:00:00. > :00:00.Hello and welcome to South Today, I'm Jo Kent.
:00:00. > :00:07.The top stories tonight: Killed by a hit-and-run drunk driver.
:00:08. > :00:10.As the government reviews sentencing, his parents call
:00:11. > :00:16.Four children taken to hospital after cocaine
:00:17. > :00:20.There was concern they mistook it for sherbert.
:00:21. > :00:22.And Saints hang on by their fingertips to
:00:23. > :00:37.Southampton's footballers made history tonight.
:00:38. > :00:40.They reached their first major Wembley final for 38 years
:00:41. > :00:43.by beating Liverpool 1-0 at Anfield against all the odds.
:00:44. > :00:46.Their 2-0 aggregate win means they're the first team ever to reach
:00:47. > :00:50.Kris Temple is at Anfield for us tonight.
:00:51. > :00:59.Kris, a fantastic night for Saints, the club and the fans.
:01:00. > :01:11.Very much so. A momentous night here at Anfield for the 3500 fans packed
:01:12. > :01:14.into the Anfield Road and behind me, that was where all the drama
:01:15. > :01:18.happened. Lots of chances at both happened. Lots of chances at both
:01:19. > :01:23.ends but Saints maintained the record of having not conceded in yet
:01:24. > :01:26.cup competition to make their first League Cup final since 1979.
:01:27. > :01:30.As often happens at Anfield, Saints came under intense pressure
:01:31. > :01:35.Then Nathan Redmond create the best two chances of the first half.
:01:36. > :01:39.Dusan Tadic couldn't take advantage of the first.
:01:40. > :01:42.The second, three minutes later, was perhaps even better.
:01:43. > :01:48.This time, James Davis couldn't finish, much to Saints' frustration.
:01:49. > :01:52.In the second half, Fraser Forster made a real hash of a 52nd-minute
:01:53. > :01:58.shot then saved his own bacon with an astonishing stop.
:01:59. > :02:02.After that, Saints' goal led a charmed life until injury time
:02:03. > :02:07.when young substitute Josh Sims broke clear to tee up Shane Long,
:02:08. > :02:26.3500 supporters making the long journey from the south coast. Most
:02:27. > :02:33.of those will be first in the queue for the tickets for the Wembley
:02:34. > :02:40.final when they go on sale. Absolutely brilliant. I and Bob
:02:41. > :02:48.gobsmacked. Shane Long, Magic. They were defending really deep. Wembley!
:02:49. > :02:56.When Shane Long went through, it was brilliant. Absolutely amazing. We
:02:57. > :03:03.are going to Wembley! We will win the cup! Let's go! The EFL Cup is
:03:04. > :03:08.the first major domestic trophy up for grabs in the English football
:03:09. > :03:14.calendar. The day for the diary is the brew the 25th. The place either
:03:15. > :03:18.magister is united whole city in the final. The Saints fans their way
:03:19. > :03:22.back to the south coast the mood. A couple from Hampshire whose son
:03:23. > :03:25.was killed by a drunk driver say a consultation about tougher
:03:26. > :03:27.penalties doesn't go far enough. 28-year-old Wayne Moores
:03:28. > :03:29.died after a hit-and-run The driver was given
:03:30. > :03:34.a six-year prison sentence. The current maximum penalty
:03:35. > :03:38.for drivers causing death through dangerous or careless
:03:39. > :03:40.driving under the influence of drink or drugs is 14 years but,
:03:41. > :03:43.in practice, the average sentence The government is considering
:03:44. > :03:49.introducing new maximum life sentences but Wayne Moores' family
:03:50. > :03:54.say all such cases should be Deeply spiritual, had
:03:55. > :04:01.a huge sense of fun, was prepared to stand up for things
:04:02. > :04:04.that were wrong. Wayne Moores' parents
:04:05. > :04:06.remember their son, In September 2010, he was travelling
:04:07. > :04:13.home to Hampshire on his motorbike when he was struck by a drunk driver
:04:14. > :04:17.who fled the scene. Nothing can prepare parents
:04:18. > :04:21.for seeing their child Every day, that vision
