:00:10. > :00:14.Hello and welcome to South Today from Oxford. In tonight's programme:
:00:15. > :00:18.An inquest hears about an inmate who was found hanged in his cell. Kevin
:00:19. > :00:20.Scarlett took his own life at Woodhill Prison in Milton Keynes,
:00:21. > :00:23.despite being on suicide watch. Also coming up: Could these bats be
:00:24. > :00:27.facing extinction? Wildlife experts say the UK's rarest mammals could
:00:28. > :00:31.soon die out if plans for the HS2 railway line go ahead.
:00:32. > :00:34.Building work for a new development in Swindon has started but
:00:35. > :00:39.campaigners say the impact of it could lead to chapels like this
:00:40. > :00:42.collapsing. And later on: Fed up of an
:00:43. > :00:45.unreliable signal. Vodafone customers living in one part of
:00:46. > :00:47.Hampshire are demanding more action, after two years of little or no
:00:48. > :01:05.reception. Good evening. An inquest in Milton
:01:06. > :01:14.Keynes has been hearing how a prisoner was found hanged in his
:01:15. > :01:17.cell despite being on suicide watch. 30`year`old Kevin Scarlet, who was
:01:18. > :01:21.serving a sentence at Woodhill, had a history of self`harm and complex
:01:22. > :01:29.mental health problems. Jessica Cooper reports. Kevin Scarlet,
:01:30. > :01:34.described as a challenging inmate with a personality disorder and a
:01:35. > :01:39.history of self harm. He had spent most of his life in prison. The
:01:40. > :01:44.inquest was told that Kevin was placed on a scheme to closely assess
:01:45. > :01:52.at risk prisoners. After attempting suicide, he was moved to a
:01:53. > :01:56.specialist health unit, but three weeks later after showing signs of
:01:57. > :02:01.improvement, he was moved back to the main prison because his risk of
:02:02. > :02:06.suicide was deemed to be low. Kevin was on a basic regime in the prison,
:02:07. > :02:11.he had no television and would spend hours alone in his cell. Less than a
:02:12. > :02:17.fortnight after Kevin was moved from the closer monitoring unit, he was
:02:18. > :02:22.found hanging in his cell. Today his family's legal team questioned why
:02:23. > :02:43.he was put in a double cell with more literature points. A prison
:02:44. > :02:45.officer told the hearing no other cells were available. The coroner
:02:46. > :02:47.told the jury that they must consider whether the prison was
:02:48. > :02:50.aware of the risk of Kevin taking his own life, and whether adequate
:02:51. > :02:52.steps were taken. The hearing is due to finish on Monday.
:02:53. > :02:55.Police have made another arrest in the murder investigation of Connor
:02:56. > :02:59.Tremble in Oxford. Connor died two days after a stabbing at a flat in
:03:00. > :03:02.Iffley fields. Two men have already been charged over this case. Police
:03:03. > :03:12.have today arrested a 21`year`old man from Carterton on suspicion of
:03:13. > :03:15.conspiracy to murder. There are fears the proposed high
:03:16. > :03:18.speed rail line HS2 will not only destroy a large swathe of the
:03:19. > :03:21.countryside, but could also decimate entire species in some areas.
:03:22. > :03:24.Conservationists want big changes made to the controversial railway
:03:25. > :03:30.plans. They took their demands to Downing Street today. As Nikki
:03:31. > :03:37.Mitchell reports, one of the country's rarest mammals. The colony
:03:38. > :03:42.of endangered bats could be the most significant in England, they are
:03:43. > :03:50.tiny creatures with a preference for roosting in naturally occurring
:03:51. > :04:08.holes in ancient trees. Bechstein's bats will not set up home in any
:04:09. > :04:11.area. They do use these large areas to breed. It will be about 100
:04:12. > :04:18.metres wide so it will be much more of a barrier. The forest which at
:04:19. > :04:25.that speed in is over on the other side, then they roost over there.
:04:26. > :04:30.Today was the last day people could lodge their objections to HS2 on
:04:31. > :04:36.environmental grounds. The importance of extending the tunnel
:04:37. > :04:42.is that it will be replacing ancient woodland. Ancient woodland makes up
:04:43. > :04:49.only 2% of the UK, you cannot make up for that. We propose extending
:04:50. > :04:53.the tunnel and saving the woodland. The HS2 development will be at least
:04:54. > :05:02.ten times wider than what is here at the moment. Bats are protected by
:05:03. > :05:08.law so anything that affects them will be approved by Natural England.
