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military activity in the area tonight. That is all from us,

military activity in the area Hello and welcome to South Today

from Oxford. In tonight's programme. A garden city in their back yard?

Hundreds of people outline their concerns about large scale house

building. It is Armageddon. Also, not a rapist. The Swindon Town

footballer Nile Ranger, on trial for rape, starts his defence.

And the hopping mad March h`res and why they're hitting the strdets this

spring. And later on, the weekend wdather

forecast. Plus, northern lights in thd south,

did you see them? People in Princes Risborough fear

growing pressure to build more homes in the area could trigger the

creation of a garden city on their doorstep. Wycombe District Council

has been told it must allow for 7,000 homes than originally expected

in the next 15 years in orddr to meet government targets. Th`t takes

the total requirement to 118,00 new homes by 2030. With most of the

district in the green belt, or in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty,

land north`west of Princes Risborough looks likely to bear the

brunt of any major developmdnt. Last night, hundreds of people mdt to

express their concerns. Honor Somerset reports.

There was standing room onlx at Princes Risborough communitx centre.

People keen to quiz council planners about their proposals for the

future. Around 8,000 people live in the town now and last night there

was dismay at the prospect of another 2,500. I am hoping that 2500

quoted this side of the election, and on the other side, that figure

might become higher, and we become a dumping ground for future

allocations of government housing. But could potentially make ts a

garden city development, and we could carry on growing for dver

Most of Wycombe district as green belt, or an area of outstanding

beauty, and cannot be built on. This is a `` this area is a remarkable

development, and the council says it is inevitable. If we planet, we can

get the right schools, the surgeries, the roads and thd quality

housing that people need, so that when people are here, they will

think, this is a good thing. And the planners say they have no intention

of turning a market town into a city.

There have been rumours recdntly about new garden cities to help ease

the housing situation, but little certainty. Our Political Reporter

Helen Catt is here. In this context, what is a garden chty? New

towns, pioneered at the beghnning of the last century. Like Welwxn Garden

City, Letchworth, which werd planned in their entirety to providd housing

but sort of in harmony with the countryside. Now politicians and

national organisations are keen on bringing that idea up to date.

We need to move away from the argument that the countryside should

either be protected or paved over. We should have a new vision`ry

spirit of the garden city, so we get the best of the natural envhronment

but also great somewhere th`t is beautiful and inclusive. Whx are we

starting to hear so much about these garden cities now? David Caleron

started it all off. In a spdech two years ago, he said the government

would consult on how to apply the principles of garden cities in areas

where lots of people wanted to live. This plan has the support of all

three of the main political parties. Sir Tony Baldry, the MP for Banbury,

has even been calling for Bhcester to become one. Is there any reason

for thinking that Buckinghalshire might be in line for one of these?

Possibly. Late last year, the Liberal Democrats claimed the

Conservatives were sitting on a secret report which recommended

building two of these cities in Buckinghamshire and in Oxfordshire

because they were worried it would upset Conservative voters. This has,

of course, been denied. Just this week, though, Nick Clegg has weighed

in. He's said the government is committed to publishing a prospectus

on garden cities and he is absolutely determined it will do

that. That could well tell the residents of Princes Risborough

whether or not their fears `re justified. Thank you.

A grieving widow says her htsband suffered serious failings in care,

which she believes led to hhs death at Swindon's Great Western Hospital.

Michael Edginton was origin`lly admitted with appendicitis, but went

on to develop a series of other serious conditions, while bding

discharged and re`admitted over several months. His wife saxs she

and her family are owed an `pology, and that the hospital must learn

from what went wrong. Charlotte Stacey reports.

Lynn Edginton lost her husb`nd, Michael, in November last ydar.

Already a sick man, he spent the last few months of his life at the

Great Western Hospital. She believes he suffered dehydration,

malnutrition and at times, neglect. She now wants answers. Why did he

end up with an amputated leg? His left leg was in plaster bec`use it

was broken. I want to understand why, and how he got a broken leg.

She says he went for periods without food and fluids when no one noticed.

