:00:00. > :00:08.soon. That is all from the BBC News at Six, goodbye from me. On BBC One
:00:09. > :00:13.Hello and welcome to South Today from Oxford. In tonight's programme:
:00:14. > :00:16.Not an act of mercy, it was murder. A 75`year`old woman who killed her
:00:17. > :00:18.husband who was dying of cancer is jailed for life.
:00:19. > :00:21.Also, sub four minutes, super achievement. Plans to celebrate the
:00:22. > :00:27.60th anniversary of a major sporting milestone.
:00:28. > :00:35.And it's not just a woman's work ` a call for more jobs for the boys in
:00:36. > :00:45.childcare. He is funny. He is funny, is he?
:00:46. > :00:53.Yes. He has got funny ears. Later on: The ingenious ways wounded
:00:54. > :00:56.troops were brought back from the front line, and how a Thames Valley
:00:57. > :01:06.surgeon and his team discovered a novel way of saving their lives.
:01:07. > :01:10.A 75`year`old woman from Milton Keynes, who admitted strangling her
:01:11. > :01:14.terminally ill husband, has been given a life sentence after a judge
:01:15. > :01:20.ruled it wasn't a mercy killing. Sheila Sampford was told she must
:01:21. > :01:23.spend at least nine years in prison. The court heard caring for her
:01:24. > :01:31.husband who had leukaemia had "got too much". Neil Bradford was in
:01:32. > :01:34.court. Sheila Sampford wept as she relived
:01:35. > :01:40.the moment she strangled her 83`year`old husband John. The
:01:41. > :01:46.75`year`old told the judge at Luton Crown Court it was the worst thing
:01:47. > :01:50.she had ever done. I did what I did for John, she said. For love, and to
:01:51. > :01:53.stop him suffering. He was my rock. The couple were three months away
:01:54. > :01:57.from celebrating their golden wedding anniversary last July when
:01:58. > :02:01.she killed him at their home in Milton Keynes. She said it was a
:02:02. > :02:05.plan they had discussed together on numerous occasions, and she was
:02:06. > :02:10.acting out of love and devotion and to end his suffering from leukaemia.
:02:11. > :02:14.Today it emerged that John Sampford showed no sign of wanting to take
:02:15. > :02:17.his own life and was coping well with his terminal diagnosis. The
:02:18. > :02:21.court also heard that Sheila Sampford had told police at the time
:02:22. > :02:25.she had just snapped. I don't know what I did, she told them. A judge
:02:26. > :02:32.ruled today this was not a mercy killing. From the word go, this was
:02:33. > :02:35.always treated as a murder inquiry by Thames Valley Police. As the
:02:36. > :02:42.inquiry progressed, it became obvious it was not just around Mr
:02:43. > :02:45.Sampford's health, but there were other factors in the inquiry that
:02:46. > :02:50.led us to believe Sheila had committed this murder for other
:02:51. > :02:53.reasons. The case was heard without a jury because Sheila Sampford
:02:54. > :02:57.pleaded guilty to her husband's murder last month. The judge
:02:58. > :03:02.described her evidence as unconvincing. He did not agree Mr
:03:03. > :03:07.Sampford wanted to die, or asked his wife to kill him, or that she was
:03:08. > :03:11.acting out of compassion. He said, and immense stress, you snapped.
:03:12. > :03:16.Your actions deprived family members of the chance to say goodbye. Sheila
:03:17. > :03:25.Sampford was jailed for life with a minimum term of nine years.
:03:26. > :03:30.Earlier I asked an expert on criminal law whether this case have
:03:31. > :03:35.been unusual. They are not very common, but they are not that
:03:36. > :03:41.unusual. My view is that the law really needs to be reviewed in
:03:42. > :03:45.relation to the whole issue of murder and people who find
:03:46. > :03:51.themselves in very desperate circumstances with loved ones, and
:03:52. > :03:57.he may well be acting on their instructions and trying to help them
:03:58. > :04:02.in their dying days. Do you sense there is a change coming in the law?
