A drawing and sunny evening of the last of summer I think as we head into the last weekend of the summer holidays where we might get a bit more rain sadly all the details on the weather the news from around the world across the county's snow we love the way we live on online and digital radio. Is b.b.c. Sound say it's. 5 o'clock I'm feelin a county a motorist who calls down horrific road crash any spawn in which 2 people died was 16 times over the legal drug driving limit at the time 24 year old Sjodin Hunt has today been jailed for 6 years after pleading guilty to 2 counts of causing death by dangerous driving Emily Jeffrey has this report Jordan hunted been at a wedding reception at a hotel in Grand Parade on Friday the 12th of August that evening he got into his car while over the drink drive and drug drive limits and was speeding when he smashed into a v.w. Polo on the sea front the driver of the Polo 46 year old Richard Clements Lewis from bucks dead and his passenger 48 year old Maria Smith died at the scene Hunty was a father of 2 fled and was later arrested at the hotel Sussex Police say that he had been suffering from depression prior to the collision but that nothing can excuse his actions on that fatal evening the government has unveiled a $20000000.00 pound fun to improve Southern Rail service says the announcement comes after months of disruption strikes and to reduce service on rail routes in this area the Department of Transport says the money will help to improve resilience of the Southern network include a rapid response team to fix faults more quickly and also money for extra signal supervisors Caroline Lucas the green m.p. For Brighton Pavilion says. Well she welcomes investments in the Railways this is the wrong way to spend it the operators and so already well paid they should be running a decent railway if they've got that franchise and in the meantime if the government got translated into that but somewhere then it should be using it to make sure that there's enough stuff on the railways and to compensate long suffering Meanwhile one of the strikes to take place on the southern network next week has been postponed after talks at the conciliation service a cas they are empty union says station staff will not now walk out on Wednesday in a dispute over the proposed closure of some ticket offices bought a strike by conduct his next Wednesday and Thursday is still on. The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said 100000 operations and around a 1000000 appointments will be hit by junior doctors in England who are taking strike action for 5 days later this month in their hour over pay and hours about the junior doctors admit while they will be disruption in hospitals they say emergency cover will be provided by senior medics. And unmanned rocket has exploded on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral in Florida the blast has destroyed the rocket and its payload which was a communications satellite and has been charged with the stopping in Bexhill on Choose day a 35 year old was airlifted to hospital with non-life threatening injuries 19 year old Fraser Robson from Cuthbert close in the town has been charged with wounding with intent and possession of an offensive weapon in a public place on to sport now and former Brighton have Albion striker Warren Aspinall has told b.b.c. Sussex he understands Dale Stevens feeling disappointed to miss out on the move to the Premier League but believes he will stay professional despite just 10 months left on his current contract the Albion turned down his transfer request following half a dozen bids from Burnley a lot he'll give it only the same it's always good when it was. Growing up Montreal to get special for Brighton I don't think it it doesn't get the show I think American want Thank you Martin equation is just not performing. 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New was the. 222 there are no wickets in their 2nd innings leading by 64 on the one day international 216 for 7 against England in the 47496. $30000000000.00 pounds has been set aside to improve the service on Southern railways the new rail czar is going to oversee it all that's the announcement from government a plan which it says will speed up repair recruit more staff and boost commuter confidence but a strike still looms on the railway next week and that emergency timetable is still in place Well joining me now is the Roman Paul may now it's Good evening Mr Purdie to thank you for joining us what is this 20000000 pounds going to be used for almost 20000000 will be going to Network Rail who are afraid to ride infrastructure to carry out a number of tough from the railway to tackle some of the underlying causes of repeat to the infrastructure so one signalling files or one truck tunnel or one day creates early detection on time and waiting very hard for the train operator to make it shorter to keep to they said your timetable for this is about Network Rail doing all it can for unable to run the regular predictable on time rail service the positive rightly have reason to expect Yeah but easy it isn't regular or predictable it's the did doesn't seem to be the logistical issues with the network Surely it's the the staff company relations which is causing many of the headaches that commuters in Sussex are struggling with at the moment are so. I think years have heard many times before just how busy a structure that work there's a and it isn't down to any one element so many fears are caused by now for Grow some issues are caused by for them to meet combination of both so what we're trying to do by department of what you've come to rails are Chris is Friends sure that all the elements in this. Design come together to make sure that it's all about finger pointing it's about actually solving the problems and looking in the medium term what else does the