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:00:00. > :00:00.Hello and welcome to South Today, I'm Jo Kent.
:00:00. > :00:13.Calls for businesses to review the way they treat smokers
:00:14. > :00:17.Southern discomfort - some strike days have been cancelled
:00:18. > :00:22.but now it's been announced there'll be more misery on the way.
:00:23. > :00:25.And back to an era when trains made you smile -
:00:26. > :00:38.rare footage of a railway which once covered the Isle of Wight.
:00:39. > :00:42.More than a million people in the UK have completely given up smoking
:00:43. > :00:45.because they started using e-cigarettes -
:00:46. > :00:49.But it's been revealed that, across the South, many workers
:00:50. > :00:54.who vape could be facing a daily temptation, because their bosses
:00:55. > :00:56.expect them to use smoking areas alongside cigarette smokers.
:00:57. > :00:59.That's despite Public Health England saying firms should "make a clear
:01:00. > :01:11.Phil from Southampton was a smoker for 24 years before he discovered
:01:12. > :01:16.Since he made the change, he says he feels fitter,
:01:17. > :01:19.his sense of smell and taste have returned and he got a surprise
:01:20. > :01:25.I said I'd stopped smoking about a year ago,
:01:26. > :01:28.he said, you're now a nonsmoker, so since then all my
:01:29. > :01:32.have been filled out as a nonsmoker, which is
:01:33. > :01:36.brilliant, it saves me a fortune.
:01:37. > :01:39.Public Health England estimates that vaping is 95% less
:01:40. > :01:43.Last summer, it produced a set of guidelines for
:01:44. > :01:45.employers which said they should support
:01:46. > :01:49.smokers to stop smoking and stay smoke-free
:01:50. > :01:52.and make clear the distinction between vaping and smoking.
:01:53. > :01:56.But Phil's employer, like most in the South,
:01:57. > :02:01.It's classed the same as smoking, so we smoke in the same shed
:02:02. > :02:09.It's the same thing, they don't see any difference between them.
:02:10. > :02:13.Ian Green runs the Southampton Vaping Centre.
:02:14. > :02:16.He says it isn't right that many of his new customers will
:02:17. > :02:20.return to work this week to find a lack of support from their bosses.
:02:21. > :02:25.It would be very positive if councils or larger employers could
:02:26. > :02:29.work with the vapers and define an area where they can,
:02:30. > :02:32.whether it be indoor or outdoor, to allow them to vape
:02:33. > :02:37.without actually being next to the smokers.
:02:38. > :02:39.For the time being, anyone trying to make
:02:40. > :02:47.an informed decision on vaping may find their judgment's being clouded.
:02:48. > :02:50.Not everyone is as persuaded by the merits of vaping.
:02:51. > :02:53.Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard is chair of the Royal College of GPs.
:02:54. > :02:56.I spoke to her earlier, and I started by asking her
:02:57. > :02:59.whether she agreed with Public Health England
:03:00. > :03:02.that people using e-cigarettes should be found a place to smoke
:03:03. > :03:08.Well, it's up to individual employees what is realistic
:03:09. > :03:16.For many employers, they just say, please don't smoke in the building,
:03:17. > :03:19.For those employers that do provide space for smokers,
:03:20. > :03:23.which they are not obliged to do, but they do, then if they have
:03:24. > :03:24.facilities to provide separate spaces, that's great,
:03:25. > :03:27.because certainly, some vapers say that the smell of cigarette smoke
:03:28. > :03:30.is tempting them back when they have already cut down.
:03:31. > :03:34.Not many employers will be in a position to provide that.
:03:35. > :03:36.A case study we have spoken to was told by his GP that
:03:37. > :03:39.after a year of smoking e-cigarettes he was then classified
:03:40. > :03:45.Is that something you would tell your patients?