:05:09. > :05:12.There will also be hedgerows to protect the flight path, and further
:05:13. > :05:18.up the line they are going to build a physical barrier to stop the bats
:05:19. > :05:21.from flying into chains. The conservationists say their latest
:05:22. > :05:28.research suggests some of the proposals from HS2 may do more harm
:05:29. > :05:39.than good. They want the bridges planned before the construction
:05:40. > :05:42.begins. A teenager who drove her car into an elderly couple's home in
:05:43. > :05:46.Bicester has been given nine points on her licence and fined nearly
:05:47. > :05:48.?450. Cheryl Stokes, who's 19, badly damaged the conservatory on the
:05:49. > :05:51.house in Chaucer Close after crashing through the garden fence
:05:52. > :05:58.last August. In court, she admitted careless driving and failing to
:05:59. > :06:00.stop. Work's started on a new
:06:01. > :06:03.multi`million pound development in Swindon to turn derelict land into a
:06:04. > :06:06.multi`million pound cinema and shopping centre. But people living
:06:07. > :06:09.nearby the Regent Circus project say they're concerned about the impact
:06:10. > :06:18.of construction. Ena Miller has been to see the work.
:06:19. > :06:22.Residents were relieved when this development started but that turned
:06:23. > :06:27.to worry when it began to affect this little chapel. Campaigners say
:06:28. > :06:32.the construction has caused structural damage. The structure has
:06:33. > :06:37.now got cracks all over it and it needs reinforcing on both sides. It
:06:38. > :06:42.appears there is a substance problem caused by the site. All of the
:06:43. > :06:48.houses behind that now are very worried and there are stories of
:06:49. > :06:51.buildings with cracks elsewhere. Rehoboth Baptist Chapel has been
:06:52. > :06:56.deemed unsafe and was force to close a month ago. You can see the chapel
:06:57. > :07:00.stands close to a 20 foot drop created by the construction work but
:07:01. > :07:03.some of the campaigners say they are happy to have this new development
:07:04. > :07:10.but they don't want to lose something old that means a lot to
:07:11. > :07:13.them. Round the corner, some residents and business in Cross
:07:14. > :07:17.Street say cracks have also appeared on their wall. We have got some
:07:18. > :07:23.problems in our basement and they should deal with it. When people
:07:24. > :07:29.start complaining they should show more feelings for people because it
:07:30. > :07:48.is people's homes and future. In a statement contractors ISG said:
:07:49. > :07:58.There's hope that old and new can stand side by side. That chapel is
:07:59. > :08:08.fundamental, it is one of the original buildings round here. It
:08:09. > :08:17.may only date to 1880 but in Swindon terms that is very old.
:08:18. > :08:20.Sending clothes and shoes to landfill in Oxfordshire is costing
:08:21. > :08:23.our local authorities more than half a million pounds a year. It's
:08:24. > :08:26.claimed more than 8,000 tonnes of unwanted clothes are being dumped
:08:27. > :08:31.annually. Helen Catt has more. Bags of donated clothes arriving at a
:08:32. > :08:42.depot in Redding. Each of them contains 150 kilos of textiles.
:08:43. > :08:50.They'll be shipped abroad and resold to raise money for charity. Any old
:08:51. > :08:56.bras you have will be sent to West Africa, many clothes go to Japan,
:08:57. > :09:00.light T`shirts tend to go to Africa so we have a market for everything
:09:01. > :09:04.you have But not all unwanted clothes end up in a place like this.