:04:03. > :04:06.In the same way that a review has been done around assisted suicide, I
:04:07. > :04:10.do think it should be looked at more widely in terms of a situation where
:04:11. > :04:14.a murder charge or an attempted murder charge would be brought
:04:15. > :04:20.instead of an assisted suicide charge. It is a challenging area of
:04:21. > :04:27.the law, but for all who practice in it, isn't it? It is, yes. There is a
:04:28. > :04:30.kind of moral element to it as well, and I think it is difficult for
:04:31. > :04:39.jurors because they may have lacked a lot of sympathy `` they may have
:04:40. > :04:43.quite a lot of sympathy with the defendant, but they may be directed
:04:44. > :04:46.by a judge that a defence is not available to the defendant because
:04:47. > :04:48.of the state of the law. Thank you for joining us.
:04:49. > :04:52.A builder from Aylesbury who has gone on the run has been jailed for
:04:53. > :04:55.six years for conning a vulnerable pension out of more than half a
:04:56. > :04:59.million pounds. John Jenkins, who's 70, was sentenced in his absence
:05:00. > :05:03.after failing to turn up for the last day of his trial at St Albans
:05:04. > :05:06.Crown Court. The jury found him guilty of fraud by false
:05:07. > :05:10.representation. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.
:05:11. > :05:12.A 48`year`old Didcot woman, arrested in connection with the Jayden
:05:13. > :05:16.Parkinson murder investigation, has been released on bail. The
:05:17. > :05:20.17`year`old's body was found in a grave at All Saints Church in the
:05:21. > :05:24.town in December. The woman was detained on suspicion of perverting
:05:25. > :05:28.the course of justice. Two people have already been charged in
:05:29. > :05:31.connection with the case. A campaign's been launched to get
:05:32. > :05:34.more men working in childcare across our region. The co`op nursery chain
:05:35. > :05:37.will be working with local job centres and recruitment agencies to
:05:38. > :05:42.boost the number of men thinking about a career with children. At the
:05:43. > :05:47.moment just 2% of nursery workers in the area are men, as Stuart Tinworth
:05:48. > :05:52.reports. Play time at this nursery in Witney.
:05:53. > :05:56.The centre had been struggling, but now has more children, and a good
:05:57. > :06:00.rating from inspectors. Manager Gareth has been here for just over a
:06:01. > :06:11.year, and he's in the minority as a male nursery worker. But he didn't
:06:12. > :06:14.start in childcare. I started off in agriculture, moved on to
:06:15. > :06:18.neighbouring work, and then an opportunity came up with children.
:06:19. > :06:21.Seeing how children grow and develop, and have a in able
:06:22. > :06:27.themselves to use scissors, pens, pencils, is far more rewarding than
:06:28. > :06:36.a wall or Carmack or analytical unit done. 4500 people work as nursery
:06:37. > :06:42.workers in Oxfordshire alone. But, as few as one or 2% of those are
:06:43. > :06:49.men. Now, the organisation that runs this chain of nurseries once that to
:06:50. > :06:52.change. Well done! The move follows research that shows children benefit
:06:53. > :06:54.from having a male role model in their early years. There will be
:06:55. > :06:59.apprenticeships and support offered to help people start their careers.
:07:00. > :07:05.And they'll be a job fair next month, to be held at the John
:07:06. > :07:10.Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. It is getting rid of that stigma that we
:07:11. > :07:14.are nursery nurses, and therefore it is a female dominated profession to
:07:15. > :07:18.go into. I definitely believe we need more men. Some children who
:07:19. > :07:22.have come to us may not have that father figure. And, what do the
:07:23. > :07:33.children make of their manager Gareth? He is funny. He is funny, is
:07:34. > :07:36.he? Yes. He has got funny ears. Nearly 10,000 homes in Oxford are at
:07:37. > :07:41.risk of flooding, according to Friends of the Earth.
:07:42. > :07:44.The charity analysed data from the Environment Agency and suggests
:07:45. > :07:47.around 5,000 of those properties in Oxford are at "significant risk" of
:07:48. > :07:50.flooding. The Government estimates that almost a million UK homes could
:07:51. > :07:58.be at significant flood risk by 2020.
:07:59. > :08:02.60 years ago, a man did what many elite was not humanly possible.
:08:03. > :08:07.Running a mile in under four minutes, and it happened in Oxford.
:08:08. > :08:12.Now, a one`mile race in London is being officially dedicated to Roger
:08:13. > :08:14.Bannister to mark the anniversary of his achievements.
