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Hello, good evening, I'm Tom Hepworth. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
You're watching South Today, good to have you with us. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Dirty, dangerous and illegal - an increase in fly-tipping | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
in the south, more than 100 incidents are recorded every day. | :00:09. | :00:18. | |
A Sussex school leads the call for a rethink | :00:19. | :00:19. | |
We are having to make devastating cuts at the moment, I am not | :00:20. | :00:31. | |
replacing staff as they leave, I lost three members of staff last | :00:32. | :00:32. | |
year. Fly-tipping, the scourge | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
of the countryside, Last year alone there were more | :00:37. | :00:37. | |
than 37,000 individual incidents across the south, | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
up 10% on the previous year. It adds up to just over 100 | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
incidents of fly-tipping every day. And it's costing council tax payers | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
dearly, nearly ?2 million a year. Some local authorities | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
like Hampshire have introduced People living in West Berkshire have | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
been banned from using the tip in Reading after their council | :00:58. | :01:04. | |
stopped contributing to its costs. Fiona Williams is desperate | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
to clear out her garage. She lives in Mortimer | :01:09. | :01:18. | |
and used to take the rubbish black wheelie bin to | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
the complex in Reading. But since West Berkshire Council | :01:22. | :01:29. | |
cut its funding to Reading, she and thousands like her now face | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
a much longer drive. I have to travel to Newtown Road, | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
which is about at I find it really frustrating | :01:37. | :01:38. | |
the council didn't sort something out before | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
they withdrew the funds West Berkshire Council's | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
plan was to expand this recycling centre in Padworth, | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
extending its opening hours and allowing people to take | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
general waste there. But that requires | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
planning permission, It's been delayed | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
because we've had a threat In order to be able to resist | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
the judicial review, we need to do deeper analysis | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
of the effects of extending Padworth Way centre's capacity | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
to take general waste. This is extremely frustrating | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
for our residents in the east of the district, and I'm | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
frustrated as well. The Council's environmental | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
assessments will be costly and likely to take another | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
six months to complete. In the meantime, the environment | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
elsewhere is suffering, with longer car journeys | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
to the tip and with an increase in fly-tipping | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
by those who can't be | :02:39. | :02:40. | |
bothered with the drive. So what's Fiona going | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
to do with her garage? So this year at least, | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
the spring cleaning will have A 26-year-old man from Hampshire has | :02:46. | :02:53. | |
appeared in court in Basingstoke, charged with 16 counts of serious | :02:54. | :03:02. | |
sexual offences against children Michael Ian Lee Gibbons | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
from Dickens Way in Yateley is accused of committing offences | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
against seven children in North Hampshire and Berkshire | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
from 2009 onwards. He was bailed to appear | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
at Winchester Crown Court in April. Thousands of head teachers, | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
representing more than a million students, have written | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
to the government calling for a rethink on its new funding | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
formula for schools. Consultation on the proposals, | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
which were drawn up to make Gillian Hargreaves has been speaking | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
to one head teacher in West Sussex Tanbridge House in Horsham | :03:32. | :03:38. | |
in West Sussex provides outstanding education for its pupils, | :03:39. | :03:47. | |
even though it is one of the worst ?2000 less per child | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
than some other schools. It had hoped to be | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
a winner when a new way of allocating cash was announced | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
by the government, giving more money to rural areas and less | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
to inner cities. But when the head looked at his | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
school's finances, he found he So we've just got another e-mail | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
coming in, and that's With only hours to go before | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
the government enters public consultation, Jules White is one | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
of thousands of head teachers who have written to their MPs, | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
saying they can't manage and the new | :04:22. | :04:23. | |
formula is flawed. We are having to make | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
devastating cuts at the moment. I'm not replacing | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
staff as they leave, I lost three members of staff | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
last year, it could rise Maybe four or five members | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
of support staff, that administration, support staff, staff | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
who also help our most vulnerable youngsters, we can't | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
afford them going forward. Under this new funding | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
formula, he will receive But his costs for things | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
like pay, national insurance, heating and lighting | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
have risen to ?220,000. So now the school is | :04:59. | :05:00. | |
?40,000 worse off, even It is unprecedented | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
for thousands of heads to come together like this | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
without trade union coordination. But that's a measure | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
of both the fear and the fury teachers | :05:19. | :05:20. | |
feel about the cuts The government says the funding | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
formula is a fairer way to help all It's promised to help those | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
in difficulties and is spending a At the moment it's | :05:30. | :05:40. | |
hard to see how both When you think of public art, | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
