15/04/2017 South Today

Good evening, I'm Anjana Gadgil. for the news where you are.

Police say they're treating a major fire which has ripped through a 16th

Century stately home in Dorset as suspicious.

No one is thought to have been inside Parnham House near Beaminster

when flames took hold last night, but the grade-one-listed Elizabethan

Clare Woodling sent this report from the scene.

Hundreds of years of history up in flames.

The alarm was raised at 4:10 this morning.

20 fire engines were sent to the scene half a mile south

They described it as an extensive blaze.

Of course, we were always terrified of fire

because houses like that so often suffering in that way.

And we did have a small chimney fire and that

But of course the scale of this is just

And it is just utterly devastating and totally

tragic and it seems very sad that somebody who made it into a

beautiful private home could have suffered such a tragedy.

Crews were still battling the fire by lunchtime.

By mid-afternoon they were damping down.

There is no access into the grounds here at

Parnham House except for emergency vehicles.

Police say the fire is suspicious and an investigation is underway.

Dozens of boat owners have been queueing up on a quayside in Dorset

to hand in their out-of-date rescue flares.

Old explosive flares can be dangerous but in recent years it's

Today's flare amnesty was organised by Dorset Police

There have been several flare amnesties across the south

in the last three years, but this is the first in Dorset.

1975, you are the winner of the oldest

In just the first hour, 500 out-of-date flares were handed in.

There have been accidents where people have been

hurt by flares that are expired and they're not doing

What they've actually done is gone into people's

Because the chemicals inside and the metals

The flares were collected by Ramora UK, a private bomb disposal company

It stops the projection hazard getting out.

It is becoming a greater problem and we're certainly

finding that across the country we are dealing more with household

recycling depots who are encountering them in the skips than

we ever used to and the coastguard and police avenues have closed down.

We used to let them off on fireworks night years and years ago.

But you can't do that now, so it is good to

You put them in the garage at home and

Of course they build up in the garage at home.

It is not till days like this where you

can take the opportunity to dispose of them.

The advice is to wait for an amnesty or make an appointment to take them

Roger Finn for BBC South Today at Poole.

Football now and it was a bad day for Bournemouth away

at second-placed Tottenham, as they were beaten 4-0.

Mousa Dembele opening the scoring before this

Harry Kane and Vincent Jannsen made sure of the win which leaves

Bournemouth in 16 place in the table.

And Southampton are currently playing Manchester City,

it's half time and the latest score at St Mary's is 0-0.

Meanwhile in the Championship, Reading continued their push

for a play off place with a 3-1 away win at Aston Villa.

They are in fourth place, one point behind third

Now time for a look at the weather with Bee Tucker.

We did finally see some sunshine, most of us did.

The rest of the cloud is starting to break up, so I think we

will see clear spells overnight tonight.

That will start to get the temperature is getting

There will be some cloud pushing in towards dawn,

That does mean that tomorrow we could seize early spells

Quickly, we will see some cloud feeding in and with it

The rain could be more at times, but most of

us will see it being fairly light turning showery into the afternoon.

Still some decent spells of sunshine into the afternoon though.

And westerly winds will make it feel cool.

Good evening. These and but not spectacular is probably a neat way

to describe the weather this Easter weekend. -- decent but not

spectacular. A bit of sunshine, patchy cloud and showers today, but

as we can see from the satellite and radar, the showers are easing, cloud

melting away, so a decent evening if you are heading out. Once it gets

dark, it will be chilly, cold enough for