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In tonight's programme: so it's goodbye from me, | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
Six weeks on, six people are still homeless | :00:10. | :00:11. | |
following an explosion in their block of flats. | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
Also tonight, re-united - the lorry driver meets | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
the woman who saved his life, when his heart stopped beating. | :00:19. | :00:25. | |
and later on , the weekend's football - | :00:26. | :00:26. | |
could this be the start of a great escape for Swindon Town? | :00:27. | :00:35. | |
A housing company says it's still working to find permanent | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
places to live for people left homeless following | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
Ten one-bedroom flats in Gibbs Crescent were destroyed | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
The remains of one resident were found in the rubble. | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
Habiba Gudal washes dishes in her communal kitchen. | :00:54. | :01:01. | |
She was moved into this flat after her home was destroyed | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
It was meant to be a temporary solution. | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
Now she says it's prolonging her nightmare. | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
First of all it's tiny, very small. Second, it's not easy for transport. | :01:17. | :01:28. | |
Plus, you know, I'm sharing with people I don't know. I'm really very | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
depressed and frustrated. Peter Schoen also had to move | :01:34. | :01:35. | |
out after the blast. Now in a room opposite Habiba, and | :01:36. | :01:47. | |
sharing the facilities, he too has frustrations. We're far away from | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
the city. It takes a good half hour to get to the city. That's the | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
frustration that I have difficulties with. On the weekend, you have to | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
get the bus right, if you get the bus wrong, you stand there for | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
hours. Thames Valley Police have finished their inquiries into the | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
cause of the explosion. It's passed its findings onto the Coroner. | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
Habiba says the uncertainty of her future is agonising. We've been kept | :02:17. | :02:23. | |
in the dark, when, how and if I get house even, what do I have? Nothing. | :02:24. | :02:33. | |
Everything's been lost. The flat operators A 2 dominion said they had | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
done everything possible to help affected residents. A statement | :02:38. | :02:38. | |
said: For Habiba, it doesn't look | :02:39. | :02:51. | |
like a solution will be found soon. Women, travelling from the Banbury | :02:52. | :03:00. | |
to Oxford to give birth, are facing journeys of more than 90 | :03:01. | :03:02. | |
minutes, according Victoria Prentis is campaigning | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
against a plan to permanently downgrade the maternity unit | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
at the Horton Hospital, so that women with more complicated | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
pregnancies have to go to the John She tried out the journey with our | :03:12. | :03:15. | |
political reporter, Bethan Phillips. We are just leaving the Horton | :03:16. | :03:28. | |
maternity hospital, where I was born. We're driving to the John | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
Radcliffe maternity wing. This is a journey that hundreds | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
of mums to be are now facing, after the downgrade | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
of the Horton hospital. And Banbury MP Victoria Prentis says | :03:38. | :03:39. | |
a survey of nearly 400 patients has found that people are finding | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
the drive takes 80 minutes, I've had lots and lots of responses | :03:43. | :03:57. | |
to my travel survey and what the consensus of that has shown me is | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
that most people allow about two hours to make the journey. And also | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
to park. We might get there in an hour if we're lucky, we might not. | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
What it won't be, I'm sure, is the sort of journey, described by the | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
Trust and the clinical commissioning group in their evidence, which is | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
just taken from Google Maps. It's a journey currently | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
being contemplated by Heidi Yates, who's 35 weeks pregnant | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
with her second child. Theo arrived just an hour | :04:22. | :04:22. | |
after her waters broke. So she's nervous about | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
having to get to the JR. It's something that I'm trying not | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
to think about, whilst a lot of people think you're very fortunate | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
to be able to have a quick labour and in most cases, I've been very | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
lucky, but the prospect of that becoming a major concern about my | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
not making it to the hospital, it's not something that I'm feeling | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
particularly lucky at having. Meanwhile, on the road | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
from Banbury to Oxford, I feel so sorry for the dads. We're | :04:50. | :04:58. | |
an hour and five minutes into this journey. We are stuck in almost | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
stationary traffic. By this point, if the labour is progressing well, | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
their partners will really not be feeling great and will be quite | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
frustrated by being stuck in traffic. It must be awful to be the | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
dad and just feel completely powerless to do anything to help. | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
