:00:08. > :00:11.Good evening to you, I'm Laura Trant with the news in the South.
:00:12. > :00:14.There are calls for tougher laws to crack down on laser pens
:00:15. > :00:17.following a spate of incidents near Southampton Airport.
:00:18. > :00:21.Four aircraft were targeted by green laser pointers in separate incidents
:00:22. > :00:26.The flights continued as planned but, with laser
:00:27. > :00:28.incidents on the increase, the Pilots Association
:00:29. > :00:31.says the devices are being used as weapons.
:00:32. > :00:50.Take-off and landing are the most crucial times for pilots,
:00:51. > :00:53.But it's also when they are most susceptible to laser beams
:00:54. > :00:57.Here in Southampton, there were 11 incidents last month
:00:58. > :01:01.In the first, a laser was shone into the flight path of a plane
:01:02. > :01:04.Three days later, a laser was focused
:01:05. > :01:08.The next night, a plane was targeted as it took off over the M27 motorway
:01:09. > :01:11.and then another inbound aircraft with the light beamed
:01:12. > :01:14.We're talking about high-powered green lasers, which can be
:01:15. > :01:17.PC Andy Sparshott from Hampshire Police showed me
:01:18. > :01:20.how clearly they work, even in daytime, and said he was in
:01:21. > :01:23.a cockpit of a police plane when it was targeted on take-off.
:01:24. > :01:33.There was a lot of brilliant white light flickering
:01:34. > :01:36.The pilot took action, looking at the instruments, making
:01:37. > :01:45.sure everything was OK, and then he was satisfied it was not on fire.
:01:46. > :01:47.Public Health England say they are extremely dangerous.
:01:48. > :01:50.Last February, a Virgin flight had to return to Heathrow after take-off
:01:51. > :01:53.after a laser was shone at the cockpit, causing a medical
:01:54. > :02:00.As of 2010, it's illegal to shine a light to dazzle a pilot.
:02:01. > :02:02.But the police and the Pilots Association want to make it
:02:03. > :02:05.an offence to be in possession of a laser pen.
:02:06. > :02:08.The police are prosecuting but the problem is their hands are tied
:02:09. > :02:11.because they don't have the correct powers at the moment.
:02:12. > :02:13.We are expecting to see some laser-specific
:02:14. > :02:16.legislation coming out relatively soon.
:02:17. > :02:18.We need police to have the power so they can
:02:19. > :02:22.stop the people who are shining lasers and arrest them and get them
:02:23. > :02:25.to justice and get them in prison because it's a really
:02:26. > :02:32.Police say there's always a spike of activity around Christmas
:02:33. > :02:34.as people receive laser pens as presents but they stress
:02:35. > :02:36.that they're not toys and the Pilots Association describes
:02:37. > :02:41.Luckily, in the recent cases, the planes have all been able
:02:42. > :02:49.A former senior NHS official has been jailed for three and a half
:02:50. > :02:54.years at Guildford Crown Court for accepting ?80,000 in bribes.
:02:55. > :02:56.57-year-old Peter Lewis from Windlesham worked
:02:57. > :03:02.He admitted receiving the payments in return for awarding a computer
:03:03. > :03:06.contract worth ?950,000 in the first year.
:03:07. > :03:09.Surrey Police say they're now focusing on recovering the money
:03:10. > :03:13.Mr Lewis made from his crime and returning it to the NHS.
:03:14. > :03:16.The medical director of the South East Coast Ambulance
:03:17. > :03:19.Service has resigned, BBC South Today understands.
:03:20. > :03:23.Dr Rory McCrae has left for what he calls personal reasons.
:03:24. > :03:25.Secamb, which is currently in special measures,
:03:26. > :03:29.was at the centre of a scandal involving the reassessment of some
:03:30. > :03:37.Plans to build a 25 megawatt solar farm in Dorset have been scrapped.
:03:38. > :03:41.Wildlife charities opposed the development at Rampisham Down
:03:42. > :03:44.near Dorchester, which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
:03:45. > :03:47.The developer, British Solar Renewables, has decided
:03:48. > :03:50.to shelve the application, which was approved two years ago
:03:51. > :03:53.but was then subject to a public inquiry.