:08:15. > :08:20.It was one of the biggest milestones in sports, when Roger Bannister,
:08:21. > :08:26.Dawn and bred in Harrow, did the unthinkable in 1954, running a mile
:08:27. > :08:30.in under four minutes. 60 years on, and he is back where he trained for
:08:31. > :08:33.that momentous achievement at Paddington recreation ground, and
:08:34. > :08:40.remember is his father taking him to see a race at the old White city
:08:41. > :08:44.Stadium. That was a moment of inspiration and I felt that was what
:08:45. > :08:49.I wanted to do. The mile race is so perfect in that it is short enough
:08:50. > :08:57.never to be boring, but long enough to beat tactical in the sense you
:08:58. > :09:01.wait and watch, watched each runner and yes how much finish they have
:09:02. > :09:08.left, according to the way in which the race is being run. It is so
:09:09. > :09:14.exciting. It is like a sort of unity almost takes you back to the concept
:09:15. > :09:20.of a Greek way. The Westminster mile will be held in May to mark the
:09:21. > :09:23.anniversary. Six times Paralympic champion David Weir will attempt to
:09:24. > :09:28.go one better than his hero by finishing in less than three
:09:29. > :09:33.minutes. What has it been like meeting the man today? Amazing. He
:09:34. > :09:38.has got that aura around him, you know. What has he said to you about
:09:39. > :09:42.breaking that record? He said I can do it. He said believe in yourself.
:09:43. > :09:48.A humble man who was only a part`time athlete, but who is still
:09:49. > :09:52.a huge inspiration. That's all from me for the moment.
:09:53. > :09:53.I'll have the headlines at 8pm and a full bulletin at 10:25pm. Now over
:09:54. > :10:02.to Sally Taylor. allowed to transform run`down sites
:10:03. > :10:12.into a maximum of three properties. Still to come in this evening's
:10:13. > :10:19.South Today, we talk to the Southampton snowboarder back from
:10:20. > :10:26.the olympics. Join me, Billy Morgan, as I tell you about the Winter
:10:27. > :10:30.Olympics in Sochi. Prince Charles was reacquainted with an old friend
:10:31. > :10:35.today as he was reacquainted with the Mary Rose today. It is the first
:10:36. > :10:45.time he has seen the chewed a warship in its new home. The Duchess
:10:46. > :10:53.of Cornwall also came. Our correspondent is inside the museum
:10:54. > :10:56.today. When this 35mm pound museum opens at last made it was the
:10:57. > :10:59.culmination of years of effort to provide a purpose`built home for the
:11:00. > :11:11.Mary Rose and the artefacts found with her. `` ?35 million museum. The
:11:12. > :11:16.Prince of Wales was here today and he was among friends. For a prince
:11:17. > :11:20.with a strong sense of history and a taste for adventure, the project to
:11:21. > :11:29.raise and conserve the Mary Rose has been a perfect fit. He was 25 when
:11:30. > :11:37.he first dived on the rack in 1974. When I think back to the days of
:11:38. > :11:43.diving on the ship out of the Solent in the most impossible conditions, I
:11:44. > :11:49.remember describing it as swimming in soup. You couldn't see anything.
:11:50. > :11:57.He was there to witness the moment when the Mary Rose surfaced. It was
:11:58. > :12:08.the prince who encouraged them to go ahead despite awful weather. There
:12:09. > :12:17.was the most almighty crunch as the chains and the ship dropped. I
:12:18. > :12:24.thought the whole thing was gone. The ship displays thousands of
:12:25. > :12:31.artefacts. This comb delight of the Duchess. He has passionately been
:12:32. > :12:38.following it. He has had regular visits. He has met people that have
:12:39. > :12:53.worked if a thousand 435 time and time again. Some of them actually
:12:54. > :13:03.dived with him. `` have worked here for 35 years. The extended torment
:13:04. > :13:08.families were part of the Christmas and today Lydia seemed to have
:13:09. > :13:21.forgotten that and she was preoccupied with the Duchess 's
:13:22. > :13:28.hearings. To have them on board today was fantastic. It was a royal
:13:29. > :13:35.visit enjoyed on all sides, he was a day to feel proud. The Mary Rose
:13:36. > :13:40.trust was proud and pleased to show off its new museum to the visitors.
