these two men walk away literally unharmed and seeing

it like that is incredible. It is indeed. Thank you very much.

A week after Thames Water was given a record fine for pumping billions

of litres of untreated sewage into the River Thames,

a project is underway to raise awareness of the danger pollution

Few people realise that liquids poured down storm drains often flow

directly into local waterways, without being filtered or treated.

So volunteers are putting warning notices on dozens of drains.

Armed with boxes of warning notices, tubes of heavy glue and leaflets

to put through letterboxes, these volunteers are on a mission.

Rainwater only warning stickers are being put on each and every

drain on this Newbury estate, because everything that goes

down them flows directly into the River Lambourn -

a site of special scientific interest.

Most people just don't realise, some people have something to get rid of

and they will shove it down the drain in the house, let's put it in

the drain in the street which is complete the run. They are not bad

people, they just don't know. -- completely wrong. You only need a

few people think more carefully about what they are doing to the

rivers and you got somewhere. Earlier this month, dozens of swans

had to be rescued when diesel oil Absorbent ooms had to be

deployed as part of a huge The consequences of pollution

are so great, penalties Last week Thames Water was fined

a record ?20 million for pumping untreated sewage into the River

Thames. When it comes to pesticides,

even the smallest amount Visually people can see there is

pollution until people do kick sampling and you find the inverter

board population has Christ which is what happened in 2013 on the River

Cannock went two teaspoons of mechanical chemical were put down

waste dumping and it caused devastation for the wildlife. It is

so important particularly with storm drains that they realise whatever

goes down eight storm drain goes untreated straight into the river.

And now, thanks to these volunteers, there're little reminders everywhere

Let's get straight on to the sport and Tony husband is here. We will

talk to an athlete on the road to recovery.

It will be one of the sporting events of the summer at the scene

The World Athletics Championships maybe a farewell to Usain Bolt,

but they could be a welcome return for one of Britain's

Isobel Pooley has had to deal with missing last year s Olympics

as she recovers from injury but, as Andrew Moon found out,

It is a daily roller-coaster. They are in a very vulnerable place when

you are an athlete and you're injured because in a way your

identity has been taken from you. Some days are fantastic and you feel

you are on top of the world and getting back to your old self but

some days you feel very dejected and far from where you want to be and

you don't really know what your purposes. For Isobel Pooley it has

been a long hard year. In 2016 with the other pics on the horizon she

was diagnosed with a stress fracture of her ankle. I was dead on target

for selection and totally ready to go apart from this niggling pain I

had been having. A part of me must've known but it was gutting at

the end of the day. This is all after two great seasons for the

athlete which saw her win silver at the Commonwealth Games and prove

herself as Britain's top jumper. I savour those memories so much of the

days that I was jumping national records and competing for my

country. It is a blurred and you take for granted. Even though you

say you want, you kind of do. Talking about memories now on my

heart leaps and I can't wait to get back there and I hope I can one day.