This journey took us one hour and nine minutes. | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
The clinical commissioning group - which is behind the plans to change | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
health services in Oxfordshire - says it will consider the survey | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
of journey times carried out by Victoria Prentis. | :05:29. | :05:30. | |
Two men have been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
with a minimum term of 30 years each, following a murder | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
Mohamed Noor, on the left, and Albert Prempeh approached | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
a house in Osprey Close at 5am on the 13th September last year. | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
Noor pointed a gun through an open window and fired, shooting | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
He later died at Milton Keynes General Hospital. | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
A ?6 billion contract to decommission a dozen Magnox | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
nuclear power stations, including site being decommisioned | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
at Harwell, has been scrapped after what's been described | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
As a result, around ?100 million has been paid out in compensation | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
The Business Secretary, Greg Clark, told the Commons that an independent | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
inquiry would now take place, with the possibility | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
A lorry driver has been reunited with the woman who saved his life, | :06:24. | :06:30. | |
after he had a cardiac arrest while on a delivery in Cirencester. | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
Stuart James returned to the spot where he died, | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
then came back to life, just three weeks ago, | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
Without you, I wouldn't be here today. It's an emotional time. | :06:41. | :06:52. | |
Holding hands with the woman who saved his life, lorry driver | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
and father of two young children Stuart James is back | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
Stuart was delivering a sofa with his colleague Craig, | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
when he collapsed on the pavement and had a cardiac arrest I looked | :07:05. | :07:12. | |
I looked round a I thought, he's gone. I said, are you OK? He wasn't | :07:13. | :07:20. | |
breathing. He was purple and not responsive. At that moment an | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
eyewitness ran into the dog groomers opposite, knowing Drawn, who worked | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
there, had been in the Army. She came straight outside to help Stuart | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
and at that point, her military training kicked in. I made sure his | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
airway was clear. I checked his pulse. There was absolutely nothing. | :07:38. | :07:46. | |
I started two rescue breaths and then the chest compressions. Dawn's | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
quick actions kept the blood pumping around Stuart's body bringing him | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
Stuart was airlifted to the Great Western Hospital in Swindon. | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
When he woke up a few hours later he had no idea what had happened. | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
I just thought I might have passed out and banged my head, | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
then to be told I'd died and been brought back, it's quite | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
I can't thank her enough for giving me a second chance. | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
Knowing I can still see my kids grow up. | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
Dawn is now raising money for a defribrillator to be placed | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
outside her dog grooming shop, so that others can be saved | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
A boy from Aylesbury has been told his life-threatening | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
Ollie Gardiner was given just months to live, | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
after being diagnosed with cancer of the brain and spine in 2015. | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
After a number of failed sessions of chemotherapy, | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
his community raised more than ?400,000 so he could | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
Matt Graveling has been to meet him. | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
In this house, even the most mundane of moments are cherished. | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
10-year-old Theo and 11-year-old brother Ollie. | :08:58. | :08:59. | |
Sorry, 12-year-old brother Ollie, have an extra special bond. | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
Ollie is currently battling cancer, but with the love of his | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
...and cat Lucy, Ollie is winning his fight. | :09:09. | :09:17. | |
One year ago, this normal life seemed gone forever, but now, | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
thanks to a huge fundraising drive to pay for private treatment, | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
Here we are at, this is where Olly goes to school as a year nine. He's | :09:24. | :09:37. | |
going to be doing his GCSEs here... Actually I'm in year eight. This is | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
a hard job, do you think you can do better? I think I can do a lot | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
better. Give me the microphone. Hi, I'm Olly. In 2015, I was told that I | :09:47. | :09:56. | |
had cancer in my brain and my spine. I had ten sessions of chemotherapy | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
and 34 sessions of radio therapy, but this didn't work. My treatment | :10:03. | :10:10. | |
now isn't available on the NHS, so lovely people have raised ?400,000 | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
for me. We've been stopped in the street and he gets a hug and people | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
just love him. They've taken him to heart. The fundraisers and | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
