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Welcome to South Today, I'm Allen Sinclair.

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On the programme tonight: Campaigners fighting to free

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a British mother jailed in Iran are at Downing Street -

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hoping their voices will carry to politicians with the power

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Makeshift sea defences that were supposed to last

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the winter are washed away - leaving waterfront homes

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And we start this week on a fairly wet note, cooler by the weekend with

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the chance of Gables. A protest has been held close

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to Downing Street this evening, over the continued detention

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of a British woman in Iran. Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe's

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ordeal began in April - arrested at the airport

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as she was returning She'd been travelling

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with her two-year-old daughter Gabriella -

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whose passport was taken away. She's now being cared

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for by relatives in Iran. In September, Nazanin was sentenced

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to five years in prison - but the charges against her

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remain a secret. Her husband - Richard Ratcliffe -

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who's from Hampshire - has been campaigning

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for his wife's release. Our Political Editor Peter Henley

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was at this evening's protest and sent this report

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from Westminster. It's now 260 days since Nazanin

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Zaghari Ratcliffe was taken into She has now been convicted

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and sentenced to five years and we understand she is in solitary

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confinement, a long way from a prison in Iran to Downing Street

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this evening when we understand members of her family

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were singing carols, trying to keep their spirits up

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and prevent positive aspects to A lot of it revolves

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around trying to influence governments,

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particularly the British government to put more pressure

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on the Iranian government, and Nazanin's husband Richard

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believes they are not doing enough. The government is

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doing more and more but not enough and they

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need to keep going. There are things they could be

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doing, they have never criticised the way she has been treated,

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so we'll keep going, but we are grateful for the small

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things they are doing. People in Hampshire

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have been busy as well. A report on the letter writing

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campaign. Today

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is a peaceful protest against a frustrating

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process. It is a message of solidarity

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and is in conjunction At the moment, she is not

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very well at all. She has lost a lot of weight,

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a lot of strength, a lot of hair. She is a British citizen

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and that is what we can understand, it feels

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like she has been left to hang out to dry for

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the last nine months with very little

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British consular support. I understand the reasons behind that

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but it still feels like she is a British citizen and it is a British

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child and we feel she should be home We were not expecting this much

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support and it helps us to drive this campaign as without local

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support the campaign wouldn't get Nazanin's 38th birthday

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is on Boxing Day, one that is likely to be behind bars unless

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the family's one Christmas wish 26,000 letters now have

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been sent to that prison in Iran and many tweets,

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some of which Nazanin got to see on That has cheered her up,

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and one I think we'll cheer the whole campaign up,

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I got a chance to speak to the Prime Minister tonight and asked,

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will she be thinking about Nazanin She said she would be

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thinking of her and all the other people who are in very

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difficult situations in the world, and she said the government would be

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keeping up pressure on the Iranian regime, in the best way they think

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they can to get Nazanin freed. A serious case review

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is underway after a Portsmouth woman was found guilty

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of murdering her 19-day-old son. Nicola Brown was also

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convicted of causing grievous bodily harm to baby Jake,

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who died two years ago, after suffering a serious head

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injury and multiple fractured ribs. Her husband, Jason Brown,

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was found not guilty of allowing As Steve Humphrey reports,

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the family were known Baby Jake suffered a series

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of injuries during his short life. Today, his mother Nicola Brown

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was convicted of murdering her baby son and causing fractured ribs

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on previous occasions. The boy's father Jason Brown left

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court after being found not guilty of causing or allowing the death

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of a child. As the jury returned its verdict,

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Nicola Brown shouted repeatedly from the dock,

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she said, "I didn't do it, I did not do it, they have

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made a huge mistake. I hope this haunts you

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until the day you die." Senior detectives say

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it was a difficult case. It has been a complex investigation

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piecing together the short It is important for us

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to establish who has been The family was living

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at Agincourt Road in Portsmouth. During the trial, Nicola Brown,

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on the right, described how the lights went out in her baby's

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died when she was feeding him. Baby Jake died later

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that day in hospital. The jury was told Mrs Brown had

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anxiety issues, was taking antidepressants and had been

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in denial about her pregnancy. The court was told social