:09:05. > :09:08.In Oxfordshire 8,000 tonnes of textiles a year are sent to
:09:09. > :09:13.landfill. Chucking clothes away doesn't come for free. If these
:09:14. > :09:17.items had not been sent to recycling banks, the county council would have
:09:18. > :09:22.had to have paid to send them to landfill, and that means a lot of
:09:23. > :09:26.money, about ?660,000 every year. In Oxford today, an event to encourage
:09:27. > :09:30.us to make do and mend. Councils in the county have also signed up to an
:09:31. > :09:39.action plan to stop so many clothes being thrown away. We are looking at
:09:40. > :09:45.the end of life of clothes, so once it has been purchased, worn and no
:09:46. > :09:49.longer wanted, the local authorities look at how they can give it a
:09:50. > :09:52.second life. In straitened times, many councils are having to cut
:09:53. > :09:55.their cloth too. The funding behind events like these is being reduced
:09:56. > :09:59.although but it's hoped the recycling message will still cut
:10:00. > :10:05.through. That's all from me for the moment. I will hand
:10:06. > :10:07.Elizabeth prepares for her seagoing trials.
:10:08. > :10:10.Still to come in this evening's South Today, we meet the teenager
:10:11. > :10:19.heading for the far east to compete in the Taekwondo Junior World
:10:20. > :10:22.Championships. Mourners from Worthing have been
:10:23. > :10:24.left angry and upset following an announcement that personalised
:10:25. > :10:32.memorabilia left in the crematorium gardens would be cleared away. The
:10:33. > :10:35.council has made the decision following a dramatic increase in
:10:36. > :10:45.tributes left for loved ones. Frankie Peck reports.
:10:46. > :10:49.Can anybody see this as offensive? Can anybody see any tribute to a
:10:50. > :10:54.loved one as offensive? I don't think so.
:10:55. > :10:58.John Gladman had this memorial plaque made by a friend in honour of
:10:59. > :11:02.his late wife Sheila, who died just ten months ago. Her Ashes are buried
:11:03. > :11:05.at the Worthing Crematorium, but the council had the plaque removed due
:11:06. > :11:08.to its policy. When we went up there the following
:11:09. > :11:10.day, they had already started stripping it out. If I was doing it,
:11:11. > :11:21.I would be labelled a vandal. All these items are here to be
:11:22. > :11:24.collected or disposed of. We've got plants, photographs and even a
:11:25. > :11:26.baseball cap. They've all been removed by the council from the
:11:27. > :11:28.memorial garden. We've always discouraged people from
:11:29. > :11:32.putting their own memorabilia around. You can see what a beautiful
:11:33. > :11:36.place this is. When it has random things turn up, little trinkets, and
:11:37. > :11:38.things that rattle in the night, and pictures that people have
:11:39. > :11:44.photocopied, and then the rain will come, it makes the whole place look
:11:45. > :11:48.untidy. As soon as I found out that they were stored near the bins, I
:11:49. > :11:52.asked them to be moved, and they are now stored at the other end by the
:11:53. > :11:54.memorial garden if anyone wants to collect them.
:11:55. > :11:58.For John, the way people deal with loss is a personal choice, and not
:11:59. > :12:02.something for the council to decide. Leave us alone. That's all I'm
:12:03. > :12:09.saying. Not me ` leave us alone. Let us grieve in our own way.
:12:10. > :12:13.Now, a paper heart has taken the place of John's plaque a secret
:12:14. > :12:26.tribute to his wife. I've got to have something here. I
:12:27. > :12:31.have to. They need to sort this out ` now.
:12:32. > :12:34.That's the demand from Vodafone mobile phone customers living in the
:12:35. > :12:38.North Hampshire town of Bordon. They claim the phone signal within a
:12:39. > :12:42.three mile radius of the town has been unreliable for around two
:12:43. > :12:46.years. However, it's recently got much worse ` with no signal for two
:12:47. > :12:49.of the last three months. Vodafone has admitted there's a problem but
:12:50. > :12:55.hasn't been able to say when it'll be fixed. Jo Kent reports.
:12:56. > :12:58.The Vodafone signal in Bordon is so poor that more than 300 residents
:12:59. > :13:02.have joined a Facebook group to try to force action.
:13:03. > :13:06.My boss texts me on a day`to`day basis to ask me to go and care for
:13:07. > :13:09.someone, and obviously I can't because I don't receive the texts.
:13:10. > :13:13.My little boy hasn't been very well, and I've got no way of contacting
:13:14. > :13:16.doctors' surgeries. I've had to go around and knock on neighbours
:13:17. > :13:19.houses, and say to them, can I use your landline?
