:00:00. > :00:11.The top stories this evening: Rivers running low,
:00:12. > :00:14.and one of the driest Aprils in history, could a drought be
:00:15. > :00:17.School's out: a head and a deputy head resign
:00:18. > :00:31.This week there will be some sunny spells, chilly nights and the edge
:00:32. > :00:58.needed rainfall. Southern England could be facing
:00:59. > :01:01.a drought after a dry winter followed by one of the driest
:01:02. > :01:03.Aprils on record. There's concern about low water
:01:04. > :01:05.levels affecting fish, and farmers are worried
:01:06. > :01:07.about a lower harvest. This winter the UK had 77%
:01:08. > :01:10.of its normal rainfall. Last month the South had just 18
:01:11. > :01:13.per cent of its usual April rainfal That makes it the eighth
:01:14. > :01:16.driest April on record. Opinion is divided
:01:17. > :01:18.on whether there might be a hosepipe ban but for some -
:01:19. > :01:21.alarm bells are already ringing. it's much drier and muddier
:01:22. > :01:34.than it usually is. That's because it has been
:01:35. > :01:37.an extraordinarily dry winter. And it's the rivers that have
:01:38. > :01:39.been bearing the brunt. In the New Forest near Lyndhurst,
:01:40. > :01:42.this trickle is Highland Water - which eventually becomes the River
:01:43. > :01:43.Lymington. Those who know it say they've
:01:44. > :01:46.seldom seen it so dry. Normally in the spring
:01:47. > :01:49.the river would be You have these exposed
:01:50. > :01:54.gravel shells which would normally be very
:01:55. > :01:56.productive with lots We would normally expect
:01:57. > :01:59.in April sea trout They find it much more
:02:00. > :02:03.difficult in a low flow year. Here in Wiltshire, many
:02:04. > :02:05.of the winterbournes, which normally flow at this time
:02:06. > :02:07.of year, are dry. It's not unusual but does
:02:08. > :02:09.climate change mean this It is very difficult to pin any
:02:10. > :02:13.individual case to climate change. But extremes are more likely
:02:14. > :02:16.under climate change. You would expect more extreme
:02:17. > :02:18.drought but also more extreme Southern Water says it does not
:02:19. > :02:25.believe hosepipe bans But conservationists say water
:02:26. > :02:29.companies should be doing more It is too late telling people
:02:30. > :02:36.to store water once you are in the I would love them to be
:02:37. > :02:40.more upfront and say we have a serious problem
:02:41. > :02:44.and get ready for it. This has already been
:02:45. > :02:48.a very bad year for Yesterday, here at Burley,
:02:49. > :02:57.this fire destroyed some 20 Farmers to are worried that
:02:58. > :03:00.particularly on the south Some are saying that if this drought
:03:01. > :03:04.continues much longer, they The driver of a sports-car
:03:05. > :03:11.which crashed last summer, killing the 13-year-old passenger,
:03:12. > :03:13.has been charged Alexander Worth from
:03:14. > :03:16.Kingsworthy near Winchester died when the Ferrari
:03:17. > :03:18.he was travelling in struck The driver - 38-year-old
:03:19. > :03:28.Matthew Cobden from Weybridge He's due to appear at Basingstoke
:03:29. > :03:33.Magistrates' Court next month. A gang has been sentenced for making
:03:34. > :03:35.and selling fake train tickets. James Jenning from Bournemouth -
:03:36. > :03:38.who led the scheme over a three year period -
:03:39. > :03:40.has been sentenced to three years in jail while three other men have
:03:41. > :03:43.been ordered to pay costs. Sean, it was described
:03:44. > :03:51.as a sophisticated fraud? That's how it was described
:03:52. > :03:57.by the investigating officer He said it was a "blatant" fraud,
:03:58. > :04:00.organised by someone who had worked He said James Jennings,
:04:01. > :04:03.who's 51, used his "insider knowledge" to produce open-ended
:04:04. > :04:05.railway tickets to order, using blank tickets
:04:06. > :04:07.and a computer and printer. The tickets were for travel all over
:04:08. > :04:10.the country and many of Jennings' After his arrest last
:04:11. > :04:16.October his home was searched. A red holdall containing a printer
:04:17. > :04:19.and computer items was found. The printer was forensically
:04:20. > :04:22.examined and was found to have been And this had gone
:04:23. > :04:28.on for several years? British Transport Police said
:04:29. > :04:36.Jennings became more and more blatant and his confidence
:04:37. > :04:41.was buoyed as he avoided detection. They said he used the money
:04:42. > :04:44.to fund a lavish lifestyle. But after pleading guilty to making,
:04:45. > :04:46.adapting, supplying or offering to supply articles for use in fraud,
:04:47. > :04:49.he was sentenced today at Blackfriars Crown Court
:04:50. > :04:51.in London.And tonight he's starting Fresh talks to resolve the year-long
:04:52. > :04:56.dispute over the role of conductors on Southern Railway will take
:04:57. > :04:58.place next week. The company will meet
:04:59. > :05:00.the RMT on Monday. The union has held 31
:05:01. > :05:02.days of strikes so far. All previous attempts to find common
:05:03. > :05:05.ground have ended in failure. Separate negotiations
:05:06. > :05:11.with the drivers' union, Aslef, No further action by either
:05:12. > :05:19.union has been announced. A husband and wife are resigning
:05:20. > :05:21.as head and deputy head of a Hampshire primary school,