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services had been alerted He had been deemed at risk

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but not at immediate harm. Midwives visited the family twice

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but no concerns were raised. The Portsmouth Safeguarding Children

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Board is now conducting The judge told her she would be

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sentenced in the New Year after a psychiatric

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report has been prepared. Steve Humphrey, BBC South Today,

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at Winchester Crown Court. Sussex Police says it's

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investigating six separate reports of historical sex abuse at football

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clubs in the county. None of the claims relate

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to league sides Brighton The force says the offences

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were allegedly committed by six Across the UK there have been

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reports of abuse relating Further strike action meant it's

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been another difficult day for commuters unable to travel

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by Southern Rail. Another ten days of action

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are already scheduled. It's the most significant disruption

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to trains for 20 years. But the Prime Minister today said

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she won't consider proposed new anti-strike legislation,

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and aims to focus instead Beachfront homes are again at risk

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at Pagham in West Sussex after sea defences -

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designed to protect them over Residents are worried that any

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further high tides or bad weather They've been waiting for more

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than a year for a planning decision over more effective defences,

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as Sean Killick reports. But it was a different

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picture here on Friday. Just days after the local

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council put 10,000 cubic metres of shingle down,

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a tidal surge coincided That has resulted in the loss

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of the majority of shingle that had been put to increase the depth

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to the beach crest. They will be concerned because this

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was a defence for the winter. We have two very high tides

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over the coming months. That will be the protection that

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has been washed away. I'm not aware of any other emergency

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work being undertaken. The district council says it

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will undertake work as resources allow and it has carried out

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significant works in recent years including building a rock

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revetement, and it believes the work carried out last week reduced

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the effect of the tidal surge. We had the tidal surge come

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through two metres above normal. It came as far as the edge

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of the vegetation which is Pagham parish council wants to cut

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through a shingle bank which has appeared in recent years,

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altering the currents, and the council believes

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causing beach erosion. Whatever happens with the planning

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application, work won't be getting underway in the next couple

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of months which means the residents in the seafront properties

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here will remain vulnerable to the worst of the storms

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for the remainder of this winter. Sean Killick, BBC

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South Today, Pagham. We're back tomorrow

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with bulletins in BBC Breakfast - and there's more through the night

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on the BBC news channel. Right now, Alexis Green is here

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with our regional weather forecast Thank you. We are looking for the

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weather for the week ahead up to and including the Christmas weekend. We

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start an HLA note with some rain and drizzle at times, sunny spells as

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well and a strong wind, especially towards the weekend. For some,

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clearing skies and we may have a touch of frost with the temperature

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falling to freezing or just above. Laws of 3- sex and the winds light,

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so the possibility of light rain or patchy drizzle. One showers

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especially along the south coast on the Isle of White, some may drift

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inland but generally dry with the temperature reaching a high of five.

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Quite chilly out in the open but the wind will be liked. Tomorrow night

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we start on a dry note work through the early hours, the clouds will

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thicken from the west and we see outbreaks of light and patchy are

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moving in from the West with the temperature tomorrow falling to

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three Celsius, so a chilly start and the wet start with this band of rain

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which will clear Easter words and a dry interlude with some sunny spells

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before the next batch of rain arrives. Fragmented rain and very

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patchy in nature with the high of five. Warmer temperatures on

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Thursday through the course of Thursday we see this Reg of high

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pressure building in with the chance of rain and showers at times but

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drying out through the course of the day. The next batch of rain on the

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way with this low pressure moving in on Thursday and into the early hours

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of Friday, Friday see some strong winds and the winds increased

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through the course of the day and coming wet Friday night into the

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early hours of Saturday morning, so a dry start and some brighter spells

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but the rain will push on from the West and the wind increases in

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strength. The chance of gales for the south coast. Looking to the

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weekend, called with The rest of the weekend, some rain

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around, windy, but with dry and bright spells.

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Heavy weather is brewing, it will not reach us just yet. It will take

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a good few days before the stormy weather reaches us. At the moment,

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it's just potential, nothing is certain, but it will be different to

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what we've had over the last few weeks, it's been so calm. We have a

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jet stream raging out of North America making a beeline for the UK.

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It

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