:13:20. > :13:23.I work for the emergency services, and I'm supposed to be contactable
:13:24. > :13:27.at all times. They can't contact me. We've had no apologies, just told to
:13:28. > :13:31.be patient. It will be back on. Bear with us.
:13:32. > :13:34.The lack of signal is also impacting on businesses, like this freight and
:13:35. > :13:38.storage firm. We are supposed to operate 24 hours
:13:39. > :13:42.a day, and we use our mobiles to do that. If we are not in the office,
:13:43. > :13:45.people can't get hold of us. Historically, we've been with
:13:46. > :13:48.Vodafone for 11 years. We just renewed a few months ago. At the
:13:49. > :13:55.time of renewal, the signal was good. We were assured all problems
:13:56. > :13:59.were fixed. Clearly, they're not. Customer Dave Bird takes us to the
:14:00. > :14:04.mast which is believed to be at the root of the problem.
:14:05. > :14:09.You might get a couple of bars, but it's only ghosting. You can't do
:14:10. > :14:12.anything with it. Vodafone would not be interviewed,
:14:13. > :14:16.but has confirmed that there was a fault in December, and another at
:14:17. > :14:20.the end of January which is ongoing, and affecting an area within a one
:14:21. > :14:22.mile radius of the town. It says bad weather hampered attempts to
:14:23. > :14:27.investigate the problem, but it's believed that trees are blocking the
:14:28. > :14:30.signal. It's now exploring a number of options, including trimming their
:14:31. > :14:33.trees, or putting up a temporary mast. The company wouldn't say how
:14:34. > :14:37.many customers are affected. Those we spoke to want action, and
:14:38. > :15:01.quickly, or the freedom to switch to a new provider providing a more
:15:02. > :15:05.reliable service. I'm sure the reception on Luke
:15:06. > :15:10.Shaw's phone was at school when Roy Hodgson called in today. I think we
:15:11. > :15:17.expected short dash he has done so well this season. This is another in
:15:18. > :15:22.the production line for SAP Hampton. Only this week, they had another
:15:23. > :15:28.players scored his debut for the England under 17 squad. Luke Shaw,
:15:29. > :15:35.he was named in the England squad today, joins Adam Lallana, Jay
:15:36. > :15:38.Rodriguez and Rickie Lambert for the game against Denmark next week.
:15:39. > :15:41.Shaw was receiving congratulations from staff including manager Maurico
:15:42. > :15:44.Pochetinno at the club's training ground this afternoon. At 18, he's
:15:45. > :15:48.the youngest Southampton player to be called up for England. He
:15:49. > :15:51.received the news at home in a call from Roy Hodgson. Here's his
:15:52. > :15:54.reaction before the England boss. I got a phone call from the essay,
:15:55. > :15:59.and I spoke to Roy myself. He said that I have been called on to the
:16:00. > :16:03.senior team on merit, and just to keep doing what I'm doing. I was
:16:04. > :16:07.shocked, and didn't know what to say. I still can't believe it has
:16:08. > :16:12.happened, I'm just so excited and can't wait to get going.
:16:13. > :16:17.I think everyone who has watched him play recently will not deny that he
:16:18. > :16:23.deserves a place. He has played extremely well. We think he's a very
:16:24. > :16:32.exciting talents. I haven't worked with him, he wasn't in the U21
:16:33. > :16:42.squad. But I have seen him. I think it was the right moment to invite
:16:43. > :16:46.him along with us. He's a player who obviously wants to compete with the
:16:47. > :16:50.other two for a place on the plane to Brazil. I thought this was the
:16:51. > :16:55.right time to bring him in and given the chance to judge show what can
:16:56. > :16:58.do. Hampshire cyclist Dani King has
:16:59. > :17:00.dropped to reserve for the women's team pursuit at the World
:17:01. > :17:04.Championships in Columbia. The Hamble rider finished eighth in the
:17:05. > :17:07.scratch race overnight in Cali. She has been a regular in the four
:17:08. > :17:10.member pursuit team but Scottish rider Kate Archibold has been
:17:11. > :17:13.selected in her place. The women's team are hot favourites to win the
:17:14. > :17:17.title. There's live coverage on the BBC red button from 11.20PM tonight.
