:00:00. > :00:00.Here, on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.
:00:07. > :00:08.Hello and welcome to South Today, I'm Jo Kent.
:00:09. > :00:10.The top stories tonight: The Southern Rail row continues.
:00:11. > :00:13.Another difficult day for commuters as drivers walk out for the first
:00:14. > :00:20.Accused of murder over a business debt.
:00:21. > :00:23.A man goes on trial for the killing of a former bomb disposal expert
:00:24. > :00:30.who was missing for more than two years.
:00:31. > :00:37.On this night in 1941 Portsmouth suffered its worst attack of the
:00:38. > :00:38.Second World War, depicted in a painting that has just gone on
:00:39. > :00:45.display. First tonight, the Southern
:00:46. > :00:46.Railway strike continues. Today was the first of three
:00:47. > :00:49.strike days this week. 1,000 drivers walked out, affecting
:00:50. > :00:51.about 300,000 passenger journeys. Every service was brought
:00:52. > :00:55.to a standstill. The first strike ballot by the RMT
:00:56. > :00:59.union was in December 2015. In April, conductors
:01:00. > :01:02.started their strikes. Drivers began similar
:01:03. > :01:05.strikes in December. They also have an overtime
:01:06. > :01:08.ban every day. Over the last ten months,
:01:09. > :01:10.there's been one month Southern imposed a new role
:01:11. > :01:16.of On Board Supervisor last week. An offer to the train crew has been
:01:17. > :01:23.on the table since August. It promises - no job losses,
:01:24. > :01:27.above-inflation pay rises for the next two years,
:01:28. > :01:29.and overall, the same number In return, Southern wants
:01:30. > :01:34.to run driver-only trains without conductors under certain
:01:35. > :01:38.circumstances, such Driver Only Operation
:01:39. > :01:43.is used on almost one in three trains in the UK,
:01:44. > :01:46.and on the London Underground. And nobody has died as a result
:01:47. > :01:52.of this way of working. Our transport correspondent,
:01:53. > :01:55.Paul Clifton, has been Perhaps for the first time ever
:01:56. > :02:02.passengers have been pleased to see Southern has laid on a bus every
:02:03. > :02:09.20 minutes to Dorking, station not affected
:02:10. > :02:25.by today's strike. Normally 10,000 passengers
:02:26. > :02:27.a day pass through here but it's been very quiet,
:02:28. > :02:30.just a handful of people It was much the same in Chichester,
:02:31. > :02:34.from where Ben Moore reports. All aboard the 5%, that's
:02:35. > :02:36.the proportion of Southern trains being replaced by buses
:02:37. > :02:38.during this strike. Even so the first commuter services
:02:39. > :02:40.from Chichester were quiet, and among the passengers who had no
:02:41. > :02:43.choice but to travel, I have to get to Horsham every day
:02:44. > :02:49.because I'm a teacher, Well, they're not pushing
:02:50. > :02:56.their agenda anymore, all this seems to be doing is just
:02:57. > :03:00.causing discomfort for the sake Normally I'd get an eight
:03:01. > :03:13.o'clock train but I have a quarter past seven
:03:14. > :03:16.bus so it is probably another two or three hours
:03:17. > :03:18.on my daily travelling. I joined a 7.18am bus
:03:19. > :03:22.to Havant where commuters can catch a Southwest trains
:03:23. > :03:25.to London or Portsmouth. The earliest connecting train gets
:03:26. > :03:28.to Waterloo at 9:30am, a late start the working
:03:29. > :03:30.day for many. I think the government really
:03:31. > :03:33.need to step in now. If there are safety concerns
:03:34. > :03:36.than it needs to be looked into but in the meantime we need
:03:37. > :03:39.a truce so the workers at Southern Railway get
:03:40. > :03:42.back to work and we, Until that is resolved many Southern
:03:43. > :03:46.commuters could continue to find It's all closed, taped up even,
:03:47. > :03:57.and the departure board The industry safety body have made
:03:58. > :04:03.detailed studies which show the driver only operation is safe,
:04:04. > :04:07.perhaps safer than The unions strongly
:04:08. > :04:13.disagree with that, Today the MP for Havant said
:04:14. > :04:20.in the unions are simply opposing the inevitable march
:04:21. > :04:23.of new technology. These trains have been working
:04:24. > :04:26.on the UK rail network for the last 30 years and they operate on around
:04:27. > :04:29.30% of existing trains anyway but the independent safety watchdog
:04:30. > :04:32.has said that they are safe and therefore the train drivers
:04:33. > :04:35.and the unions should get back to work to make sure that people can
:04:36. > :04:38.get back to work themselves, families can meet up,
:04:39. > :04:40.and actually our economy Hardly any Southern passengers
:04:41. > :04:52.have walked through, Hardly any Southern passengers have
:04:53. > :04:54.walked through here today, and there won't be another
:04:55. > :04:56.train until Thursday. And then the strike comes
:04:57. > :04:58.back again on Friday. A bomb disposal expert, who worked
:04:59. > :05:01.for one of Princess Diana's favourite charities,
:05:02. > :05:03.was murdered by a business partner in a row over an unpaid debt,
:05:04. > :05:06.a court has heard today. Mark Manning's body was discovered
:05:07. > :05:08.in woodland near Slaugham He had been missing
:05:09. > :05:11.for more than two years. Today a jury at Lewes Crown Court
:05:12. > :05:14.was told that he'd been beaten to death by a man who owed him up
:05:15. > :05:17.to ?150,000 pounds. Mark Manning's body
:05:18. > :05:22.remained undiscovered The bomb disposal expert had gone
:05:23. > :05:26.missing in 2014, prompting a major It was eventually found in
