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Hello I'm Jo Kent, welcome to South Today. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
In tonight's programme: Failing the frail - | :00:07. | :00:07. | |
the South's care homes deemed just not good enough. | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
The campaign to get older people back into work. | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
I think life's too short to stand still and it's important to keep | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
moving and to keep looking at the opportunities. | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
Who's the last English person to lift the football World Cup? | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
It's a Jill, and she's from right here in the South. | :00:28. | :00:33. | |
There was a place called Pitt Street in Pompey and my dad | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
used to take us there, my brother and I. | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
Those were my first memories of going to watch the games. | :00:40. | :00:45. | |
The Hampshire company offering a ride of a lifetime, | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
"Simply not good enough" - that's the finding of a new report | :00:50. | :01:07. | |
out today which shows that a worrying number of care | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
homes in the South fall below required standards. | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
Figures on care home performance, gathered by the charity | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
Independent Age show that in the South West region, | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
more than one in five homes was rated as "requires improvement" | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
In the South East region, that figure goes up to more | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
In Portsmouth, almost half of care homes fell | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
And other parts of the South weren't far behind. | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
Tom Hepworth is live for us tonight from a care home in Weymouth. | :01:38. | :01:47. | |
As we know, lots of people come down here to the south coast to retire, | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
and in years to come, we might expect to live in a care home like | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
this one. This care home was given a good overall rating by the Care | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
Quality Commission but many are finding things difficult at the | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
moment. Although more people need care, there's less money pay for it. | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
Care homes are taking a financial hit. | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
The weekly cost for a resident with moderate needs here is around | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
If it didn't have private or self-funding residents, | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
70% of this home's costs are staff, and recruitment and retention | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
is a big issue, particularly for people from abroad. | :02:29. | :02:37. | |
It's almost exclusively now staffed by people from overseas, and so I | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
don't know what the plans after that, but that is put in doubt into | :02:43. | :02:46. | |
the mind of these nurses as well. They are thinking, well, if this is | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
the attitude to us in this country, we will go back home. That will be | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
the worst thing that could happen and it's already happening. Every | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
day we wrestle with our rotors, trained nurses. | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
While funding has been cut, care homes are facing | :03:02. | :03:03. | |
more exacting standards, but there are questions | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
about whether the Care Quality Commission's doing | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
They are not supporting managers who are struggling to comply, who want | :03:08. | :03:18. | |
to comply, and they are not actually supporting them and saying, look, if | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
you do it this way, you won't get this result next time. | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
Though care was rated good at all four council-run | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
homes in Portsmouth, the CQC found they | :03:27. | :03:27. | |
required improvement, including Edinburgh House. | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
We did ask the city council for an interview but were told | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
In a statement, it said robust action plans have been put in place, | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
staff will be better supervised and they'll improve | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
the joined-up management of care across the system. | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
But the care worker I spoke to here said it was better run | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
than many of the private homes she'd worked in, and said caring should be | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
There are 18,000 vacancies for people to come and work in social | :03:52. | :04:02. | |
care and health in Hampshire. That means if every single child leaving | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
school with GCSEs this summer went to work in health and social care, | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
they still wouldn't feel all the vacancies. People are paid not good | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
wages. I'm not sure in society we really value them. | :04:17. | :04:17. | |
This is by no means a problem specific to Portsmouth. | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
The number of people over 85 has increased by nearly a third | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
in little more than a decade, and although the Government's | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
increased funding for adult social car by ?2 billion, | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
increased funding for adult social care by ?2 billion, | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
budgets have been cut by more than double that since 2010. | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
Care is costing more and we're all going to have to foot the bill. | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
The detail will be in the Government's green paper due | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
Earlier today, I spoke to Nadra Ahmed, from | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
the National Care Association, which represents care homes. | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
I started by asking her what needed to be done to tackle the problem. | :04:49. | :04:57. | |
I think the situation could improve if we had a very honest discussion | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
about what social care actually means. What we've got at this moment | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
in time is, we're actually looking after people with very complex | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
health care needs, so there should be a health budget that is | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
