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Welcome to South Today. for the news where you are. | :00:11. | :00:11. | |
Coming up: Pausing to remember the four men who died in | :00:12. | :00:13. | |
Their families were in Didcot for a minute's silence, | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
Also: As police say they need more time to search | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
Christopher Halliwell's former home, the mother of one of | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
victims says she believes he could have killed others. | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
Andd the flawed automated parking system that's ended up | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
costing a council more than a million pounds. | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
It's a year today that four men died when part of Didcot Power Station | :00:35. | :00:45. | |
collapsed, as they were preparing it for demolition. | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
The families of Ken Cresswell, John Shaw, Michael Collings, | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
and Christopher Huxtable have been back to the town to | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
pay tribute to them and to attend a minute's silence. | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
The investigation into what caused the collapse is ongoing. | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
A minute's silence was held at four o'clock. | :00:57. | :01:12. | |
Exactly a year after a huge part of the architectural icon for which | :01:13. | :01:17. | |
Didcot is so famous crashed to the ground. | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
The tragedy claimed the lives of four men working there and | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
Their relatives stood side by side with | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
representatives of the town to remember. | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
Memories of the day will be hard to shake off after | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
a year and we are reminded of that daily by the trucks that come up | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
with the rubble and the steel that comes out through the gates. | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
We are never far away from that and I still | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
I think the town will remember it forever. | :01:41. | :01:49. | |
It is a sad thing, more than before, but a | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
Earlier in the afternoon, as strong winds howled | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
across the piles of twisted debris, the relatives had gathered together | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
They laid flowers by a memorial bench. | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
They showed tremendous dignity throughout. | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
It is essential that lessons are learned | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
from this terrible accident so no family should have to go through | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
While Michael Collings's body was found on the night of the collapse, | :02:14. | :02:23. | |
it was well over six months before the bodies of Christopher Huxtable, | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
Ken Cresswell and John Shaw were eventually | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
located and returned to | :02:29. | :02:29. | |
made to wait too long for information. | :02:30. | :02:38. | |
To have been a victim of something so horrific as that, | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
you have lost your husband and then to have to fight | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
Just last month, I had to write to try to get information about | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
Suddenly, all that came back with was that | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
In a joint statement today, the Health and Safety | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
Executive say they are entirely committed to uncovering why this | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
tragedy happened and they will seek justice for those affected, should | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
any wrongdoing be found to have taken place. | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
It is likely though that more anniversaries will pass | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
before the families of the men who died here | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
will get the answers they | :03:16. | :03:17. | |
Her daughter was murdered by Christopher Halliwell. | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
Now Sian O'Callaghan's mother says she believes there | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
Elaine Pickford was speaking as police announced they'll need | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
more time to continue their forensic search of Halliwell's | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
He'll spend the rest of his life in jail | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
The police search at the back of these Swindon houses goes on. | :03:37. | :03:47. | |
A former home of Christopher Halliwell, the sounds of | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
a mechanical digger echoing around the terraced streets. | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
Elaine Pickford's daughter Sian was his | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
The question now, are there the others lying somewhere | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
I personally believe that with his psychopathic nature and being a | :04:06. | :04:13. | |
pathological liar that he would have slipped from everyday life and then | :04:14. | :04:21. | |
whatever his trigger was, would be capable to go out and do | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
what he has done to not only Sian, but to Becky and | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
Swindon taxi driver Christopher Halliwell is serving a | :04:30. | :04:38. | |
He killed Becky Godden in 2003 and Shannon Cocking | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
eight years later, but her mother believes it is likely there are | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
He is currently serving a life sentence. The victim's mother has | :04:45. | :05:14. | |
studied the killer and it is likely he committed the offences. | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
Personally I believe once he would have got to that | :05:19. | :05:20. | |
level, been able to commit that sort of crime and given his nature and | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
history, and his unnatural urges and sexuality, | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
I think he wouldn't have | :05:28. | :05:28. | |
been able to have contain himself for those eight years. | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
Halliwell appeared to try to make a plea bargain during | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
If I confess, he said, will that stop | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
Police say they are digging here on intelligence they | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
So far they haven't said what, if anything, they found. | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
Storm Doris has been causing disruption, | :05:57. | :05:57. | |
with gusts of more than 60 miles an hour in our region. | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
More than 40 trees or branches have come down in Oxfordshire alone. | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
Fences have given way, bins have been blown | :06:04. | :06:05. | |
across the streets and there've been power cuts. | :06:06. | :06:07. | |
Meanwhile, in Oxford city centre, Park End Street was closed | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
