:00:00. > :00:08.Financially incompetent and educationally illiterate.
:00:09. > :00:11.The words of councillors about an education trust running
:00:12. > :00:16.one game away from the Premier League, as Reading seal
:00:17. > :00:21.How one couple want their baby's legacy to help
:00:22. > :00:45.They say they are appalled at their behaviour.
:00:46. > :00:47.They want them removed from managing schools
:00:48. > :00:50.These are the extraordinary words used by councillors
:00:51. > :00:55.They have expressed outrage at plans, by the company
:00:56. > :01:01.the troubled Sandown Academy - and merge it with another school.
:01:02. > :01:03.And tonight councillors unanimously supported a motion condemning AET's
:01:04. > :01:11.Home time in the rain for Janet and her sons.
:01:12. > :01:14.13-year-old Brennan is already at Sandown Bay Academy.
:01:15. > :01:19.Ten-year-old Eden starts there in September.
:01:20. > :01:33.They don't want to go to school six miles away in Ryde.
:01:34. > :01:35.There's not enough capacity at Ryde school to incorporate all those that
:01:36. > :01:40.There's just not going to be enough space and when the birth rate goes
:01:41. > :01:43.up again in a couple of years, as we know it will, there's just not
:01:44. > :01:46.going to be enough space on the whole island.
:01:47. > :01:48.This protest was organised by concerned parents
:01:49. > :01:52.The school is run by the Academies Enterprise Trust or AET -
:01:53. > :01:54.the biggest academy chain in England.
:01:55. > :01:56.It says its budget's been squeezed because they're paid
:01:57. > :01:58.based on pupil numbers, which have been falling.
:01:59. > :02:01.It wants to merge with another school it runs in Ryde.
:02:02. > :02:10.But locals, and tonight the council, say it's got its sums wrong.
:02:11. > :02:13.We want to send a very clear message to AET, to the Minister
:02:14. > :02:16.and to the Schools Commissioner that we want AET out
:02:17. > :02:18.of Sandown high school, out of the academy and preferably
:02:19. > :02:21.AET have demonstrated themselves to be financially incompetent
:02:22. > :02:23.and educationally illiterate in the way they have handled events
:02:24. > :02:27.Standards have dropped because AET have cut the budget
:02:28. > :02:30.They have also done a pupil projection which is flawed.
:02:31. > :02:32.They based their pupil projection on the drop
:02:33. > :02:35.What they should have done their projection
:02:36. > :02:38.on is the number of actual children in the local primary schools,
:02:39. > :02:40.who make the school more than sustainable if it
:02:41. > :02:49.The figures that we have used are those that the
:02:50. > :02:52.Now, when we met the council last week, they did say
:02:53. > :02:54.that they would send us their figures.
:02:55. > :02:56.I haven't yet seen those, but based on that discussion,
:02:57. > :02:59.the small increase that they are projecting among current primary
:03:00. > :03:02.school pupils still wouldn't go anywhere near fulfilling the massive
:03:03. > :03:12.overcapacity there currently is at secondary school level.
:03:13. > :03:15.Tonight the council voted to try and stop AET running any
:03:16. > :03:18.schools on the Island, and find a way to keep Sandown open.
:03:19. > :03:20.AET says it is starting a consultation next week to allow
:03:21. > :03:22.people to have their say on the plans.
:03:23. > :03:25.Reading Football Club are on their way to Wembley
:03:26. > :03:26.after a dramatic match last night against Fulham.
:03:27. > :03:29.There were dramatic deals being done behind the scenes too.
:03:30. > :03:31.As two Chinese property tycoons - brother and sister Dai
:03:32. > :03:33.Yongge and Dai Xiu Li - became the majority
:03:34. > :03:37.They made their fortune from converting old air raid
:03:38. > :03:41.The new owners are looking to build - with a new training ground
:03:42. > :03:57.and increased stadium capacity already mentioned.
:03:58. > :04:00.Trying to complete a deal in the second half is a first
:04:01. > :04:05.I have to say I'm very excited about the new owners coming in.
