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Welcome to South Today. coverage for you online and on | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Coming up: What's the key to getting people on board? | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
How bus passenger numbers have risen in the Thames Valley - | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Also: nothing left to cut in their schools - | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
the teachers warning some lessons may have to go - and classes | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
And 11,000 operations - Oxford's pioneering heart surgeon | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
Steve Westaby on how it feels to save a life - | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
The number of people using bus services in Oxford, | :00:24. | :00:34. | |
Reading and Milton Keynes has grown in the last six years - | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
despite an overall decline nationally. | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
That's according to a new report by public transport | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
It found, in Oxford, bus use increased by 12%. | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
In Milton Keynes it was up by 15 percent...and in Reading | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
the number was even higher - at 17%. | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
The hustle and bustle of Oxford's bus network. | :00:53. | :01:02. | |
One in five of us now uses the bus to get to work in the city. | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
I get the bus, because it's a damn good bus service, actually. | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
And what do you like about getting the bus? | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
If I could drive and park into Oxford, I would be | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
much happier with that, but I won't pay parking | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
Somebody drives you there rather than you having to walk and its dry | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
And if it's busy now, it's set to get even busier. | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
Oxford is one of the fastest-growing cities in the world. | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
You've got two very good operators that compete against each other. | :01:33. | :01:42. | |
We serve to raise each other's standards, because we are always | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
watching with the other one is doing. | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
Making sure we are keeping the investment going. | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
And also, we have had the right policy in place from local | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
Government to make sure that bus travel is prioritised. | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
Oxford is not the only place that is investing | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
Reading for instance has the third highest level of bus passengers | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
Even Milton Keynes, a town traditionally designed | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
Last year it received Government funding to bring | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
In Oxford, there are plans for extra park and ride sites, | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
bus priority on the roads, and even a zero | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
But rural areas outside the city centre have suffered. | :02:15. | :02:26. | |
Last year, transport bosses ended all bus subsidies in the county | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
And what about people who can't catch the bus? | :02:30. | :02:38. | |
Well, I do accept that at inconvenient hours, | :02:39. | :02:39. | |
like early morning and late evening, the bus service is less | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
than it is during the middle of the day, but we do | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
try to encourage the bus operators to actually put | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
The challenge for the council, it seems, is balancing the pressures | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
to be greener with the service that is both reliable | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
Headteachers in Oxfordshire say they're running out | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
They're now warning the number of lessons could be reduced - | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
Nearly half of the county's schools are due to lose money | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
under a planned shake up of education funding. | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
All 35 secondary schools in Oxfordshire have now | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
Our political reporter Bethan Phillips has the story: | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
With its new funding formula, the Government promised to tackle | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
And as a county that's been poorly funded in the past, | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
hopes were raised that Oxfordshire would be a big winner. | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
But critics have described the reality as horrendous, | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
with nearly half of schools in the county actually | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
facing a budget reduction if the change goes ahead. | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
Headteachers say they're simply running out of things to cut. | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
We are absolutely at the bottom now and there is nowhere else to cut | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
without seriously damaging provisions. | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
Reasonable sized classes, the 25 hour week curriculum offer, | :03:52. | :04:01. | |
those are now the sorts of things that are under threat | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
Even schools set to gain under the new system say overall | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
Analysis from the National Audit Office says rising pupil numbers | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
will mean schools generally see their budgets shrink by eight% | :04:13. | :04:14. | |
Headteachers in Oxfordshire claim the government's new formula | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
will particularly hit the core funding they get for each child. | :04:20. | :04:30. | |
They say they're going to lose more than ?400 for every 11 | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
A letter's been sent to MPs, warning them about the problem - | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
some have already promised to take the issue further. | :04:38. | :04:39. | |