:03:46. > :03:48.No, personally, that is not something I would tell my patientss
:03:49. > :03:51.because with e-cigarettes, you are still using an addictive
:03:52. > :03:56.And while it is safer than using a tar-based product,
:03:57. > :03:59.which is cigarette smoking, there are still some risks
:04:00. > :04:03.although we can't quantify them as clearly as smoking.
:04:04. > :04:05.We have got 50 years of evidence about smoking.
:04:06. > :04:08.The e-cigarettes evidence has only been building over
:04:09. > :04:13.And that's where the uncertainty lies at the moment.
:04:14. > :04:17.What would you like to see the advice about vaping change to?
:04:18. > :04:20.Well, as far as I can see, from a health professional's point
:04:21. > :04:23.of view, by all means, if you have patients
:04:24. > :04:27.who want to quit or cut down on smoking and would like to try
:04:28. > :04:31.It's a helpful adjunct to cutting down.
:04:32. > :04:34.But I would not see it, would not want to see vaping
:04:35. > :04:38.encouraged as a healthy way of life because we just don't
:04:39. > :04:47.Train drivers on Southern Railway have announced they'll
:04:48. > :04:51.cut their planned strike next week, from six days to three.
:04:52. > :04:55.Members of the union Aslef were due to walk out from Monday.
:04:56. > :04:59.The industrial action will now be held on three days next week -
:05:00. > :05:05.But the union has also announced a further three days
:05:06. > :05:09.Southern says it's a cynical ploy to reduce the impact
:05:10. > :05:14.It will lay on 200 buses on each strike day.
:05:15. > :05:23.The advice from Southern yesterday was not to travel next week.
:05:24. > :05:25.Now the strikes have been cut back, the advice is,
:05:26. > :05:30.But for many who use the network, travel is always essential.
:05:31. > :05:34.I work at Gatwick Airport and literally, trains
:05:35. > :05:40.I am always late and you run out of excuses eventually.
:05:41. > :05:43.I heard it's because somebody doesn't want to have to open doors
:05:44. > :05:48.But I very think people should just be thankful that they have a job.
:05:49. > :05:51.Southern's parent firm, Govia Thameslink, is in dispute
:05:52. > :05:53.with the unions over the introduction of
:05:54. > :05:57.There have been disruption and strikes since April and Aslef,
:05:58. > :06:01.which represents nearly 1,000 Southern drivers, has signalled
:06:02. > :06:08.No trains will run at all during next week's strike.
:06:09. > :06:11.Southern is laying on 200 coaches instead which can carry
:06:12. > :06:17.With three days of strikes likely to affect a fourth,
:06:18. > :06:20.Southern says Aslef is showing contempt for the travelling public.
:06:21. > :06:24.It's shameful, the action being taken by the union leaders here.
:06:25. > :06:28.This is disproportionate and unreasonable for the changes
:06:29. > :06:32.We are making these changes to improve the quality of service
:06:33. > :06:34.that we can offer to our passengers that we desperately need
:06:35. > :06:39.So, for passengers, frustration on the daily commute
:06:40. > :06:42.and as of this week, the annual fare increase has
:06:43. > :06:51.A Hampshire mother accused of plotting to topple the Iranian
:06:52. > :06:54.government has had her appeal heard in court.
:06:55. > :06:58.Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a British-Iranian charity worker
:06:59. > :07:06.Her husband Richard, whose family lives in Fleet in Hampshire,
:07:07. > :07:12.says their daughter Gabriella is having to cope without her mum.
:07:13. > :07:14.She is getting older, and as she gets older,
:07:15. > :07:18.about when we are going back to London and where
:07:19. > :07:21.She talks about prison as being Mummy's bedroom.
:07:22. > :07:25.She doesn't really understand things in the big
:07:26. > :07:27.sense and she's still young enough to live in the moment.
:07:28. > :07:30.She is in a place where she's loved and she's looked after.
:07:31. > :07:33.Cases of fly-tipping in Reading have gone up by 20%
:07:34. > :07:36.since a new permit scheme was introduced for dumping waste.
