:00:00. > :00:13.-- treasured past. There is a first look
:00:14. > :00:19.Good evening. An inquest in Milton Keynes has been hearing how a
:00:20. > :00:23.prisoner was found hanged in his cell despite being on suicide watch.
:00:24. > :00:26.30`year`old Kevin Scarlett, who was serving a sentence at Woodhill, had
:00:27. > :00:34.a history of self`harm and complex mental health problems. Jessica
:00:35. > :00:37.Cooper reports. Kevin Scarlett. Described as a
:00:38. > :00:41.challenging inmate with a personality disorder and a history
:00:42. > :00:45.of self harm, he had spent most of his life in prison. The inquest was
:00:46. > :00:48.told Kevin, who was on remand at the prison, was placed on a scheme to
:00:49. > :00:51.closely assess at risk prisoners. After attempting suicide, he was
:00:52. > :00:56.moved to a specialist help unit to be closely monitored. But three
:00:57. > :01:00.weeks later, after showing signs of improvement, he was moved back to
:01:01. > :01:07.the main prison because the risk of suicide was deemed to be low. Kevin
:01:08. > :01:12.was abusive towards staff and was on a basic regime in the prison. He had
:01:13. > :01:27.no TV and would spend hours alone in his cell. Less than a fortnight
:01:28. > :01:30.after Kevin was moved from the close monitoring unit, he was found
:01:31. > :01:33.hanging in his cell. Today, his family's legal team questioned why
:01:34. > :01:36.he was put in a double cell with more ligature points. A prison
:01:37. > :01:39.officer told the hearing that no other cells were available. The
:01:40. > :01:42.coroner told the jury sitting here at the Civic Offices that they must
:01:43. > :01:46.consider whether the prison was aware of the risk of Kevin taking
:01:47. > :01:53.his own life and whether adequate steps were taken. The hearing is due
:01:54. > :01:56.to finish on Monday. Police have made another arrest over
:01:57. > :02:00.the murder of a teenager in Oxford. Connor Tremble died after a stabbing
:02:01. > :02:03.in Iffley fields earlier this month. A man from Carterton has been
:02:04. > :02:08.arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder. Two men have already been
:02:09. > :02:12.charged over this case. A woman who drove her car into an
:02:13. > :02:18.elderly couple's home in Bicester has been given nine points on her
:02:19. > :02:20.licence and fined nearly ?450. Cheryl Stokes, who's 19, badly
:02:21. > :02:23.damaged the conservatory on the house in Chaucer Close after
:02:24. > :02:32.crashing through the garden fence last August. She's admitted careless
:02:33. > :02:36.driving and failing to stop. There are worries the proposed high
:02:37. > :02:38.speed rail line, HS2, will not only damage large parts of countryside,
:02:39. > :02:43.but could also threaten the existence of entire species. One of
:02:44. > :02:47.the country's rarest mammals, the Bechstine bat, is at risk of dying
:02:48. > :02:50.out if the railway line goes ahead. Conservationists now want to see big
:02:51. > :02:56.changes and some have been campaigning in London today. Nikki
:02:57. > :02:58.Mitchell reports. The colony of endangered Bechstein
:02:59. > :03:01.bats here on the Buckinghamshire`Oxfordshire border
:03:02. > :03:04.could be the most significant in England. They're tiny creatures with
:03:05. > :03:12.a preference for roosting in naturally occurring holes in ancient
:03:13. > :03:20.trees. Bechsteins won't set up home in any old bat box, which is why HS2
:03:21. > :03:23.is considered such a serious threat. It's going to cut straight through
:03:24. > :03:26.their territory. It could really seriously knock them out of this
:03:27. > :03:31.area. They do use these large areas and a number of woods to feed and to
:03:32. > :03:36.breed. So this is where the HS2 line will go then?
:03:37. > :03:39.Yes, just on the other side of this existing railway line, but it's
:03:40. > :03:43.going to be about 100 metres wide so it's going to be much more of a
:03:44. > :03:47.barrier. The problem is we have woods which the bats feed in on the
:03:48. > :03:49.far side. They then travel along mature hedgerows like this to
:03:50. > :03:53.Finemere Wood where they roost. Today was the last day people could
:03:54. > :03:55.lodge their objections to HS2 on environmental grounds. Conservation
:03:56. > :04:00.groups took their various demands straight to Number Ten. The
:04:01. > :04:02.importance of extending the tunnel is that we'll be safeguarding
:04:03. > :04:05.irreplaceable ancient woodland. Ancient woodland covers only 2% of
:04:06. > :04:09.the UK. You can't recreate that. What we're asking the Prime Minister
:04:10. > :04:15.to do is to extend the proposed tunnel by ten kilometres and save
:04:16. > :04:19.ten hectares of ancient woodland. The HS2 development will be at least
:04:20. > :04:22.ten times wider than what's here at the moment. HS2 Ltd has told us
:04:23. > :04:26.today that bats are protected by law so anything that affects them will
:04:27. > :04:31.be approved by Natural England. It's also proposing to build a series of
:04:32. > :04:34.green bridges right across the line. They'll be landscaped with plants
:04:35. > :04:38.and hedgerows to protect the bats' flight path. And then a little way
:04:39. > :04:41.up the line, they're going to build a physical barrier to stop the bats
:04:42. > :04:43.from flying into trains. But conservationists say their latest
:04:44. > :04:47.research suggests some of Hs2's proposals may actually do more harm
:04:48. > :04:50.than good on this part of the line. They want more green bridges built
:04:51. > :04:56.and planted up well before construction even begins.