:13:41. > :13:44.That support continues to be important because conservation
:13:45. > :13:52.carries on. It is an expensive business and today Prince Charles
:13:53. > :14:01.thank to be donors. It has brought back memories.
:14:02. > :14:04.On to sport now and Tony is here. In a moment we will hear from Billy
:14:05. > :14:08.Morgan our snowboarder from Southampton.
:14:09. > :14:14.I talked to him about what it was like out there and what it is like
:14:15. > :14:22.to be in that Olympic world. I bet he is a laid`back boy.
:14:23. > :14:25.They all are. Back to the run of the mill and football. Portsmouth
:14:26. > :14:28.bounced back from a 5`1 defeat on Saturday with a crucial win in
:14:29. > :14:31.league two last night. A team showing five changes from the loss
:14:32. > :14:35.at the weekend beat James Beattie's Accrington Stanley 1`0 thanks to a
:14:36. > :14:38.Jake Gervis goal early in the second half. The win means Pompey are now
:14:39. > :14:44.seven points clear of the relegation zone. It was important that we sent
:14:45. > :14:52.a message out that if you let your standards slip, then it is going to
:14:53. > :14:59.cost you. We have a fairly strong squad now. We have options. If we
:15:00. > :15:02.are going to have issues like that then other people deserve an
:15:03. > :15:05.opportunity. Elsewhere Swindon were held to a draw by Crawley at the
:15:06. > :15:09.county ground. Nathan Bryne's near post finish put the Robins in front
:15:10. > :15:12.but they couldn't hold on, On loan striker Matt Tubbs levelled for
:15:13. > :15:16.Crawley ten minutes from time. MK Dons won at Oldham with two first
:15:17. > :15:19.half goals from George Baldock, who struck from 20 yards, and then Izale
:15:20. > :15:25.McLeod late in the opening half. Oldham netted a late consolation.
:15:26. > :15:27.Time to catch up with Olympic snowboarder Billy Morgan now. The
:15:28. > :15:31.slopestyle athlete from Southampton is back from his first games after
:15:32. > :15:34.finishing 10th in his class. And it's certainly whetted his appetite
:15:35. > :15:44.for more. Billy joined me on the sofa and I started by asking him how
:15:45. > :15:48.it felt to be back. It is really good after being stuck in the
:15:49. > :15:54.Olympic Village for a month. It is good to see my family and friends.
:15:55. > :15:59.It is a completely different environment and it is good to relax
:16:00. > :16:07.for a bit. What is it like being in that Team GB bubble? We can cruise
:16:08. > :16:12.about and do things that are a bit different. We can go out in the town
:16:13. > :16:17.go to a restaurant. It is good to have the guys around. It has been a
:16:18. > :16:25.super good environment. How did you find it? There was a lot of negative
:16:26. > :16:30.talk about lots of things before I went there and I didn't know what to
:16:31. > :16:34.expect. It went really smoothly and the accommodation was good. The
:16:35. > :16:42.transport was good and it went really well. A top`10 finish for
:16:43. > :16:50.you. How do you assess how you got on? I was really happy with it in
:16:51. > :16:54.the end. I could have landed my `` I could have landed on my feet if I
:16:55. > :17:00.had landed. I showed everybody what I could do and we showcased the
:17:01. > :17:05.sport well. A lot of kids have been inspired and that is a success for
:17:06. > :17:10.me. You really pushed it in the final and ultimately cost you. Would
:17:11. > :17:17.you do it differently? I did what I wanted to do. It was sad that I fell
:17:18. > :17:22.on both the tricks that I thought I had. The conditions did change
:17:23. > :17:28.towards the end and it did get faster. I was just super excited.