:05:22. > :05:24.because, they say, education policy Alex and Peter Foggo's
:05:25. > :05:29.made their decision before the election was called but it's
:05:30. > :05:31.raised questions about how the main parties stand on issues
:05:32. > :05:33.they're unhappy about, like testing of very young
:05:34. > :05:40.children, and the creation The head and deputy head of this
:05:41. > :05:50.primary school are simply not prepared to play along
:05:51. > :05:57.with the education system any more.. Which staff do you make redundant,
:05:58. > :06:00.which subjects do you cut? Which child with an identified
:06:01. > :06:04.special educational need do you Their school budget's been
:06:05. > :06:08.frozen, which has meant They now sweep the playground
:06:09. > :06:12.and empty the bins. But pressure to get young children
:06:13. > :06:15.to prepare for and pass compulsory tests, and the idea of bringing back
:06:16. > :06:18.grammar schools, mean they no longer They've set out their reasons
:06:19. > :06:27.in detail in a letter to parents. Recent developments in education
:06:28. > :06:30.have brought our position to a point of personal,
:06:31. > :06:34.professional and ethical crisis. The couple insist their decision
:06:35. > :06:50.hasn't been timed to We made this decision over the
:06:51. > :06:54.Easter break before the announcement of the journal collection. We have
:06:55. > :07:00.made as many compromises that we were able to and this was a step too
:07:01. > :07:01.far for us, that we can simply couldn't continue with things the
:07:02. > :07:04.way they were. The main political parties all say
:07:05. > :07:06.they're saddened that experienced teachers are leaving the profession
:07:07. > :07:57.under these circumstances. Back in Longparish,
:07:58. > :08:02.a chapter is ending. Personally I'm feeling incredibly
:08:03. > :08:05.sad - I really never thought I'd leave teaching before I retired
:08:06. > :08:07.but this system I cannot continue Yes it feels very much like we've
:08:08. > :08:12.stepped off the edge of a cliff and out into the unknown -
:08:13. > :08:15.we've no idea where we go West Dean College near Chichester
:08:16. > :08:25.is one of the UK's leading The students latest project
:08:26. > :08:28.is working on three aircraft propellors from the Second World
:08:29. > :08:31.War. The blades are thought to be
:08:32. > :08:34.from a Lancaster bomber. They'd been buried for 40 years
:08:35. > :08:36.at the former RAF airbase aty Tangmere before being dug up
:08:37. > :08:38.in the 1980s. The students will restore them
:08:39. > :08:40.before they go on display That's all from the South Today
:08:41. > :08:45.news team this evening. We're back tomorrow with bulletins
:08:46. > :09:00.in BBC Breakfast and there's more Now for the weather. We have talked
:09:01. > :09:06.about drought. Is there a rain on the way? Yes, towards the end of the
:09:07. > :09:09.week this weeks starts on a dry note. There will be lots of
:09:10. > :09:15.sunshine, especially on Wednesday. The cloud is significant during the
:09:16. > :09:20.first part of the week that possible rain later on from Thursday onwards.
:09:21. > :09:26.Overnight tonight, clear spells and a touch of frost in the countryside.
:09:27. > :09:31.For most, cloudy and temperatures in our urban areas of seven Celsius.
:09:32. > :09:37.E-mail start from any tomorrow. Chilly in the countryside with that
:09:38. > :09:44.frost. -- a chilly start. Elsewhere, it will be quite cloudy, like today.
:09:45. > :09:51.Temperatures will struggle to 12 Celsius. When we have the sunshine,
:09:52. > :09:55.a high of 14 or 15 Celsius. Tomorrow night, the cloud will disappear and
:09:56. > :10:00.the skies were clear. Temperatures will fall away sharply. Widespread
:10:01. > :10:07.frost in the countryside. Originally started the day on the dotted
:10:08. > :10:13.through the course of the day, maybe some cloud will bubble up during the
:10:14. > :10:20.course of the day timing the sunshine hazy in places. The
:10:21. > :10:25.temperatures will reach a high of 16 Celsius. Wednesday is breathtaking
:10:26. > :10:32.terms of sunshine and will stay dry. Thursday, a slow process of turning
:10:33. > :10:37.unsettled. Low pressure moves up. Patchy rain into the evening and it
:10:38. > :10:41.will be very patchy, so not everyone will have the rainfall. That much
:10:42. > :10:46.needed rainfall. Unsettled during the course of Friday with the
:10:47. > :10:50.southerly breeze developing. Mild air from the continent and it will
:10:51. > :11:01.turn monkey on Friday. A chance of some heavy, foundry downforce will
:11:02. > :11:02.stop -- heavy, foundry town pause. This weekend...
:11:03. > :11:08.will become drier and feel warm. Now the National forecast.
:11:09. > :11:17.Good evening. A quiet day on the weather front but we still managed
:11:18. > :11:21.to have some huge contrasts in the weather. This was a beautiful
:11:22. > :11:29.picture from Cumbria, blue skies and crystal clear blue skies in Argyll
:11:30. > :11:33.and Bute but closer to the north coast, it sends shivers down your
:11:34. > :11:39.spine! Chilly and cloudy all along that cost this bank of cloud that
:11:40. > :11:44.sliced the country in half, cool and cloudy to the east and to the West
:11:45. > :11:46.had sunshine. But it still been dry and it