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Good evening. A former member of staff at a | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
prestigious public school in South Oxfordshire claims she was forced | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
out of her job after repeatedly raising concerns about violent | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
behaviour and bullying among pupils. Rachel Ashley says she was pressured | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
to leave the Oratory school in 2012. She's taken her case to an | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
industrial tribunal. Officials at the school deny any wrongdoing. | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
Adina Campbell reports. The Oratory is one of the country's | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
most exclusive private schools and so any case questioning the | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
behaviour of its pupils was always bound to cause embarrassment. During | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
the course of the past three days, the industrial tribunal panel here | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
in Reading has heard claims of animal cruelty to birds and cats, | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
and also allegations of extreme bullying among some of the boys. The | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
claims come from a former employee, Rachel Ashley, who worked at the | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
school near Woodcote in South Oxfordshire for three years. She's | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
brought a case for constructive unfair dismissal, saying that she'd | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
repeatedly flagged`up her concerns to senior colleagues but was told | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
that boys will be boys and nothing was done. Miss Ashley claims during | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
her time as a house mother, a supervisory role, she raised | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
concerns about four boys. She reported seeing banned items | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
including a bow and arrow, fireworks and other sharp objects embedded in | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
gloves and claims as a resul she feared for her own safety and that | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
of the children. On another occasion she reported seeing a boy being | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
bound and then beaten by others. But while she felt the incidents should | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
have been reported to social services or the police, her worries | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
weren't taken seriously. She was even reprimanded by other members of | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
staff for reporting what she'd seen. Today the tribunal has heard from | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
the school's deputy head, Thomas Hennessy, who says he was aware of | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
incidents of bad behaviour and that these were properly investigated. | :01:52. | :02:00. | |
Recommendations on appropriate ways of dealing with such behaviour were | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
up to the headmaster to enforce. The hearing continues and it is likely | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
to be a few more weeks before the panel makes its final conclusions. | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
An Oxfordshire care home's been issued with a formal warning to | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
improve standards by the Care Quality Commission. St Katherine's | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
House in Wantage was visited by inspectors at the end of last year. | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
They found the centre falling short on five of eight nationally agreed | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
standards for quality and safety. The CQC says there's no risk to the | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
50 residents and the company running the home is taking action to address | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
the concerns. More than half the country is | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
overweight and Milton Keynes is one of the fattest areas according to | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
new figures. It's in the top ten of a table compiled Public Health | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
England, which used people's Body Mass Index, or BMI to determine | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
obesity. On average 63% of the UK population are overweight or obese. | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
In Oxford it's lower at 56%. In Aylesbury Vale it's around average | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
at 64%. Swindon is higher at 70%. And in Milton Keynes more than 72% | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
of the population is overweight or obese. Jessica Cooper reports. | :03:09. | :03:20. | |
Lionel used to fit in these clothes when he weighed almost 19 stone. | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
Within three years he lost seven stone. I just wanted to look normal | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
and wear normal clothes and I feel so much better for doing it. I | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
sometimes go around with the grandchildren and pay on the swings | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
and things like that. When we go on how you holidays we go on | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
everything, everything they go on, I go on. I really enjoyed it, it is | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
like a newly soft life. Through walking and reducing his portion | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
size Lionel has kept his weight down but new figures show he is now | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
amongst the minority in his local area where more than 70% of adults | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
are classed as overweight or obese. Milton Keynes Council says reducing | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
the health risk for people who are overweight is one of its main | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
priorities. People who are classed in that group are referred to | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
services by their GP. It is planning to more than double the Public | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
health investment to tackle the obesity problem. Weight loss is the | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
main reason why people join this gem in Bletchley and it is where the GPs | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
refer the patients that are on exercise programmes instead of | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
giving out prescriptions. Over the past three years I have seen over | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
80% of people who take part in the programme and complete their 12 | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
weeks make a significant reduction to their weight and in particular we | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
have had a number of clients who have lost upwards of two or three | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
stone in weight by taking part in this programme. Lionel puts his | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
weight loss down to willpower. He loves baking cakes but never eats | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
them. Winds of up to 50 miles an hour have | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
been battering the Thames Valley. 8,000 homes were without power this | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
morning. Sinead Carroll reports. Clearing up after one storm and | :05:04. | :05:12. | |
preparing for another. The guys are clearing rubbish because it gets | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
dragged in off the field and blocks the streams and the water cannot get | :05:18. | :05:18. | |
away. Last night's storm led to power cuts | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
for many. It is absolutely bananas, it is so frustrating. We are living | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
in 2014 and we do not have electricity every time there was a | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
storm or some sort of weather. The power cuts forced closures at | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
Marsh Baldon school and pub. Cancelled already three parties for | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
lunch and I have also turned away three groups for lunch and then it | :05:43. | :05:51. | |
also knocks on to my staff. Power was restored by 2:00pm, | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
Southern Electric apologised and says its consulting residents to | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
make improvements in future. But with more bad weather forecast | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
for the next few days, environmental and transport teams in Oxfordshire | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
and Buckinghamshire are standing by to deal with any further disruption. | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
A teenager from Appleford near Didcot has become the youngest | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
person ever to row across the Atlantic. 17`year`old Eoin | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
Hartwright arrived on dry land with a hug from his Mum. Owen and three | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
other crew members completed their 43 day adventure last night. They | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
rowed 3,000 miles from the Canary Islands to Antigua. | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
Football. Swindon drew 2`2 with Peterborough despite being down to | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
ten men for the second half of the match. The game involved own goals | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
from each side. Swindon's Jay McEveley was sent off 35 minutes in | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
for serious foul play. That's it from us for now. Alexis is | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
on the way with the weather forecast. Goodnight. | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
Good evening. A quieter night to night with a few showers but drier | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
periods as well and the wind will gradually ease. We are expecting | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
lows of four or five Celsius. Tomorrow there will be bright spells | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
to start the day but it will not stay that way. Heavy rain will | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
arrive from the south in the afternoon and stay with us for much | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
of the day. The Met office have an amber warning in force tomorrow | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
afternoon and night. Temperatures tomorrow reach a high of seven | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
degrees. The amber warning is in force tomorrow afternoon into the | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
early hours of tomorrow morning full `` Friday morning. Another amber | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
warning for Friday and Saturday. There could be gale | :07:28. | :07:38. | |
As you have just heard, the little respite between one storm system and | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
another | :07:44. | :07:44. |