:17:29. > :17:34.There was lots of support for you watching on a Saturday morning. Were
:17:35. > :17:39.you aware of that? It wasn't until later that I was told that they were
:17:40. > :17:45.all there cheering me on. It was overwhelming and after I spoke to
:17:46. > :17:49.everyone. A little lad who makes it to the Olympics, it is the dream
:17:50. > :17:57.stuff. Four years time, are you going to be back for Mark `` for
:17:58. > :18:02.more? Hopefully, I will be in training for some more. He has great
:18:03. > :18:05.things ahead of him. He knows he will get hurt now and
:18:06. > :18:08.again. During the First World War many
:18:09. > :18:11.soldiers suffered terrible injuries, and getting them back from the Front
:18:12. > :18:14.and treating them was a great challenge. The Royal Berkshire and
:18:15. > :18:17.Battle hospitals in Reading became a major centre for troops injured in
:18:18. > :18:20.the trenches. And it was there that one medic
:18:21. > :18:24.discovered a bacteria which healed wounds. It became known as the
:18:25. > :18:25.Reading Bacillus and it helped save many lives, as our Health
:18:26. > :18:49.Correspondent David Fenton reports. Private Robert Hanna was one of the
:18:50. > :18:58.very first casualties of war hit by a bullet during the battle of
:18:59. > :19:02.Flanders in 1914. It was on the 21st day of October that we ran against
:19:03. > :19:05.the Germans. We were advancing up an open field when they opened fire on
:19:06. > :19:09.us with shrapnel and bullets. We returned the same but after about
:19:10. > :19:12.ten minutes fighting I received a German souvenir which put me out of
:19:13. > :19:19.action and I was sent from Ypres down country to Boulogne, where I
:19:20. > :19:22.was for ten days. One and a half million British soldiers were
:19:23. > :19:26.wounded in the war and many were treated where they lay out in the
:19:27. > :19:32.open, in filthy conditions. Without antibiotics infection was rife.
:19:33. > :19:36.Where they were injured they could be in No Man's Land, where they
:19:37. > :19:39.could stay for 24 ` 28 hours depending on how the fighting was
:19:40. > :19:42.going. Particularly gas gangrene was the dreaded complication where the
:19:43. > :19:46.wound was infected with an organism that gave off gas so the wounds felt
:19:47. > :19:54.all bubbly and had a certain smell to them and that meant really
:19:55. > :19:59.immediate amputation. Getting the men back from the front required
:20:00. > :20:06.effort and ingenuity. Every kind transport was used ` even bicycles.
:20:07. > :20:09.Three men with a stretcher tied between them looks unwieldy and
:20:10. > :20:15.uncomfortable, but it worked, sort of. Back at the clearing stations,
:20:16. > :20:19.operating theatres were set up. Zaheer Shah was an Army surgeon `
:20:20. > :20:25.100 years ago in France he'd have been using something like this. Here
:20:26. > :20:28.is an instrument to clean out infection from bone and the edge of
:20:29. > :20:33.this would be sharp and this would be used to scrape into a bone to
:20:34. > :20:37.scrape out any area of infection and you would leave it for a day or two,
:20:38. > :20:40.see how much of the infection came back or see whether the bone weas
:20:41. > :20:45.healing and that process of waiting a day still happens. We quite often
:20:46. > :20:47.have second look operations just to see how much of the infection has
:20:48. > :21:00.come back. The lucky ones survived long enough
:21:01. > :21:03.to be taken home on hospital ships. More than a million men came through
:21:04. > :21:10.Southampton en route to war hospitals, like Reading. The first
:21:11. > :21:13.batch of 50 came at the end of October 1914 so relatively early on,
:21:14. > :21:19.and then the operation shifted largely to Battle ` Battle Hospital
:21:20. > :21:24.at the other end of Reading. Private Hanna was one of the first to arrive
:21:25. > :21:28.in Berkshire. The hospital charged the war office three shillings and
:21:29. > :21:37.four pence a day ` for every other soldier they treated. There was no
:21:38. > :21:45.NHS then. One of the doctors was Leonard Joyc. He noticed that some
:21:46. > :21:49.wounds were healing much more quickly than others, and he wondered
:21:50. > :21:53.why? The patient lay out in the open for four days before being brought
:21:54. > :21:56.in and he remained at the casualty clearing station for 11 days during
:21:57. > :21:59.which time gas gangrene developed and the patient became very ill. Two
:22:00. > :22:02.days after draining and packing with the wound with salt bags it
:22:03. > :22:05.developed a powerful and characteristic odour. That smell was
:22:06. > :22:08.caused by a bacteria which was cleaning the wounds. It wasn't an
:22:09. > :22:11.antibiotic but it was helping. So Joyce and his team took the dramatic
:22:12. > :22:19.decision to infect the injured soldiers with it. They were
:22:20. > :22:23.pioneers. Somebody has to be a pioneer and this is the way medicine
:22:24. > :22:32.advances you have to be prepared and brave enough to try something for
:22:33. > :22:40.the first time. The soldiers got better and Joyce called his
:22:41. > :22:44.bacteria, the Reading Bacillus. In 1917 he published his results in the
:22:45. > :22:47.Lancet. There are photographs here of the Reading Bacillus grown in
:22:48. > :22:53.culture and then he goes onto describe various case histories. And
:22:54. > :22:57.it was from cases like that that led him to go on and grow the bacillus
:22:58. > :22:58.and deliberately put it in other wounds to try to improve the
:22:59. > :23:24.healing. No one knows how many owed their
:23:25. > :23:29.lives and mobility to the Reading Bacillus, probably many hundreds. As
:23:30. > :23:34.for Private Hanna, he left hospital three days before Christmas 1914.