:17:18. > :17:20.A teenager from Southampton is set to take on his biggest challenge yet
:17:21. > :17:23.when he competes at the Junior World Championships in the sport of
:17:24. > :17:27.taekwondo. Archie Waldock has come through the ranks at the BTS club in
:17:28. > :17:30.Southampton, home to some of the best young taekwondo fighters in the
:17:31. > :17:36.country. Archie may only be 15, but his
:17:37. > :17:41.achievements in tae kwon do is already lengthy. I started when I
:17:42. > :17:47.was 11. I really enjoyed it, but didn't win
:17:48. > :17:53.much. Last season, I won gold in the Spanish open, and silver in the
:17:54. > :17:57.Austrian open. This season, so far, I've got gold at nationals, gold at
:17:58. > :18:04.the Serbian open, gold at the Croatian open. So far, it's been
:18:05. > :18:06.pretty good. Archie is the latest rising star to
:18:07. > :18:16.come through this club in Southampton. Next, he's training for
:18:17. > :18:24.the Junior championships in China. I'm really looking forward to it!
:18:25. > :18:28.What's the secret to this talents? I put it down to his dedication to
:18:29. > :18:36.the sport. He's got a passion for it, and just loves doing it.
:18:37. > :18:42.He's on autopilot. He gets up, stretches in the morning, come,
:18:43. > :18:46.deeds, and goes to training. Archie admits he couldn't do it
:18:47. > :18:59.without family support. I can't drive, I can't pay. I can do
:19:00. > :19:13.anything about my mum! `` I couldn't do anything without my
:19:14. > :19:16.mum. This week on South Today, we've been
:19:17. > :19:19.remembering the sacrifice of the millions of people who fought in
:19:20. > :19:21.World War One. But not everyone wanted to fight.
:19:22. > :19:24.16,000 conscientious objectors refused to bear arms. Some ended up
:19:25. > :19:28.volunteering as ambulance drivers or stretcher bearers on the front line.
:19:29. > :19:31.But others refused to do any war work and were sent to jail.
:19:32. > :19:34.Despite the harsh conditions, one group at Winchester Prison produced
:19:35. > :19:36.a secret newspaper ` called the Winchester Whisperer. As Steve
:19:37. > :19:39.Humphrey has been discovering, a rare surviving copy provides a
:19:40. > :19:59.unique insight into the motives of the men who didn't go to war.
:20:00. > :20:04.Winchester's Victorian prison has housed a wide range of criminals
:20:05. > :20:16.over the decades, and these two murderers. `` from these two
:20:17. > :20:24.murderers. It is most unusual group of prisoners arrived during the war
:20:25. > :20:29.` conscientious objectors. Conditions were very bad for people
:20:30. > :20:34.who were held by the army, and by many people, to be coward is. People
:20:35. > :20:43.who were trying to get out of their responsibilities. `` held to be
:20:44. > :20:48.Coward 's. Thousands of men volunteered to be in the Army.
:20:49. > :20:51.Pacifists got very little sympathy. This film shows what happens when a
:20:52. > :20:57.crowd surrounded pacifists meeting in London. After conscription was
:20:58. > :21:01.introduced, hundreds of men who refused to fight were thrown into
:21:02. > :21:07.jail. Some were even sentenced to death.
:21:08. > :21:11.Some 35 of them were sent to France to the front line. If they disobeyed
:21:12. > :21:20.orders, they were sentenced to death. Some of the conscientious
:21:21. > :21:25.objectors held in Winchester is started their own secret newspaper.
:21:26. > :21:37.It was called Winchester Whisperer Sentence Mac. During An Interview In
:21:38. > :21:38.The 1960s, He Remembered How The Prison Authorities Unwittingly
:21:39. > :21:55.Provided The Main Raw Material. I had a small pencil in which I
:21:56. > :22:01.wrote out the material. Then I handed it to somebody who bounded.
:22:02. > :22:06.It was circulated by hand. One copy survives in a public
:22:07. > :22:10.archive. It's here as the headquarters of the Quakers in
:22:11. > :22:27.central London. Today, they've agreed to show it to us.
:22:28. > :22:32.It is so delicate that it's brought out very rarely. It was written on
:22:33. > :22:38.toilet paper. What strikes me is that there is a lot of humour there.
