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Hello and welcome to South Today, I'm Jo Kent. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Fighting on the home front - service families say they're not | :00:07. | :00:11. | |
being listened to when it comes to complaints about | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
A plea for better funded policing - as a force says it's done | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
Three-year-old Marla's delight with her prosthetic | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
The armed services covenant says accommodation provided to military | :00:25. | :00:41. | |
families should be "of good quality, affordable, and suitably located." | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
Yet tonight, we can reveal that service personnel | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
and their families across the South, are living in damp | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
The firm in charge of maintaining the homes, | :00:49. | :00:57. | |
Carillion Amey, received more than 1300 | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
That's an increase of nearly 50% on the same month the previous year. | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
The MoD has retained more than ?4 million of payments | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
to Carillion Amey due to performance failings. | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
Six months ago, the firm was threatened with losing | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
its multi-million pound contract unless things improved. | :01:17. | :01:26. | |
The Public Accounts Committee says they have - but that's not | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
the experience of residents, as Lewis Coombes reports. | :01:30. | :01:30. | |
It's the battle that's closer to home. | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
Military families fighting for an acceptable standard | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
These are just some of the pictures sent to BBC South. | :01:35. | :01:43. | |
Kim is married to an RAF pilot based in Hampshire. | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
After 13 years, he's decided to leave his job, | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
partly due to the state of military housing. | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
A small leak from their boiler resulted in their lounge ceiling | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
being replaced as it took nine months to fix what was initially | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
Kim was heavily pregnant and recently diagnosed with cancer. | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
I just don't know what happens between the people being called | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
The process doesn't seem to work, the administration or the computer | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
It did affect my health cos I was just so stressed about it | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
and I was so focused about it and I felt so helpless. | :02:12. | :02:22. | |
Carillion Amey maintains 47,000 homes in a five year contract | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
BBC South has been inundated with families on e-mail talking | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
about their experiences, but unwilling to do so on camera | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
over fears of the consequences it could have on their jobs. | :02:34. | :02:35. | |
It includes a soldier of 22 years who's weighing up whether to leave | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
the military because he's embarrassed about the standard | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
of accommodation he's providing his family. | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
MoD figures show the average rent fo an unfurnished three bedroom service | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
It's subsidised to help keep forces mobile, but families feel more | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
It doesn't seem like we're important enough to care about making | :02:52. | :03:00. | |
We expect our homes to be up to standard and then it | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
Carillion Amey has apologised to Kim and insists it is "working hard | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
for service personnel and their families and | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
focusing on how they can improve things further. | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
In a statement the MOD said, "it will absolutely not hesitate to take | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
Well, Caroline Dineage is the MP for Gosport who's taken up the issue | :03:16. | :03:25. | |
I spoke to her earlier tonight and asked what conditions she'd come | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
across in military homes she'd visited. | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
Everything from pet infestations to damp, to | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
We also had massive problems with just the way | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
in which the complaints were dealt with, getting through to the right | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
When the complaints were dealt with, people | :03:44. | :03:51. | |
taking time off work to be there when workmen came out and the | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
workmen never turning up, consistently, day after day. | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
You know, a lot of different things like that. | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
And what effect does it have on those families? | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
Well, it can have a devastating effect. | :04:07. | :04:07. | |
What you have to remember is these families are | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
also, at the same time as going about their daily lives | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
as normal residents, they're are also having to deal | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
with the additional pressures of a partner | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
of husband, wife, away, maybe at sea, for months on end. | :04:21. | :04:22. | |
Often bringing up small children alone and often away | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
from their own family networks and support networks. | :04:26. | :04:27. | |
So, what could be a small domestic problem with a | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
house, a small complaint, can feel like a really big issue. | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
You say you've seen some improvement, but we're | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
hearing things are still bad for some families. | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
Ha the governments being tough enough on Carillion Amey? | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
I think we have seen, spoken to a lot of the Government | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
ministers about this because we were in position | :04:51. | :04:51. | |
previously, like a lot of MPs, where we had to make every | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
complaint by the ministry, which was incredibly long and overly | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
So, we have spoken to them at length about this and | :04:58. | :05:06. | |
they have made very clear to Carillion Amey that, | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
if that improves, then they'll take away their contract. | :05:09. | :05:10. | |
Give us more money or police services could suffer. | :05:11. | :05:19. | |
That's the message from those in charge | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
of running Hampshire Police today as they lobby | :05:22. | :05:23. | |
The force needs to save ?23 million by 2021. | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
For which they've identified ?10 million worth of savings. | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
The Chief Constable and the Police and Crime Commissioner | :05:29. | :05:41. | |
claim they've already made all the savings they can and they're | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
a victim of the national police funding formula. | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
Our Home Affairs Correspondent, Emma Vardy, reports. | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