:23:35. > :23:36.Like many wounded men it's likely he returned to his regiment to fight
:23:37. > :24:04.again. There are hundreds of stories in the
:24:05. > :24:08.World War One At Home series being broadcast on BBC local radio over
:24:09. > :24:14.the coming months. If you want to see more, go to bbc.co.uk/ww1 and
:24:15. > :24:17.follow the links. And our series continues tomorrow, as Steve
:24:18. > :24:28.Humphrey looks at some of the 16,000 British people who refused to fight
:24:29. > :24:32.in the war. Amongst them are one group of conscientious prisoners. To
:24:33. > :24:36.relieve the boredom, they produced their own secret newspaper and it
:24:37. > :24:41.was known as the Winchester whisperer. We will hear from editor
:24:42. > :24:49.of that newspaper and we will show you one of the only known copies
:24:50. > :24:52.that survives to this day. Join Radio Solent tomorrow at 8.15am for
:24:53. > :25:03.the full story, and again after 11am. Now onto the weather.
:25:04. > :25:12.The message is to stay tuned to the wintry showers.
:25:13. > :25:18.Sunrise in over Mottisfont this morning captured by Simon Newman.
:25:19. > :25:19.Colin Gray photographed the dramatic skies over Salisbury cathedral from
:25:20. > :25:37.across the water meadows. We had some springlike conditions
:25:38. > :25:41.today. We have a band of heavy rain and strengthening winds as well. The
:25:42. > :25:45.rain will rattle its way through clearing western areas tomorrow and
:25:46. > :25:53.there could be some heavy bursts in there. It would be a frost free
:25:54. > :26:00.nights. Tomorrow morning, it is an East West divide. By eight or nine
:26:01. > :26:04.o'clock tomorrow morning that rain will have disappeared. We have some
:26:05. > :26:10.bright conditions before the cloud comes in during the afternoon. We
:26:11. > :26:16.have some thundery downpours with some hail mixed in. The wind will be
:26:17. > :26:22.fairly brisk and where you have though showers, they will be quite
:26:23. > :26:27.blustery. Temperatures are similar to what we have today. Further
:26:28. > :26:30.showers will die away and another band of rain will move its way in
:26:31. > :26:37.through the early hours of Friday morning. We are expecting some
:26:38. > :26:45.wintry showers for parts of Oxfordshire and northern parts of
:26:46. > :26:49.Oxfordshire in the area for snow. Western areas are likely over
:26:50. > :26:54.Hilltop area 's first thing on Friday morning and through the rush
:26:55. > :26:58.hour. Temperatures fall away to three Celsius. This rain band is
:26:59. > :27:04.hitting cold air and it well in that `` it will inevitably turn wintry
:27:05. > :27:10.showers into snow showers. The rain band disappears on Friday and we
:27:11. > :27:15.have an improving picture. This next system is on the wafer Saturday and
:27:16. > :27:20.we could have a repeat performance through says Day of some wintry
:27:21. > :27:28.showers. An unsettled picture over the next few days. Stay tuned to the
:27:29. > :27:31.weather forecast. Tomorrow night, we will hear the concerns of mobile
:27:32. > :27:36.phone customers in one part of the region demanding action to get a
:27:37. > :27:39.more reliable service. They say they have had no signal for two of the
:27:40. > :27:41.last three months. Good night.