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from Oxford. In tonight's programme: Did eating while driving cause a | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
motorist to knock down and kill a cyclist? Paul Brown denies causing | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
death by dangerous driving, but lawyers claim he was distracted at | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
the wheel. Also tonight, the pressures of | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
public transport when you're blind or partially sighted. The campaign | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
for talking buses to run in our region. | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
And almost 200 years of tradition is on the brink of being scrapped - as | :00:33. | :00:43. | |
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one of the last men only clubs votes to allow women. | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
Good evening. A man has denied he was driving dangerously when he | :00:52. | :00:59. | |
killed an off-duty firefighter who was cycling along a country road. | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
Oxford Crown Court has been told that Paul Brown was distracted by | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
eating a sandwich when he knocked Joseph Wilkins off his bike on a | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
rural road near Oxford in May last year. Angela Walker is at the Crown | :01:10. | :01:18. | |
Court. Angela, what has the court heard today? We heard that | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
firefighter Joe Wilkinson was cycling down a country lane when he | :01:22. | :01:29. | |
was hit from behind by a card driven by Paul Brown. He was thrown into a | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
ditch and sustained fatal injuries. The court heard from one of the | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
first police officers on the scene? PC Richard Watts was the first | :01:40. | :01:49. | |
uniformed officer on the scene. He said the that the defendant was | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
shaken and traumatised. And he said that through the window of the car | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
he could see a half eaten sandwich and sandwich wrapper on the seat of | :01:59. | :02:06. | |
the car. The defendant said to him that it was hazy and he just did not | :02:06. | :02:16. | |
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see him. So what did Paul Brown say when he was questioned by police? | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
Well he said that he had a sandwich in one hand and the steering wheel | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
in another. But he said he had done it many times before and did not | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
find it to be a distraction. He says he is denying the count of dangerous | :02:35. | :02:44. | |
driving. The case continues at Oxford Crown Court. | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
Oxford's only lap dancing club has been given permission to go to the | :02:50. | :02:58. | |
court of appeal to appeal against a High Court decision not to renew its | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
licence. The City Council refused The Lodge's application last year | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
and that was upheld by the High Court. It had been denied a licence | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
to operate next to St Ebbes church in 2011 and had moved to Oxpens | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
Road. Now the owner will take his case to the Court of Appeal. Figures | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
obtained by the BBC show that reported hate crimes in Oxfordshire | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
have fallen by nearly 20% over the last year. The data from Thames | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
Valley Police shows that between July 2012 and June 2013 there were | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
264 crimes recorded against someone because of their race, religion, | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
sexual orientation or disability. That's compared to 327 in the | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
previous 12 months. People living near a busy main road on the edge of | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
Swindon are hoping for a quieter life, with a fence that will cut the | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
noise - and generate power. The barrier would be fitted with solar | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
panels. A similar idea was put forward last year by residents in | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
Oxfordshire who are campaigning for a solar-panelled sound barrier on | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
the M40. Now businesses are being asked to help foot the bill for one | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
on the A419. Scott Ellis has this report. | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
The faster you go the Laudrup the noise and with lorries you can add | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
the bracket of the diesel engine. To the east of Swindon you will know | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
all about that. Sitting out sometimes in the back garden on a | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
pleasant sunny day when it is no breeze, it is really loud. Sometimes | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
we wake up during the night. In the early morning when they are all | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
going to work. The current sound barrier is barely more than eight | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
fence and has gaps in it. The Highways Agency agrees that the area | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
needs an upgrade but roadside soundproofing costs up to �1 million | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
per mile to build and maintain. Swindon borough council says that | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
going solar could cut costs. solar sound barrier will comprise | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
solar panels which generate electricity which we can then sell | :04:53. | :05:00. | |
to local businesses. And we have a number of those in Swindon. If we | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
can get them on board and raised the money necessary to build and they | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
fought the maintenance of the barrier itself, it will work. | :05:10. | :05:16. | |
other countries in Europe to have solar powered sound barriers. And | :05:16. | :05:23. | |
the project does have the backing of the Highways Agency. In Swindon a | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
business case is being put together. The town once solar powered | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
soundproofing here in 2 years' time. Blind and partially-sighted people | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
in Oxfordshire are urging bus companies to install talking buses. | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
Every day 100 people in the UK start to lose their sight, and it's | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
estimated that figure will double by 2050. Oxford Bus Company is training | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
its drivers to be more aware of passengers with poor sight, but it | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
could be a while before all its buses are fitted with spoken | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
information. People who are blind or partially | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
sighted are not allowed to drive so many use the buses. The problem is | :06:02. | :06:11. | |
they often do not know which stopped to get off of which bus to get on. | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
Paul has a progressive eye condition which has got much worse in the last | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
few years. Because he has tunnel vision and is completely blind at | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
night, he relies on buses to get around. He wants Oxford's buses to | :06:23. | :06:32. | |
be talking buses. Whether in the daylight or especially in the dark, | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
knowing what stop you want to get our fact, many times I have missed | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
the correct stop. It is simply voice recognition and I think it is | :06:42. | :06:47. | |
essential. All buses in London, more than 8,000 of them, have "next stop" | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
announcements. In Oxford talking buses are being trialled on the | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
park-and-ride service to help tourists. If successful they could | :06:54. | :07:03. | |
be rolled out across the city. Oxford Bus Company does give | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
disability awareness training to its drivers and other bus operators. Guy | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
is partially sighted and Steve has been driving buses for more than 20 | :07:13. | :07:21. | |
years. What's it like when they swap places? There is a lot going on and | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
they still have to be aware of the passengers on board especially the | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
party decided once. I will be looking out for it a lot more. | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
this month the National Institute of Blind People will ask the government | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
to make training mandatory for all drivers. | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
Smart phones, laptops and tablets are all bringing entertainment where | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
people want it, whether that's on the street or in the home. But one | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
cafe in Oxford is aiming to get us back to board games - sitting round | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
a table, sharing the same experience. We've been out asking | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
people about their favourite board games. We do play Monopoly a great | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
deal and we know who cheats! I do like to play competitive games with | :08:06. | :08:13. | |
my friends. Everybody wants to win. It is usually friendly but it was | :08:13. | :08:21. | |
different when I was younger with all my brothers and sisters! Jeremy | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
Stern has been to the cafe, Thirsty Meeples, where there are 1,500 | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
different games to choose from. If you like games you will not get | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
bored here. There are hundreds to choose from at this new cafe in | :08:35. | :08:43. | |
Oxford. I am just learning how to play this game. You are in a dungeon | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
and random stuff happens to do with monsters. This is a simple tile | :08:49. | :08:56. | |
game. I scored points by finishing a row. This is quite similar to chest | :08:56. | :09:04. | |
but a bit more fun and fast paced. Five is a new game but there are are | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
also classic. The owner quit his job as a social worker to set up in a | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
macro. It has taken nine months to build up a collection which he | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
believes can rival any computer console for entertainment value. | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
Board games are going through a renaissance. There are around 300 | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
coming out every year now. We are trying to promote them so people can | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
see which ones are good. For those who find instructions tedious there | :09:32. | :09:38. | |
are games or was on hand to explain the rules. Some play for fun but for | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
others it is all about the end result. The key to being good at | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
winning, what everyone else is trying to grab, you find a different | :09:48. | :09:52. |