donations, without that, Olly wouldn't be here today. Last week, I | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
was told my tumours are shrinking. After my treatment, I hope my | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
tumours will be gone forever. Olly's such a positive young man. He comes | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
into school and the school community love to see him. He comes back with | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
piles of marking for teachers and he just approaches everything with such | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
fortitude that we're really proud of him. That's how you do it. Right, | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
can I have my job back now please? No. Olly gardener, BBC South Today. | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
One of the best pieces of this programme for a very long time. Snvm | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
Follow that Sally Taylor. Bye for now. | :11:03. | :11:17. | |
A care home in West Sussex says it will have to close within a month, | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
The Abbeyfield in Bognor Regis provides shelter for up to 18 | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
elderly people, but at a time when many areas | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
are struggling to find accommodation in care homes and nursing homes, | :11:29. | :11:30. | |
it's having to give up due to lack of demand. | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
Lunchtime for the few remaining residents at Abbeyfield. | :11:36. | :11:44. | |
It's provided sheltered accommodation for 60 years | :11:45. | :11:46. | |
and additionally a care home for two decades. | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
However, a ?30,000 boiler replacement bill caused budget | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
The boiler issue was resolved, but in the meantime, nine of the 14 | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
care home residents left, and it's now unviable | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
The home, rated good by the Care Quality Commission, | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
says it's offered rooms to help relieve hospital bed-blocking | :12:07. | :12:09. | |
Twice a week, the hospital sent it to | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
others to see what bed availability we have. | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
We tell them, but we never hear anything back. | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
My chairman last year, when there was a lot of talk | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
in the media about it, she wrote to Worthing Hospital, | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
Bognor Hospital, Sir Richard's at Chichester and | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
social services to say we had rooms and respite rooms available for | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
people and not one of them replied, nobody. | :12:35. | :12:45. | |
Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust said it provides a list | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
of care and nursing home vacancies to patients who cannot return | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
to their own home, but it doesn't make recommendations. | :12:51. | :12:52. | |
The Bognor home is an independent local charity but affiliated | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
to a national umbrella group called The Abbeyfield Society, | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
which says it has been financially supporting the Bognor home recently | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
and will continue to do so until all residents are re-housed | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
when the building will be sold to recover costs. | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
No date has been confirmed for the closure. | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
Police are appealing for more information | :13:16. | :13:17. | |
after a body was discovered in Winchester last week. | :13:18. | :13:20. | |
Police have released this photo of the victim, | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
His body was found at a house in Birch Court | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
in the Stanmore area on Wednesday afternoon. | :13:30. | :13:31. | |
A 58-year-old man from Winchester who was arrested on Friday has | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
The Bournemouth East MP and Foreign Office Minister Tobias Ellwood has | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
said he's "heartbroken" that he couldn't do more to help | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
the officer killed in last week's attack on parliament. | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
Mr Ellwood gave first aid to PC Keith Palmer after he was stabbed | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
by Khalid Masood at the gates of the Houses of Parliament. | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
Mr Ellwood said in a statement today that he was "deeply | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
"humbled and overwhelmed" by messages of support. | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
Tributes are being paid to the leader of West Berkshire Council | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
who has died five weeks after he was involved | :14:08. | :14:09. | |
70-year-old Roger Croft was seriously injured | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
in the collision last month, which killed his wife, Zelda. | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
I think he was a very no-nonsense character, | :14:23. | :14:24. | |
he knew what he wanted and was not afraid to say it, which | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
But he also listened, and I think that is | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
extremely important for us to remember. | :14:31. | :14:32. | |
He did listen to others and he did lead | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
Modern-day piracy may seem a world away from the south. | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
But the trauma of kidnappings at sea are now at their highest level | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
for a decade with obvious implications for a region which | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