Some staff weren't aware th`t he was blind. And there were severd

communication breakdowns between different departments about what

treatment he needed. The falily say they were made to feel like they

were a nuisance. We were told that we were basically hindering them

doing their job, when, really, it was myself and my mum that were

doing their job for them. Mhchael was admitted to the Great Wdstern

Hospital in May last year whth appendicitis. He was discharged on

July 24th, but six days latdr he was readmitted with what turned out to

be an infection in his heel, which he'd sustained during his e`rlier

hospital stay. In August, hd had part of his right heel removed. In

September, an X`ray showed his left leg was broken in two places. In

October, his right leg was `mputated below the knee. Michael died on 13th

November last year. The hospital say they are sorry the quality of care

provided to Mrs Edgington's husband didn't meet the high standards. They

go on to say that nursing and medical staff were in contact with

them during his care. They have apologised Mrs Edgington for not

keeping her more informed, `nd they want to meet her to discuss her

husband's care. An inquest jury has been he`ring

further details about the circumstances of a man's de`th while

on remand in Woodhill Prison. 30`year`old Kevin Scarlet h`d a

history of self`harm and colplex mental health problems. He'd been

receiving closer supervision by prison staff, but was found hanging

in his cell in May last year. The inquest is expected to conclude on

Monday. Lessons learned from the recent

flooding will be discussed `t a gathering of hundreds of

councillors, Environment Agdncy staff and emergency services

officials. They're meeting tomorrow at Osney, at the heart of one of the

areas of Oxford most severely affected. The aim is to gather

information on the impact the floods have had, discuss the way the

situation has been handled, and gather suggestions to improve flood

prevention measures. It's ahead of a County Council organised Flood

Summit planned for later in March. The Swindon Town footballer Nile

Ranger has told a jury that he is not a rapist, and that he w`s

shocked to be arrested and charged by police. He's denied forchng

himself on a young woman who he d taken to a hotel while he w`s

playing for Newcastle United. Adina Campbell has been following the case

and joins me from our newsroom. Although he's been on the stand

Nile Ranger has actually bedn seated in court because of a hamstring

injury. That's the reason why he's been missing from recent gales with

his current club Swindon. It's nothing to do with the trial under

way in Newcastle. And it's worth remembering that Swindon Town was

aware of these allegations when they signed him as a player back in

August. Nile Ranger himself has always denied the charges. We have

pictures here of him leaving court after his defence barrister began

outlining its case. The charges relate to his time as a strhker with

Newcastle United. He was arrested in January last year, after a woman

told police she's been raped in a hotel in the city. She clails she

woke up naked, and couldn't remember what had happened. But the

footballer had then told her she needed to take the morning `fter

pill. In court, Nile Ranger claimed both he and his alleged victim were

very drunk on the night the assault was said to have taken placd. They'd

been texting each other for some weeks before meeting up in ` bar,

and later taking a taxi to the hotel, which is owned by ond of the

player's friends. Although drunk, he claims she knew exactly what she was

doing. He also told the court the rape allegations effectivelx led to

the termination of his contract with Newcastle. The trial will continue

next week. Thank you.

Meanwhile, Chiltern Railways has signed a deal to acquire additional

trains, which will come into service in time for the opening of the new

line between Oxford and London Marylebone next year. There'll be

nine refurbished, two`carri`ge trains, totalling 1,100 seats, which

the company says will help cope with an anticipated growth in deland

They'll operate initially from the new Oxford Parkway station before

new services are introduced from the city centre.

February's just about over. Tomorrow is the start of the month of the mad

March hare. And some especi`lly crazy specimens are popping up

throughout Cirencester. 35 five giant fibreglass hares, manx wildly

decorated by local groups and businesses, are going on show as

part of a colourful arts tr`il. As Michelle Ruminski reports, ht's all

to help the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust.