this might be the sort of thing As tastes change and technology | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
develops, what should public art look like in the digital age, | :05:49. | :06:05. | |
and is it relevant? Ed Sault has been to see one work | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
in Worthing tonight. On a street corner in Worthing, | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
an array of artistic We've got two cameras, one | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
which is a motion detection camera, And then we have a motion detection | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
infrared camera, which is pointing out towards the audience in the | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
street, and that then brings that information in, goes through some | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
software and processing to then give the visual output, which is then | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
projected onto the windows. This is all part of | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
a plan to invest in creative arts and culture | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
in the West Sussex town. The council has invested | :06:39. | :06:40. | |
in this building to help We actually are managing to produce | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
over 70% above the national average in creative arts here in Worthing, | :06:44. | :06:52. | |
which is really, really exciting. And so the council is really | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
pleased to put some money It's a bit like a Jacuzzi | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
bubble of creativity. As for this latest installation, | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
it's certainly stopping I've never seen anything | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
like this in Worthing before, but I like to dance, | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
so I think this will be fun. And the council will be hoping that | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
too, as modern technology has a hand It is very impressive, let's bring | :07:15. | :07:34. | |
in the gents are men. Thank you the talk numbers. Adam, you live in | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
Worthing. How important is it seeing this? I been living in Worthing but | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
two years but I've met some inspiring people, friendly bunch of | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
people, it is a great opportunity to present our artwork amongst all the | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
other opportunities taken place in Worthing. It is ripe and ready to | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
go. Jim, we saw you in the film, plus a technicality. How relevant is | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
art like this in the digital age? It is really relevant, we are using | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
technology you would normally find in home, we've got cameras. We're | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
putting them into a different environments, getting other people | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
to experience them, in a situation they wouldn't expect. At a time when | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
eyes and budgets, how can he justify spending on this? From the | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
experience of what we've seen people using them today and going forward, | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
we found people have come along, discovered the playful nature of the | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
installation and they've gone away feeling very engaged. Jim, Adam, | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
best of luck. You can see this art installation here in the centre of | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
Worthing until the 2nd of April. When you are 87, you need to be | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
a little careful about activities But Pat Adams from Sonning has | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
thrown caution to the wind. She told staff at her retirement | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
home she'd like a visit from her rather high profile | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
neighbour, George Clooney, The Hollywood heart | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
throb duly obliged. He's a very nice man, very handsome | :09:09. | :09:21. | |
man. And he can call any time he likes. I thought, I've shaken hands | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
with George Clooney, I don't think I will ever wash my hands again, but | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
of course I will. And this is a day I will always remember for the rest | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
of my life. I think she held her composure well. | :09:38. | :09:39. | |
That's the latest, thanks for being there. | :09:40. | :09:40. | |
We'll be back with bulletins in BBC Breakfast tomorrow morning, | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
but now Sam Fraser's here with your weather forecast. | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
Some lovely spring sunshine across a region today, but we had some chilly | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
winds and showers. The next few days, will continue with that mixed | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
theme. For tonight, so cloudy skies were rain arriving to western parts. | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
Over the coming hours, that cloud built, the rain band is out to the | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
west, pushing its way into the early hours. Western parts waken up to a | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
wet start. Under the cloudy skies, temperatures not dropping much below | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
five Celsius. A windy night to come. And do tomorrow morning, that band | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
of rain moves its weight east across the region, fragmenting so the rain | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
becomes lighter all the time. By the afternoon, some brighter skies | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
developing. Some sunshine too. Eight Celsius is Tamara's top temperature, | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
but would lighter winds, it won't feel as chilly as today. Looking to | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
Thursday, overnight, showers will last through the day, so Laurini out | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
of the Thursday was cloudy skies, temperatures still in single | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
figures. Into Friday, it has a brighter picture, the threat of rain | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
receding all the time. gradually improve through Friday and | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
the weekend isn't looking bad. Heavy rain, snow and ice are all in | :11:01. | :11:12. | |
the forecast once again. It was quite a wintry scene today, | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
especially in Scotland. Some very cold looking winter skies here, and | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
we had some snow falling at times in West Lothian. For a while earlier | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
today, there were quite a few showers running through central | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
Scotland, all in that cold air. Right now, we have two areas of | :11:27. | :11:34. | |
cloud, one in northern Scotland and this deepening area bringing heavy | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
rain into south-west England and Wales overnight, with snow over the | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
hills. That wetter weather will move into the | :11:43. | :11:44. |