supporting that. So we didn't, as social care providers historically, | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
look after people who were dying, people with incontinence, people who | :05:20. | :05:23. | |
might have had a stroke and recovering. But that is the norm in | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
social care services now, especially in nursing homes, where we will have | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
feeding and all of that. So these are nursing tasks, but there's no | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
nursing money coming towards us for that. So we've got to look at the | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
tasks and say, we actually defining social care properly? Is it all down | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
to funding? No, we've also got a real problem with recruitment and | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
getting qualified nurses and managers into the sector, and we | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
know today the report says 900 people are exiting the social care | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
workforce. All of that has to be filled, and I don't think we are | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
getting that right, because the image is so poor. We all know | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
councils are very strapped for cash and they don't have the money for | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
social care. How confident are you things can improve unless there is | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
that extra money? They were given extra money but they are using it in | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
a very different way and we were worried about it going to front line | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
staff. I'm not confident local authorities will do the best for the | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
social care provision and I think they will let down users in their | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
communities, the people who have already paid for their care through | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
their taxes and national insurance, and actually local authorities | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
should be holding their heads down in shame when their staff are being | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
paid more than they are prepared to invest in social care. What does all | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
this mean for residents and their families? I think it's an uncertain | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
time. There is some really good provision at there but we've got to | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
be really careful because families have less choice, and we've got to | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
think about that, because homes are closing. The viability issue is a | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
real one and if you've got a poor report that requires improvement, | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
you can't get people into the service because contracts are being | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
withdrawn and then it has an effect on the viability of that business, | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
so this is a very worrying time for those who use our business. | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
It's been revealed that there are almost twice as many unemployed | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
people over the age of 50 in parts of Hampshire than unemployed | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
Now a local MP is working to encourage older jobless people | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
East Hampshire MP Damian Hinds has organised an event in Alton today | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
helping 50-somethings build the contacts and confidence to get | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
back into the workplace or change careers. | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
Figures show that there are 35,000 50-to-64-year-olds registered | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
But Age UK says that these figures might be much higher as many | :07:59. | :08:07. | |
over-50s surveyed say they're retired because they've given up | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
Something I could really wake up and think, how exciting, I'm going to do | :08:11. | :08:30. | |
that. Pennie Hames set up her own | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
gardening business in her 50s. She says the change of direction has | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
changed her life for the better. That's something Jenny | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
would like to find. I am part-time and I'm looking for | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
how I can slightly change my working pattern over the next few years, and | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
I thought this was a good idea, just to see what there is out there. | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
People are leaving the workforce earlier than we did... | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
There are almost a million people not to work in the second half of | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
their career who would like to be in work. We also know there are lots of | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
people who have required -- retired to subsequently regret that | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
decision. From new jobs to retraining | :09:14. | :09:14. | |
and voluntary options, there's no shortage of ideas | :09:15. | :09:16. | |
and inspiration at this event, with speakers like TV MasterChef | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
winner Jane Devonshire. I've been a stay-at-home mum for 18 | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
years and it was a difficult situation. You start looking at | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
boards for jobs and nothing seems to be appealing to somebody who's 50 | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
plus, and you might have a lot to offer, but what? A careers fair for | :09:35. | :09:43. | |
the over 50s? Surely it's young people they are after. Not at all. | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
We have people at 18 going up to 65, 66 years old. It's having people | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
skills, life skills to deal with people, treat them with humanity and | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
respect. You get a lot back from them. | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
I've been inspired and I hope it shows something to all of us, my | :10:01. | :10:12. | |
friends as well, that there's something for you. If you do | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
something you love, you're going to want to do it really well, and | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
that's rather exciting at this end of life. | :10:21. | :10:22. | |
Pennie Hames ending that report by David Allard. | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
A former scout leader has been jailed for nine years for sexually | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
Paul John Cherrett was sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court today | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
after pleading guilty to a string of sex offences against boys. | :10:32. | :10:33. | |