:03:54. > :03:57.A smaller farm will be built on an alternative site nearby.
:03:58. > :04:02.A 108-year-old man living in Alton is now Britain's oldest man.
:04:03. > :04:05.Bob Weighton inherited the title when a man
:04:06. > :04:11.He lived in Japan in the run-up to the Second World War.
:04:12. > :04:14.When Roger Finn went to see him at his care home,
:04:15. > :04:22.Bob told him what it meant to be Britain's oldest man.
:04:23. > :04:34.I do not seem to feel any different in myself.
:04:35. > :04:37.But everybody else I meet will remind me of the fact.
:04:38. > :04:43.He spent his childhood in Hull and was part of a large family.
:04:44. > :04:46.In the 1930s, he travelled to Taiwan and Japan, where he worked
:04:47. > :04:50.He married his British sweetheart but the couple were forced to leave
:04:51. > :04:59.They and their three young children spent the war in Canada
:05:00. > :05:02.and the USA where Bob broadcast propaganda to the Japanese.
:05:03. > :05:04.Throughout his long life, Bob has held Christian
:05:05. > :05:14.The most important thing I have learnt is that it is far better
:05:15. > :05:18.to make a friend out of a possible enemy than it is to make an enemy
:05:19. > :05:26.What would you say is the key to finding happiness?
:05:27. > :05:32.I do not think you find happiness by looking for it.
:05:33. > :05:37.I think happiness comes when you do certain things.
:05:38. > :05:53.I have got to ask the cliched question, what is your secret
:05:54. > :06:08.It is nothing I have actually done or a regime I have followed
:06:09. > :06:12.at all because I have had such a varied from existence.
:06:13. > :06:17.I have eaten all sorts of things I never thought I would eat and been
:06:18. > :06:21.to places I never thought I would visit.
:06:22. > :06:30.I have no clear answer to that question at all.
:06:31. > :06:33.We're back tomorrow at 5:30pm and there's more
:06:34. > :06:43.But now Sarah is here with our weekend weather forecast.
:06:44. > :06:50.We have got some outbreaks of rain through the course of the night but
:06:51. > :06:54.that band of rain is gradually easing south-eastwards. We will
:06:55. > :06:59.start to see drier conditions developing. Albeit on the murky
:07:00. > :07:04.side. Some hill fog and patchy drizzle lingering towards dawn.
:07:05. > :07:09.Temperatures, lows of three or 4 degrees. A grey and murky start the
:07:10. > :07:14.Saturday morning, hill fog lingering and patchy drizzle as well. Quite a
:07:15. > :07:18.bit of cloud in the picture for tomorrow, they enough to produce
:07:19. > :07:23.rain. There will be brighter breaks but they will be limited.
:07:24. > :07:27.Temperatures look to peak at ten or 11 degrees. On Sunday, another
:07:28. > :07:30.cloudy day. Brighton is possible and if you spots of rain here in there.
:07:31. > :07:42.Breezy with outbreaks of rain. Good evening. The weather has been
:07:43. > :07:45.turning milder and also cloudier through the course of the day. We
:07:46. > :07:51.did see some clear spells moving in from the North will stop this was
:07:52. > :07:54.the sunset, captured in Dundee. Some clear spells as we headed through
:07:55. > :07:57.the course of the afternoon into the evening. Really, through the
:07:58. > :08:02.weekend, wiki with a similar theme. Much milder than it has been. A lot
:08:03. > :08:06.of cloud around in general, but for most of us think. Dry. Not dry
:08:07. > :08:08.everywhere at the moment, particularly across central and
:08:09. > :08:12.southern parts of England and Wales. We have a lot of cloud, bringing
:08:13. > :08:17.outbreaks of light rain and drizzle. The patchy rain will ease away
:08:18. > :08:21.slowly towards the south through tonight and further north across the
:08:22. > :08:25.country, drier conditions. Wherever you are, it's pretty cloudy. Mostly
:08:26. > :08:30.frost free to start the weekend, but there could be frost across the
:08:31. > :08:32.central glens of Scotland. A chilly start, but quite a lot of cloud,
:08:33. > :08:33.some pockets