network need to deliver that level of service I recognise customers have the right track stacked that they have not been getting for the past few months but one of my mind now I mean we we behave about we talk about a lot on b.b.c. Sussex the issues with the the disagreements between the unions and with the company and of course customers are suffering and it's not to do with the logistical issues Southern network is actually one of less reliable in the u.k. When it's working properly Oh undoubtedly and I recognise individual members of the staff on down to they want to make sure that I giving passengers on the network the best possible level of service but it is frustrating for passengers and industrial action makes it far harder for the provider for the train operating company to deliver the quality of service a positive have a right to expect an overdose g r m t to call off the strike next week I'm pleased to hear today that the strike by station staff are not to take place next Wednesday but there will still be industrial action on Wednesday and Thursday and I would urge them to put the interests of passengers 1st there is no benefit to passengers in what they're engaging in to tell benefit either to staff or that month then the union have a right to complain if they feel that their members will be suffering under new rules laws in by some and gate and I always encourage both sides to negotiate Kustra try and reach an amicable settlement Sometimes I can occur. I thought occurred over the face and stuff today all the time and it doesn't and you know I would want to try and encourage all sides to try to reach agreement that can often be within reach and never quite make it and I would teach it think again but it is really in the best interests of prosecutors I don't believe you know this problem I had a bunch of M.P.'s from different parties just last week discussing what M.P.'s can do I mean they we will honor in peace perhaps to be one of the last brokers of peace in this situation but surely the government should be stepping in and bashing some heads together and trying to solve this issue but it's never been the case that many of the kind of direct role in industrial relations but what we can do is try to give the railway unions some longtime confidence that it is not about reducing the number of stuff on the railway It's not about reducing anyone cry or any one condition to doubts about and one thing the quality a person just service and given the the workforce challenges that the railway industry as a whole fight the fantastic opportunity if they are empty to say for a future vision for the 4th or 5th go drove this thing to and hunt putting your experience on the new train it is bringing you in this I mean you'll Sunday was sudden here now I think what I mean they've been trying to fight with and I want to start to the positive we've had time and time again that people want a better experience when they travel or are always well spending an awful lot of money on you rather than talking. You know they can because kind of the common across Europe now and how it operates I think you are not most are not prepared to do is put money into the unions but I could be putting that money into making a part of your experience that much better and understand and understand that but but you know people are telling us they are they have been suffering and struggling with this intractable the debate old old all humans going on between the union and the company new ministers haven't stepped in before but it's been months. Now if you can solve this it can well I think what we've seen over the past week has been the partial reopening of the bridge reintroduction of over 100 services by g.d.r. Across our network I've made it very clear that I want to see that tempo continue I want to see services and 1st 6 reinstated into the trunk table Also I want that to be done in weeks not months we've seen the investment the 20000000 tonne which will be seeing increases in staff numbers in areas like signalling and platform dispatch staff so there will be benefits surface stuff as well those are the organizational changes of our bring in Chris Gabe with his immense experience of how to run realm ways to make sure that the entire row a family from the signaling inspected to the guard to the driver to Everett on the train right took to the senior figures in the railway sector are all pulling in the same direction and I want the r. And t. To play a role in that to give you frenzy on this one you so you want this to happen as quickly as possible so how are you going to help it to happen if 20000000 pounds you do you've put into the infrastructure but how will you be helping that meeting regularly were investigated as we have been meeting regularly with those g g r r Network Rail sent by time to Texas State took over all roles from 6 weeks ago we wanted to make this a priority and I believe we have done and are to fund the 6 weeks of talking to those involved understanding what the underlying issues are deciding what will make a difference versus what will make a difference the Packers were putting in place today is just a start I think of a significant uptick in the quality of the service that we are going to be delivering capacity and we won't be the end of the process I recognize that we need to keep the pressure on all sides to keep enhancing the server to keep reintroducing services keep tackling where the infrastructure hasn't been as reliable that we have the right track fact today and that will continue to benefit passengers I think in the medium to. And they don't sound very engaged in this what happens is ice talks break down again if if the song you meant isn't solvable in the world the short term so what if I want some and I'm hearing from you that said what you want I understand you know hypothetical it often that the question