25/01/2017 South Today

Hello and welcome to South Today, I'm Jo Kent.

The top stories tonight: Killed by a hit-and-run drunk driver.

As the government reviews sentencing, his parents call

Four children taken to hospital after cocaine

There was concern they mistook it for sherbert.

And Saints hang on by their fingertips to

Southampton's footballers made history tonight.

They reached their first major Wembley final for 38 years

by beating Liverpool 1-0 at Anfield against all the odds.

Their 2-0 aggregate win means they're the first team ever to reach

Kris Temple is at Anfield for us tonight.

Kris, a fantastic night for Saints, the club and the fans.

Very much so. A momentous night here at Anfield for the 3500 fans packed

into the Anfield Road and behind me, that was where all the drama

happened. Lots of chances at both happened. Lots of chances at both

ends but Saints maintained the record of having not conceded in yet

cup competition to make their first League Cup final since 1979.

As often happens at Anfield, Saints came under intense pressure

Then Nathan Redmond create the best two chances of the first half.

Dusan Tadic couldn't take advantage of the first.

The second, three minutes later, was perhaps even better.

This time, James Davis couldn't finish, much to Saints' frustration.

In the second half, Fraser Forster made a real hash of a 52nd-minute

shot then saved his own bacon with an astonishing stop.

After that, Saints' goal led a charmed life until injury time

when young substitute Josh Sims broke clear to tee up Shane Long,

3500 supporters making the long journey from the south coast. Most

of those will be first in the queue for the tickets for the Wembley

final when they go on sale. Absolutely brilliant. I and Bob

gobsmacked. Shane Long, Magic. They were defending really deep. Wembley!

When Shane Long went through, it was brilliant. Absolutely amazing. We

are going to Wembley! We will win the cup! Let's go! The EFL Cup is

the first major domestic trophy up for grabs in the English football

calendar. The day for the diary is the brew the 25th. The place either

magister is united whole city in the final. The Saints fans their way

back to the south coast the mood. A couple from Hampshire whose son

was killed by a drunk driver say a consultation about tougher

penalties doesn't go far enough. 28-year-old Wayne Moores

died after a hit-and-run The driver was given

a six-year prison sentence. The current maximum penalty

for drivers causing death through dangerous or careless

driving under the influence of drink or drugs is 14 years but,

in practice, the average sentence The government is considering

introducing new maximum life sentences but Wayne Moores' family

say all such cases should be Deeply spiritual, had

a huge sense of fun, was prepared to stand up for things

that were wrong. Wayne Moores' parents

remember their son, In September 2010, he was travelling

home to Hampshire on his motorbike when he was struck by a drunk driver

who fled the scene. Nothing can prepare parents

for seeing their child Every day, that vision

comes into my mind. The driver, Donna Hackett,

was given a six-year sentence for causing death by careless

driving while under Wayne's parents feel the current

wording of charges and the penalties given don't reflect the seriousness

of road deaths. What message does it

give to the criminal? "Oh, don't worry, you're

just a bit careless. The Government's consulting

on whether the maximum sentence for such crimes should be increased

from 14 years to life. Wayne's parents believe that needs

to backed up by tougher You can charge somebody

with manslaughter if they kill somebody as a result

of a traffic accident. It used to be more common that

jurors quite reluctant to convict people of homicide,

of manslaughter, which is More significantly, it's

very difficult to prove. You have to show that the motorist

was grossly negligent in order to Wayne's parents will continue

to push for the law to be rewritten, a move they hope might change

attitudes and save lives. Next some developing news tonight

and South Today has been told that plans to devolve greater powers

from Westminster to councils along the Solent are

now dead in the water. The idea had been to give councils

more control over transport, housing and infrastructure along

with extra funding. Our political editor,

Peter Henley, told me earlier how the controversial idea finally

hit the buffers. There was a crunch

meeting this afternoon. It was all the MPs at Westminster

and a lot of the council leaders. It was intended to try

and find a way forward. With the Isle of Wight having

changed from independent control to Conservative control

and the Conservatives saying they wanted nothing to do

with Portsmouth and Southampton, it seemed clear, I am told by MPs,

that there was no way forward. Now the council leaders are saying

it's dead in the water. ?1 billion of government money has

gone away and it will be some time before they find a way of trying

to get that back again. The councils will have

to think about mergers. This is what's happening Dorset -

they're talking about There's a meeting tomorrow

to get down that road. It's happening in

Oxfordshire as well. Reorganising local government

structure, rather than taking existing councils, electing a mayor

and making a super authority. These things may sound

technical but, in the end, it's about setting the course

forward for the next decade. And all the potential money

for social care in particular that could have come with this,

it looks like that won't happen - they're going to have to go back

to the drawing board and find I'm told there was will in the room

for some kind of combined transport authority for Hampshire but that's

very different to a devolution deal. A school in Poole has written

to all its parents after four children came into contact

with cocaine on the school premises. One child was found

in possession of the drug at Broadstone Middle School

and the teachers say the children Anjana Gadgil has been

at the school today and earlier It happened on the 3rd

of January, the first day back The schools say they found a child

with three other children in possession of an unknown

substance, a white powder The school says the children

believed it to be sweet, They phoned Dorset Police

and South West Ambulance who came here and treated the children

at the scene and then took them They established that the children

hadn't ingested any of the drug, they were all fine and they were

discharged on the day. This school here has around 500

pupils aged between nine and 13. We don't know the ages or the

genders of the children involved. I was here as school ended today,

speaking to parents. Some say the school had told them

not to speak to us but I did manage I'll make an appointment

with the head and speak to her and, until I hear the facts

from the different people, They've reacted quite well

to it, the headteacher. Do you feel the parents have been

given enough information We've been kept

informed, that's fine. Has the school had anything

else to say about it? The school says it's written

to all parents and carers and reassured them that it was dealt

with swiftly and it was The police have confirmed

that it was cocaine and have arrested a 32-year-old man

from Bournemouth on suspicion of drug offences and he's been

bailed pending further inquiries. That's all from the South Today

news team this evening. Here with our regional

weather forecast. Freezing temperatures overnight and

a widespread frost but a good deal of cloud, less in the way of fog and

more in the way of cloud. Temperatures in the countryside will

dip to -2 minus three Celsius. A cold and frosty start to the day

tomorrow, quite a lot of cloud first thing but given the strength of the

breeze, that should break up the cloud cover. Further north of

Berkshire, more cloud during the course of the day into the

afternoon. Temperatures tomorrow will reach a high of three or four

Celsius. But that icy cold wind coming in from the near continent,

temperatures will feel more like freezing. Through the cause of

tomorrow night, the possibility of the frost. Through Friday, a frosty

start in places. Outbreaks are patchy rain. The winds will be brisk

from the south. On Friday night, more persistent rain arriving into

the early hours of Saturday morning. A widespread frost tomorrow, cloudy

start, but an icy cold wind coming in from Europe.

take a look at the Outlook towards the weekend.

Good evening. If you think it was cold today, for many it will be

colder still tomorrow. Cold even when we have the sunshine today.

This was one of the wonderful weather watcher pictures we had sent

in from Cornwall. It contrasts with a cloudy and foggy eastern half of

the country, and a bank of cloud. Still foggy, but it is starting to

lift. It is being pushed north and west, this bank of cloud. That will

continue through the night. We will still have some fog sitting on the

hills. Even with the cloud, it will be a cold night, with temperatures

away from the far north and west falling to freezing. In the

countryside, well below freezing.