So, this hare here is one of 35 that will be springing up all ovdr

Cirencester this March. Let's find out a little bit more about this

project. I'm joined here by Florence Beetlestone, who's the projdct

manager, and also by Emma S`nds who many of you will know from the soap

opera Dynasty. First of all, why a hare? Well, the hare is verx much an

unwritten symbol of Cirencester We found the first Roman hare losaic in

the Beeches, in town and it's now in an award`winning museum. And so it

became very much a symbol ever since. And what about this one? Who

has designed this one? This particular one was designed by Dan

Stirling. We've got another two artists on board. `` we havd got a

hold team of artists. This one is just a prototype, the others will be

unveiled in March. And thesd are all being auctioned off for charity

what are you raising money for? We're trying to raise over ?50, 00

for Gloucestershire Wildlifd Trust. Because we're working with the

councillors will to build the Green Hare Churn Walkway. I had to think

about that for a minute! Emla, you've throw your weight into this

project. Why are you taking part? They asked me to do it. Which is a

great honour. Very kindly, ly hare has been sponsored by the Ndw Kings

Head Hotel, which is very exciting. And it's something that's vdry easy

to support. I know it is gohng to take a while to decorate mine, so

I'll be stuck in the warmth of my kitchen for the next couple of

months doing that. Let's hope the uptake of these will be as lad as a

March hare when they're sold at auction. It's like masquerade from

the late 1970s. Well, great views of the Northern whites. Some of you

have been sending in your photographs, we will be takhng a

look at them during the weather forecast.

That's all from me for the loment. I'll have the headlines at 8pm, and

a full bulletin at 10:25pm. Now more of today's stories with Sally

Taylor. pipe and pumps.

A man has denied murdering ` teenage girl who died from multiple stab

wound. Linda Lietaviete who was originally from Latvia was treated

by paramedics near Horseshod Common in December last year.

Alvin Santos denied murder when he appeared at Winchester Crown Court.

He will face trial in May. A Hampshire parent group has told

BBC South it is concerned about the impact of cuts to respite sdrvices

for children with disabilithes. Hampshire County Council pl`ns to

reduce its budget over the next two years. The short break schele funds

specialise activity group, giving parents a few hours away from care.

Got twins. Alex is in a whedlchair and he is severely disabled. He is

tube fed. Jamie is developmdntally delayed. It is the safest place for

me to leave. The staff here are trained. This gives Sian tile, time

to herself, and to spend with her older child. The club's run under

shorth break, a respite schdme funded by Hampshire County Council.

But its future is uncertain. Up to 3.5 million needs to go frol

Hampshire's children with dhsability budget by 2016. Some will come from

Short Breaks. She fears cuts will bad I will affect families Lassive

impact for me and all the children, really, that attend the special

needs cool and in the area. What are we going to do? The council says it

is working with organisations to use its money in the best way. What we

have got to try to do is to ensure that we still provide as colplete a

service as we have done previously, but we are going to have to look at

savings of one sort of another. We are looking for a 9% reducthon of

the year 2015/16 I, I would hope that the actual breaks themselves

are less than that. The Hampshire parent career network

is one group helping the cotncil decide where the axe should fall. It

is concerned about the impact. If they are taken away there would be a

lot of children who were no longer able to undertake activities they

are able to do currently, and I also think that the families would

potentially be pushed furthdr into crisis, because they wouldn't have

the break from caring that hs so vital to them.

Hampshire County Council has started a three month consultation, into how

to spend children with disabilities budget.

Friday night sport. Football tonight? I feel like we

should be talking about Portsmouth? Southampton will be aiming for their

fourth consecutive win over Liverpool at St Mary's tomorrow

night. Saints are a club on a high, after four of their players were

named in Roy Hodgson's squad for next Wednesday's match against

Denmark. With Southampton's quartet away from the cameras it was left to

the manager to heap praise on their selection. Notably Luke Shaw who

received his first call`up to a full England squad.

TRANSLATION: It is a player that is well`known, we know of his puality,

it is clear if Roy Hodgson has picked him, it is because kneels he

can do well with the side, he can complement other players. So it is a

positive thing for him and for the English accomplish national side.

The manager admitted it was a boost the players had an extra incentive

for the remainder of their season. A place with Roy Hodgson's men in Rio.

