27/10/2016 South Today - Oxford

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Coming up: The brothers spared jail after their waste site caught fire -

The judge said the actions of Lee and David Averies had

Also: How the law doesn't hdlp single people sleeping rough

get off the streets and why MPs want it changed.

And building up Barn Owl nulbers by building boxes

How 3D printing technology is improving cancer

treatment in Oxford by creating a torso

Two brothers who were responsible for a fire

which burned for two months at a waste site in Swindon

Lee and David Averies had pleaded guilty to breaching

Today, the judge gave one of them a suspended prison sentence

and banned the other from rtnning a business for three years.

Hello, can I order a fire engine, please.

We have that down as an industrial estate.

That is right, we are a unit, we've had

the fire brigade here before, actually.

It spewed noxious smoke across Swindon for weeks.

And it burnt for two months before it was extinguished.

Today, Lee Averies, who owned and ran the plant

They'd already pleaded guilty to being reckless

and negligent, causing pollution and harm to health.

The judge told Lee Averies that his offences caused

significant harm and disruption and they were serious enough for him to

be sent to prison, but he stspended a 12-month sentence for two years.

He did impose a criminal behaviour order which

from the waste industry for five years.

His brother David was disqu`lified as a company director

Living with the fire was horrible for many.

Residents had to keep windows closed, some went to hospit`l.

The smell, smoke, the burning plastics.

Having to work with it, it was not very

It took weeks and weeks and really affect my business.

We were extremely frustrated that we

weren't able to put the fire out more quickly.

We needed to get a lot of w`ste off that site to be able to

We didn't know what was inside those waste

The Environment Agency estilates there was 10,000 tonnes

The Averies had a permit for half that.

The council has to deal with the tonnes of rubbish left

People are paying good monex to have their waste taken away by

reputable people and be dealt with properly,

didn't deal with it properlx and at the end of the day, left for

somebody else to deal with, put the cost

And in this case, that was

The Averies also own Calne Aggregates, which was part

The Environment Agency's working to shut it down, too.

There'll be another case next year under the Proceeds of Crime Act

It's hoped more money will be recovered then.

How MPs want to change the law to help more homeless peopld.

Oxford continues to have thd biggest rough sleeping problem outshde

London, with numbers ar a ten-year high.

Currently, there's no requidment to provide shelter for thosd

But if enough MPs back it, the Homelessness Reduction Bill

will mean local councils will have a duty to care for them.

You don't have to look hard in Oxford to find signs of people

to 39 last year. numbers rise from 11 in 2010,

Milton Keynes figures show that 29 people were sleeping on

the streets last year, comp`red to just six five years before.

Cherwell District registered just 21 rough sleepers,

And in Swindon, it has gone up from six to 18 in 2015.

I've seen one or two people laying there with

Sometimes you walk up the street and there's ten beggars there,

active beggars, people who `sk, and then there's genuine holeless

people who sit there cold and get nothing.

One of the main issues is current legislation.

Priority homeless, such as families and the sick, h`ve

That's what this new bill would address.

This is a revolution for local authorities.

For 40 years we have said, just deal with the

priority homeless and you don't deal

But unfortunately, people get turned

away without any help and probably

sleep rough for a night or more

before a charity will find you

In some places it will make it easier for people to

I'm not sure that it will in Oxford, simply

because of the disparity between

But it's a step in the right direction.

Now we need real action from the Government

which some experts believe is the cheapest way to solvd this

Up to a third of Oxfordshird county council's budget for providhng day

The authority currently runs 22 day centres and

The council wants to focus lore on helping people in the colmunity,

It doesn't mean away going to have to do less,

that's something that is amiss, really.

You can change the way you deliver a service and

reach more people and that's why we've taken a long time to dxamine

how we deliver services currently and we've spoken to people who

deliver services and people who receive services,

so that we can see what thex want and how they'd like the

Earlier this week, we talked about the artistic

Now it's being used in Oxford to help in the treatment of cancer.

Scientists have created a sxnthetic torso which replicates

Doctors at the Churchill Hospital are using it to improve the way

radiotherapy is delivered to people with liver cancer.

This is abdoman - a synthethc body made by a three-dimensional printer.

Scientists at the Churchill Hospital are using it

Plastic parts are put together into a torso.

Abdoman is able to mimic human movements that can

The problem with patient imaging is that

during the patient's scanning, patients breathe.

And during this breathing, the things we are looking at are

moving during the patient's respiratory cycle, and this new

software looks at ways of correcting that breathing so we get a luch

Medics fill abdoman with a solution that

replicates the spread of radioactivity in tumours.

Trials are continuing in Oxford and are being welcomed

By understanding how the radiotherapy is affecting

patients, we can tailor the treatment to them and potentially

give them less radiotherapy, so they will experience

But also, this can be used `s a tool to find new treatments for patients.

Research in Oxford has centred on liver cancer, which kills

about 5,000 people in the UK each year.

But this is just the beginnhng for 3D technology.

In the future, we should be able to print out

patient, which completely personalises the cancer tre`tment

Cancer treatments continue to evolve.

By helping to provide more `ccurate doses of radiation, abdoman's

expected to improve the chances of patients recovering.

Plans to expand a marina in north Oxfordshire have been approved

Cropredy Marina opened thred years ago and offers short and long

cruises along the English c`nal network, as well as access

There's now a waiting list for the 250 mooring spaces

The new development will include 100 more and a new car park.

It has been full since the day we opened in 2013.

We have a waiting list of about 20 boats and the more

people back come here, the more money is spent

I think it can only do everyone good.

We have the space, the land is here

and it is unused except for farming, and I think it's pretty wet over

We're back in BBC Breakfast tomorrow morning, but for now, goodnhght

And with the weather, here's Alexis Green.

Overnight tonight, it will be mild and

temperatures will be in single figures.

There is a possibility with

the clear spells and light winds of some patchy fog.

But it won't be as

So, overnight tonight, there will be patchy

clearer skies, that is wherd we will see the mist and fog form.

Temperatures in the countryside will fall away to around 8-9dC.

Tomorrow morning, the mist and fog will

eventually clear by around 10am in most places.

lot of cloud during the course of the day, especially during the

afternoon, with a weather front moving southwards, so the bdst of

the brightness tomorrow will be once the fog clears through the liddle

Temperatures tomorrow will reach a high of 14,

maybe 15 Celsius, with the light, westerly winds.

Now through, the course of tomorrow night and into

the early hours of Saturday morning, high pressure dominates our weather,

that means we will have a fdw clear spells to start the day

Saturday daytime, the winds will be the light and the

mild ones come in off of the Atlantic.

Temperatures will be in the mid-teens and it

For the last part of this wdek, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and

also into Monday, high-pressure dominates the weather.

There will be cloud and the winds will

Temperatures up to the min-teens in Celsius.

fine and dry and on the mild side. My colleague Helen Willetts has with

the national picture. Good evening. The dry October

weather is set to continue into the weekend. It's been kind if you've

been on half term. Not that I'm promising this sort of weather for

all. Isn't it lovely, taken on the Isle of Wight. Our top temperature

was 17 Celsius, not too far away. What a lovely and to the date here

at Mansfield Woodhouse. We have had some sunshine and warmth. It is set

to continue, but the fly in the ointment is a weakening weather

friend. It's edging southwards. To the south we are seeing patchy mist

and dense fog, around potentially for the morning. Not as