The 62-year-old joined the scouting movement in 1972 and had a number | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
of roles in the Dorset area during that time. | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
Police investigating a fire at a tower block in Southampton have | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
Officers say the 28-year-old is still under investigation. | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
Sunday's fire at Redbridge Towers completely destroyed | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
No-one was seriously injured and firefighters managed | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
to prevent the blaze spreading to neighbouring flats. | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
The cause of the fire is not yet known. | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
Still to come on South Today, Alexis is out enjoying the sunshine. | :11:03. | :11:11. | |
It has been a glorious sunny day today but will it be like this for | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
the Easter weekend? Find out very shortly. | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
It's a battle as bitter as anything fought by the rabbits | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
The controversial scheme to build on the landscape which inspired | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
Watership Down has turned a new chapter. | :11:32. | :11:33. | |
The development, near Newbury, originally one of the biggest | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
plans in West Berkshire history, will go ahead but with far fewer | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
By all expectations, this should now be one | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
of the biggest developments in Newbury's history. | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
But there's not a digger, a brickie, even a surveyor insight. | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
But there's not a digger, a brickie, even a surveyor in sight. | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
This development was meant to meet much of West Berkshire's housing | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
need for years to come when it was given the | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
But as you can see, on the surface at least, | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
Always a controversial scheme, campaigners who have rallied | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
to protect the real-life setting for Watership Down say | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
what's happened here, or rather what hasn't, | :12:18. | :12:18. | |
I didn't want this to go ahead in the first place but once planning | :12:19. | :12:26. | |
permission has been given, it's outrageous that these | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
developers and these landowners can sit for five years on this land | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
The falling-out between the developers means one now plans | :12:34. | :12:44. | |
to build around two thirds of the homes they first proposed. | :12:45. | :12:46. | |
Even that's led the council to raise concerns about congestion. | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
The developers say they're working to address those worries. | :12:50. | :12:51. | |
But across town, here near the headquarters of Vodafone, | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
the delays have allowed developers to overturn the council's rejection | :12:55. | :12:56. | |
of their plans for homes on land originally passed over in favour | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
The developers have got the council over a barrel. | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
They can sit and wait until the council concedes to their way... | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
I think people will always say "I told you so". | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
People will always say we didn't listen, and yet we did. | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
I think we took everything into account when we were doing our | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
local plan and we delivered a sound local plan. | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
It seems certain these fields will be developed one day, but when, | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
that's one question no-one can answer with confidence just yet. | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
An investigation has been launched into the death of a man held | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
at an immigration removal centre in Dorset. | :13:44. | :13:44. | |
The 43-year-old man, who has not been identified, | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
died at The Verne, in Portland, on Sunday. | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
His death comes weeks after concerns were raised about the effects | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
of detention on the 500 immigrants being held at the establishment. | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
Firefighters are tonight tackling a heathland and gorse fire | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
covering three hectares of Yateley Common in Hampshire. | :14:03. | :14:10. | |
Hampshire Fire Rescue say they've sent three engines and a landrover | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
from Rushmoor and Yateley to the fire. | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
It's the second time the area has been ablaze in less than a week. | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
It was a violent encounter which lasted seconds. | :14:21. | :14:22. | |
And now a jury will decide whether a young student is guilty | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
of manslaughter after killing a man with just one punch. | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
Ryan Cooper hit fellow Isle of Wight resident Gary Stacey after a night | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
But he claims it was in self-defence after he was accosted | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
The prosecution say it was an unprovoked attack. | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
Ben Moore reports form Winchester Crown Court. | :14:41. | :14:49. | |
Mr justice will be listed the events that led to tragedy in the early | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
hours of Valentine's Day last year. A tragedy that centres around two | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
people from the Isle of Wight, 20-year-old Ryan Cooper and | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
49-year-old Gary Stacey. Ryan Cooper was a law student at Southampton | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
University out with friends after returning to Newport at the weekend. | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
He was rejected from the pub at around 2:30am. Gary Stacey had also | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
been there. But it was on the street just before 4am when the two met. | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
The court was reminded how Ryan Cooper and other witnesses | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
maintained Gary Stacey had threatened to knock him out after | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
confusing him with a different group of people. What is captured on CCTV | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
and not in dispute is that Ryan Cooper punched Mr Stacey. The | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
