16/04/2017 South Today

I'm Anjana Gadgil. stories on the BBC News Channel.

Easter Day has been celebrated across the South -

but one service was perhaps more poignant than most.

It's the first major festival at Guildford Cathedral

since the bishop there gave a warning two months ago

The council refused planning permission to build homes on land

the cathedral owns - which would have secured

Lawyers are considering a new planning application or an appeal.

This morning worshippers celebrated amidst building

There is no doubt about it, the cathedral will be here for many

All these scare stories about the cathedral are simply that

Lots of work is going on and hopefully everything will be

complete and back to its former glory very shortly.

I don't think you need to worry about it at all,

Forensic investigators have been combing through the ashes

of a stately home in Dorset after a serious blaze yesterday.

The fire, at Parnham House, broke out early in the morning,

Dorset Police are treating the fire as suspicious and the area

Members of the Sikh community gathered in central Southampton

today to mark the most important date in their religious calendar.

Vaisakhi honours the birth of the Sikh nation in 1699

Hundreds of people took part in a procession which passed

by all three of the city's Gurdwaras.

The double Olympic rowing champion Helen Glover and her husband

Steve Backshall have raised more than ?60,000 having

completed a 125 mile kayak along the Thames to Westminster.

The couple who live in Berkshire took 22 hours and 58 minutes

They're trying to raise ?100,000 to save an area

Many farms across the south are busy lambing at the moment.

But a few sheep farmers have the added complication

There's a small but growing number of sheep dairy farmers,

Sheep's milk costs around four pounds a litre but claims heath

Sean Killick reports from a farm in West Sussex.

Forget the roast leg of lamb - how about a pint of sheep's milk?

There are only 50 sheep dairies in Britain and most of their milk

But this farm sells mainly bottled, pasteurised milk that is naturally

homogenous, ordered online and posted out frozen.

The majority of our customers are people who may struggle

with other milks but find the digestibility of

Certainly, I think there seems to be a growing trend

And the other people that seem to gravitate towards sheep milk

would be people that suffer from eczema and asthma

The sheep here only produce milk seven months of the year

and currently the family-run farm is busy milking and

My bedroom is right next to them so if I hear a lot of baaing,

Not much sleep happens in the three weeks of lambing.

But the key question is, does sheep's milk pass the taste test?

Yeah, I've tried goat's milk before, which I never particularly liked,

It actually is very creamy, it's like gold top dairy milk.

Well, today has been sunny but will it last?

We have got a lot of cloud out there at the moment,

and it is giving some light rain and drizzle.

The winds have finally eased and I think with all of the cloud

tonight we won't have any problems temperature-wise, lows

A grey start to the day tomorrow with outbreaks of rain and we'll see

some decent spells of sunshine and showers feeding in which could

be quite heavy and slow moving with lighter wins.

We will see a little sunshine during the afternoon

and with the brightness we could see highs of 13 degrees.

It looks like being largely dry after tomorrow through the day

with spells of sunshine but cold and frosty by night.

And finally, a strange sight on Bournemouth

About 50 men in high heels attempted to walk the one and a half

miles from Boscombe Pier to Bournemouth Pier raising funds

for Over the Rainbow, an organisation which supports

That's all from us this evening, more on the BBC News website.

Our next updates are in BBC Breakfast, goodnight.

If today's conditions were great and stamp, tomorrow's weather offers

more promise, clear skies and some flower -- cloud showers compared to

today. The cloud reducing rain through the south-east