27/01/2017 South Today

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

from space to Sussex - Chichester astronaut Tim Peake

returns home to visit an exhibition about himself.

Also - helping them to treat themselves -

the new therapy for teenagers who self-harm.

And teed off - the golfers angry after their

practice range closes because the council decided

He's the man from Chichester who swapped Sussex for space.

Astronaut Tim Peake is back home this lunchtime to see an exhibition

Major Tim was the first British astronaut to live

on the international space station for six months last year.

Today comes as he's announced he's going back on another mission.

Live to Sean Killick now and Sean Major Tim's old school had

mounted quite a campaign to get him to come home, hadn't they?

It was a bit surreal coming in and seeing your own life history

on the board in front of you but the exhibition

It documents the mission but more importantly,

it educates people about human space flight, what we are doing,

why we are doing it. That is one of the most

important messages we are trying to get across.

Very strange to see half your life on display?

It is quite strange as well seeing some artefacts here that I had

with me and clothing I wore in space, it is very unusual.

How clear was your view of your home area, the south of England?

What could you make out? What went through your mind?

I had to wait for a sunny day to be able to see from the space station

and having launched in December, I had to wait quite a long time

before the weather started to improve over the UK.

It was fantastic to be able to look down and have a great

You are so detached from planet earth but to get to see where you

grew up is quite surreal. How has your life changed since you landed?

The post flight period is exceptionally busy. The most

important thing for us is the scientific data. That is why we have

the space station programme. Being able to get back to do outreach and

PR is important as well but obviously, that has to take second

priority to the science. And being priority to the science. And being

based in Houston makes it difficult to get back to the UK so everything

takes it's time during the post flight period. You might be going

back in the next few years, what are your thoughts? I am very excited

about the prospect. There is a fantastic space programme going on.

The European Space Agency is very active in giving its astronaut

opportunities to go back for future missions.

A 60-year-old man from Sandown has been arrested

A 45-year-old woman from Cowes was taken

to St Mary's Hospital on the Isle of Wight yesterday afternoon.

She was found by officers seriously ill at a house in Gurnard.

The RMT union says its members are meeting this weekend to discuss

whether to call more strike action as part of its ongoing dispute

12 train drivers who are members of the RMT have walked out today -

the last day of action scheduled so far.

Four more Dorset councils have voted in favour of plans

for the county to be carved up into two unitary authorities.

Dorset County, Weymouth Portland, West and North Dorset districts

Poole Council also voted for the move on Tuesday.

Dorset's other councils vote by the end of next week.

If the new structure is approved, it would go live from April 2019.

Services have been held to mark Holocaust Memorial Day

In Oxford, members of the public and councillors gathered

for a special ceremony at the town hall, marking the anniversary

of the liberation of Auschwitz at the end of the Second World War.

John Fieldsend, who now lives in Thame, remembers Hitler coming

We locked ourselves into our flat, but there were these huge

And I can still remember that voice talking about "Der Juden,

der Juden, der Juden". And that memory.

It is firmly locked in the back of my head,

Teens who self-harm are being offered a new form of therapy

in Buckinghamshire - and it's showing early

Dialectical behaviour therapy - or DBT - uses techniques

like mindfulness to help young people in distress

to treat themselves. Sophie Sulehria reports.

Over the past year, Milton Keynes CAMHS has rolled out

a new type of therapy, called DBT, which aims to help young

people who frequently self-harm or have attempted suicide.

The treatment programme runs for up to a year and works on a new way

of addressing emotional crisis, using therapies such as distress

We do distress tolerance where we have skills like the Tip

skills where you do things like temperature, so you have

a change of temperature. So you could have a really cold bath

or shower and it brings a different sensation.

The programme costs between ?70,000 and ?100,000 a year.

Historically, these are the kinds of young people who come to CAMHS

who end up coming to A multiple times, who end up being admitted

to inpatient units for long stays. They might end up being transferred

to adult mental health services when they turn 18.

So hopefully, this is going to stop some of those things happening

A busy golf practice range in Reading is to be

closed down next month - much to the frustration

The privately run facility is on land owned by the council,

and it's exercised its right to end the lease early.

Even on a dreary January week day, the Leaderboard

It is a place golfers of all ages and abilities come to practice.

Operated by the same firm for almost two decades.

The lease was renewed only a year ago, but without warning,

Reading Council announced last month it was ending the agreement early.

I think people are just surprised and disappointed because there isn't

another range anywhere near in Reading.

I don't think there was any consultation about this

This is one of the new attractions Reading Council plans to put here.

A high ropes adventure climbing facility, together

with archery, laser shooting and ironically, minigolf.

There will also be a new outdoor education and activity classroom.

In these days of obviously budget constraints for all councils,

we have to make the best use of our assets and that is what we're

doing here, we are putting in an activity centre that we think

will be fantastic for children and families and also relocating

our play service which will both save the Council money and also

It is thought that most of the small number of staff will be made

redundant when Leaderboard closes in three weeks' time.

Now time for the weather with Dan Downs.

Our weather turning more unsettled as we head towards the weekend.

This morning started off drier and brighter and rather

crisp for many of us, as this as Weather Watcher

picture from Chris shows. It has been clouding over since then

and it continues to cloud up during the afternoon.

Some patchy rain moving up from the south.

We have a weather front crossing during the next 24 hours

which will draw up some showers from the south.

Particularly western areas, into Dorset, seeing those showers

Quite patchy in nature but spreading to more parts later on.

And into the night, it stays rather cloudy and damp

Temperature-wise, today, we're looking at highs of around 8,

So quite a grey evening, some low cloud around,

that rain continuing to spread during the evening to

As you would expect, under that cloud, temperatures

tonight not dipping much below 4 or 5 degrees.

Still some showers initially but gradually things start

to improve from the west and become drier and brighter,

with some sunshine at times in the afternoon, perhaps.

But always a chance of some showers and they could be heavy and perhaps

even thundery at times. Feeling that much milder tomorrow,

temperatures reaching highs of 8 or 9 Celsius.

Beyond that, it stays rather unsettled.

Temperatures into double figures by the start of next week.

Some rain around for much of Sunday and then it continues to be

unsettled into the first part of next week as well.

The next regional news will be at 6.30pm.

The FA Cup fourth round, next weekend, across the BBC.

It's incredible, the changes that have occurred in just 50 years.

Oh, my goodness me, I don't like the look of that.

The Robshaws are going back in time again...

Feel a little bit overwhelmed at the moment.

How people did this every day, I don't know.

Calf's head. Leave the teeth out of it, won't you?