:04:06. > :04:08.I think, you know, we need to get the impetus again and, you know,
:04:09. > :04:23.A soldier from Tidworth in Wiltshire has pleaded guilty
:04:24. > :04:25.to attempting to meet a child following sexual grooming.
:04:26. > :04:28.Private Samuel Dallow thought he was meeting up with a 14 year
:04:29. > :04:39.old girl but it turned out to be self styled Paedophile
:04:40. > :04:42.Private Samuel Dallow thought he was meeting up with
:04:43. > :04:45.a 14 year old girl but it turned out to be
:04:46. > :04:46.self styled paedophile-hunter Shane Brannigan.
:04:47. > :04:49.It was streamed and Dallow was handed over to police.
:04:50. > :04:51.Train drivers on Southern Railway will start an overtime ban
:04:52. > :04:53.from the end of May, unless their long-running dispute
:04:54. > :04:54.over driver-controlled operation is resolved.
:04:55. > :04:57.Drivers have twice rejected a deal negotiated by their union ASLEF,
:04:58. > :05:00.and the two sides have been holding discussions for more than a month.
:05:01. > :05:02.Southern says it runs 80,000 trains a month
:05:03. > :05:06.It warns that an overtime ban would lead to substantial disruption
:05:07. > :05:10.Jo Meeke and Matt Gurney spent just a few hours with their newborn child
:05:11. > :05:13.- who they had nicknamed Puck - before he died.
:05:14. > :05:16.The couple, from West Sussex say they have taken comfort in some
:05:17. > :05:17.of the beautiful countryside in the South.
:05:18. > :05:20.They've now set up "Puck's Promise - raising funds to buy a woodland
:05:21. > :05:23.so that other bereaved families will have a place to
:05:24. > :05:26.Anjana Gadgil met them on the South Downs.
:05:27. > :05:29.Joe and Matt's baby lived for just 13 hours.
:05:30. > :05:31.Severe complication during labour led to an emergency Caesarean
:05:32. > :05:34.and the little boy they had affectionately named Puck wasn't
:05:35. > :05:38.Obviously, you know, we'd been through labour,
:05:39. > :05:40.he'd been born and resuscitated and, you know, to find ourselves
:05:41. > :05:42.being transferred to Southampton neonatal unit and looking
:05:43. > :05:45.at our little boy who was, you know, he was a stocky
:05:46. > :05:48.eight-pound eight baby boy, lying in a crib in one
:05:49. > :05:50.of the neonatal nurseries and you just think, how's our son
:05:51. > :05:54.When it was clear Puck wouldn't survive, they had 30
:05:55. > :06:00.I said to the nurses, if there is an opportunity for me
:06:01. > :06:08.to just have some skin on skin, I would love to do it and so I feel
:06:09. > :06:10.privileged in that respect, that I did have half
:06:11. > :06:25.The couple held a farewell service with family and friends in the woods
:06:26. > :06:28.They found comfort in nature and that's why they set up
:06:29. > :06:31.Puck's Promise, raising funds to buy a woodland for other
:06:32. > :06:35.We know that we've got a long journey ahead of us dealing
:06:36. > :06:41.We think it's really important to have that space that people can
:06:42. > :06:44.go to for years to come and, you know, deal with the grieving
:06:45. > :06:49.process in an environment that is totally unique, hopefully.
:06:50. > :06:54.I'd like primarily families who have lost children in some way
:06:55. > :06:59.to be able to use it, either as going just for a couple
:07:00. > :07:02.of hours, for a quick walk, or maybe occasionally
:07:03. > :07:05.for an overnight camp to be with other people who've been
:07:06. > :07:15.Jo and Matt return to the woods to lay flowers for their son,
:07:16. > :07:19.hoping something positive can grow from their personal tragedy.
:07:20. > :07:30.Very few people got to meet him and it was my fear that he would
:07:31. > :07:35.And I think that's why I feel Puck's Promise
:07:36. > :07:38.and our fundraising is so important, because we know that through this,
:07:39. > :07:42.we are going to keep the memory of Puck alive.