Now a Hampshire-based charity has launched a crisis response | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
network to help victims of piracy and trauma. | :14:54. | :14:55. | |
When I got to the captain's room, the pirates were shouting, | :14:56. | :15:06. | |
They did not know that he was already dead in the engine room. | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
32-year-old Adi Manurung from Indonesia was one of 26 people | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
kidnapped when the fishing boat he was on - the Naham three - | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
was seized by pirates, just off The Seychelles. | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
These BBC News pictures show the crew's release last October. | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
They forced us to eat one by one and we were frightened. | :15:26. | :15:35. | |
The food was terrible and we ate mice and wild cats to survive. | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
Thousands of miles away in a corner of Hampshire | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
the Southampton-based Sailors' Society are helping people like Adi. | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
Their crisis response network means they've trained 20 | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
They offer 24 hour support to victims of piracy | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
And if you think about coming out of a trauma and having no support | :16:04. | :16:11. | |
which for many of these people that's the case, you know | :16:12. | :16:13. | |
the majority of seafarers now come from developing countries and that's | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
where we step in so, yes, it's invaluable. | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
It comes just a few weeks after this: Somali pirates | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
hijacking an oil tanker off the coast of Somalia. | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
There was no hope, but I just kept praying anyway. | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
Adi says it's thanks to his faith that he survived five | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
He now want to help others like him to rebuild their lives. | :16:35. | :16:50. | |
Now for the sport. Where are we at as far as the takeover is concerned? | :16:51. | :17:20. | |
So many people will remember that the dreadful, dreadful fall from | :17:21. | :17:28. | |
grace Portsmouth had and lived it, they will want to be reassured that | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
of an overseas investors coming in, it is absolutely for the right | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
reasons. He's taken a big interest in the club and is monitoring things | :17:38. | :17:39. | |
very closely. Portsmouth's prospective | :17:40. | :17:41. | |
new owner was among those celebrating their victory | :17:42. | :17:43. | |
on Saturday as Paul Cook's men pushed closer to | :17:44. | :17:45. | |
promotion from League Two. Carl Baker played a lovely ball | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
into Kyle Bennett as Pompey took It was 2-0 after the break when | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
Conor Chaplin set up Kal Naismith. But the Welsh side did show some | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
fight and pulled a goal back Pompey held on and the win | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
was greeted by this tweet from American Michael Eisner | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
who listened to the commentary Portsmouth have a six-point lead | :18:10. | :18:11. | |
over Stevenage in fourth and a much They remain seven points | :18:12. | :18:25. | |
behind Plymouth who won Pompey face Hartlepool, Yeovil | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
and Plymouth in their next three. There were goalless draws for both | :18:29. | :18:42. | |
Oxford and MK Dons this weekend United keeper Simon Eastwood saved a | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
penalty as Oxford held Northampton. Meanwhile a priceless win | :18:47. | :18:48. | |
for Swindon, in the 94th minute of their game with Millwall, | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
substitute Conor Thomas secured a 1-0 win to keep their hopes | :18:52. | :18:53. | |
of avoiding the drop alive. An Aldershot Farnham and district | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
runner mixed with the best cross country athletes in the world this | :19:00. | :19:01. | |
weekend Louise Small put in a very | :19:02. | :19:03. | |
creditable display in breaking the top 40 in the women's race | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
of the world cross country In a field dominated by Africa's | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
traditionally strong runners, Small finished 37th out of 106 | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
in a quick race which finished The National League season and with | :19:15. | :19:40. | |
Reading dropping to third after losing a close game at... The | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
rockets are now set to face the kestrels at the end of the season. | :19:45. | :19:56. | |
The scale of the challenge facing Sir Ben Ainslie and his Portsmouth | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
based team competing in the America's Cup is highlighted | :20:00. | :20:01. | |
by the latest results from practice races in Bermuda where the cup | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
will be defended by America this summer. | :20:05. | :20:06. | |
Britain won two of the ten races it competed in last week, | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
while the Americans dominated the field winning nine | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
BAR have released more images of their boat and the team hard | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
60 days until racing starts for real, but the phoney war | :20:17. | :20:30. | |
Five of the six teams that will compete in the America Cup racing | :20:31. | :20:39. | |
These first images from the British team's | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
drone show the race boats are one, hitting the water and at times, | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
They won two of their ten practice races last week, so Ben | :20:49. | :21:05. | |
Ainslie described it as a useful few days going into the next design | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
No new team has ever won the cup at the first attempt. | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
Ainslie once again is trying to make history. | :21:13. | :21:39. | |
