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Hello and welcome to the programme. Trump. Here on BBC One, it's

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Hello and welcome to the programme. The top stories... A woman has been

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arrested after this fire in a high-rise block of flats. A top

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tourist attraction or in poor taste? The replica Titanic causing waves.

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And from 24 Celsius yesterday to a cooler 15 Celsius today. I will have

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the rest of the week byes-mac weather for you shortly. -- I will

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have the rest of the week byes-mac weather.

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Police are questioning a woman on suspicion of arson after a fire

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at a high-rise block of flats in Southampton yesterday evening.

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The fire at Redbridge Towers completely destroyed

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No-one was seriously injured and firefighters managed

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to prevent the blaze spreading to neighbouring flats.

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Fanned by the wind, the blaze on the 12th floor

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of Redbridge Towers in Southampton took hold quickly, just before

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When I came out, there was flames coming out

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of the windows, paper coming out, glass smashed everywhere.

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When the windows went out, it went boom.

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The woman living in the flat where the fire broke out fled

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50 firefighters were sent from Southampton,

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A lot of people were panicking, trying to get out of the building

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while our firefighters will try to get in.

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They were looking to make an attack both internally,

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using breathing apparatus, but also making an attack

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externally, using our aerial ladder platform.

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Fire crews managed to stop the blaze spreading

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Other than smoke inhalation, there were no injuries.

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This morning, a joint investigation team from fire

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Tonight, a 28-year-old woman from Southampton has been charged

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with "arson with intent to endanger life".

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As the fire crews on the ground were acutely aware, it's just days

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since the seventh anniversary of the blaze at another Southampton

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tower block, Shirley Towers, which claimed the lives

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of firefighters Alan Bannon and Jim Shears.

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With the advent of the tragic incident at Shirley Towers,

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this was always going to tug at some heartstrings in Southampton.

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Also with the crews here, certainly the Southampton crews,

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it really does strike a chord with them.

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So they are always going to be nervous of an incident like this,

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but they are well-trained, very, very professional,

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That was Briony Leyland with that report.

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Well, our reporter, James Ingham, is with me now.

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James, thankfully, no-one was hurt yesterday, but the fire does bring

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back memories of the fatal fire at Shirley Towers?

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In fact, firefighters from the station that Jim Shears

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and Alan Bannon worked at were called to this latest fire.

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Some of those attending yesterday would have been

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Alan Bannon's sister Lin has today posted on Twitter another call

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for all tower blocks to be fitted with sprinklers.

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That was suggested by the coroner at the men's inquests.

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In Southampton, that will be done in some but not all towers.

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The City Council is fitting them to three blocks which have layouts

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like Shirley Towers, where flats extend

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This complex layout made it harder to bring the Shirley

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Just over ?1 million was allocated for that work more than two years

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ago and work was due to have begun in autumn 2015, but we've learnt

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today that only preparatory has taken place with installation

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One expert I've spoken to this evening says

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Our hope would be that eventually, all the blocks would be sprinklered.

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And I do know that other councils around the country,

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such as in Tyneside, London, East Sussex,

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Leeds and areas like that, are retrofitting sprinklers

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into their high-rise blocks as and when they are able to do so.

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The council says all its flats are designed to contain

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a fire within its walls, adding, "It must be stressed that

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all of the buildings are safe at the moment,

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and this is about making them even safer."

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It gets a lot of advice from Hampshire Fire

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and Rescue Service, which told us, "We will continue to work closely

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with Southampton City Council on the retrospective changes

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to its buildings and give our full support to their significant

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Yesterday's fireball again focus minds on this issue as the council

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begins its improvement works. -- yesterday's fire will again focus

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minds. A project to create a full-size

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replica of the Titanic at a theme park in China has upset relatives

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of those on board the doomed liner. Its Chinese backer was at a meeting

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of the British Titanic Society in Southampton this weekend to try

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and convince them otherwise. But as the ship remains a grave

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at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, some believe Titanic II

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is in poor taste. Our transport correspondent

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Paul Clifton reports. 105 years after it sank

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during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York,

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work is well under way. The replica will be complete

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in two years' time. It will become a static tourist

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attraction on a river in south-west China,

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700 miles from the sea. The Chinese have come

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to the British Titanic Society's TRANSLATION: Yes, Chinese people

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are very interested in this project and the Titanic,