:04:22. > :04:36.comes into my mind. The driver, Donna Hackett,
:04:37. > :04:42.was given a six-year sentence for causing death by careless
:04:43. > :04:44.driving while under Wayne's parents feel the current
:04:45. > :04:51.wording of charges and the penalties given don't reflect the seriousness
:04:52. > :04:54.of road deaths. What message does it
:04:55. > :04:58.give to the criminal? "Oh, don't worry, you're
:04:59. > :05:01.just a bit careless. The Government's consulting
:05:02. > :05:08.on whether the maximum sentence for such crimes should be increased
:05:09. > :05:12.from 14 years to life. Wayne's parents believe that needs
:05:13. > :05:16.to backed up by tougher You can charge somebody
:05:17. > :05:21.with manslaughter if they kill somebody as a result
:05:22. > :05:24.of a traffic accident. It used to be more common that
:05:25. > :05:28.jurors quite reluctant to convict people of homicide,
:05:29. > :05:30.of manslaughter, which is More significantly, it's
:05:31. > :05:34.very difficult to prove. You have to show that the motorist
:05:35. > :05:38.was grossly negligent in order to Wayne's parents will continue
:05:39. > :06:01.to push for the law to be rewritten, a move they hope might change
:06:02. > :06:06.attitudes and save lives. Next some developing news tonight
:06:07. > :06:16.and South Today has been told that plans to devolve greater powers
:06:17. > :06:18.from Westminster to councils along the Solent are
:06:19. > :06:20.now dead in the water. The idea had been to give councils
:06:21. > :06:23.more control over transport, housing and infrastructure along
:06:24. > :06:24.with extra funding. Our political editor,
:06:25. > :06:27.Peter Henley, told me earlier how the controversial idea finally
:06:28. > :06:30.hit the buffers. There was a crunch
:06:31. > :06:31.meeting this afternoon. It was all the MPs at Westminster
:06:32. > :06:35.and a lot of the council leaders. It was intended to try
:06:36. > :06:37.and find a way forward. With the Isle of Wight having
:06:38. > :06:40.changed from independent control to Conservative control
:06:41. > :06:41.and the Conservatives saying they wanted nothing to do
:06:42. > :06:44.with Portsmouth and Southampton, it seemed clear, I am told by MPs,
:06:45. > :06:49.that there was no way forward. Now the council leaders are saying
:06:50. > :06:52.it's dead in the water. ?1 billion of government money has
:06:53. > :06:56.gone away and it will be some time before they find a way of trying
:06:57. > :06:59.to get that back again. The councils will have
:07:00. > :07:04.to think about mergers. This is what's happening Dorset -
:07:05. > :07:06.they're talking about There's a meeting tomorrow
:07:07. > :07:10.to get down that road. It's happening in
:07:11. > :07:12.Oxfordshire as well. Reorganising local government
:07:13. > :07:16.structure, rather than taking existing councils, electing a mayor
:07:17. > :07:21.and making a super authority. These things may sound
:07:22. > :07:23.technical but, in the end, it's about setting the course
:07:24. > :07:28.forward for the next decade. And all the potential money
:07:29. > :07:32.for social care in particular that could have come with this,
:07:33. > :07:35.it looks like that won't happen - they're going to have to go back
:07:36. > :07:38.to the drawing board and find I'm told there was will in the room
:07:39. > :07:43.for some kind of combined transport authority for Hampshire but that's
:07:44. > :07:52.very different to a devolution deal. A school in Poole has written
:07:53. > :07:55.to all its parents after four children came into contact
:07:56. > :07:57.with cocaine on the school premises. One child was found
:07:58. > :07:59.in possession of the drug at Broadstone Middle School
:08:00. > :08:02.and the teachers say the children Anjana Gadgil has been
:08:03. > :08:05.at the school today and earlier It happened on the 3rd
