23/01/2017 South Today

Hello and welcome to South Today, I'm Edward Sault.

The top stories this Monday lunchtime.

Cancelled flights, delayed ferries and crashes on the road as freezing

The parents calling on the Government to

test all pregnant women for an infection that can be

And pressures of a night shift, why more

than 40% of junior doctors admit to falling asleep at the wheel.

Freezing fog and ice has led to major travel disruption

In Dorset, there'd been over a dozen crashes

The weather also led to delays on ferry services and at Gatwick,

Live to Southampton Airport and our reporter Lewis Coombes.

And, Lewis, plenty of delayed and cancelled flights there too ?

That's right, it's hard to believe but behind me is what usually is

just a bustling regional airport but note flights in or out today at the

moment due to the fog. They did get a couple this morning but the

problem is that aircraft can't land and pick up passengers. Some have

been shipped by bus to Bristol and Bournemouth airports to try and get

them to their destinations while others have had to wait in the

terminal. I just caught up with one family, they left Dorset at three

a.m., excited about going to Disneyland Paris and their plight

could be as late as PM. Also problems at Gatwick, planes on the

runway for up to two hours and one person on one of them was a BBC

reporter Paul Moss. This flight is now two and a half hours later and

still nowhere near taking off as far as I can tell. The problem started

with the fog, which delayed the flight by two hours but as

passengers decided they wanted to get off, presumably because it

wasn't worth making the journey, Gatwick seems to have found they

don't have stabbed to scored passengers back to the terminal, so

there are further delays, which means more passengers want to get

off the plane and means further delays and no sign of the party

whatsoever. Lewis, what impact have we seen on the region's roads?

Widespread disruption there as well. Dorset police reported they had 14

incidents before nine o'clock this morning, so a big impact on the

commute. Last Monday, just to accidents. In Hampshire, a number of

serious incidents, a nine car crash on the M3 this morning and also

elsewhere a number of different incidents. The ferries, if you have

been trying to get to or from the Isle of Wight, you would have

struggled. The Lymington to Yarmouth service has been suspended with

Wightlink, the Portsmouth to Fishbourne service is running the

two hours delay while the red -- services are running a two hour

delay. Today is a good day to stay inside and not try and travel

anywhere. Families from the south have given

a petition to the Government asking for all pregnant women to be tested

for a infection that's A quarter of a million people have

signed the petition. Group B Streptococcus

is a bacterium carried by one It can lead to meningitis,

sepsis and pneumonia. Jo Bevan from Basingstoke was two

weeks overdue when she found out I was due to be induced

on the Thursday, only to find that Later on that evening,

I gave birth to Faye. I was also very, very poorly

because I had contracted I was in hospital for about five

days with septicaemia. An Iranian court has been accused

of the "needless waste" of the life of a Hampshire mother,

after her prison The husband of Nazanin

Zaghari-Ratcliffe learned yesterday that the appeal

against her five-year sentence on what's been described

as "security-related charges". Richard Ratcliffe says his

high-profile campaign to get her

released must continue. The latest row by conductors is

causing disruption for passengers on southern Railway, but less than

usual. The company says it is running seven in ten services. Paul

Clifton is here. That's not far of the normal service, is it? Southern

service even on a good day is the worst in the country. Today is

perhaps 15% down on a normal southern day. The RMT Union calls

the strike rock-solid. Southern is certainly running more trains were a

second member of staff. The union says it is happening six times more

often than promised but that is three more trains a day. The biggest

changes that drivers are routinely operating train doors on the

majority of services. Driver controlled operation, in railway

speak. That is not the same as driver only operation. Most trains

have on-board supervisors. Bottom line is that during an M Magda

Linette RMT strike, most trains can now run. They are running to

Portsmouth and Southampton for the first time on a stroke play and some

passengers are through to London instead of having to change. One

member of the RMT has been sacked in Sussex. It is claimed she bullied

other union members who wanted to work on strike days, but she is

appealing against that dismissal. What about the talks between the

drivers and the company? Three days of strikes this week by drivers have

been suspended. The two sides met for three days of peace talks last

week and are meeting again today. The other union, the RMT, is

excluded from those talks so it's drivers will strike tomorrow. There

are 1,000 drivers in the Aslef union, there are 12 in the RMT, so

the company says it will run a full timetable tomorrow for the first

time in nearly two months. Paul, thank you very much.

More than 40% of junior doctors admit to having fallen asleep at the

wheel of their cars on the way home. The BBC's inside out programme has

investigated the impact that working night shifts is having on staff

across the South. It's 8am and junior doctor

Sam Jayaweera just finished another Really, really busy,

erm, quite stressful, I cover intensive care and we had

a full unit of patients. All right, so, if you'd

like to come through to To see how working nights

affects her driving, we've gone to the Transport Research

laboratory in Berkshire. Fatigue is a huge

road safety problem. Our own perception of our fatigue

tends to lag behind reality and by the time we've realised it,

we've already made a very serious mistake which could have

led to a collision. Sam is put through series of tests

on a virtual motorway. Just 19 minutes in, she starts

having micro-sleeps. Micro sleep is a slightly longer

blink, up to 15 seconds in duration. For Sam and all drivers,

the results come as a wake-up call Inside Out is on tonight

at 7.30 tonight on BBC One. A miserable start for many of us

across the region, let's find out if it is said to get any better with

Emily. It's been a rather chilly start

to the week, it's going to remain quite chilly over the next few days

and some fog proving quite slow We have got some sunshine breaking

through, but we are looking High pressure is with us

at the moment, very light winds, that means that fog will reform

quite widely through tonight. It does remain dry over the next few

days, we should see a bit more in the way of sunshine later

in the week as well. So the best of the sunshine

is to the west, some more cloud to the north and east,

some misty, foggy conditions lingering through much

of this afternoon. Particularly, we have

got the mist and cloud, remaining feeling cold,

highs of 3-5 degrees, seven or eight Celsius

at best in any sunshine. And through tonight,

the fog will reform We're also looking at a widespread

frost through tonight and freezing fog could well be a hazard

through tonight and for tomorrow morning, temperatures down

to minus two or minus three Celsius. So tomorrow, they'll be frost,

some locally dense fog and some Quite slow to clear as well for many

places and it may linger locally More cloud through tomorrow as well

adding to the chilly feel. Still those light winds and highs

of up to eight degrees. A bit of a change for later

in the week, though. From Wednesday onwards,

the winds increase so mist and fog should become less of a hazard

for the second half of this week. There will be some cloud at times,

particularly Wednesday and Friday. A little sunshine through

the day on Thursday. There will be the risk still of some

overnight frosts but it does remain That said, we are back with you at

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