All athletes have to battle back from injury at some point in their

careers. It can be tough and lonely but it is all part of the dedication

needed to reach the top. Now it is a race against time to be ready for

the 20 17th season. We have got the World Championships in London this

summer and that is happening in August but the qualification period

ends in early July so I have to compete in June saw the clock is

ticking. Portsmouth Football Club lost almost

half a million pounds The club published their accounts

in the last hour showing It comes as Pompey are a week

into an exclusive negotiating period with American businessman

Michael Eisner over a takeover. The club's wage bill

is just shy of ?5 million. Chairman Iain McInnes

says in the accounts, "The best way to predict the future

is to create it, together" in a thought provoking message

to fans as they weigh up Reading manager Jaap Stam has

urged fans to turn out in force for the run

in to the Championship season. The Royals have exceeded

the manager's own public expectations and are fifth

in the table and they face fourth-placed Leeds

at home on Saturday. But their average crowds are among

the lower half of the league. Stam is calling for

passionate support. You know, we need to have

everybody at the stadium. They need to help you out

even in difficult times, You need to have the fans to back

you up to give you a good feeling, because if they do that they give

the opposition a different The Maronite we will look ahead to

the big one with Southampton game at Southampton. Now the weather. We had

20 Celsius yesterday. Phil Williams captured the sunrise

at Cissbury Ring near Worthing. Steve Miller took this picture

of the sun on the trees And Keith Brown photographed the

flowers outside East Meon Church. Some of us have some glorious

sunshine today, others saw a lot of cloud. The cloud is increasing all

the while through the course of this evening and overnight tonight and

already we are seeing some patchy rain. Light and patchy, not

amounting to too much but overnight a lot of cloud. Mild temperatures,

double figures in most places with loads of 10-12 C. Tomorrow morning

we will see some outbreaks of light and patchy rain moving from the West

and they will start to clear northwards. Improving. The risk of

the shower in the afternoon but the cloud will break in places for sunny

spells. Breezy along the coast. In line the winds slightly lighter.

Temperatures could reach highs are 15 or 16. Late evening sunshine

tomorrow. Once again we will see cloud increase and outbreaks of rain

arriving early Saturday morning. Tomorrow night will be slightly

fresher. A change into the weekend of fresher conditions. Temperatures

tomorrow around 8-10 C. It will be a fresher day. Outbreaks of rain on

Saturday. Heavy downpours in amongst some sunny spells. Rain possible

during the morning but the sunshine will start to break through into the

late morning and afternoon. Rumbles of thunder. The weekend, both days

will see some sunny spells. Sunday is better. Hale and thunder on

Saturday and dryer on Sunday but not everyone will see thundery

conditions through Sunday. Tomorrow we will have some outbreaks of rain

at times during the morning but clearing to better conditions

through the afternoon and winds will be lighter as well especially for

inland areas. Breezy along the coast and also on Saturday but winds will

be life generally so if you catch a downpour they will be slow-moving

and quite heavy and places. Monday will see some sunshine after a

cloudy start. Sunday is the better day. Saturday might have one or two

thunderstorms. Thank you. Next month, Bron Burrell will get

behind the wheel of a rally car and take part in a drive

from London to Lisob. It's not the first time Bron -

who lives in Milford-on-Sea - Back in 1970 she completed the same

rally with two of her best friends. And now she's getting ready to do it

all over again, in the same car! Not before having a chat

with me, in that very car. It's amazing actually, it gets more

amazing every time I do it. I got in the first time

and thought, oh, gosh, But was the height of everything

in those days, we are talking I think they are exactly

the same seats. This is all built

specifically for the rally. At British Leyland

at their special Department. It is almost an aircraft style,

but it has got all the dials you need, all the switches you need,

all the fuses are easy to get at. It is amazing that you

found the car again. When I discovered Tina again in 2013

after all these years of being not with her,

she said the car is still running. And so she said to

come and see the car. And it was at a show

outside Cambridge. There was a historic vehicle

parade, so someone said, What is it about rallying

that you love so much? I love driving, I do love

driving, even on the roads You love the speed of

rallying, don't you? I don't know quite how to put this,

but are you a little bit more careful in your rallying

than you were when Well, this car is not necessarily

what I would call a sideways car. I used to have an Escort Twin Cam,

very powerful, it goes sideways. Tell me you're not going

sideways on this next trip. But it's front wheel drive,

front engine front wheel drive, which I have never really driven

in anger before, so I'm learning the whole time,

getting near a sideways, The whole point is not to wreck her,

so keep her going and And the thing is to

get to the finish. Tina and me and Serin,

who came with me on the Isle of man. A bit like you starting

all over again. I don't know, but I just wonder,

because age sometimes brings on fear, doesn't it sometimes,

but what would you say You only get one life, you know,

just go for it now, you know? Car karaoke! I notice she has got

the three of them in the car, there is a seat for you, there could be

four! That was fun. That was it from us. Back tomorrow at 6pm. Bye-bye.

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