:00:00. > :00:00.Hello and welcome to South Today, I'm Jo Kent.
:00:00. > :00:08.The top stories tonight: After decades of indecision,
:00:09. > :00:10.plans for a tunnel past Stonehenge are revealed.
:00:11. > :00:16.But the scheme is still controversial.
:00:17. > :00:19.The ?60 million strike, that's what the Southern Rail
:00:20. > :00:21.dispute has cost the taxpayer, but are you willing to cover
:00:22. > :00:36.There is an ice warning overnight tonight. Slippery surfaces are
:00:37. > :00:38.possible and I will have the details for you shortly.
:00:39. > :00:44.It's the South's most controversial road scheme.
:00:45. > :00:46.After almost 30 years, new plans have been published
:00:47. > :00:51.It would be just under two miles long and would bury
:00:52. > :00:55.the busy A303 as it passes the World Heritage site.
:00:56. > :00:59.But it's going to cost more than ?2 billion.
:01:00. > :01:02.The tunnel idea first appeared in 1989.
:01:03. > :01:05.After years of planning, the government dropped the scheme.
:01:06. > :01:15.A public inquiry lasting almost a year approved it.
:01:16. > :01:17.Ten years ago the cost reached $0.5 billion,
:01:18. > :01:24.Four years ago the idea came back for a third time.
:01:25. > :01:27.This time a longer tunnel, costing more than twice as much.
:01:28. > :01:28.Then, at Stonehenge, Prime Minister David
:01:29. > :01:31.We have managed the nation's finances carefully, the money
:01:32. > :01:34.is there in the budget and you will see that
:01:35. > :01:38.in the Autumn Statement on Wednesday, so this will go ahead.
:01:39. > :01:39.Well, that was a couple of years ago.
:01:40. > :01:42.So is it now finally likely to happen?
:01:43. > :01:46.Here's our Transport Correspondent, Paul Clifton.
:01:47. > :01:48.Successive governments have loved this idea,
:01:49. > :01:59.In decades, no other road in southern England has
:02:00. > :02:02.At ?1.4 billion, it is more than three times the price
:02:03. > :02:08.of the Hindhead tunnel, 15 times of the Weymouth relief road.
:02:09. > :02:20.The solution, make the whole route a dual carriageway.
:02:21. > :02:26.The National Trust hopes it will eventually look like this.
:02:27. > :02:43.It actually makes a big difference to the World Heritage Site.
:02:44. > :02:46.We will have 1.8 miles of clear space in the World Heritage Site.
:02:47. > :02:49.But some people believe the proposed tunnel is much too short.
:02:50. > :02:53.If they're going to put a tunnel in, it needs to be long enough not to do
:02:54. > :02:56.It is a shocking indictment on our government,
:02:57. > :02:59.that it would consider damaging a World Heritage Site in this way.
:03:00. > :03:01.Winterbourne Stoke will get a much-needed bypass,
:03:02. > :03:03.perhaps through here to the north of the village,
:03:04. > :03:07.We campaigned for a dual, that could be a dual tunnel,
:03:08. > :03:10.a dual carriageway, a dual anything, but we need what's
:03:11. > :03:14.This is the most difficult part, but the bigger picture
:03:15. > :03:19.is an expressway to the south-west, with average speeds
:03:20. > :03:27.Public consultation starts now, and the preferred route
:03:28. > :03:31.The target is to start digging in three years' time and it
:03:32. > :03:33.will take four years to complete, so 2024.
:03:34. > :03:36.Ultimately, whether this gets built not depends on how much
:03:37. > :03:39.as a nation we are willing to pay to remove the traffic from our global
:03:40. > :03:56.At ?1.4 billion, it doesn't come cheap .
:03:57. > :03:59.It's been revealed that the government is to put clauses
:04:00. > :04:01.in new rail franchise agreements that will allow employers to claim
:04:02. > :04:04.back any revenue they may lose because of industrial action over
:04:05. > :04:11.The role of guards is the cause of months of strike
:04:12. > :04:15.Today the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn spoke
:04:16. > :04:19.about the dispute to our political editor Peter Henley.
:04:20. > :04:23.Southern Rail has to fess up and deal with the issue.
:04:24. > :04:26.They've run a bad service, they've run short trains,
:04:27. > :04:28.they've cancelled trains, they've still been paid
:04:29. > :04:32.by the government to do it and it is a very odd sort
:04:33. > :04:33.of contractual relationship where the government pays them
:04:34. > :04:36.whether they run the service or not, and the government retains
:04:37. > :04:41.The RMT tell us today that the government is inserting
:04:42. > :04:44.clauses in new contracts for Northern Rail,
:04:45. > :04:47.for South West Trains, saying they will reimburse them
:04:48. > :04:51.Would you allow that to happen, do you agree with that?
:04:52. > :04:54.No, I don't agree with that, it seems a very odd way of doing
:04:55. > :04:57.things because it seems as though the government is then abdicating
:04:58. > :05:03.Is it the safety issue that you are backing the union on?
:05:04. > :05:05.Because in Liverpool, they are introducing driver
:05:06. > :05:08.only trains, and this is a Labour authority.
:05:09. > :05:11.They've come to an agreement, I assume, on that in Liverpool.
:05:12. > :05:20.Let's go back to the issue of Southern.
:05:21. > :05:23.The safety issue, you've got packed trains, you've got one driver
:05:24. > :05:25.with four seconds to decide whether or not the train
:05:26. > :05:30.It only wants one mistake, somebody's hand trapped in a door,
:05:31. > :05:32.bag trapped in a door, not spotted, we've got
:05:33. > :05:37.The RMT say they are in dispute about driver operated
:05:38. > :05:48.I want them to come to an agreement on it, everywhere.
