:00:00. > :00:00.Hello, good evening, I'm Tom Hepworth.
:00:07. > :00:08.Coming up on South Today: The private units making
:00:09. > :00:10.money for our hospitals, but is it at the expense
:00:11. > :00:16.The fly-tippers targeting the New Forest, leaving potentially
:00:17. > :00:28.hazardous waste in the National Park.
:00:29. > :00:31.Health managers at the South's hospitals are increasingly investing
:00:32. > :00:34.in facilities for private patients as a way of plugging
:00:35. > :00:44.At Southampton General, it generated ?5 million while the QA
:00:45. > :00:49.Hospital in Portsmouth treated 1,000 private patients.
:00:50. > :00:51.Our health correpondent, David Fenton, sent this report
:00:52. > :00:57.from a new private unit opening at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital.
:00:58. > :01:00.An empty bed, and you don't see many of those in NHS
:01:01. > :01:05.hospitals, but this bed is for private patients only.
:01:06. > :01:08.Within the unit, we have four ensuite bedrooms fully
:01:09. > :01:13.equipped with satellite TVs, and we have a treatment room
:01:14. > :01:18.All of the proceeds of any private practices undertaken
:01:19. > :01:20.here at the Bournemouth private clinic all goes back
:01:21. > :01:25.into the NHS to fund equipment, staffing, facilities.
:01:26. > :01:29.So every single penny comes back into the NHS.
:01:30. > :01:32.And this treatment room I'm very, very proud of.
:01:33. > :01:35.This unit will treat about 800 patients a year -
:01:36. > :01:42.He is on a trial drug that's not available on the NHS.
:01:43. > :01:47.I think they've done an amazing job with not just myself
:01:48. > :01:50.But having that private opportunity as well,
:01:51. > :01:53.if you can get the money and the funding, like myself,
:01:54. > :01:58.It may sound strange, treating private patients
:01:59. > :02:01.inside public hospitals, but it's a way of bringing
:02:02. > :02:08.much-needed cash into the NHS - ?4 million for this hospital alone.
:02:09. > :02:14.This is about offering local people a choice between NHS
:02:15. > :02:19.What we know is that there are still a significant number
:02:20. > :02:22.of people that actually want private care.
:02:23. > :02:26.And the first private patients will begin arriving next week.
:02:27. > :02:31.Well, I asked the chief executive whether he could really promise that
:02:32. > :02:34.NHS patients would not suffer because of the work that's
:02:35. > :02:40.No NHS patient should be displaced as a consequence of the private
:02:41. > :02:46.So no delays, no problems, no lack of staff, anything like that?
:02:47. > :02:49.No, what we've seen over the years, actually, is our private services
:02:50. > :02:55.OK, finally, what are you going to spend the money on?
:02:56. > :02:58.So what we are going to do is we are going to buy more
:02:59. > :03:00.state-of-the-art equipment and kits that will enable us
:03:01. > :03:04.to provide a wider range of services to NHS patients.
:03:05. > :03:06.This is becoming big business now for many,
:03:07. > :03:09.many hospitals in the NHS and I think they believe that,
:03:10. > :03:13.as long as the money goes back into the NHS to help patients,
:03:14. > :03:19.David Fenton, BBC South Today in Bournemouth.
:03:20. > :03:22.A law student's gone on trial for the killing of a father of ten
:03:23. > :03:25.on the Isle of Wight with a single punch.
:03:26. > :03:28.Gary Stacey died from brain injuries after a night
:03:29. > :03:33.21-year-old Ryan Cooper denies manslaughter,
:03:34. > :03:39.The jury at this trial have been told there's no dispute that
:03:40. > :03:42.a punch killed this man, Gary Stacey.
:03:43. > :03:45.But they'll have to decide whether Ryan Cooper threw that
:03:46. > :03:48.punch in self-defence, as he claims, or whether,
:03:49. > :03:53.as the prosecution say, he was spoiling for a fight.