Well, it is important to bear in mind that an MP I can bring | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
pressure on Government to make sure that the funding is fair | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
and it is precisely what I'm doing and what I should be doing Monday | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
A new Oxford Brookes University campus has officially | :04:49. | :05:08. | |
Nursing students have been using new facilities | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
at the Delta Business Park site since last Summer. | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
The man the building is named after, Joel Joffee, was at today's event. | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
The former human rights lawyer is from Swindon. | :05:19. | :05:20. | |
It was a mixture of pride and feeling privileged, | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
but rather embarrassed, because I'm just an ordinary person. | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
I consider myself rather average and so I was surprised, | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
Blenheim Palace has been given charity status. | :05:30. | :05:39. | |
It means the 18th century stately home - which was the birth place | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
of Sir Winston Churchill - will be able to claim back | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
income tax on donations and apply for grants. | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
The extra money means more restoration and conservation | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
He's performed more than 11 thousand heart operations | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
Professor Steve Westaby, who's now retired from | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, is one of the most | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
He's written a book about his career and the patient's whose | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
I spoke to him earlier and he told me what being | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
It is saws and sharp instruments, but we do a lot of good. | :06:16. | :06:25. | |
You save a lot of lives, we make a lot of patients feel very | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
much better and it's a very satisfactory job to do. | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
Your book is called Fragile Lives, how does it feel to save a life? | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
Because a lot of the people you're trying to save are very high-risk | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
I've had very many very high risk patients in my career and of course, | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
it's always a privilege to operate on s patient and save a life. | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
It's important not to get involved with that patient emotionally before | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
you do save their lives because some of them | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
You were the first surgeon to fit a patient with a new type | :06:57. | :07:05. | |
of artificial heart, back in the 2000. | :07:06. | :07:07. | |
How high risk did it feel to do that? | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
Well, when Peter Houghton walked into my office, I described him | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
He was within weeks of dying and had been turned down for transplantation | :07:15. | :07:23. | |
The first time he was too well and the second time, | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
So, he had given up on life and I had this small device, | :07:27. | :07:35. | |
the size of my thumb, called the Jarvik 2000 | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
Instead of living three or four more weeks of misery, | :07:39. | :07:44. | |
And then died of something completely different. | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
Out of all the 11,000 operations you've done, does one standout | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
for you because it was either very, very difficult or because you made | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
an emotional connection with that patient? | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
I used to love operating on babies and children and there was one case | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
that came so close tonight getting through that you could | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
I was in a hotel in Sydney having just gone to bed after literally | :08:04. | :08:25. | |
to a baby who was dying from heart failure at the age of five months. | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
And that they be had been having heart attacks at that age, | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
because her main coronary artery came off the artery to the lungs. | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
I designed a new operation for the problem, because existing | :08:36. | :08:38. | |
operations weren't very satisfactory. | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
Did that operation with the film cameras running and then couldn't | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
And after two hours of struggling, and a very depressed team | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
in the operating theatre, I went out to tell the parents | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
that I thought the baby had gone, had died. | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
And there was such a miserable response from the mother - | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
you can imagine telling a mother she's going to lose a baby - | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
that I turned my heels and went back into the operating theatre and did | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
something absolutely ridiculous, chopped a third of the circumference | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
of the heart out to make it smaller and deputy stitch in | :09:14. | :09:22. | |
Cut a long story short, she survived and is now 18. | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
This summer will see the final Cornbury music festival - | :09:26. | :09:33. | |
Sophie Ellis Bexter and Jools Holland. | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
The festival is held on the Great Tew Estate | :09:36. | :09:37. | |
The weather forecast is next - and its looking very cold tomorrow. | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
A cold wind taking the edge of temperatures. | :09:44. | :10:22. | |
Showers likely in eastern parts drifting into Oxford. | :10:23. | :10:44. | |
Saturday, cold, temperatures struggle. | :10:45. | :10:54. | |
sleet and snow. The outlook, Sunday will turn a bit less cold again. All | :10:55. | :11:03. | |
the way up seven Celsius. At this time of year we can often | :11:04. | :11:13. | |
get the weather stories | :11:14. | :11:14. |