:07:37. > :07:39.Last year, West Berkshire Council withdrew funding
:07:40. > :07:41.for its tip near Reading - leaving some residents
:07:42. > :07:44.travelling up to 20 miles to the nearest council facility.
:07:45. > :07:48.Since then there's been a rise in scenes like this.
:07:49. > :07:50.It costs Reading Borough Council more than ?100,000
:07:51. > :07:59.It's 50 years since the last British rail steam train ran
:08:00. > :08:03.Today, there's just one short line from Ryde Pier to Shanklin.
:08:04. > :08:05.But the railways used to crisscross the island.
:08:06. > :08:07.With archive film never before seen, our transport correspondent
:08:08. > :08:11.Paul Clifton has taken a look at how the end of the steam era changed
:08:12. > :08:18.The Isle of Wight once had 55 miles of railways.
:08:19. > :08:23.This is 1928, when trains linked most towns and villages.
:08:24. > :08:27.From the 1950s onwards, the lines gradually closed.
:08:28. > :08:34.At the end of 1966, Ventnor died because the line from Ryde
:08:35. > :08:38.to Ventnor served the principal holiday resorts on the island,
:08:39. > :08:41.Sandown, Shanklin and Ventnor - and it took Ventnor about 30 years
:08:42. > :08:49.The island always had old, worn-out trains, second-hand
:08:50. > :08:57.The last steam train ran on New Year's Eve, 1966.
:08:58. > :09:00.The last train was packed to the gunnels.
:09:01. > :09:03.The trains were probably much busier than an average New Year's Eve,
:09:04. > :09:07.and as ever, people were very much coming for their last trip.
:09:08. > :09:13.The final seven miles of railway from right
:09:14. > :09:18.to Shankland were electrified, ready for a more cast-offs.
:09:19. > :09:21.This time, former London underground trains still soldiering
:09:22. > :09:28.In reality, the island has two heritage railways.
:09:29. > :09:45.That's all from the South Today news team this evening.
:09:46. > :09:49.Here's Alexis Green with our regional weather forecast.
:09:50. > :09:52.Temperatures overnight tonight will drop like a stone.
:09:53. > :09:54.We may have freezing fog patches and there
:09:55. > :09:56.will be a widespread frost so you will need your
:09:57. > :09:59.In the countryside, temperatures could fall as low as -7C
:10:00. > :10:07.Even in towns and cities, lows of -2C.
:10:08. > :10:10.So a bitterly cold start to the day tomorrow.
:10:11. > :10:13.That freezing fog will lift and we will see plenty of sunshine.
:10:14. > :10:16.Barely a cloud in the sky but temperatures will struggle
:10:17. > :10:18.to rise because of the light northerly winds.
:10:19. > :10:21.We are expecting highs in some areas of just 2C.
:10:22. > :10:25.For southern coastal counties, a high of 4C to 6C.
:10:26. > :10:32.Tomorrow night, eastern parts we may have the odd pocket
:10:33. > :10:36.Cloud will increase in the early hours of Friday morning
:10:37. > :10:39.It's a band of rain moving southwards and eastwards and that
:10:40. > :10:41.will arrive from lunchtime onwards on Friday.
:10:42. > :10:44.The rain could be heavy in the afternoon and into the evening
:10:45. > :10:48.but it will clear overnight Friday into Saturday morning.
:10:49. > :10:50.So, as we look ahead to the rest of the week,
:10:51. > :10:52.tomorrow will be bitterly cold at first.
:10:53. > :10:57.Quite a lot of cloud around on Friday with rain from lunchtime.
:10:58. > :11:04.Temperatures creeping up a notch or two and turning milder into the
:11:05. > :11:14.weekend. A guarantee on your journey to work
:11:15. > :11:21.tomorrow, if you are nipping out to the shop for a paper, somebody will
:11:22. > :11:22.talk about how cold it is. Looking at today, the weather