:04:57. > :04:59.Sending clothes and shoes to landfill in Oxfordshire is costing
:05:00. > :05:02.our local authorities more than half a million pounds a year. It's
:05:03. > :05:04.claimed more than 8,000 tonnes of unwanted clothes are being dumped
:05:05. > :05:11.annually. Helen Catt has more.
:05:12. > :05:16.Bags of donated clothes arriving at a depot in Reading. Each of these
:05:17. > :05:23.sacks contains 150 kilos of textiles. They'll be shipped abroad
:05:24. > :05:30.and resold to raise money for charity. If you put an old pair of
:05:31. > :05:43.shoes in the textile bank, they will be sent to India. Any old bras you
:05:44. > :05:46.have or be sent to west Africa. T`shirt items tend to go to Africa.
:05:47. > :05:51.We have a market for everything you have all`star But not all unwanted
:05:52. > :05:54.clothes end up in a place like this. In Oxfordshire, 8,000 tonnes of
:05:55. > :06:01.textiles a year are sent to landfill. If the items on these
:06:02. > :06:04.sacks he had not been sent to recycling banks and had been thrown
:06:05. > :06:11.in the bin instead, the county council will have had `` would have
:06:12. > :06:16.had to pay to send them to landfill, over ?600,000 every year.
:06:17. > :06:19.In Oxford today, an event to encourage us to make do and mend.
:06:20. > :06:25.Councils in the county have also signed up to an action plan to stop
:06:26. > :06:30.so many clothes being thrown away. We are looking at the end of life of
:06:31. > :06:36.clothes. Once is being produced, purchased and worn, what can we do
:06:37. > :06:39.with it, how can we keep it out of landfill? In straitened times, many
:06:40. > :06:43.councils are having to cut their cloth too. The funding behind events
:06:44. > :06:47.like these is being reduced, but it's hoped the recycling message
:06:48. > :06:54.will still cut through. That's it from us. Here's Alexis
:06:55. > :06:58.Green with the weather. Good evening. There is the risk of
:06:59. > :07:02.snow overnight tonight and through the morning, more so during the rush
:07:03. > :07:05.hour. The Met Office have issued a yellow weather warning for that. The
:07:06. > :07:09.rain hits the colder air over the country, turning to snow in a few
:07:10. > :07:12.places, mainly over hill top areas. At lower levels, it will fall as
:07:13. > :07:17.rain or sleet. Chilly temperatures, hence the risk of snow. The rain
:07:18. > :07:20.band will continue through the rush hour tomorrow, still the risk of
:07:21. > :07:23.snow showers over the Cotswolds and the Chilerns. Mainly falling as rain
:07:24. > :07:27.later in the day as temperatures start to rise but temperatures will
:07:28. > :07:30.really struggle. We are looking at a high of just five or six Celsius
:07:31. > :07:33.with that northerly wind. Fairly unsettled conditions as we head
:07:34. > :07:34.through towards the weekend, sunshine and showers
:07:35. > :07:44.looking too bad at the weekend. Bash Street. I have got some wintry
:07:45. > :07:48.weather to talk about tonight and that has been a rare occurrence
:07:49. > :07:53.during this current winter. There will be a touch of frost and it
:07:54. > :07:57.could lead to icy patches across Northern Ireland and south-west
:07:58. > :08:01.Scotland. There is snow in the forecast as well. The Northern
:08:02. > :08:08.lights have been making an appearance in the evening. They had
:08:09. > :08:13.been reported in Essex and reporters in south Wales as well. But the
:08:14. > :08:18.light show is coming to an end as this arrives. This will be quite
:08:19. > :08:22.lively in the South West with strong gusts of wind in Cornwall and the
:08:23. > :08:28.Isles of Scilly. Further north the winds are lighter and it brings the
:08:29. > :08:29.risk of ice. In the South temperatures stay above