:08:06. > :08:09.of January, the first day back The schools say they found a child
:08:10. > :08:13.with three other children in possession of an unknown
:08:14. > :08:16.substance, a white powder The school says the children
:08:17. > :08:21.believed it to be sweet, They phoned Dorset Police
:08:22. > :08:26.and South West Ambulance who came here and treated the children
:08:27. > :08:29.at the scene and then took them They established that the children
:08:30. > :08:34.hadn't ingested any of the drug, they were all fine and they were
:08:35. > :08:37.discharged on the day. This school here has around 500
:08:38. > :08:42.pupils aged between nine and 13. We don't know the ages or the
:08:43. > :08:46.genders of the children involved. I was here as school ended today,
:08:47. > :08:48.speaking to parents. Some say the school had told them
:08:49. > :08:54.not to speak to us but I did manage I'll make an appointment
:08:55. > :09:01.with the head and speak to her and, until I hear the facts
:09:02. > :09:06.from the different people, They've reacted quite well
:09:07. > :09:13.to it, the headteacher. Do you feel the parents have been
:09:14. > :09:16.given enough information We've been kept
:09:17. > :09:20.informed, that's fine. Has the school had anything
:09:21. > :09:23.else to say about it? The school says it's written
:09:24. > :09:25.to all parents and carers and reassured them that it was dealt
:09:26. > :09:28.with swiftly and it was The police have confirmed
:09:29. > :09:33.that it was cocaine and have arrested a 32-year-old man
:09:34. > :09:36.from Bournemouth on suspicion of drug offences and he's been
:09:37. > :09:45.bailed pending further inquiries. That's all from the South Today
:09:46. > :09:47.news team this evening. Here with our regional
:09:48. > :09:56.weather forecast. Freezing temperatures overnight and
:09:57. > :10:01.a widespread frost but a good deal of cloud, less in the way of fog and
:10:02. > :10:07.more in the way of cloud. Temperatures in the countryside will
:10:08. > :10:11.dip to -2 minus three Celsius. A cold and frosty start to the day
:10:12. > :10:14.tomorrow, quite a lot of cloud first thing but given the strength of the
:10:15. > :10:20.breeze, that should break up the cloud cover. Further north of
:10:21. > :10:23.Berkshire, more cloud during the course of the day into the
:10:24. > :10:28.afternoon. Temperatures tomorrow will reach a high of three or four
:10:29. > :10:31.Celsius. But that icy cold wind coming in from the near continent,
:10:32. > :10:37.temperatures will feel more like freezing. Through the cause of
:10:38. > :10:44.tomorrow night, the possibility of the frost. Through Friday, a frosty
:10:45. > :10:50.start in places. Outbreaks are patchy rain. The winds will be brisk
:10:51. > :10:54.from the south. On Friday night, more persistent rain arriving into
:10:55. > :10:59.the early hours of Saturday morning. A widespread frost tomorrow, cloudy
:11:00. > :10:59.start, but an icy cold wind coming in from Europe.
:11:00. > :11:07.take a look at the Outlook towards the weekend.
:11:08. > :11:13.Good evening. If you think it was cold today, for many it will be
:11:14. > :11:17.colder still tomorrow. Cold even when we have the sunshine today.
:11:18. > :11:20.This was one of the wonderful weather watcher pictures we had sent
:11:21. > :11:26.in from Cornwall. It contrasts with a cloudy and foggy eastern half of
:11:27. > :11:30.the country, and a bank of cloud. Still foggy, but it is starting to
:11:31. > :11:33.lift. It is being pushed north and west, this bank of cloud. That will
:11:34. > :11:38.continue through the night. We will still have some fog sitting on the
:11:39. > :11:43.hills. Even with the cloud, it will be a cold night, with temperatures
:11:44. > :11:46.away from the far north and west falling to freezing. In the
:11:47. > :11:47.countryside, well below freezing.