:05:49. > :05:55.Clearly it is up to the government to encourage Southern and the union
:05:56. > :05:57.to get together and make an agreement on the safety issue,
:05:58. > :06:00.just as much as I'm sure Joe Anderson in Liverpool has come
:06:01. > :06:04.A BBC investigation has found that ambulances were called
:06:05. > :06:07.to Winchester prison, more than 150 times last year.
:06:08. > :06:13.Research shows that call outs to jails nationally have gone up
:06:14. > :06:17.The prison reform trust says it's down to growing violence
:06:18. > :06:23.One union says it can take a long time for a crew to simply
:06:24. > :06:29.It can take up to 40 minutes just to get through the security and then
:06:30. > :06:32.when you we make the decision to take a patient to hospital
:06:33. > :06:35.you have got to have two guards accompany you in the ambulance
:06:36. > :06:38.to have to find the guards and you have to get out
:06:39. > :06:41.of the prison so it can take 40 minutes to an hour
:06:42. > :06:45.Football next, and Reading were beaten at home in the league
:06:46. > :06:47.for only the second time this season tonight
:06:48. > :06:49.when they lost 1-0 to Queen's Park Rangers.
:06:50. > :06:51.To make matters worse, it was a former Reading striker
:06:52. > :06:59.Japp Stamms Reading have missed an opportunity to narrow the gap
:07:00. > :07:01.between themselves and Newcastle in an automatic promotion spot.
:07:02. > :07:04.A first-half goal from former Reading man Jamie Mackie
:07:05. > :07:09.was a crucial moment, a well taken close range finish.
:07:10. > :07:17.Reading huffed and puffed, but bar a couple of Yann Kermorgant
:07:18. > :07:21.A first home defeat in three months but now nine days off until the next
:07:22. > :07:25.championship game for Reading at Derby County.
:07:26. > :07:27.Back in 1970 Bron Burrell was the youngest driver
:07:28. > :07:30.in the World Cup Rally from London to Mexico, now half a century later
:07:31. > :07:36.At the age of 72, and living in Milford on Sea in Hampshire,
:07:37. > :07:39.she's planning to re-stage the first leg of the rally this April.
:07:40. > :07:43.John Maguire went to see her training.
:07:44. > :07:48.Wembley 1970, had a car rally marks the handover
:07:49. > :07:52.of the World Cup hosting duties from England to Mexico.
:07:53. > :07:55.Sir Alf Ramsey waves them off, and in car 20, three women
:07:56. > :08:03.We were away for six weeks, it seemed like a lifetime.
:08:04. > :08:21.It wasn't a lifetime, it was a flash.
:08:22. > :08:24.Gosh, there is us in our lovely green C dresses and red jackets.
:08:25. > :08:26.On the ramp, we are starting our huge adventure.
:08:27. > :08:30.The team was well-prepared, mechanically and personally.
:08:31. > :08:32.We decided the best bet was to have paper knickers,
:08:33. > :08:34.so we could discard them, not worry about washing.
:08:35. > :08:37.Such ingenuity might return as almost 50 years on,
:08:38. > :08:40.she has recently bought the original car, nicknamed Puff the Magic wagon,
:08:41. > :08:49.What a shame, Tish is no longer with us.
:08:50. > :08:55.She hasn't driven competitively since the early 70s,
:08:56. > :08:59.In April they will drive to Portugal once again,
:09:00. > :09:03.It's a bit more control because of health and safety.
:09:04. > :09:07.You can't do what we used to do, please do have one night
:09:08. > :09:13.The sport may have changed, but the car and especially
:09:14. > :09:20.the driver look as fast and furious as ever.
:09:21. > :09:22.Many of you may have seen snow today.
:09:23. > :09:26.And as temperatures drop, people are being warned to stay safe
:09:27. > :09:31.In some parts of the South, it's been a light flurry.
:09:32. > :09:33.West Sussex and Surrey, along with Berkshire and North
:09:34. > :09:38.and East Hampshire all saw rather more than that.
:09:39. > :09:41.But in the main, the region appears to have escaped the heavy falls
:09:42. > :09:53.That's all from the news team for this evening and we will take a look
:09:54. > :09:55.at the weather now. Any more snow to come?
:09:56. > :09:59.A chance we could have snow showers overnight tonight and through the
:10:00. > :10:04.rush hour tomorrow morning. The big thing tonight is the ice. Where we
:10:05. > :10:08.have had rain and sleet and snow the ground is wet and temperatures
:10:09. > :10:12.falling away rapidly. The Met office have issued an ice warning and there
:10:13. > :10:24.could be disruption to travel. Tonight with the clearing skies
:10:25. > :10:27.there is a chance of a few snow showers from northern and eastern
:10:28. > :10:29.areas but otherwise it will stay dry. A widespread frost and
:10:30. > :10:33.widespread ice on untreated surfaces. Temperatures in town and
:10:34. > :10:37.cities dropping below zero. A cold and frosty start to the day tomorrow
:10:38. > :10:42.with plenty of sunshine on offer. There will be a bitterly cold North
:10:43. > :10:48.westerly wind which will take off the edge of these temperatures. It
:10:49. > :10:53.will feel closer to 2 degrees given the significant wind-chill. Tomorrow
:10:54. > :10:57.night there at the risk of the odd snow shower here and there and we
:10:58. > :11:00.hold on to the north-westerly wind on Saturday and it feels very cold.
:11:01. > :11:03.It should be mainly dry with note. If that's not your sort of
:11:04. > :11:04.thing, Sunday will be cloudier and