:00:19. > :00:27.Oxfordshire claim that tough new restrictions to try to prevent the
:00:27. > :00:31.spread of bovine TB could drive some of them out of business. And why
:00:31. > :00:34.some money is being spent on this cyclist roundabout in Oxford. And
:00:34. > :00:44.the new Lord of the rings who wants to reunite owners with their
:00:44. > :00:48.
:00:48. > :00:52.Oxfordshire claimed that tough new restrictions to try to prevent the
:00:52. > :00:55.spread of bovine TB could drive some of them out of business. The county
:00:56. > :00:59.is to form part of an infection "buffer zone" separating the south
:00:59. > :01:02.west, where the disease is rife, from the rest of the country. The
:01:02. > :01:06.steps, put forward by the Farming Minister, will make it harder to
:01:06. > :01:08.move cattle, and mean more rigorous testing for the disease will be
:01:08. > :01:12.compulsory. As our reporter Angela Walker found out, farmers are
:01:12. > :01:20.already under serious strain, and some say the changes can only make
:01:20. > :01:27.Neil Rowe has a herd of over 400 beef cattle at Manor Farm in
:01:27. > :01:32.Abingdon. We are right on the front-line. All our neighbouring
:01:32. > :01:36.farmers to the west of us are down with TB or have been very recently.
:01:36. > :01:40.We are the first farm with cattle that so far is clear. And we're
:01:40. > :01:43.quite keen to stay that way. We're always worried when we have to do a
:01:43. > :01:46.test. We don't know if we're going to go down.
:01:46. > :01:49.The new measures announced by the Department for Food and Rural
:01:49. > :01:53.Affairs include extra skin testing for herds that have had their
:01:53. > :01:59.TB-free status suspended. There are also much tougher restrictions on
:01:59. > :02:02.moving cattle, and more funding for badger vaccination trials.
:02:02. > :02:06.The cattle movement restrictions in particular make it very difficult
:02:06. > :02:09.for a small farm relying on grazing from other farmers to be able to
:02:09. > :02:12.move their cattle around under these restrictions that either becomes
:02:12. > :02:16.very expensive or just impossible to do and could put them right out of
:02:16. > :02:19.business. Bovine TB is worst in the west of
:02:19. > :02:22.England, which has been classified as a high risk area. To the east,
:02:22. > :02:25.there've been relatively few cases. Oxfordshire's in the middle in what
:02:25. > :02:29.the Government is calling the Edge Area. It's essentially a buffer
:02:29. > :02:33.zone. If bovine TB can be controlled here, the risk of it spreading east
:02:33. > :02:39.is minimised. But the Government denies farmers here are bearing the
:02:39. > :02:43.brunt. There are people being forced out of business by TB. All the time.
:02:43. > :02:47.Anyone who has sat round a kitchen table with a farmer who's lost a
:02:47. > :02:53.prized herd of milkers as a result of TB knows the distress that
:02:53. > :02:55.causes. What we've got to do is to try to stop that disease spreading
:02:56. > :02:59.further. The National Farmers Union told me
:02:59. > :03:02.they wanted more time to digest the measures before they speak publicly,
:03:02. > :03:04.and said the announcement had come as a surprise. They said farmers are
:03:04. > :03:07.angry, frustrated and disillusioned, and that ever-increasing cattle
:03:07. > :03:10.controls mean they're finding it difficult to operate. The NFU's
:03:10. > :03:15.calling for significantly more investment to identify how the
:03:15. > :03:23.disease is spreading among badgers in the Edge Area. Angela Walker, BBC
:03:24. > :03:26.been airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after a light
:03:26. > :03:30.aircraft crash-landed in Northamptonshire. It came down in
:03:30. > :03:34.the village of Canons Ashby, not far from Banbury and the Oxfordshire
:03:34. > :03:37.border. Emergency crews were called to the scene just before midday.
:03:37. > :03:45.It's not yet clear what caused the plane to crash. Air accident
:03:45. > :03:50.investigators have been examining accused of murdering Rachel Manning
:03:50. > :03:53.in Milton Keynes nearly 13 years ago has begun at Luton Crown Court.
:03:53. > :03:58.Rachel was 19. Her body was discovered on a golf course. She'd
:03:58. > :04:01.been strangled. The jury heard that Shahidul Ahmed murdered her after
:04:02. > :04:11.she'd been out for the evening. He denies the charge. The case is
:04:11. > :04:15.their bills increase by an additional �29 a year. The company's
:04:15. > :04:19.seeking permission from the water regulator Ofwat for the rise. It
:04:19. > :04:23.says that the extra money's needed to offset bad debts due in part to
:04:23. > :04:27.the economic downturn. It's also needed to help cover the escalating
:04:27. > :04:31.price of a major new sewer system and maintenance work. The firm says
:04:31. > :04:40.that even with the rise, its charges are among the lowest in the country.
:04:40. > :04:44.But customers in Caversham today weren't convinced.
:04:45. > :04:52.So what happens the next time they have a shortfall? Do we pay another
:04:52. > :04:57.�30? It goes on and on. It is exorbitant when we pay our bills on
:04:57. > :05:03.time and they can't manage their business properly. I hope someone
:05:03. > :05:08.does look into the legality of that. Especially if they are continuing to
:05:08. > :05:15.make the profit they normally make, as well. Most things we do plan and
:05:15. > :05:21.adapt for, but we had to take on 24,000 miles of devious new private
:05:21. > :05:28.sewers as a result of government legislation, and it has cost us �66
:05:28. > :05:32.million to run them -- previously Private.
