05/03/2014 BBC Oxford News

good luck in the World Cup. You will First tonight, there's been another

damning report of an Oxfordshire care home for people with ldarning

disabilities. The home in Phggy Lane in Bicester has failed an inspection

by the Care Quality Commisshon. The home is run by Southern Health,

which is also responsible for Slade House, where Connor Sparrowhawk died

last year. Our reporter to be more about the care home.

It is made up of two bungalows providing accommodation for people

with learning and physical disabilities. Care Quality

Commission inspectors visitdd the home in January. If found lots of

good care by staff but also became aware of serious problems whth

management and staffing levdls which compromised the care and safety of

patients. What were the major concerns?

On multiple occasions inspectors were told of a disconnect bdtween

management and staff which leant concerns and issues were not

followed up. Records were not updated or properly maintained.

There were three incidents which had not been properly investigated.

Including one person who had been able to leave the building tnseen

and unsupervised. This isn't the first time this

organisation has had problels. No, this report comes just over a

week after Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the

site was, criticised for thd way it is running Slade House in

Headington. Again, a home for people with learning disabilities ` it was

found a lack of effective management, leadership and staff

training contributed to the death of 18`year`old patient Connor

Sparrowhawk which could havd been prevented.

What next? Piggy Lane has failed its inspection

and a formal warning has bedn issued against the Trust. They now have

until next week to detail how they're going to improve. In a

statement they said they fotnd the outcome of the report unaccdptable `

and said they deeply regret the quality of social care servhce was

not of the high standard our users and their families should expect.

And on Radio Oxford tomorrow the CEO of Southern Health NHS Foundation

Trust, Katrina Percy, will be talking to Phil Gayle. That's from

7am. Two companies charged with health

and safety failings, after the death of a roofer from Oxfordshird, have

been in court. Forty`one ye`r old Mark Williams, from Nuneham

Courtenay, was killed when the tellyhandler, he was operathng at a

building site in Newbury fell on top of him. Mark's mother and shster

were in court and cried as prosecutors described how hd was

crushed to death. The companies Atley's and Costain deny all the

charges against them. A former Thames Valley Police

officer who sold the person`l details of thousands of people who'd

been involved in road traffhc accidents has been dismissed from

the force. Thames Valley Police says Sugra Hanif was dismissed on Monday

after a misconduct hearing. The former police constable madd more

than twenty thousand pounds from selling information to accident

claim companies. She's due to be sentenced next week.

BHS is to close its store in Oxford. Staff were given letters on Monday

telling them that following a recent review the company had decided to

close its Oxford branch on the tenth of May. The company says it will

seek to redeploy people, but around 60 staff have been told thex face

redundancy. Ambitious plans to transforl the

centre of Swindon, could either draw in the shoppers or alienate them `

depending on which side you're on. The Conservative`led borough council

says multi`million pound pl`ns for the redevelopment of the Fldming Way

area will be a boost for Swhndon. But Labour says businesses will be

driven away. Jeremy Stern rdports. It's not much to look at now but

this site could one day be the centrepiece of a vibrant new

Swindon. The red medical centre and the car park are set to be replaced

by trendy shops and restaur`nts part of a ?350 million regeneration

led by Forward Swindon. We see a lot more jobs, mord people

living in the town centre, `nd more successful shops, better cultural

facilities. A lot more people coming into the town centre. Plannhng

permission has been given and constructions due to begin on

Fleming Way in 2016. But Labour councillors say shoppers like to

drive to town along Fleming Way and banning cars is a mistake.

We will have this street based on bus lanes with not many busds going

around it and traffic logging up either side of the town centre

because traffic can't get in and out of the town. /and insists the

changes will improve transport links. `` Forward Swindon.

It's 15 years since Margaret Ward from Aylesbury has seen her

husband's face. Now, thanks to a rare operation, her sight is

returning. She suffers from advanced age`related macular degener`tion

which affects over half a mhllion people in the UK. Now she's

beginning to see her family again ` and it's thanks to the world's

smallest telescope. Charlotte Stacey reports.

For the last 15 years, Marg`ret s view of her husband, Charles, has

looked a bit like this. When I saw Charles close to the

first time in 15 years it w`s absolutely wonderful. I just

couldn't believe it could ever happen. Even though he is 94, he

still hasn't got any wrinklds. Three months after her oper`tion,

she can watch TV, read, and has been able to see her great`grandchildren

for the first time. Life will be very much easidr, and

it will be nice for her to say all the great`grandchildren and the

grandchildren and all the f`mily, because up to now she just hasn t

been able to recognise faces at all.

Margaret has end`stage age`related macular degeneration, and is one of

only seven people in the UK to have had this particular operation.

Telescope smaller than a pe` was inserted onto her lens and then

translates what is seen by the healthy part of her retina that does

not have the condition. Teldscope image magnifies things by three so

she's having therapy to get used to the new vision. Now she is `ble to

see the man she married a 70 years ago. Back frost free night with mild

temperatures, we are looking at temperatures dropping to around five

or six Celsius. Most places will be dry but cloudy.

Cloudy to start the day tomorrow. We hold on to the cloud cover for much

of the day. I Briggs arrangdr in the afternoon. Light and patchy, not

amounting to too much. Tempdratures despite the cloud cover will reach

nine or 10 Celsius. Unsettldd weather tomorrow will remain through

Friday, outbreaks of light rain and drizzle. Things improve on

exceed 15 Celsius. The unsettled weather will continue. With more on

that, here is the National forecast. Good evening. I would like to start

by showing you simply haven't seen the quite some time. After a

three-month onslaught, finally I can show you a chart with high pressure

across the whole of the UK. Yes things are settling down. You may

have spotted, though, that says Monday, so we have a little way to

go yet. We have some rain in the forecast. Not so much in the area

suffering from flooding up to now but in northern parts of the UK

it's been a wet day for a western Scotland and more to come