10/03/2017 South Today


10/03/2017

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They're the ships which will transform the Royal Navy,

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and they've already boosted Portsmouth's economy.

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The first of the two new Queen Elizabeth class

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aircraft carriers is due to arrive in Portsmouth later this year.

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More than ?100 million of government money has been spent readying

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Portsmouth's dockyard for her arrival, and today marked

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They are just putting the finishing touches to the ?100 million project

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to prepare Portsmouth's naval base for the arrival of

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A huge jetty has been rebuilt, buildings have been upgraded

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and shipping channels are being dredged,

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It is all giving the city and economic boost.

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The whole of Portsmouth is going to benefit from these carriers.

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I mean, people are going to want to come from miles around to see it.

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So I hope everybody benefits from that, you know,

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and these are an amazing feat of engineering and I think they will

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These computer-generated images show what the new aircraft carriers

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will look like when they come into Portsmouth.

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The decision to base the new ships here means a steady flow of work

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It is estimated around 2000 people across the region will be involved

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That extends around the Solent region, the companies around

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with the various technologies, their supply chains going further

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and further back, but also, a much larger and much more skilled

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workforce that is going to be coming into the naval base each day.

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This really is a significant sea change for Portsmouth.

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We now know, with the majority of the surface fleet being based

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here, Portsmouth Naval Base is in a good, strong position.

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HMS Queen Elizabeth is in the final stages of being fitted out

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Today, the Navy said that she will arrive

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here in Portsmouth later in the year.

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Steve Humphrey, BBC South Today, Portsmouth.

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A former vicar who abused a choirboy more than 35 years ago has been

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jailed for four years after his victim gave evidence,

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using eye-tracking technology which turned his blinks into words.

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Cyril Rowe, who's 78, was sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court today

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after being found guilty of three counts of indecent assault

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The victim died of motor neurone disease before

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hearing that his abuser had been found guilty.

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A care worker from West Sussex who stole from a vulnerable

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pensioner she was looking after has been given a suspended

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39-year-old Theresa Stratton from Littlehampton was caught

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on a CCTV camera stealing money from David Skerritt's wallet.

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Stratton was sentenced at Chichester Crown Court

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to 12 months in prison, suspended for 18 months.

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She will also have to do 260 hours of unpaid work.

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Three new road upgrades have been announced for our region.

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They're aimed at tackling some of the worst bottleneck

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junctions in the South, where tens of thousands of drivers

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find themselves stuck in long queues day after day.

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The announcement comes a little more than a week since a scheme

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to upgrade the A27 at Chichester was suddenly ditched

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The big winner - or loser, depending on your point of view -

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is Guildford, with two junctions off the A3 both getting upgrades.

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They are the northbound off-slip at the University interchange

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and the southbound off-slip at the Stoke interchange.

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The schemes will cost a little over ?4 million pounds in total.

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The schemes will cost a little over ?4 million in total.

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Both are notorious traffic hotspots getting in and out of the town.

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This is what people who drove into Guildford today made of it.

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I think the town centre needs more attention.

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There is too much traffic going through the town centre.

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We could do with a bypass, to be honest.

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I'd appreciate it, but I would like them to work on it quickly,

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Even my uncle talks about it having been an issue

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for about the last 20 years, so, yeah, it's long time

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that something was done, really, so hopefully,

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we can sort it out, because it's a complete bottleneck

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So, yeah, I hope they get on with it quickly.

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The other scheme getting money are improvements to the M27

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?2.5 million pounds will be spent here.

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Now, this comes just over a week since a scheme to upgrade the A27

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So is the 250 million earmarked for that now going to smaller

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This is what the Secretary of State for Transport,

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The decision in Chichester was a difficult one.

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The divisions in the local community about what is the right solution

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for Chichester are so pronounced that I felt it better not to go

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We are making improvements at Arundel, and we are not simply

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diverting the money into today's announcement, we will spend

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the money thoughtfully and carefully that isn't

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Well, West Sussex County Council has got together with other interested

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parties to lobby to get the scheme reinstated.

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So far, they've written to the Secretary of State

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to try to get him to reconsider the decision, requested a meeting

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to talk about the way forward, and are arranging community

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workshops to build a case to get the scheme back on the agenda.

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Chris Grayling did sound pretty resolute though,

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so we'll have to wait to see if that is really a road to nowhere.

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The road schemes announced today are due to be completed

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Football, and Brighton took a step nearer to

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The Seagulls beat Derby County 3-0 at the Amex.

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The first goal coming from Anthony Knockaert

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This was followed by a second from Sam Baldock,

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Brighton remain in second place in the Championship table

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on goal difference, but are now level

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Do you remember the Summertime Specials of the 1980s?

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This was it - it was, of course, a TV variety show featuring song

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The show moved around various seaside towns and some

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Today, there was something of an '80s revival as one

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of those opening sequences was faithfully recreated.

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It's all part of the 35th anniversary

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of the Bournemouth Bay Run, and this year's has an '80s theme.

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That's all from the South Today news team this evening.

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We're back tomorrow at 5:50pm and there's more

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Alexis is here with our regional weather forecast.

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It is going to be quite a mild night tonight, and through the course of

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the night we will see some mist and fog patches develop, and already

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there is some dense fog in a few places, particularly over the hill

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tops and for the coast. Tonight, temperatures dropping to eight or

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nine, and the mist and fog will be with us first thing tomorrow. It

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might be stubborn to clear here and there but once it does with the dry

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air coming from France, we will see the southerly breeze break the cloud

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up to allow decent amount of sunshine. In the sunny spells, we

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may see highs of 14 or potentially around 15 or 16 Celsius. Cast your

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mind back to Thursday, temperatures could be similar and it could be a

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similar feeling day. The rest of the weekend, tanning and settled on

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Sunday, a lot of cloud and ad breaks of rain at times. Monday

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Where the sunshine broke through to the North of Cornwall temperatures

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rose to 17 degrees under the blue skies. For many of us the cloud

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didn't break up through the day, keeping temperatures pegged at

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around about 13 degrees. That was the high today in the London region.

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Mild over night with the blanket of cloud around. Most places dry. Rain

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will work into parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland through the

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early hours of Saturday. It will be mild. Temperatures six to ten

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degrees. Frost-free to start off your

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