:03:54. > :03:55.Outlining their case, the prosecution said Cooper had
:03:56. > :03:59.recently split from his girlfriend and got together with friends
:04:00. > :04:03.at his parents' house, where they got drunk.
:04:04. > :04:07.He also used drugs, which he told friends about in a Facebook message.
:04:08. > :04:12.I just did the biggest line of cocaine," he wrote.
:04:13. > :04:15.A little later, he messaged, "I feel like I'm invisible."
:04:16. > :04:26.The group went to a bar and continued drinking heavily.
:04:27. > :04:27.Cooper posted another message, saying,
:04:28. > :04:29."Mate, the Isle of Wight is so different.
:04:30. > :04:35.Later, in this street, Cooper and his friends
:04:36. > :04:38.were approached by Mr Stacey, who they'd had some
:04:39. > :04:44.The jury was shown CCTV footage of the moment
:04:45. > :04:50.We're not able to broadcast these pictures, but they show
:04:51. > :04:56.He fractured his skull, sustaining brain damage.
:04:57. > :05:01.The following day, Cooper told friends that Mr Stacey
:05:02. > :05:04.had threatened him, swearing and shouting.
:05:05. > :05:07.In police interviews, he said Mr Stacey had come
:05:08. > :05:12."He looked like he was going to hit me," he told police,
:05:13. > :05:15."so I just jabbed him to get him away."
:05:16. > :05:17.He said he punched him in self-defence.
:05:18. > :05:25.The trial is expected to last two weeks.
:05:26. > :05:28.Fire crews have spent most of the evening at the scene
:05:29. > :05:30.of a blaze at a school in West SussexT.
:05:31. > :05:33.The fire, at the Weald secondary school in Billingshurst,
:05:34. > :05:38.The leisure centre next door was evacuated.
:05:39. > :05:43.It's thought the fire started in a ground-floor classroom.
:05:44. > :05:47.Serial fly-tippers who've dumped hazardous waste on the New Forest
:05:48. > :05:50.have been accused of putting people and animals at risk.
:05:51. > :05:53.The National Trust says cleaning up the waste,
:05:54. > :05:56.which includes asbestos, will cost thousands of pounds.
:05:57. > :06:05.It's one of the most beautiful parts of the New Forest and a site
:06:06. > :06:10.But Furzley Common near West Wellow has become a dumping
:06:11. > :06:16.Time and again, household rubbish, building materials and even
:06:17. > :06:20.dangerous asbestos has been tipped on this National Trust land.
:06:21. > :06:23.Everybody likes to walk around in it.
:06:24. > :06:25.You've got animals and everything wandering around here, dog walkers.
:06:26. > :06:27.And to leave hazardous materials here, it is
:06:28. > :06:31.What on earth do these people think they are doing?
:06:32. > :06:43.I don't know where people are coming from, to think it is OK to dump it
:06:44. > :06:47.in a place like this. There are sharp edges
:06:48. > :06:48.and goodness knows what. Furzley Common isn't
:06:49. > :07:00.the only part of the forest A big pile of old tyres was also
:07:01. > :07:04.left on National Trust land at Linwood on the western side
:07:05. > :07:06.of the forest. In the last week alone,
:07:07. > :07:08.we have had over four different fly-tipping incidents
:07:09. > :07:10.in the last seven days. I would estimate that has cost us
:07:11. > :07:13.?3000 in National Trust charitable funds, which could be
:07:14. > :07:21.spent on conservation. In 2017 alone, we are up to 15
:07:22. > :07:27.separate incidents of fly-tipping. Across the south of England,
:07:28. > :07:30.fly-tipping is on the rise. Last year, there were
:07:31. > :07:32.nearly 38,000 cases, Back on the New Forest,
:07:33. > :07:37.there are calls for greater vigilance by residents
:07:38. > :07:40.to catch those responsible. The district council says it's
:07:41. > :07:44.working with the National Trust to investigate the recent
:07:45. > :07:52.series of incidents. So what action can councils take
:07:53. > :07:54.to catch the fly-tippers? David Allard is at Damerham
:07:55. > :08:01.in the New Forest tonight. This is another village that's