A host of golden daffodils in Thatcham - Dot Williams | :21:40. | :21:54. | |
A lovely day for a walk in Emsworth - here's a brave poodle | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
And this is Harnham Bridge in the lunchtime sun - | :22:00. | :22:11. | |
It was a glorious day in the region with sunshine and temperatures of 16 | :22:12. | :22:27. | |
Celsius. What of the week ahead have in store? There will be sunny spells | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
throughout and the warm air that goes with it, too. But things will | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
become a bit more showery from midweek. For tonight, a clear night | :22:35. | :22:41. | |
and a bit of mist and fog by dawn for some places, but not too bad. | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
Most places having lows of around seven Celsius. Same for tomorrow | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
morning, and any mist and fog burns off quickly when the sun comes up. | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
Good sunny spells and a bit more cloud through the afternoon. A odd | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
shower coming from the south-west. Tomorrow's high, 15 Celsius. A bit | :23:03. | :23:10. | |
cooler along the coast. Through tomorrow evening, cloud builds and | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
we may see rain, especially for the southern part of the region, but the | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
cloudy skies, temperatures not dropping much below double figures, | :23:19. | :23:25. | |
tender Celsius mostly. Looking to Wednesday, it is a cloudy picture, | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
but many places are staying dry throughout the day. We had this rain | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
band to the north and it is never far away. It may just wiggle in now | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
and then. Most places will spend the day dry with a high of 14 Celsius. | :23:39. | :23:46. | |
Looking toward Thursday, we will see high pressure moving away to the | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
continent and a cold front moving in from the West will impact things. | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
Some cloud on Thursday, bright spells, too. By Friday, it is a | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
better picture. Cooler, fresher conditions and some rain coming | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
persistence for a while. For the weekend, we are looking at: showery | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
conditions on Saturday and Sunday, a ridge of high pressure builds up and | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
we may see sunny spells. Thank you, Sam. | :24:16. | :24:17. | |
It's one of the oldest heritage sites in the South | :24:18. | :24:19. | |
and was the capital of England's cultural and political life | :24:20. | :24:21. | |
But despite their international significance, the ruins | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
of Reading Abbey have been closed for eight years since | :24:28. | :24:29. | |
Now, after years of delays and wrangling over cost, | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
work has started to repair the crumbling walls ahead | :24:35. | :24:36. | |
of the grand opening of the town's Abbey quarter, | :24:37. | :24:38. | |
It was built by Henry I for the salvation of his soul. | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
Nine centuries later, the ruins of Reading Abbey | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
These techniques actually go back over 10,000 years | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
and it's one of the earliest forms of building, and it's literally | :24:54. | :24:55. | |
within the last two or three years that we're really re-learning | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
and re-discovering how these buildings were actually originally | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
built, and there's nothing better for the building itself | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
then using the material it was intended to be built with. | :25:06. | :25:07. | |
This hot lyme mortar is exactly what Henry used | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
What's left though is just 20% of a vast complex that stretched | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
Pretty much every King or Queen came here. | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
they might have been here staying with the Abbot. | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
There's a thousand years of history here. | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
It's internationally important history, it's | :25:35. | :25:36. | |
not just local history, and Reading needs to shout about it | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
and that's what this project's about. | :25:40. | :25:40. | |
Henry is buried here, but there were worries that he wouldn't | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
has closed the ruins for the best part of a decade. | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
In 2009, repairs began but the damage was more | :25:52. | :25:53. | |
In April 2011, plans for an eight million pound | :25:54. | :25:59. | |
But it was late 2015 before funding was finally secured | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
Back in the 1100s, Reading Abbey would have | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
taken 40 years to build, the equivalent cost in modern times | :26:12. | :26:13. | |
But the team here have just one year to complete this before it | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
The total cost of the restoration, about three million pounds. | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
A figure that may sound like a king's ransom, | :26:24. | :26:25. | |
but less than half has come from the council coffers. | :26:26. | :26:31. | |
Reading obviously is associated with commerce, | :26:32. | :26:33. | |
and that's great, but also Reading is also placed with a fantastic | :26:34. | :26:40. | |
cultural offering and we believe we can build on that, | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
develop the Abbey Quarter as a cultural attraction | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
and attract a wider public to Reading. | :26:47. | :26:48. | |
Once finished, the ruins will re-open as the centre | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
of the new Abbey Quarter, taking its rightful and original | :26:52. | :26:55. |