:00:14. > :00:17.Good evening, I'm Laura Trant with the news in the South.
:00:18. > :00:20.More than 40 firefighters were called to a large fire
:00:21. > :00:22.in a high-rise building in Portsmouth this afternoon.
:00:23. > :00:26.The fire, believed to have started in the kitchen of a fourth-floor
:00:27. > :00:29.flat at Gunwharf Quays, took over an hour to extinguish.
:00:30. > :00:30.Nine appliances battled against high winds.
:00:31. > :00:33.There have been no reports of injuries.
:00:34. > :00:38.A 400-metre stretch of a Dorset beach is currently cordoned off
:00:39. > :00:40.by police after reports of a potential unexploded bomb.
:00:41. > :00:42.Dorset Police took a call from the coastguard
:00:43. > :00:44.after the unidentified object was found on Highcliffe
:00:45. > :00:49.Photographs of the object have been sent to bomb disposal
:00:50. > :00:56.Police say there is no risk to the public at this stage.
:00:57. > :00:58.Three men have appeared in court on slavery charges after police
:00:59. > :01:01.discovered a cannabis farm in an underground nuclear
:01:02. > :01:06.Thousands of plants worth more than ?1 million were found
:01:07. > :01:09.on Wednesday inside the former MoD nuclear bunker at
:01:10. > :01:14.The men are also accused of conspiracy to produce
:01:15. > :01:20.Plans for a major waterfront development in Southampton have been
:01:21. > :01:24.labelled as sterile and corporate by the Green Party who today marched
:01:25. > :01:31.The ?450 million Royal Pier development would include offices,
:01:32. > :01:34.flats, leisure and retail facilities near the Mayflower Park site.
:01:35. > :01:44.Lovers of nature, out to protect Southampton's waterfront.
:01:45. > :01:48.Mayflower Park is one of the city's few waterside public spaces.
:01:49. > :01:50.A major regeneration project would see the derelict pier
:01:51. > :01:54.demolished and land reclaimed from the water.
:01:55. > :01:56.Opponents fear new flats, shops and offices would
:01:57. > :02:10.The new plans are high-end housing, commercial activities, the casino.
:02:11. > :02:13.What is that? The plans involve Red Funnel's
:02:14. > :02:16.terminal moving into the docks to make way for what the developers,
:02:17. > :02:18.Royal Pier Waterfront Ltd, say would be a vibrant destination
:02:19. > :02:22.with unprecedented public access and no loss in the
:02:23. > :02:34.amount of open space. Southampton City Council says it is
:02:35. > :02:38.committed to keeping public access to the waterfront here and improving
:02:39. > :02:40.the quality of the park and says full consultation plans will take
:02:41. > :02:42.place in due course. They say the city has a poor track
:02:43. > :02:56.record in opening up the waterside. Southampton has not the but not a
:02:57. > :03:00.lot is accessible to the public. It is often quite unpleasant and you
:03:01. > :03:03.are forced to walk along a narrow walkway in you feel fenced in.
:03:04. > :03:05.As the planning process continues, protesters say they will do all
:03:06. > :03:10.Briony Leyland, BBC South Today, Southampton.
:03:11. > :03:12.Onto football and, with Southampton playing Manchester United
:03:13. > :03:14.in the League Cup final tomorrow, it was left to Bournemouth
:03:15. > :03:17.to fly the South's flag in the Premier League.
:03:18. > :03:20.But a mistake from goalkepeer Artur Boruch saw the Cherries lose
:03:21. > :03:24.2-1 at West Bromich Albion - their sixth defeat in seven games.
:03:25. > :03:28.Joshua King had given Bournemouth the lead.
:03:29. > :03:30.In the next few minutes, Brighton and Reading will kick
:03:31. > :03:33.off their top-of-the-table clash in the Championship while elsewhere
:03:34. > :03:36.in the Football League today there were wins for Oxford,
:03:37. > :03:41.Portsmouth are up to fourth in League 2 after an impressive
:03:42. > :04:01.It is staying mild but breezy for the remainder of the weekend. A band
:04:02. > :04:05.of rain pushing into the region and making its weight eastwards. Behind
:04:06. > :04:11.it, low cloud and hill fog. Temperatures down to seven or 8
:04:12. > :04:15.degrees. Tomorrow morning, one or two breaks in that cloud, brightness
:04:16. > :04:20.that time, but showers increasingly pushing ahead of a band of heavy
:04:21. > :04:26.rain sweeping through during the late afternoon. And still fairly
:04:27. > :04:27.mild. But it will be breezy again tomorrow, gusts along the coast
:04:28. > :05:18.reaching 40 mph. Good evening. Starting with a quick
:05:19. > :05:23.look at the satellite sequence from earlier. We started under a big
:05:24. > :05:27.blanket of cloud but Scotland and Northern Ireland brightened up as
:05:28. > :05:33.the day went off. Underneath the cloud in England and Wales, quite a
:05:34. > :05:34.bit of rain at the moment, drifting southwards and East. It