12/05/2017 South Today

Nominations have closed, and a picture's now emerged

of apparent deals and decisions across a number of our

It's clear many people won't have the choice of supporting

the party they voted for last time around.

Strategic deals, Progressive alliances and pacts. It may be an

election more notable for who isn't standing rather than who is. You get

any number of seats partly to avoid clashing with Tories who strongly

support Brexit. These three all want face a Ukip challenge and one party

supporter from the new Forest has switched seats to take on a

conservative who boarded to remain. It is about strategic options and

not letting the remainder is getting through the back door, so we Brexit

MPs and the houses of parliament but most of all we want three or four

elite guardians of Brexit. The majority of voters in Dorset wanted

to leave the EU yet in the Hall of Dorset there is only one Ukip

candidate. None of these constituencies will see a purple

rosette at the door. These seven seats clocked up 55,000 Ukip votes

the incumbent Conservative voting to the incumbent Conservative voting to

leave, Ukip is on the ballot paper. You are going to stand on your party

or collars and it is absolutely right the electorate know where

stand. I don't think it's a great stand. I don't think it's a great

idea for people to be weighing things up. I don't think it helps

our democracy. Targeting seats especially with a high-profile

candidate isn't unusual. In south Surrey the National health action

party wanted to unseat the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt. The Greens

agreed not to put up a candidate and some local Labour activists wanted

to do the same. They told the BBC, we never win, we've never got any

hope of winning. The next day she and two others were excluded from

the party. The Greens said they were best placed to try to unseat the

Tories and ask others to stand aside. People want us to do grown-up

politics and to recognise that if we want to avoid a massive Tory

landslide we need to do that and not wake up on June nine and wish we had

done things differently. You can't step up an election. Our voters want

just going to a pen we point out. It is not enough to just be against the

Tories, you have to give positive reasons that is what they will to

do. The Greens are big supporters of strategic alliances to tackle what

they see as an unfair voting system. Like Ukip, they have agreed not to

field a candidate in mid Dorset and North pool, asking voters to back

the Liberal Democrats instead. It was put to me that they were

interested and the next thing I knew, they had said, the most

important thing is to unseat the Conservatives, and that will help,

standing aside, she is prepared to do it. But do deals work? In some

seats it will be an uphill struggle. Jeremy Hunt got 60% of the vote

here, and many conservatives are defending large majorities just like

that, which could be hard to overtime. -- overturned.

Next, two of the South's hospital trusts have been caught up

in a cyber-attack against the NHS - and been locked out

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust says it's working

with the ambulance service to minimise the impact

It's asking people to think twice before going to A and E.

The Royal Berks Hospital in Reading says its patient discharge

system is affected - it's currently relying

There'll be major disruption for drivers this weekend

during essential roadworks on the M4.

It's been closed between junction 12 at Theale

and junction 13 for Chievely since nine o'clock this evening.

It won't re-open until early Monday morning.

All traffic's being diverted along the A4 with severe delays predicted

It's hard to detect, and has one of the lowest survival

Now a surgeon from Southampton's been given ?1.4 million

Fewer than a fifth of people with oesophageal cancer currently

I was really pleased that I gave it a good go.

You know, it's another touch of normality -

John Goham from Hampshire completed half the London Marathon this year -

But John has got oesophageal cancer, or cancer of the gullet.

If only 15% of people that are diagnosed survive

beyond five years, that seemed like a really low percentage.

And that's where this lab at Southampton Hospital comes in.

Thanks to over ?1 million of funding from Cancer Research UK,

scientists are examining these cancer cells so they can

So what we do is the cell comes in the bottom here,

that's the tiny blob, and then the DNA bar-coded bead

The cell is exploded and the genetic information in that cell

is captured on the bead, and we process thousands of cells

from each tumour to understand the biology of the disease.

It's also hoped that Tim and his team will find new ways

At the moment, surgery is long and invasive.

Patients like John have their oesophagus removed

Surgery can last for up to nine hours.

I'd like to do myself out of business.

Doing surgery for oesophageal cancer is demanding for the patients,

It takes six to nine months to recover from.

And I don't have to operate on these people and if we can

target treatment better, then I am happy to stop.

Yes, we have got a few marathons planned, haven't we, John?

John's cancer treatment still continues.

He's hoping the work down the road at Southampton Hospital will see

That's it from the news team - we're back tomorrow evening at 6:15.

Right now, Sarah Farmer's here with your weekend weather.

Thank you. We have some rain in the forecast for this weekend. Tonight

we have one or two showers and store but most of those on the light side

and generally there will be quite a bit of cloud and maybe a few holes

the cloud but patchy rain starting to work its way in. A mild night

with the temperature at 10-11. A little bit of wet weather first

thing but some decent brightness and through much of the day, some bright

and sunny intervals and the odd chance of a shower cropping up but

lighter than the showers we saw today. Given some sunny breaks the

temperature could claim to 1718. Enter tomorrow evening, we will

start to see a band of wet weather arising from the south-west, and

that is with us through the overnight period into Sunday. It

clear through to the east so Sunday is set fine with sunny spells and

showers, Monday some A bit of a mixed bag earlier on

today, some of us were cloudy with rain. This is the view from one of

our weather watchers in Cornwall. But in the Highlands of Scotland, it

was completely different, find, sunny and warm. The satellite and

radar picture shows the variety of weather we have had. It brightened

up into the afternoon, early evening. The north-east of Scotland

and England