He says it is a challenge for them too When you see big clubs like

Manchester United, Manchestdr City they have players who are used to

playing with the national shde. You can almost see the players that are

used to playing with the international scene take it like a

resting period, a psychologhcal and physical resting period, whdther

that is for us, a player like Luke Shaw who gets called up for the

first time that can demand lore gin from him. Saints host Liverpool

tomorrow. Out of the cup in mid`table safety the manager is

adamant there is plenty to play for. I don't know the season is over I

disagree with that. We have the motivation to recover. Saints won at

Liverpool earlier, doing thd double would defend on stopping thd likes

of Daniel Sturridge and Suarez. Luke schueb up against Suardz. In

the football league tomorrow Reading will hope to bounce back from last

week's home reverse against Blackburn.

They take on struggling Yeovil. Nigel Adkins' men remain on course

for the play`offs. Bournemotth host Doncaster, Brighton are at Lillwall.

In League One, Swindon go to Crewe, while MK Dons are home to Sheffield

United. Portsmouth play on Londay, Oxford are at Rochdale. The Football

League Show has all the goals tomorrow night after Match of the

Day. And a reminder on Mond`y night, Late Kick off returns for a new

series through until the end of the season. We'll be behind the scenes

at Reading tomorrow and will have highlights of Portsmouth's game

against Chesterfield. Late Kick Off, Monday night 11.20 on BBC1.

Organisers of the New Forest marathon have announced that they've

cancelled this year's event due to a lack of entries. The marathon has

been staged for the last 31 years in a row. Meanwhile, around 15,000

runners will line up in Reading on Sunday morning for the Readhng Half

Marathon, which also acts as a qualification event for the World

Half Marathon Championships. The race starts at Green Park and

finishes as the Madejski st`dium. Finally, in rugby's Premiership

London Irish travel west to Exeter tomorrow. Topsy Ojo and Marlon Yarde

both start, James O'Connor has moved to inside centre. They were a highly

skilled group of people frol Southampton, whose work proved

absolutely crucial during the First World War. The Ordnance Survey had

been making maps of Britain since the early 1800s. But now thdre was a

need for detailed maps of France and Belgium, areas that lay beyond the

heavily defended Western Front. David Allard has been finding out

how the ingenuity of the OS staff became one of our most powerful

weapons. In this war the old saying held

true. No your enemy. It was vital to map the area behind enemy lhne, and

aeroplanes provided the answer. They had only been round a few ydars but

photographs taken from the `ir could capture the crucial details needed

for military maps. With cameras fixed to their plane,

the brave pilots of the roy`l flying corps took to the skies over enemy

territory. The pictures thex took of roads, fields and trenches gave the

map makers a whole new perspective. Another innovation was flash

spotting. Watching for artillery fire and plotting the origin and a

major breakthrough came with sound ranging, using the sound of a gun to

locate its position. It was practises on Salisbury Plain.

Microphones were placed in known positions when a gun is firdd, the

sound arrives at the microphones at different times. With a bit of math,

you can work out the exact position of the artillery.

All that data fed into the laps created by staff from thes or o oven

working at the front line. @ far cry from their offices at home hn

Southampton. `` from the Ordnance Survey. They were staffed from

officers is and men from thd royal engineers burr they were basically

had the management role, thdre was a large body of civilian staff who

worked at Ordnance Survey, but they were the cartographers and printers

and provided support. So wh`t does this show? It is an interesting

photograph. What you are looking at are the people who are mannhng the

printing presses, the women, there was a large influx of femald staff

into Ordnance Survey, many of them went over to the overseas branch in

northern France. One of those women was Mrs Laden who recorded her

memories. . I was 22 when I went to France. We were eight kilomdtres

from the firing line. I worked on the machine, they used to do 1, 00

maps an hour. We weren't allowed to get down, because we had to work all

the time until somebody camd to relieve us.

Today, the Ordnance Survey has relocated to a new billing hn

Southampton. Aerial photogr`phy is still a powerful tool in map making,

today the Ordnance Survey uses `D images but the principle is firmly

rooted in techniques learned a century ago on the Western Front.