:07:43. > :07:47.Stillbirth is classified as a baby dying from 24 weeks
:07:48. > :07:53.In this country, 15 babies a day are either stillborn or die
:07:54. > :07:59.The rate is falling but remains higher than in other high income
:08:00. > :08:04.I spoke to Jane Brewin from the charity Tommy's which funds
:08:05. > :08:19.I asked her why the UK was still lagging behind.
:08:20. > :08:23.The UK ranks 24th out of 49 high income countries,
:08:24. > :08:26.so as you say, we are nowhere near the best out there.
:08:27. > :08:29.I think other countries that are doing better than us have just
:08:30. > :08:31.instigated more campaigns and programmes and focused much more
:08:32. > :08:36.So what more can be done to reduce those rates still further?
:08:37. > :08:41.The first is investing in research to find out who is most at risk
:08:42. > :08:51.and how to care for women who are at risk of stillbirth.
:08:52. > :08:53.And that's why Tommy's are funding a research centre in Manchester
:08:54. > :09:07.And the other big area of work is around how the NHS care for women
:09:08. > :09:12.during pregnancy and so the NHS have launched a four
:09:13. > :09:15.point plan which is being tested at the moment around the UK,
:09:16. > :09:18.to identify for many areas the NHS needs to work on to reduce
:09:19. > :09:20.the incidence of stillbirth in the UK.
:09:21. > :09:23.Finally, the couple I spoke to are raising money to buy woodland
:09:24. > :09:27.What support is there out there for bereaved parents?
:09:28. > :09:30.Well, at the time of the stillbirth and in the immediate aftermath,
:09:31. > :09:32.there is very good support normally provided by hospitals.
:09:33. > :09:39.And then after that there are organisations out there that
:09:40. > :09:41.specialise in bereavement and also organisations like Tommy's who can
:09:42. > :09:43.offer bereavement support, but also a lot of information
:09:44. > :09:44.and support through subsequent pregnancies.
:09:45. > :09:47.Football, and Southampton played Manchester United
:09:48. > :09:49.in their penultimate home game of the Premier League season.
:09:50. > :09:51.Saints should have gone ahead within five minutes
:09:52. > :09:54.after they were awarded a penalty for handball - but Manolo
:09:55. > :09:56.Gabbiadini's spot kick was saved by United goalkeeper Sergio Romero.
:09:57. > :09:58.Saints created several chances in the second half -
:09:59. > :10:01.James Ward Prowse forcing another good save before Antony Martial
:10:02. > :10:17.It ended goalless and Saints remain in 8th.
:10:18. > :10:20.That's all from the South Today news team this evening.
:10:21. > :10:22.We're back tomorrow with bulletins in BBC Breakfast and there's more
:10:23. > :10:25.Here is our regional weather forecast.
:10:26. > :10:29.We had over an inch of rain fall in many places today.
:10:30. > :10:32.The rain will clear away overnight a night and will
:10:33. > :10:44.In our towns and cities, a low of 9-10 degrees.
:10:45. > :10:47.A little more cloud for eastern part, be generally clear skies.
:10:48. > :10:51.A very slim chance of the odd isolated shower
:10:52. > :10:57.Even the chance of the rumble of thunder and some hail.
:10:58. > :10:59.Temperatures tomorrow will reach a high of 17 degrees.
:11:00. > :11:01.Pleasantly warm in any sunny spells tomorrow.
:11:02. > :11:03.Friday and Saturday, there is a chance of the odd
:11:04. > :11:11.showers. But it will be a bit warmer.
:11:12. > :11:18.Before today, many gardeners were crying out for rain. Some of the
:11:19. > :11:23.those garden may now be water logged. And Lincolnshire was one of
:11:24. > :11:29.wettest places with 40 millimetres. That is nearly a month's worth of
:11:30. > :11:36.rain in 24 hours. Some difficult travelling conditions. Some parts of
:11:37. > :11:43.north-west England stayed dry. This was the main rain-maker. It is
:11:44. > :11:46.pulling away. Tomorrow a day sunshine and showers and that
:11:47. > :11:51.freshing feeling air will filter into those parts that were muggy
:11:52. > :11:53.today. It was 25 Celsius in Kent. A different feel, but still