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especially in terms I am doing everything

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in my power to make this thing look like the original,

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so we are going to hopefully use Jean Legg's father was

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an 18-year-old steward on board Those sights and sounds stayed

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with him until the end of his days. I think if he knew this

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was being replicated, I think he would be turning

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in his grave. But a former captain of both QE2

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and Queen Mary 2 approves. What is special to me

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about the Titanic replica is this will help to perpetuate the memory

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of those who lost their lives. The Chinese are fascinated

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with the Titanic story. Eight Chinese passengers

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travelled in steerage. Their story will now become

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a tourist attraction It's an illness which is

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on the increase among students and teenagers,

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yet medical experts say awareness A vaccine is freely available

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to all school leavers but last year in the South,

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fewer than a third took it up. One woman from Hampshire,

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who was left severely disabled after contracting a rare strain

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of meningitis, is now urging other Jemma developed meningitis halfway

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through her law degree. She spent a year in hospital

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and lost her independence. I was in an induced coma for three

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weeks while the swelling went down. I was on a ventilator

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for three and a half months. I pretty much had to learn

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to do everything again, from moving my limbs,

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speaking, talking, eating... All of those things you learn when

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you are little, I had to relearn. In the three years since

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she was diagnosed, a vaccine has There are five different strains

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of bacterial meningitis, Meningitis B is the most

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widely recognised - babies are immunised against it

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from eight weeks. But meningitis W is the most

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common among teenagers, In Dorset, Hampshire

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and the Isle of Wight, cases of meningitis W increased

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from 22 six years ago The total number of people who died

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rose from five to at least But fewer than a third of young

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people leaving school have been immunised,

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despite the dangers. Parents are really scared

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of meningitis, they know all about it and bring children

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to hospital really quickly. But we know that young people,

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teenagers and college students, They often come to hospital later

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because they just think they have The best way to not get meningitis

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is to be vaccinated. People say to me, well,

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I am fit and healthy, I don't think it is going to happen

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to me, but I was exactly the same. I was fit and healthy,

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there was no reason why I got it, I was just the unlucky one that

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did get it. That's all from the South Today

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news team this evening. We're back tomorrow with bulletins

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in BBC Breakfast and there's more Now for our regional

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weather forecast. Yes, good deal of sunshine this week

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and dry weather as well. The weather for the week ahead is mainly dry

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this week, patchy rain at times but it will be quite light. During the

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rest of the week, temperatures are average. Over the Easter weekend,

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well, a little dry weather as well. Overnight tonight, under clearing

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skies, temperatures in the countryside could fall as low as two

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Mac Celsius. These are values in towns and cities. We could have

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patchy frost first thing tomorrow. Chilly start, especially in the

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countryside but lots of sunshine. Very much like today," was up

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through the day. Particularly the further north and east you are.

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Elsewhere, sunny conditions, temperatures reaching a high of 13

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or 14 Celsius, very similar to what today's temperatures were. There

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will be a breeze tomorrow and it will continue tomorrow night. Patchy

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cloud arrives in the early hours of Wednesday morning. That is all the

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change from Wednesday, it will be Claudio during their course of the

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day. Temperatures overnight at seven or eight. Quite a bit of cloud on

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Wednesday, brighter spells here and there. It will be quite easy and we

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could see a mix of mainly white rain with a weather front moving

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southwards across the region. Temperatures on Wednesday upturn in

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12 or 13. Thursday, more sunshine, mainly dry, winds are lighter.

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Thursday is a mirror image to Friday because you will see a lot of dry

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weather on Friday, brighter spells here and there, temperatures

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reaching a high of 12-13 C. Later on Friday, mainly after dark, there

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could be patchy rain. That will push in through Friday evening and

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overnight into Saturday. Saturday, we could have the odd scattered

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shower with a lot of dry weather as well. Over the bank holiday weekend,

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Good Friday, mainly dry, showers on Saturday, dry on Easter Day and

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Easter Monday. Good evening. Let's cut to the chase

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the first big holiday weekend of the year is on the horizon and if you

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consider last weekend as a taster for the summer, this weekend is not

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looking too bad. It will be a bit cooler, temperatures this week and

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closer to where they should be at this time of the year thanks to the

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north-west breed and the reason for that, if we look at the jet stream,

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coming across the Atlantic pushing from north to south -- north-west

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