25/10/2016 South Today - Oxford

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Coming up: Eight weeks in hospital, waiting for a care home place.

Why Albert Miles family sax he needs accommodation near them,

but currently the council can't provide it.

It is like he is losing the will to fight, the will to live. He is now

getting to the stage where he doesn't want to wake up in the

morning. And, what a third runway at Heathrow

would mean for businesses The family of an elderly cancer

patient say they're getting increasingly distressed that he s

in hospital when they want him to be in a care home close

to where they live. Albert Miles, who's 88, could have

left hospital eight weeks ago. So far, his family, who livd

in Carterton, have rejected offers of care homes in other parts

of Oxfordshire because they say Two months ago, Albert Miles

was told by doctors he had cancer in his liver,

kidneys, bowels, lungs and prostate. Mum just completely

broke down in tears. My husband's also got cancer

as well, so I've sort of been through it with him

for the last four years. His family, who live in Carterton,

have been making a daily 50 mile round trip to the Churchill

hospital in Oxford. Albert's wife Patricia doesn't drive

and has early signs of dementia Their daughter Julie works

full-time in Gloucestershird To make their lives easier,

they're hoping he's moved to a care It feels like a bit of a nightmare

version of Groundhog Day. So I get up at 6am, I go to work,

I get the kids up, make surd they're Go to work, try and concentrate

on my job, I'm a finance manager. Then an hour's travel back home

pick up Mum, and then travel another sort of half an hour,

three quarters of an hour to get to the Churchill

because of the traffic. We try and spend at least a couple

of hours with my dad. Social care is partly

provided by councils. Albert Miles has so far been offered

care homes in Banbury, Chipping Norton and Headington,

but his family have turned them down, because they say

they're too far away. In a statement, Oxfordshire

County Council told us: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

is also partly responsible No-one was available

for an interview, but they did Patricia Miles believes timd

is running out for her world war Patricia Miles was talking

to Adina Campbell. A man from Witney will spend

at least nine years in jail for violent sexual assaults

on two women. He beat up and raped a woman

in the town in Witney in June. Two days later, he attacked

and sexually assaulted a woman in Bournemouth

after breaking into her house. The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson

has called the idea a mistake they third runway at Heathrow. The news

has been welcomed by firms `cross the Thames Valley.

Fruit and cut flowers flying in from Colombia.

Heathrow is a passenger airport but on every plane there's cargo,

It's anticipated that a third runway will help open up 40 new

It gives Heathrow the ability to reach out to all

Collection, handling, screening and delivery -

It will give you the opporttnity to reach out to China,

to new emerging markets, South America to India.

It gives the opportunity for Scottish salmon,

the biggest export out of the UK, to reach new destinations.

The flowers and fruit in these boxes come here,

Expansion means opening manx more destinations like this.

It gives us stability, it makes us able to

Steve runs a Berkshire haulage company.

The family business started in the 1950s.

All their work involves frehght going in and out of Heathrow.

It means that we know that we can strongly expand,

we can go out and buy a few more trucks, perhaps.

The freight industry has argued that, in terms

of global competition, we're all already playing c`tch up.

China has built 50 airports in five years.

We're looking to build one runway in ten years.

Shows the great difference hn how we're looking at the world,

Heathrow is the UK's biggest port by value,

dwarfing the goods that comd in and out of seaports like Southalpton.

With the vote to leave the DU, many feel that expansion is even

more important to show the world that Britain is a trading n`tion

It's a year ago this week since the RAF moved its Chinook

Since then, the twin rotor helicopters have become

a regular sight in the skies above Oxfordshire

Brennan Nicholls has been given rare access

Unmistakeable and instantly recognisable.

It was first used by the RAF in the Falklands Conflict of the

The aircraft has undergone dxtensive modernisation in recent years

In Afghanistan it provided crucial air support

There is a lot that goes into it, all the planning and prepar`tion. 28

Squadron at RAF Benson trains the Chinook and Puma crews, and that

means understanding from local communities. Every exercise is

critical to train our pilots to make sure they can prepare for

operations. As soon as they leave here, they are ready to go out on

operations, so it is vital that this training takes place. Once training

is complete, these recruits will join one of three squadrons, ready

to take on the next chapter in the future of the tunic.

From the sounds of buzzing flies and barking dogs to the smells

of herb gardens and cesspits, the past is being brought to life

through a pioneering virtual reality experience.

A team from the University of Reading has used computer

technology to let users explore a Roman settlement

Today, it's a few very old walls around a field.

But once it might have looked like this.

This is a recreation of Silchester, a Roman village close to Re`ding.

Sound and, crucially, smells help bring it to lifd.

As we wandered around the virtual village,

we hit trigger points which release smells.

If I pull the scent cartridge out, it has got a cotton wool pad in it

which has got the scent soaked into it.

A fan will blow across this, into your face,

then you will get the smell of that wafting towards you.

That smells pretty horrible, whatever it is.

at Fishbourne Roman Palace near Chichester,

where it's forming part of a Roman Army week.

When you went to where the cows and pigs were,

Most children like interacthve things, so they immerse

themselves in the experiencd, which is good.

As well as being an educational tool for children and academics,

the system's creators hope ht will have wider practical uses.

If someone is building a new hospital, you might think that one

of the characteristics is the smell, and the sounds within it.

If you are looking at developing a building

like that, that if you can incorporate some of

those senses into it, you will hopefully come up

with a more realistic and better design.

So this is modern technologx using the past to help the future.

Overnight tonight the Met Office has issued a yellow fog warning.

Dense fog in places, which could become quite widespread

during the early hours of the morning.

Now, the fog may reduce visibility up to 50 metres.

In the countryside, temperatures will fall away to six

These are the temperatures in our towns and cities with light

Tomorrow daytime, the winds will change direction

to a south-westerly airflow, and the fog may be slow to clear

It may take up until 10am or 11am before it does finally clear,

and once it does there will be varying amounts of cloud and sunny

spells, the odd isolated shower but most places will be dry,

with that light south-westerly wind drawing in some milder

Tomorrow, temperatures will reach 15 Celsius,

so through the course of tolorrow afternoon the winds will relain

light, and we will see high pressure build even further.

High pressure continues to build in through Thursday,

the winds fall lighter, and temperatures will reach

Looking ahead, fog is possible each morning.

It will be quite a murky st`rt each day, but sunny spells will break

settled and on the mild side. Nick now has all the national weather.

Hello. Autumn is the season of change, most noticeably with those

autumn colours on display today in Buckinghamshire, as photographed by

one of our weather watchers. Always helps when there is blue sky above.

Our weather is always changing regardless of the season. One of

those changes is taking place, we are losing last week's Easterly

winds and now a westerly wind. That means it's turning milder by day and

night but it does mean the return of Atlantic weather fronts, especially

to north-western parts of the UK. The reason, high pressure