The thin blue line is being stretched ever more thinly. | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
In Hampshire, the force has lost hundreds of officer posts in | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
recent years and it seemed a specialist | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
than 30 police stations are said to have been | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
I am concerned because, if I wasn't concerned, | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
What we do know is it's a great police force and we have | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
We are a really efficient constabulary. | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
Today is about securing our financial future. | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
Hampshire says it is around 25% underfunded compared with other | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
forces, getting less money for policing. | :06:30. | :06:30. | |
But the Government is changing the way it calculates how | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
That's why Hampshire is making its case now. | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
In a number of places around Hampshire, police have moved out of | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
the traditional police stations and into shared buildings with the | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
council and Fire Service, like here in Southampton Civic Centre. | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
But the force says it got out all the savings that can and they | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
The current national funding formula which is | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
two thirds of my money is not fit for purpose. | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
There is a process at the moment are updated and I'm | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
giving the evidence to the Minister to nature we get the funding | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
nationally and they are funding locally. | :07:11. | :07:22. | |
The Home Office said today it believes there | :07:23. | :07:24. | |
is no question the police still have the resources | :07:25. | :07:26. | |
to do their important work, but will be considering | :07:27. | :07:28. | |
Hampshire's case and that of other forces in the coming months. | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
The Conservatives have taken control of Isle of Wight Council tonight. | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
It follows the resignation of the Independent leader | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
Jonathan Bacon and Steve Stubbings stepped down | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
in protest at the impact of Government cuts - | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
and claimed that politics and ego were being put before the concerns | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
This evening, Tory councillor Dave Stewart was voted | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
in as the new leader, ahead of another | :07:48. | :07:49. | |
A girl from Newbury who was born without a left hand has had one | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
Three year-old Marla Trigwell's new hand was made | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
by members of a community club who work on technical projects. | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
They used a free online design using materials costing | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
It's a boost to her confidence and it's a psychological boost for her. | :08:03. | :08:14. | |
So, when she meets people, instead of that, | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
You've got the fingers, the palm, the lower arm, the upper arm, | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
the connecting pieces, put them together and you can get | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
I'm quite proud that this has turned out better than I'd expected | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
and it's really changing the lives of young Marla and her family. | :08:30. | :08:43. | |
The Gosport sailor Alex Thompson has tonight admitted victory | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
in the Vendee Globe round the world race is probably beyond his reach - | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
saying it's very likely now that current leader Armel Le Cleac'h | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
This evening supporters gathered in the pub in Gosport | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
where Thompson's brother is the landlord. | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
Friends and family have met at the pub every Wednesday | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
since the race started to hear a phone call from Thompson | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
This evening, his distance from Le Cleac'h slipped back to 57 | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
nautical miles but he said he was not giving up | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
He's expected to reach the finish in South West France tomorrow. | :09:13. | :09:18. | |
Football - and Southampton are through to the next stage | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
of the FA Cup after beating Norwich City in their third | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
But they left it very late - the match was goalless and looked | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
to be heading for extra time - when a goalmouth scramble ended | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
in Shane Long getting the ball in the net. | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
Saints go on to host Arsenal in the fourth round, | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
That's all from the South Today news team this evening. | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
We're back tomorrow with bulletins in BBC Breakfast and there's more | :09:43. | :09:44. | |
Here with our regional weather forecast is Alexis Green. | :09:45. | :09:52. | |
It will be a very cold and frosty night to come | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
with perhaps some freezing fog patches in places. | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
Last night, we saw a low of -6 Celsius. | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
Tonight, in the countryside, perhaps a low of -5 Celsius. | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
These are temperatures in our towns and cities. | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
So, with light winds, the mist and fog may linger | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
A frosty morning, a cold start to the day. | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
Lightening up, from the amount of sunshine. | :10:12. | :10:13. | |
Slightly more cloud the further north you are. | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
Also the further east you are with cloud drifting in. | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
Temperatures are reaching a high of 5-7 C. | :10:18. | :10:19. | |
It will feel quite chilly in shady places. | :10:20. | :10:21. | |
Through the course of Thursday to Friday, | :10:22. | :10:23. | |
we are expecting high pressure to remain. | :10:24. | :10:24. | |
That's not to say you won't see some bright spells, | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
but where the cloud is | :10:29. | :10:29. | |
thicker, we could see the odd spot of light rain. | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
This cloud lingering over the north of the country | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
will slip its way southwards, slowly during Friday, producing the odd | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
The brighter spells and best of the sunshine on Friday | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
along the south coast and for the Isle of Wight. | :10:41. | :10:42. | |
As we head throughto the rest of the week, a frosty start to | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
the day tomorrow with a high of six Celsius with light winds. | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
Some bright spells and eventually a frosty start on Friday. | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
next few days, no great changes over the next few days, more sunshine on | :10:52. | :11:06. | |
the way. Despite high-pressure sitting across | :11:07. | :11:18. | |
the country so only slow changes in the weather, we have had | :11:19. | :11:20. |