while firefighters dealt with a roof that had become loose. | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
An inquest has heard that 10-year-old boy died after a queue | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
barrier fell on him at Topshop in Reading, causing him | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
Kaden Reddick was shopping with his mother, siblings | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
and grandmother at the store in the Oracle Shopping Centre | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
Police say it happened as his mother was paying at the till. | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
Topshop has removed all display stands at tills | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
It was designed to make parking easier for motorists and save | :06:37. | :06:44. | |
But instead, a camera-operated system installed in some car parks | :06:45. | :06:52. | |
in Buckinghamshire has ended up costing more than a million pounds. | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
Since Automatic Number Plate Recognition was | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
introduced three years ago, not a single penny in fines | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
What's more, town hall bosses knew the system didn't comply | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
At the Swan car park in Whickham, ANPR records every car registration. | :07:04. | :07:15. | |
Before leaving, drivers should enter their registration and pay, but | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
there are no barriers and some drive off without paying. | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
The council says it installed ANPR in 20 car parks | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
after it was reassured by the DVLA that it would be able to get details | :07:27. | :07:35. | |
But that is illegal and no fines have | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
The Government said it told you three years ago that she | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
would not be able to collect fines from the system get the data. | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
So why did you go ahead and bring it in? | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
We took external legal advice to make | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
sure the way we were using it was lawful, | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
and they were of the opinion that it was and we also had | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
conversations with the DVLA as to the best way to roll it out and if | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
we could roll it out and they said they could not see any reason why we | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
But the DVLA said they didn't give the council | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
any assurances about releasing data and added that it would have been | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
So far, ANPR has cost the council nearly | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
?700,000 to install, almost ?150,000 to upgrade | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
machines and signs and an | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
estimated ?287,000 in the unrecovered fines. | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
Critics say in total, more than ?1 million of taxpayer's money | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
Wasting over nearly one half million pounds of | :08:28. | :08:34. | |
the money of taxpayers is inexcusable, really. | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
We don't get elected just to drink cups of tea | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
and attend meetings, we are there for policy-making. | :08:40. | :08:41. | |
We're there to look after the money of the | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
taxpayers and see it is spent wisely. | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
Well, on Saturday, the council here is going | :08:47. | :08:48. | |
to start changing 18 of its | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
car parks from ANPR back to pay and display. | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
But it says it is going to keep these new machines in place in | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
case the law changes in the future and it can start using them again. | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
At a council meeting tonight, this councillor says | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
he will be accusing the | :09:03. | :09:03. | |
authority of gross incompetence and he will be calling for resignations. | :09:04. | :09:11. | |
The actor George Cole's camel coat and trilby from the ITV series | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
The distinctive coat and hat were regularly worn | :09:15. | :09:26. | |
by Cole's character Arthur Daley in the show that ran for 15 years. | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
We're back in BBC Breakfast tomorrow morning, but for now goodnight. | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
It will be chillier than previous nights tonight and there will be | :09:34. | :09:45. | |
scenes like this tomorrow. With clear spells there some isolated | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
showers here and there. The showers are few and far between and | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
temperatures in the countryside may fall to around one Celsius. The | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
breeze will gradually ease off during the night with storm Doris | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
moving towards the North Sea. A dryer and a bright start tomorrow. | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
Mainly dry with the odd isolated shower. Winds a lot lighter than | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
today. Cloud will fill in during the afternoon turning the sunshine hazy | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
and temperatures will reach 7-8 C. A pleasant day, feeling cooler. The | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
mild air will make a return through tomorrow night and into Saturday, | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
following this weather fronts. Tomorrow night, patchy rain. | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
Saturday should be mainly dry through daylight until this weather | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
front arrives on Saturday evening and into Sunday. Saturday, a breezy | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
day. Rain pushing in on Saturday night and clearing first in Sunday | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
morning. As we look ahead to the rest of the week and the weekend, a | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
lovely sunny day tomorrow. Cloudy in the afternoon and the winds will be | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
lighter. Colder than recently with a high of 7-8 C. Kathy | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
be much milder. I will leave you with Thomas Shelter. | :11:04. | :11:12. | |
Good evening. It was quite a day for some of us. We get these sort of | :11:13. | :11:20. | |
storms every couple of years also. Difficult to give an exact number, | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
but it was certainly a nasty one. It's now moving into Holland, | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
Germany, south of Denmark, and it continues to blow itself out. The | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
winds around coasts were not particularly spectacular, but the | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
inland winds were unusual, 62 mph in London. A trail of damage across the | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
UK with trees falling | :11:45. | :11:45. |