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A day of disruption caused by freezing fog, warnings of similar | :00:16. | :00:23. | |
conditions tomorrow. Dense fog patches would reduce | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
visibility tonight and tomorrow, details shortly. Also the drivers | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
still using their mobile phones at the wheel. We join the police on | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
their latest crackdown. Widespread freezing fog is expected | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
to cause more travel disruption Today, thousands of air | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
passengers faced delays and cancellations at Gatwick, | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
Heathrow and Southampton airports. Ferry services to and from the Isle | :00:44. | :00:45. | |
of Wight were also disrupted And there were dozens of accidents | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
on roads across the region this morning as drivers faced the twin | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
hazards of fog and ice. In a moment we'll hear | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
why the fog poses such a problem for our airports, | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
but first Steve Humphrey reports on a frustrating day | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
for many travellers. It is a blanket of fog that has | :01:00. | :01:22. | |
caused widespread travel disruption. Airports have been in the thick of | :01:23. | :01:24. | |
it, literally. The fog wrecked this family's hopes | :01:25. | :01:36. | |
for a smooth ride to Disneyland Paris. They left Dorchester at 3am | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
to get to the airport. We should have flown to Paris at 7:15 a.m.. We | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
have already missed one day at Disneyland, hopefully we will be | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
there tomorrow morning. Everyone, holiday makers and business | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
travellers, it was a very frustrating day. I walk through the | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
door on the flight was cancelled and they had to join a long queue to get | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
rebooked. I am trying to get to Edinburgh for work tomorrow and | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
doesn't like I will get there. As the day progressed, the number of | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
cancelled flights steadily increased. Altogether, Gatwick | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
cancelled 42 and arrivals and departures. 100 flights were | :02:19. | :02:27. | |
also had an impact on the roads with also had an impact on the roads with | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
61 crashes in Hampshire 31 in Dorset. And it has been a | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
challenging day for ferry operators and their passengers on routes to | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
the Isle of Wight with delays and some cancellations because of the | :02:44. | :02:44. | |
poor visibility. So why does the fog end up | :02:45. | :02:45. | |
grounding so many flights? It's a question I put | :02:46. | :02:48. | |
to Dan Townsend - Southampton Airport's Airside Operations | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
Manager. Aircraft operating at airports in | :02:51. | :03:03. | |
the UK have to do so under very strict limitations for visibility | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
and unfortunately when the fog comes and inevitably the fog brings very | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
low visibility, below these limits that aircraft type. They are | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
obviously very technical logical way advanced these days, can't systems | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
with fog? There are lots of systems that allow them to cope with thick | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
fog but there are days like today with very bad visibility of the | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
technology on the aircraft is always ultimately reliant on the human in | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
the cockpit to have a certain amount of visibility and with thick fog | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
they just don't have that. Can you tell us what it is like logistical | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
way for you planning when there is fog forecast? It is complicated. We | :03:47. | :03:56. | |
are good at it. We spoke to our colleagues in Exeter and we have | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
done a two our conference call everyday and we work with the | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
network planners to make sure we can get the most up-to-date information | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
for all other passengers and ensure they can plan journeys and whether | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
they have to be cancelled or diverted as well. More fog forecast | :04:14. | :04:21. | |
for tomorrow so I was looking? As you can see behind me, unfortunately | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
the fog has come in in the last hour to the levels we are seeing now run | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
the latest I have heralded as the fog is here to stay for the rest of | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
the day and possibly until late morning tomorrow. All I can see to | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
passengers is please do check with your airlines before you travel to | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
ensure you are as informed as possible before travelling. | :04:41. | :04:41. | |
Dan Townsend from Southampton Airport there. | :04:42. | :04:42. | |
Well, more fog is forecast for tomorrow - Steve Humphrey | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
Steve, what impact is that likely to have - | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
Yes, it looks like the fog is here to stay overnight. | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
The MET office has issued a Yellow Severe weather | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
Already we know that Heathrow expects to be cancelling around | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
Wightlink has said its Lymington to Yarmouth ferry wont | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
Red Funnel says delays are likely - and along with other | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
operators its urging people to check before they travel. | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
And after all those accidents this morning, Dorset Police issued | :05:08. | :05:09. | |
a statement today urging drivers to take far more care. | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
Thanks, Steve, and we'll have the weather with Alexis a bit later. | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
Meanwhile, Southern Railway will run a full timetable | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
tomorrow for the first time in nearly two months. | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
Today, despite a strike by members of the RMT union, | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
Southern said it managed to run seven in ten services with drivers | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
For the first time on a strike day Southern Portsmouth and Southampton, | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
and Sussex passengers had direct services to London. | :05:38. | :05:43. | |
Separate talks are continuing between the company and the drivers' | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
union Aslef which has suspended its strikes. | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
Almost 8,000 motorists were caught using hand-held mobiles at the wheel | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
in just a week during a major police operation in November. | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
The figures have been released as a new crackdown starts today. | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
It's all part of an attempt to make driving whilst | :06:04. | :06:05. | |
using a hand-held mobile as socially unacceptable as drink-driving. | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
Duncan Kennedy has been out with a patrol along the M27. | :06:08. | :06:16. | |
8am this morning and the rush-hour rash of drivers on their phones | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
We are out with John and Adam from Hampshire Police and they soon | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
come across this man using his device. | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
He accepts what he has done and gets a fixed penalty notice. | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
On another road, this man is texting. | :06:38. | :06:46. | |
Even in slow traffic it's an offence to use your phone. | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
He also is pulled over and given a ticket. | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