:05:32. > :05:35.Nearly a million pounds is to be spent in the centre of Oxford to
:05:35. > :05:38.improve safety for cyclists. The city's one of eight across the
:05:38. > :05:41.country which have been awarded Government money. The entire sum's
:05:41. > :05:45.been earmarked for work at a roundabout which is used by getting
:05:45. > :05:48.on for 5,000 cyclists each day. In the past five years there've been 29
:05:48. > :05:50.serious accidents there involving bikes. The plan is to slow the
:05:50. > :05:54.traffic and improve cycle lanes, as Jessica Cooper reports.
:05:54. > :05:56.The Plain. A busy roundabout in Oxford that's had a history of
:05:56. > :06:06.cycling accidents. Richard from the Oxford Cycling Campaign has been
:06:06. > :06:08.
:06:08. > :06:13.calling for it to be made safer. one or two points, you have a split
:06:13. > :06:19.second to make a decision about whether to go or not. The idea is to
:06:19. > :06:23.improve things even further and so that people don't have to guess
:06:23. > :06:26.which moment to pull out. Roads will be made narrower to slow down
:06:26. > :06:35.traffic. Pavements will be wider. And there'll be improved cycle
:06:35. > :06:39.lanes. But is close to a million pounds well spent on a roundabout?
:06:39. > :06:45.think it is a good idea, but it will depend on where the money is
:06:45. > :06:48.actually going. It is a problem for pedestrians as well. It is an
:06:48. > :06:54.attitude needs to change, but I don't think there is space on the
:06:54. > :07:00.roads. You can't put a price on it. I have never been to another city
:07:00. > :07:05.where so many people cycle. Safety is paramount. Any money on cycling
:07:05. > :07:12.is well spent if it makes it easier. There is a history of cycling
:07:12. > :07:14.incidents in the area. Anything which will narrow the roads and slow
:07:14. > :07:18.the traffic down will make it easier and safer for cyclists.
:07:18. > :07:21.Work's due to start later this year. Half a million pounds of
:07:21. > :07:27.improvements will also be made elsewhere in the city to encourage
:07:27. > :07:30.more people to cycle. Jessica Later in the programme with Sally
:07:30. > :07:34.we'll be finding out about another cycling scheme announced today aimed
:07:34. > :07:37.at encouraging people to get on their bikes to explore our National
:07:37. > :07:40.Parks. A 12-mile stretch of railway through
:07:40. > :07:44.Swindon and into Gloucestershire has been closed for three weeks of
:07:44. > :07:47.engineering work. A second line is being laid alongside the existing
:07:47. > :07:51.single track between Swindon and Kemble. It will allow more trains to
:07:51. > :07:54.run along the route, with up to four services an hour in each direction.
:07:54. > :08:02.Replacement buses will be operating until the work is finished in
:08:02. > :08:05.mentioned in the Bible, in Shakespeare's poems, and a
:08:05. > :08:10.well-known Christmas carol. But now you'd be hard-pressed to catch sight
:08:10. > :08:13.of a turtle dove in our countryside. The number living wild has dwindled
:08:13. > :08:17.over recent decades as the habitat around them has changed. That's why
:08:17. > :08:19.rumours that a family of turtle doves has settled at the Otmoor
:08:19. > :08:27.Nature Reserve has attracted bird-watchers from all over the
:08:27. > :08:30.She knows what she's looking for, and she's not alone. All of these
:08:30. > :08:39.bird-watchers came to Otmoor Nature Reserve today to witness a very rare
:08:39. > :08:47.animal in its natural habitat. know there are about, because people
:08:47. > :08:51.keep telling me. Somebody said, I saw 12 today. There are very
:08:51. > :08:54.beautiful, and we're hoping to see the nesting here. This is what they
:08:54. > :08:57.were searching for. The turtle dove's song used to revorbarate
:08:57. > :09:00.around English woodlands, but numbers are down by 93% since the
:09:00. > :09:10.1970s. It's partly because the rugged grass land they thrive on is
:09:10. > :09:11.
:09:11. > :09:16.being made into crop fields. main food they rely on our small
:09:17. > :09:23.seeds from weeds that grow on the edge of farmland. We have a good
:09:23. > :09:29.example here, some clover. They are perfect for turtledoves. There is
:09:29. > :09:32.not as much of this around any more. There is a lot of excitement here at
:09:32. > :09:39.the moment, because we have heard there is a family of total doves in
:09:40. > :09:42.that tree. We are not sure if they are there at the moment. We are
:09:42. > :09:49.having to be patient. But the Otmoor turtle doves remained
:09:49. > :09:55.characteristically elusive - until Sean Allison and his wife got lucky.
:09:55. > :10:01.We heard one calling, and unmanaged to find a juvenile first of all in
:10:01. > :10:05.the branches of a tree. A little further along the path, we found an
:10:05. > :10:08.adult, as well. Two turtle doves, just like in the
:10:08. > :10:14.Christmas carol. Sean says his next mission is to find a partridge in a
:10:14. > :10:18.pear tree. Jeremy Stern, BBC South Today.
:10:18. > :10:21.And yes, we are mentioning Christmas in the middle of summer! That's all
:10:21. > :10:25.from me for the moment. The goals from the weekend's football matches,
:10:25. > :10:35.from the MK Dons, Swindon and Oxford, are coming up in a few
:10:35. > :10:35.
:10:35. > :18:48.Apology for the loss of subtitles for 493 seconds