:22:39. > :22:47.A lot of thought about the basic nature of people, and how people are
:22:48. > :22:51.good. The secret newspaper included essays, poems, cartoons and
:22:52. > :22:56.sketches. Even chess puzzles. There was only
:22:57. > :23:01.ever one copy of each edition, and it was secretly passed around from
:23:02. > :23:04.hand to hand. On several occasions, the people producing the newspaper
:23:05. > :23:09.or almost discovered by prison staff.
:23:10. > :23:18.The chaplain who came around one evening, he came around, and I had
:23:19. > :23:23.the whole issue hung up on my cell door. I had hung it on a line to
:23:24. > :23:29.drive. He opens the door and came in, and asked, are you all right?
:23:30. > :23:35.What are you reading? He banged the door and went out. Some of the
:23:36. > :23:40.conscientious objectors weren't released from prison until the early
:23:41. > :23:45.1920s. There are still those that feel that
:23:46. > :23:48.the conscientious objectors were lucky to get away with it.
:23:49. > :23:57.Some still feel passionately that they were pioneers in getting human
:23:58. > :24:01.rights recognised by government. This copy gives a fascinating
:24:02. > :24:06.insight into the minds of the men who refused to fight in World War I.
:24:07. > :24:12.Men who, despite everything the 30s did, ducked by their principles.
:24:13. > :24:23.It's such an extraordinary story that we thought you might like to
:24:24. > :24:27.see some pages. . If you go to our Facebook page ` the address is there
:24:28. > :24:31.on the screen ` you can have a closer look at some of the things
:24:32. > :24:34.written in the secret newspaper from a century ago.
:24:35. > :24:37.There are hundreds of stories in the World War One At Home series being
:24:38. > :24:41.broadcast on BBC local radio over the coming months. If you want to
:24:42. > :24:54.see more, go to bbc.co.uk/ww1 and follow the links. And our series
:24:55. > :24:57.continues tomorrow. . Find out how those crucial maps were made, and
:24:58. > :25:08.the danger that those map`makers worked under.
:25:09. > :25:19.Onto the weather. Is there a snow coming our way?
:25:20. > :25:33.More sleet, actually. We are expecting snow over high areas. Oday
:25:34. > :25:36.tomorrow as well. Alan Howes took this photo of the
:25:37. > :25:41.hail that fell in West Wittering today.
:25:42. > :25:47.The showers will fade away around eight or nine tonight. Dry
:25:48. > :25:52.initially, which will allow temperatures to fall rapidly. This
:25:53. > :25:58.is the warning area from The Met office for the snow. Potentially,
:25:59. > :26:02.over the Salisbury plain and the Cotswolds. Not amounting to two
:26:03. > :26:08.much, but it's more likely over Hilltop areas. For other areas,
:26:09. > :26:16.following as rain. A little respite for some, while temperatures fall to
:26:17. > :26:20.three or four. The weather warning is still in force for the rush`hour
:26:21. > :26:25.drive to work tomorrow, and up until 3pm. It will fall as rain as
:26:26. > :26:30.temperatures start to rise to around six or seven. Where we have the
:26:31. > :26:34.wintry showers and rainfall, temperatures will be suppressed. A
:26:35. > :26:39.cold field to think about northerly wind. Tomorrow is pretty miserable
:26:40. > :26:43.for much of the day. There will be little respite from that rain.
:26:44. > :26:50.Finally, it disappears tomorrow night and we see the skies clear.
:26:51. > :26:55.Frost is on the cards, with temperatures falling to `1. A risk
:26:56. > :27:00.of ice where we've had showers or read is any standing water from the
:27:01. > :27:03.floods. Temperatures falling rapidly under those clear skies, so that
:27:04. > :27:11.maybe some mist and fog patches. Saturday, and East ` West divide. We
:27:12. > :27:18.see the cloud increase with a band of rain working its way in. That
:27:19. > :27:23.will stay with us through the first part of Sunday. Tomorrow, we will
:27:24. > :27:28.have some rain at times. It may turn to snow over Hilltop areas. Saturday
:27:29. > :27:38.starts off pretty chilly but sunny. That's it from us. More at 8pm. Join
:27:39. > :27:44.us tomorrow.