that many folks get asked or all I'm saying today today are empty is that they need to put the interests of profits they need to recognize that what we're trying to do today is in the interests of everybody be they train operators or train profit or train staff it's all about pulling in the same direction but it doesn't help passengers if we have a strike next week by r. And t. Stuff and one little bit I understand it it's not it's not hypothetical though it's going on and a very real possibility isn't it well today we've had to close and I asked why they are empty how to grieve g.d.r. That station staff will be striking next Wednesday I would try to continue discussions over the of the strikes as well what would you say to the interests of passengers what would you say then finally for for people who live in Sussex dealing with these day to day light to work sometimes we hearing or many times we're hearing what would you say to those people listening right now I think I would say to them I'm a route for me to myself I read the e-mails I get sent I look at the list to count food and so Phone trains that we have on our own and on to the website I read the comments in the local media so I understand the frustration and despair long this has been going on so that's why both time the Texas State made this a priority were to call now Rove on why I am determined that this is just the 1st stage in making sure that we continue to improve the quality of service they're all part in just even and have to rely on hold thanks very much simpler and other elements to that join us to talk about the own going discussions in different problems with something of that government investment and we'll talk more on that in the next few minutes. 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Timetable on Southern other fighters are reporting a good service I'm Dave b.b.c. Sussex travel b.b.c. Sussex travel you trust. 345-9575. 65 news out of 5 with Jamie Crick and back to that main story now the government announcing 20000000 pounds and a special team designed to sort out infrastructure problems on Southern railways you've been reacting to this all day on Twitter let's get a passenger view Now Mike you're a certain who's head of policy at the lobby group a transporter focus and Tony Miles also joining me right now to talk about this too because we wanted to get your reaction on they said Tony Good evening. So tell us what's your view on what what's happened here well this is good news and it totally apart from the disputes that people need to separate the 2 things interesting they wanted one correction the minister said it was the dispute to do with introduction of new trains a certain amount introducing any new train so he needs to work on his brakes but meanwhile one of the problems southerners had in the Brighton mainline it had for many years is the difficulty in keeping trains punctual so what this new rail czar is Chris could be speak ordeal of that yes we call him a veteran so being as our. Own expert in operating railways he knows about sickly knows about tracking knows about trains you knows about people and he's going to be looking at where the problems are in terms of keeping trains running on time right across the network the transfer 60 Chris Grayling has had the money will help more than ice the system and tackle fall says if another 3 problems on this route the strike action that's inappropriate and should stop a long sight that this route was not running well enough it's not run up in a joint up enough way the 2 teams the infrastructure team and the train team don't work well enough together that's called a change I want them integrated into ones he works together alongside me things breaking down I want more problems anticipated and more teams to fix when that happens that's what this is all about I mean Tony is that the problem or is it still industrial stuff or is a bit about. This announcement it's nothing to do the industry it really is to do with tackling the things that have been going on for many as I write about trying punctuality in performance every month and so I've been watching how out of that particular part of the network has been struggling for a long time and it's so congested that even a train train maybe taking 10 or 15 seconds longer a couple of stations can wreck the whole of the peak time table because the gaps that they have to the slots they have to fit into in the timetable are so tight so this investment and the involvement of the people is going to. Looking at where stations badly need more help to people to get on the trains at the right time where the signalling problems where there are bits of track that need improving quickly because they're always failing or causing delays to try and just thinking about my journey yesterday with 3 trains cancelled and one ram because if you run all the many of the franchise coming in the area. Too big a franchise to think because they are perceived as Thameslink and the southern and southeastern Well Southeast and this is true but the d.t.r. Franchise at the moment yes the certain this Thameslink this Great Northern. Work expressed it actually it's already been admitted that once all the work is done at London Bridge and the railways modernised and the new trains are running that Thameslink are introducing the next franchising round we'll probably see it split into some smaller business units the plan was just for it to be this big operation whilst all the work was done because it needs so much coordinating what they've discovered is that as well as all the work needing to be done in the middle of London there's a lot of work to be done out on the network as well and this is Chris Chris every day about today said Please note this is about bringing a lot of people together that are very keen to work together to make the railway work on time and