defence say Ryan Cooper was acting in self defence, trying to ward off | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
a fight. The prosecution says this is a cover-up and lies, after Gary | :15:46. | :15:56. | |
Stacey died after falling to the pavement and receiving a blow to the | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
head and a bleed to the brain. Friends and parents described him as | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
distraught as he handed -- dialled 999 before handing himself in. But | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
after three weeks of evidence, it is up to the jury to decide what | :16:14. | :16:14. | |
happens. A community campaign | :16:15. | :16:24. | |
to save a 105-year-old swimming pool The Arthur Hill Memorial Baths, | :16:25. | :16:26. | |
in Reading, were closed in December after the Borough Council said it | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
would cost ?700,000 to fully repair. Campaigners raised ?10,000 to start | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
up a community interest But last night the council said | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
the plan was not financially viable. The council will instead | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
invest in new facilities Regrettably, the council decided | :16:40. | :16:52. | |
they didn't want to work with the local community to open a local | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
service. I don't feel we need to pack up and go home. There is a need | :16:58. | :17:04. | |
for undertaking leisure and sports activity here, so we are looking to | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
organise some local fitness and sports events at some period on a | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
kind of pop-up basis. Not totally defeated there! We are | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
talking sporting events and fitness clubs! Absolutely. | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
Should be a really big Easter weekend. Could be very good for | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
Brighton. Wolverhampton Wanderers on Friday. Possible promotion coming | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
up! Very exciting! And Portsmouth fans, after such a tough time. | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
Promotion is coming, it is just a question of when. But they will be | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
backed by a full house on Friday and then a travelling army of 4000 at | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
Notts County on Monday. They could secure promotion over Easter | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
weekend. 18,000 sell-out for that match. Promotion could come on | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
Monday in the East Midlands at Meadow Lane. Results permitting, of | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
course, but we will keep right across it as we go into the weekend. | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
We stay with Portsmouth to feature the only World Cup winner for | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
England since 1966. Jill Ellis led the United States | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
to women's World Cup glory in 2015. But Jill's life began in Hampshire | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
as the daughter of a Naval officer. A family move to the US | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
would change her life, She's been talking to us from her | :18:24. | :18:32. | |
base stateside. It really is now the global game for | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
women. The level of play has changed dramatically. The athleticism, | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
technique, coaching, attacks. Everything is changing so much, | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
advancing. It's now got a world fan base. The journey for Jo Ellis | :18:48. | :18:55. | |
started in the Hampshire village of cow plane. She lived here till she | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
was 15 and football was always in the family. The memories of those | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
early years and the influence of her football-loving father, John, a | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
Royal Marines Commando, live on. There was a place called Pitt street | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
in Pompey and my dad used to take us there, my brother and me. When the | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
men's game was going on we would go over and usually end up in a fight! | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
Those were my first memories of going to watch the games. Afterwards | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
my dad would take us into the clubhouse and I remember getting a | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
bag of chips and a soda. This is what remains of her field of dreams. | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
The old venue is a retail park in Portsmouth. The family upped sticks | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
in 1980 and went to Virginia, where her dad started a soccer school. She | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
may have become an international manager but such a big job wasn't | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
always the plan. I went to college to play some football and obviously | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
get an education. I never wanted to be a coach. I went on a different | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
tangent and worked in the business world for a couple of years as a | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
technical writer. Got a call to go and do an assistant job at a college | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
and university and I said, guessed, and I took a job and a leap of | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
faith. It's obviously spiralled since there in terms of what I've | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
been able to do. Jill, who was born in 1966, led the US to a World Cup | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
victory and the rear Olympics, and with the women's game growing around | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
the world, competition has become that much harder. -- the Rio | :20:26. | :20:33. | |
Olympics. Does that mean more challenges for the team? Of course. | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
The girl with the can-do attitude. Good story. And I love the way she's | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
retained some of that Hampshire. She talks about. But a bit of American, | :20:45. | :20:52. | |
chips and soda. She means crisps and a drink! | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
Never forgotten her roots. That's brilliant. | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
It's been another lovely day today. Let's take a look at some of your | :21:01. | :21:07. | |
pictures first. This is a lunar halo. | :21:08. | :21:17. | |
And this is in Dorset. That's the rapeseed from the air near | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
Basingstoke. Thank you for your pictures. | :21:21. | :21:23. | |
We are going to get the weather now. We sent Alexis out this evening. | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
She's that Mayflower Park. Making the most of it because I understand | :21:29. | :21:30. | |
it's going to get a bit cloudier? That's right, a bit cloudier over | :21:31. | :21:41. | |
the next few days, but today was lovely, with a high of 16. Elsewhere | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