This man has written a book about mapping the First World War and has

a large collection of maps `nd other artefacts I have brought a few

things. At school I was intdrested in the First World War and lapping,

so it is something that has dropped since then. There is a rangd of

different artillery maps prhnted by the Ordnance Survey. That photograph

is taken with snow on the ground. The trenches show up incredhbly

well, so that is perfect for mapping.

Harold winter bottom was, this photo shows him at work in his office on

the Western Front he was an important man in setting up the

whole organisation in Francd, that grew from one officer and a few men

into a 5,000`strong organis`tion by the end of the war.

That is a map which has secret overprinted on it. It's a trench map

of the Somme or part of the Sombatle field. You have the date at the

bottom. 2nd June. This was lap used at the front. The German trdnches

are plotted from aerial photographs in red, and the British front line

in blue. And thend on top of that you have this `` then on top of that

you have an an interesting manuscript edition which is to do

with the artillery support, British artillery there.

And also French artillery. Ht is in such good condition. It is presented

on this very good quality lhnen backed paper, which was deshgned to

stand up to a lot of usage hn the field and you can put it in your

pocket. Take it out. Use it. It is remarkable. One of more than 25

million maps produced during the First World War. Thanks to the

skills use of trusted tools like these items. But as we have seen,

the map makers from Southampton had mastered new techniques, and that

gave the military a tactical edge. These people were pioneer, they were

very inventive and had great creativity. At the end of the day

they were on the front line and they put their lives on the line. Today,

Ordnance Survey head quarter, there is is a role of honour with 67 names

that proves that very fact. You have been getting in totch to

tell us how much you have bden enjoying the films we have put out.

There are of course pun hundreds of stories in the World War Ond At Home

series. If you want to find out mord go to

the website. Follow the links, if you want to see

any of the films that we have run this week, we have put them online

for you. On to the weather now. Did xou sigh

it? I didn't. Everyone is t`lking the about it today. Did you see it?

This is the our our `` Aurora Borealis or northern lights.

Normally you see them areas north of the UK. But they saw them as far

south as the Channel Islands. I had no idea. What time was this? Round

10pm. Mainly over hill top `reas, take a look at this.

The Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights are created by energx from

the sun, which is carried 93 million miles in a solar wind. As the

electrically charged particles approach the earth they hit the

magnetic field. The result, a spectacular display of light, and

clear skies definitely help in seeing them.

Beautiful shots. Other good pictures as we. We do have some nice

pictures. . That was a funnel cloud. Tonight we

will see a touch of frost. We had hail, thunder tomorrows tod`y.

Tonight, mist, fog frost and the risk of ice. The Met Office have

issued a yellow weather warning for icy stretch `` stretches. The

temperatures fall away, ice on untreated surfaces out on the roads,

and pavement, now there will be a few showers for eastern are`s first

thing, they will tend to cldar, western areas seeing the cldar skies

initially and here we will see dense mist and fog patches, with

temperatures falling down to freezing or just below, fredzing in

the towns and cities down to minus one or two, and with very lhght

wind, that mist and fog could stubborn for some to move fhrst

thing. But it will lift eventually, we will see lots of sunny spells at

first. It is during the aftdrnoon we will see the cloud bubble up from

the west. We may have the odd stray shower for western area, it will be

unlucky to catch one, most places tomorrow will enjoy spring sunshine.

It is the first day of spring tomorrow, with highs of sevdn to

eight Celsius, the winds st`y fairly light. Tomorrow we will see cloud

increase for western area, here we may have a few showers. Eastern

areas are holding on to the clear sky so the risk of a touch of frost.

Maybe ice patches where temperatures fall away to freezing, lows of two

to three in the towns and chties, although the breeze tomorrow should

be slightly stronger than tonight, we which will keep the mist and fog

at bay. To start the day on Sunday it should be bright and sunny, then

going down hill later in thd day during the afternoon with a band of

rain pushing through and thd winds pick up speed. Following th`t next

week we look at a fairly unsettled condition. Temperatures round the

seasonal average but there laybe thunderstorms. No Northern Lights

tonight? May but not as govdrnment good as last night. There is always

hope. More at eight and 10.25 and enjoy your weekend. We will be back

with you on Monday. Thanks for watching.

Good night.