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