05/01/2017 South Today

Welcome. The top stories: Pushing the boundaries of medical research.

How a broke through by a team in Southampton is giving hope to this

chronically ill boy and his family. Shutting down southern safety fears.

The rail industry's leading expert says the union's concerns are

unfounded. Calls for a rethink over this camera that is catching

thousands of hospital visitors. A pioneering genetic test

developed by doctors in Southampton could

help patients with rare diseases pinpoint

the root of their problems. The test's already helped

an 11-year-old boy from Dorset. Matthew Knight suffered from one

infection after another Doctors were able to boost Matthew's

immunity to help him Since he was a baby,

he's been in and out of hospital with a range

of different infections. Doctors knew he had a rare immune

deficiency but didn't know exactly Endless tests and blood tests

and x-rays and scans and everything. It was a long haul waiting

and finding out exactly how he was going to be treated

because they really didn't Recently, Matthew was treated

for a hip infection The family agreed to take

part in a medical trial. Researchers there have developed

a test that can go deeper than ever before in to our genetic make-up

and pinpoint precisely Some have compared what we are doing

at the moment in genomics to the man I think we are moving now

into reality of delivering tests that we wouldn't have

thought possible a decade and a half And with Matthew's case,

we were able to turn a result and give the family information

that they have been What we did find out was that

you have 3.2 billion letters in your DNA and for me to have

what I have, I have four missing. From the tests done

in the lab, Matthew's faulty He's now getting the right treatment

to boost his immune system and says he finally feels

like a normal 11-year-old. Now the work in Southampton is part

of a wider genome project going on hospitals around

the country to create a test for all genes

associated with disease. And it's not just for patients

with rare conditions like Matthew. They are also developing tests to

detect the cause of common cancers. The NHS says in time the project

could transform the way A cyclist who killed a pedestrian

in an argument about riding a bike on the pavement has been

sentenced to just under three and a half years

in prison for manslaughter. 69-year-old Roy Galvin was walking

with his wife in Gosport last September when he got

into the row with Duncan Snelgrove. Snelgrove pushed him, causing him

to fall backwards and hit his head. There've been more developments

in the Southern Rail strike, following the publication

of a report into the issue The Chief Inspector of Railways says

it is safe for drivers rather than conductors

to operate train doors. The unions have

dismissed his research. Our Transport Correspondent

Paul Clifton has more. This latest report included tests

on Southern Railway, on the precise routes

through West Sussex on which The report was written

by the most senior safety Driver only operation can be

operated safely in compliance with the law on Southern Railway

only and we have told Aslef The safety inspectors ran

tests on the Horsham They looked at union claims that

cameras on trains were unsafe Deficiencies were found at some

stations, so Southern The inspectors looked

at whether cameras could see small They also looked at leaving

the door cameras running This offers clear safety

benefits compared with But the drivers union

is pressing ahead with next It says the two sides

are on different planets. The reality is there has been no

real move to address the fundamental issues that are at the heart

of the deal. It's about the imposition

of a system of breaking Every official report,

every statistic I have ever read on driver door operation says

it is safe, but the RMT union called to day's report a total whitewash,

which proved this safety authority Both sides, it seems,

are in no mood for compromise. An MP's stepped into the row

about a controversial bus lane camera near the QA

hospital in Portsmouth. Penny Mordaunt's asked the council

to rethink how it operates the camera after more than three

and a half thousand people The camera was installed in July

and within the first 11 weeks fines totalling nearly

?124,000 were issued. Between October and December fines

totalled another 87 thousand pounds It's a camera that's been called

a cash cow and unfair. It was meant to deter nonhospital

users from using the bus lane as a short cut,

but because you cannot see the sign clearly,

it's actually penalising hospital If you approach this

junction from the north or the south car park,

then the signing here is obscured so people don't actually noticed

there's a bus lane as you turn left And as you go through there,

there's a camera, which would then Andrew is one of more than 3500

drivers who have been caught. He received the fine only two days

after his terminally Although the council has

since let him off the ticket, on compassionate grounds,

he says the system is unfair. I think it's immoral

that they do that. People here are coming

here for treatment or to take relatives, or visit relatives,

and it's quite immoral that people Where you've got cameras in the city

that are creating very, very high levels of fines,

that should be reviewed And in this instance, clearly,

those who have been fined had suggested that the signage could be

improved, and I think that's probably the sensible thing

for the council to do. Motoring experts say the issue

in Portsmouth is not unique. In Preston recently,

a bus lane was actually switched off after two weeks of a camera looking

at a bus lane and catching people. And the reason they stopped

that was that they realised that there were, that the signage

it wasn't adequate. So they decided that they would stop

putting fines in place, they would reassess the site,

and look at the signage And that's what we'd

like Portsmouth to do. Portsmouth City Council says

that the current signs do comply However it does recognise there have

been a large number of fines issued so it's now speaking to the hospital

trust to see if any additional signs or road markings on the approach

to the bus lane can be put in place. A monumental sculpture

of a soldier has been created in Dorset and it's

made entirely out of scrap metal. The six metre high soldier was put

together to mark the centenary It's made from a mix of items

including car parts and spanners and took three and a half months

to build. It is a commission for a local

author who asked us to build a ghostly figure of a First World War

soldier. This is what we have ended up with and I think it fits the bill

spot on. Some sports news and

Southampton say captain Jose Fonte has asked

to leave the club. The 33-year-old Portuguese defender

is the only survivor He wanted a longer term deal

than the one which was on the table. Meanwhile, Portsmouth missed

the opportunity to close the gap on the promotion places

against League Two leaders Doncaster - our reporter

Andy Moon watched the game. The night that was an opportunity

for Portsmouth to lay down a marker turned into one of great

frustration. They were really slow out of the blocks against Doncaster

and John Marquis gave the hosts and there are deep -- early lead. An

equaliser came from Naismith. There were two more goals from the home

side. This one into the top corner and a volley into the corner. The

manager was fuming afterwards and admitted he was frustrated with the

performance his side must wait ten days now to play again.

That's all from the South Today news team this evening.

It is looking cold once again and temperatures down to minus six

Celsius. A widespread frost on the cards and some freezing fog. Already

in parts of the region, we have seen temperatures plunging to minus

figures. A chilly start tomorrow. Some mist and fog first thing. We

will see some sunshine and through the course of the day, it will be

mainly dry with rain moving in. As we look ahead towards the rest of

the week, high-pressure dominates our weather. Despite the high

pressure in charge, we will stay -- see a good deal of cloud.

Temperatures into double figures in some areas. Unsettled conditions

over the weekend and a chance we could have drizzle here and there.

In summary, a frosty start from most places and through the course of the

day, the club will increase. Cloud increasing through the afternoon and

by dusk, that rain starts to move on. There will be a good deal of

cloud and some bright and sunny spells.

creeping up by a notch or two, 10, maybe nine Celsius. Here is Louise

with the national picture. Won't it cold and frosty this

morning? The coldest night of the winter so far in England. Down to

minus 8 Celsius. But widely, the temperatures below freezing. Through

the night, cloud and rain, so temperatures for many holding up

above