in land highs of 15. This is the satellite picture from earlier on. | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
We are looking at increasing cloud the most of us overnight, especially | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
during the second part, and that's that swathe of cloud moving | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
eastwards from the Atlantic. The westerly breeze is becoming quite | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
brisk through this evening and will stay so overnight tonight. | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
Temperatures will fall away to around 6-7 degrees in urban areas | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
but possibly down to four or five in the countryside, so a fair amount of | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
cloud by dawn, and a lot cloudier tomorrow than today. Through the | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
morning, temperatures that eight or nine with some brighter spells, but | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
a good deal of cloud. Through the afternoon, with the thickening | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
cloud, we could have the odd spot of rain, being more likely the further | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
north you are. Up in Berkshire, for example. Temperatures reaching 12 or | :22:37. | :22:46. | |
13 Celsius. Tomorrow night, the cloud starts to melt away and the | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
rain eases through the hours of Thursday morning, so turning chilly | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
in the countryside to start Thursday. Temperatures could drop to | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
as low as four or five, but more like six or seven in urban areas. | :23:02. | :23:08. | |
Temperatures around 11-13 each day but there will be some brighter | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
spells and a good deal of dry weather as well. Friday and Saturday | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
possibly the odds of that -- scattered showers. On Easter Sunday | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
and Easter Monday, mainly dry with a good deal of cloud, but some | :23:21. | :23:22. | |
brighter spells. Back to the studio. There are some areas synonymous with | :23:23. | :23:31. | |
the beautiful cars they produce. BMW in Bavaria, Ferrari | :23:32. | :23:33. | |
in Maranello, Ford in Detroit. Tucked away in a Hampshire farm | :23:34. | :23:35. | |
is a project to create a racing car to quicken the pulse of car | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
enthusiasts the world over. BBC South's own petrol-head, | :23:41. | :23:42. | |
transport correspondent Paul Clifton, couldn't resist | :23:43. | :23:45. | |
taking a ride. Take a look at Britain's newest car | :23:46. | :24:02. | |
from a brand-new manufacturer. The Elemental is light, fast and fun. | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
It's also quite expensive. What does ?100,000 by you? Well, it doesn't | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
buy a roof! It doesn't buy doors! And on this car, it doesn't buy a | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
windscreen either. The seats are made of carbon fibre and there's no | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
padding. It's quite awkward to get yourself in! Because you end up with | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
your feet level with your waist, just like you do in a Formula 1 car. | :24:28. | :24:34. | |
But what it does have is performance. 0-60 in well under | :24:35. | :24:42. | |
three seconds. 0-100 in under six seconds. This is essentially a | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
road-legal racing car. The car weighs next to nothing. It is all | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
about aerodynamic downforce. At a small industrial unit hidden away on | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
a Hampshire farm, the next car is nearly ready. 75% of this vehicle | :25:00. | :25:03. | |
comes from within 15 miles of this factory. We've got a lot of very | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
small, very advanced manufacturing capability in this area. There are | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
eight staff and half of them used to work for the McLaren Formula 1 team. | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
It's got racing technology and ideas in it but is still designed to drive | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
on the road. Obviously if you go to track and you haven't got a speed | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
limit, you can really start pushing the car, and is capable of doing | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
things most cars cannot do outside of dedicated racing machines. To | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
reach the luggage space, you have to open the engine cover. You probably | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
wouldn't take this car to the supermarket! Somebody who buys this | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
could equally buy a Ferrari, a Porsche, a McLaren, a Lamborghini. | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
Why would they buy yours? They could buy those cars but this is the only | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
road-going car in the world with anything like the levels of | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
downforce you can generate with this car. The aerodynamics are straight | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
out of Formula 1 prototype arena. We're never going to be a Lotus or | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
an Aston Martin, selling 100 -- hundreds of thousands of cars. | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
That's not our ambition. We are looking at opening up into the | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
American, European and worldwide markets and ultimately selling | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
anything from 40, 50, up to 60 cars a year. This car really belongs on a | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
racetrack. It is perhaps the most bonkers car I've ever driven on the | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
public highway! Paul Clifton, BBC South today, Hampshire. | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
And you can see he's loving every minute of it! Fantastic! | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
Finally, there's a strange new feature that's appeared off | :26:46. | :26:47. | |
the Sussex coast at Lancing in the last week. | :26:48. | :26:49. | |
A digger which was working on a cable trench for | :26:50. | :26:51. | |
the Rampion Offshore wind farm first became stuck and then was swamped | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
A recovery vessel has now arrived with a giant crane | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
but the construction company says it may take weeks to | :26:59. | :27:00. | |
A local paper asked its readers to name the stranded digger. | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
That's all from us this evening! What a way to finish! Thanks for | :27:05. | :27:13. | |
your company tonight. Goodbye. There have never been | :27:14. | :27:35. | |
so many people in work - that's what the Government | :27:36. | :27:37. | |
keeps telling us. But what's the reality of this | :27:38. | :27:39. | |
Tory jobs bonanza? Well, if you're one of the millions | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
of people working on | :27:44. | :27:49. |