We carry on and even with the added dangers of today's fog, drivers | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
That driver is now about to get on his way, the fourth driver | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
we have stopped this morning and we have only been | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
No wonder today's figures show such a huge increase in the number | :07:12. | :07:18. | |
of drivers using their phones while at the wheel. | :07:19. | :07:20. | |
In a one-week nationwide police operation last November, | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
nearly 8,000 people were stopped using a mobile phone. | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
That's nearly four times the number just two years ago. | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
I think it's a combination of education, enforcement | :07:32. | :07:39. | |
on our part and changes to legislation which the government | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
have obviously planned, and it has taken years | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
for drink-driving to become socially unacceptable and we need the use | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
of mobile phones while driving to become unacceptable as well. | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
In 2015, Lee Martin was killed by a driver using his phone. | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
His brother said the public must wake up to this menace. | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
In March, the fines and penalty points will double for drivers | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
The law is trying to get ahead of people using this behaviour | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
Prince Harry was in Wiltshire today to see how former members | :08:04. | :08:12. | |
of the armed forces are being helped with their mental health. | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
The Prince spent the afternoon at the Help | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
for Heroes Recovery Centre in Tidworth, which supports | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
ex-service personnel who are living with anxiety, | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
He was shown around their project to build an Iron Age roundhouse. | :08:22. | :08:25. | |
The charity hopes the Prince's visit will help to remove the stigma | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
I have got both physical and mental issues I need to address, I am no | :08:29. | :08:40. | |
longer the person I was when I joined the force, and I think we | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
would all agree it is a therapeutic environment that enables us to | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
define ourselves by what we can do rather than things we can't do | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
because of injuries. They are pointed in the general direction of | :08:55. | :08:55. | |
years and it can be invaluable. That's all from the South Today | :08:56. | :08:56. | |
news team this evening. We're back tomorrow with bulletins | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
in BBC Breakfast and there's more Here with our regional weather | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
forecast is Alexis Green. As you heard earlier than the | :09:02. | :09:11. | |
programme, dense fog patches are possibility overnight and freezing | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
in places, the temperature dropping well below freezing so quite a cold | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
start with the dense fog staying with us but mainly dry up until | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
Friday with the possibility of a little rain. Overnight fog will | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
start to develop in the prone sports and overnight the temperature in the | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
countryside could drop as low as minus six Celsius. These are the | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
temperature is in our towns and cities with the yellow fog warning | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
in force throughout the night and tomorrow morning. The fog could | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
linger well into the afternoon and will start to rise into low cloud in | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
places. With that, Mr fog lingering and the temperature could struggle | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
to rise to a high of two Celsius but a high of 4-8 C. For the fog patches | :09:57. | :10:04. | |
are possibility with areas east of the Isle of Wight seeing more dense | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
fog patches. The farther west you are the less likelihood of fog. The | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
temperature falling to freezing or just below. Wednesday we have to | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
deal with the freezing fog once again in a few places but it starts | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
to clear and that is because the wind will increase particularly | :10:26. | :10:27. | |
through parts of Dorset and Wiltshire and where we see that, the | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
temperature up a notch to around 5-8. Travelling less cold day on day | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
but Thursday will be bitterly cold. Throwing in freezing a from Europe, | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
lots of sunshine during the day but given the breeze and the cold air | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
from the continent it will feel bitterly cold. The rain at times on | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
Friday, temperature reaching eight Celsius but looking to the weekend, | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
For the weekend we will have dry weather with sunny spells and it | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
will be a little bit milder. Good evening. We are continuing to | :11:04. | :11:13. | |
see huge righty in the weather. Getting the detail right is proving | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
to be a challenge. This was in Pembrokeshire and other parts of the | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
UK were gloomy throughout the day. The fog is thickening up right now. | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
Particularly pool on the M5 in south-west England. Very foggy | :11:33. | :11:40. | |
across parts of the West Country. This fog is tending to spread its | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
way further eastwards. Some fog as well across parts of Yorkshire. | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
Northern Ireland and Scotland are mild but damn. This is how we will | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
start the day. At eight o'clock in the morning, quite a lot of fog | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
around which could affect the major airports. What all of us have seen | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
fog. There will be Sunni areas to western fringes of England and | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
Wales. Across Northern Ireland and Scotland it is much milder. Some | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
patchy rain around coming in on the Bruce, particularly over the hills | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
in the West. Much of that will fade away. It will be relatively mild. | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
For England and Wales, much of the fog were clear. Some of it will not | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
sell it will be especially chilly. Quite a contrast in temperatures | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
again. -- so it will be especially chilly. Despite sunshine, it will be | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
on the chilly side. The fog will come back again. On Wednesday | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
morning, Central and eastern parts are particularly prone. Some | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
sunshine will emerge. Rather more cloud for Northern Ireland and | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
Scotland. Most of the rain will be held at bay. Still relatively mild. | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
A real edge to that further south and east. It would be a sign of | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
things to come. On Thursday we will tap into some particularly cold air | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
sitting over the continent for several days now. Europe is frozen | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
at the moment. Some of the freezing cold air will head towards us on a | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
stiffening south-easterly breeze. Some places will not get above | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
freezing, maybe the odd snow flurry. Wherever you are, it will feel cold. | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
All | :13:30. | :13:30. |