:08:02. > :08:04.seen its fair share of fly-tipping. The local authority
:08:05. > :08:07.is New Forest District Council. They told me they used to use mobile
:08:08. > :08:11.CCTV cameras at fly-tipping hotspots But there's been a change
:08:12. > :08:16.in the law - the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act,
:08:17. > :08:19.or RIPA. It now means, if councils
:08:20. > :08:23.want to use CCTV to monitor suspected criminal activity,
:08:24. > :08:25.they have to apply to a magistrate and prove the action
:08:26. > :08:28.is reasonable and proportionate. So people in this village decided
:08:29. > :08:43.to gather evidence themselves. It's very difficult for individuals
:08:44. > :08:46.or parish councils to actually Local authorities have got powers
:08:47. > :08:52.to do so although obviously You find that individuals will have
:08:53. > :08:58.to comply with various regulations about how the images are stored,
:08:59. > :09:02.where they are accessed, who's got access to them
:09:03. > :09:05.and obviously have to supply copies Of course, parish councils
:09:06. > :09:18.are made up of volunteers. Many simply won't have the time
:09:19. > :09:23.or resources to do that. So the main plea tonight
:09:24. > :09:26.from people in Damerham, New Forest District Council
:09:27. > :09:28.and the National Trust Report any cases of suspected
:09:29. > :09:32.fly-tipping because, as we've heard, it's costing thousands to clear up -
:09:33. > :09:37.money that could be spent on far That's the latest,
:09:38. > :09:45.thanks for being there. We're back with bulletins in BBC
:09:46. > :09:47.Breakfast tomorrow morning, but now here's Alexis
:09:48. > :10:00.with your weather forecast. Rain is on the cards overnight. Many
:10:01. > :10:04.light and patchy and mild. Temperatures in most areas remaining
:10:05. > :10:09.in double figures. These are the values in urban areas but in the
:10:10. > :10:13.countryside lows of eight Celsius. Patchy rain will be with us first
:10:14. > :10:18.thing. And through the morning, the rain will ease and we will see
:10:19. > :10:24.brighter skies. Still a fair amount of cloud. Temperatures will reach a
:10:25. > :10:30.high of 14 Celsius for any prolonged periods of sunshine, a high of 16
:10:31. > :10:41.Celsius, very similar to the day's temperatures. Cloud and outbreaks of
:10:42. > :10:43.rain on Thursday, the weather front pulls away and move northwards. We
:10:44. > :10:46.will start to see brighter skies to the course of the day, possibly hazy
:10:47. > :10:49.sunshine, but it will feel warm. We drag up that mild an through Spain
:10:50. > :10:54.and France and temperatures on Thursday could reach a high of
:10:55. > :10:59.17-18 C, the warmest day of the week. Through Friday, temperatures
:11:00. > :11:01.fall back to the seasonal average. The chance of rain at times. Cloud,
:11:02. > :11:06.bright ASBOs tomorrow and Thursday. of year. This stay tuned for the
:11:07. > :11:11.national weather forecasts with John Hammond.
:11:12. > :11:15.Good evening. Your parents might have told you once that life 's not
:11:16. > :11:18.fair and they were right. He is the proof. Over the next few days some
:11:19. > :11:22.of us will enjoy some lovely sunshine, temperatures in the low
:11:23. > :11:26.20s. It will feel like early summer. For others, quite a lot of rain
:11:27. > :11:31.around and it will feel like late March. This is showers earlier on
:11:32. > :11:34.today and dampness this evening in the West Country and Wales. That is
:11:35. > :11:39.heading north eastwards. A different sort of night. A lot of cloud
:11:40. > :11:42.around, quite damp and misty in places. Cloud cover will prevent
:11:43. > :11:47.temperatures falling much at all. A much milder my than we have seen
:11:48. > :11:53.recently. Except for the North of Scotland, but elsewhere in double
:11:54. > :11:54.figures. It will be a Graeme Murty start of the day for most