:05:27. > :05:33.undergrowth in Mid Sussex last May. Today the jury at Lewes Crown Court
:05:34. > :05:36.was told that business partner Colin Gale had beaten him to death
:05:37. > :05:39.in a row over a substantial debt. It is claimed he then enlisted
:05:40. > :05:42.the help of another man The murder was alleged to have
:05:43. > :05:48.happened at a car garage Mr Manning's blood was
:05:49. > :05:52.found on the walls here. The prosecution said that
:05:53. > :05:55.Mr Manning and Mr Gale worked Mr Manning would loan Gale
:05:56. > :06:00.money and he would go It's alleged that that debt had
:06:01. > :06:08.risen to up to ?150,000, enough money, the prosecution said,
:06:09. > :06:12.for Gale to want Mr Manning Mr Manning had worked
:06:13. > :06:17.for the Mines Advisory Group, a mine-clearing charity supported
:06:18. > :06:20.by the late Princess of Wales. The court was told he was very proud
:06:21. > :06:25.of his work had loved what he did. Mark Manning was last
:06:26. > :06:30.seen on April 19, 2014. Three days later he was reported
:06:31. > :06:32.missing by his family. In June 2014 police changed
:06:33. > :06:37.the enquiry from a missing persons Mr Manning's remains were eventually
:06:38. > :06:44.found in undergrowth near Slaugham in mid-Sussex last May,
:06:45. > :06:46.more than two years Colin Gale denies murder
:06:47. > :06:51.but has admitted preventing Another man, Stuart Robertson,
:06:52. > :06:55.denies that same charge. There are calls for a permanent
:06:56. > :07:06.memorial in the Thames Valley village which was home to pop singer
:07:07. > :07:09.George Michael. Tens of thousands of people have
:07:10. > :07:17.visited Goring-on-Thames to lay flowers outside the star's
:07:18. > :07:19.16th century house. He was found dead
:07:20. > :07:21.there on Christmas Day. On this night 76 years ago 170
:07:22. > :07:23.people lost their lives in the worst bombing raid
:07:24. > :07:25.in Portsmouth's history. But throughout the raids,
:07:26. > :07:29.an artist was at work And today, Richard Eurich's Night
:07:30. > :07:32.Raid has gone on display It shows the horror inflicted in one
:07:33. > :07:46.night by 300 German bombers, killing people, destroying parts
:07:47. > :07:50.of the dockyards behind me and flattening streets but leaving
:07:51. > :07:53.the unlit HMS Victory The artist Richard Eurich
:07:54. > :07:56.was from Hythe and was commissioned by the government to document
:07:57. > :08:02.the effects of war. The painting's on loan
:08:03. > :08:08.from Tate Britain in London, on display at the Portsmouth
:08:09. > :08:11.museum for the first time. He has this access that not even
:08:12. > :08:13.the press would have had, And I think the presence
:08:14. > :08:18.of the Navy in the background, with the battleship
:08:19. > :08:21.and the destroyers I think puts across a very strong message that
:08:22. > :08:27.we're going to get through it. 171 people died that night,
:08:28. > :08:32.400 more were injured. I asked historian John Stedman
:08:33. > :08:34.what January 10th, 1941, The noise of bombs and shells
:08:35. > :08:42.and guns going off. The policy was to get people treated
:08:43. > :08:54.as quickly as possible. First aid parties were out
:08:55. > :08:56.during the raids, along with the fire parties,
:08:57. > :08:59.and rescuing people, giving them first aid treatment
:09:00. > :09:01.and evacuating them as quickly
:09:02. > :09:05.as possible to local hospitals. People remained resilient
:09:06. > :09:08.in Portsmouth throughout. It was a service town and that
:09:09. > :09:17.helped but it also seems to be true of people throughout the UK,
:09:18. > :09:24.nowhere was that mass panic Everywhere carried on and that is
:09:25. > :09:34.certainly true of Portsmouth. The Germans aimed to demoralise
:09:35. > :09:38.as much as hit military targets. 67 air raid during the Blitz,
:09:39. > :09:43.with 900 people killed but people carried on despite the face
:09:44. > :09:46.of their city changing forever. That's all from the South Today
:09:47. > :09:51.news team this evening. We're back tomorrow with bulletins
:09:52. > :09:53.in BBC Breakfast and there's more Here with our regional weather
:09:54. > :10:01.forecast is Alexis Green. We have snow in the forecast over
:10:02. > :10:05.the next few days but tonight acquired snowed with a lot of cloud
:10:06. > :10:09.around and the chance of light rain and drizzle here and there. There
:10:10. > :10:13.will be drier periods as well with temperatures falling away to around
:10:14. > :10:17.seven or eight Celsius. A damp and cloudy start of the day, and
:10:18. > :10:21.improving picture that a fair amount of cloud during the course of the
:10:22. > :10:25.day. Bright spells brought in by the brisk winds and temperatures will
:10:26. > :10:31.feel a lot cooler than you can see here. 9 degrees the hive. All highs
:10:32. > :10:36.are looking ahead to Thursday because there is the potential we
:10:37. > :10:39.could have snowfall. More likely over the Chilterns and Cotswolds on
:10:40. > :10:44.Salisbury Plain. Met Office no warning of force over the whole of
:10:45. > :10:49.the South. As the rain clears away in the cold air sets in on Thursday
:10:50. > :10:54.night there was the potential for snowfall which may not settle in
:10:55. > :10:58.places so many of us will see the snowfall but not settle on the
:10:59. > :11:02.ground. Looking ahead to the rest of the week there are bright spells
:11:03. > :11:03.hereunder and a brisk north-westerly wind sets in and
:11:04. > :11:07.of the week, and to start the weekend as well. For more on that
:11:08. > :11:18.snow situation, over to Jay Wynne now.