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A court has heard how health and first | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
A court has heard how health and safety breaches at an airport led to | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
the death of the chief fire officer there. 45`year`old Steve Mills was | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
killed at Cotswold airport hn 2 11 when a gas cylinder exploded. Steve | :00:26. | :00:29. | |
Mills was described by colldagues as competent and experienced. Hn 2 11 | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
he went into work on his dax off to strip out equipment from shhpping | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
containers donated by the MoD. As he moved a gas cylinder like this one, | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
it apparently fell and exploded as the mechanism was triggered. In | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
court it was described as a large and fatal Catherine Wheel as it spun | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
out of control at high speed. Steve Mills suffered head injuries and was | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
discovered by a colleague. @ safety cap like this one which would have | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
stopped the gas escaping was not fitted. Steve Mills had not told | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
anyone at the airport he was moving the cylinders and was working alone. | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
Despite that, the company who employed him was today found guilty | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
of not assessing the risk. Kemble Air Services say they are | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
disappointed at the verdict because they believe no risk assesslent was | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
necessary as there were no plans at the time to move the cylinddrs. | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
Everyone has to learn from these incidents. There is always room for | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
improvement. We have reviewdd our procedures and implemented some | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
changes but deep down, I don't believe we failed Steve in `ny way | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
but obviously the jury came back with a verdict they thought was | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
appropriate. It has not brotght Steve back. We still miss hhm | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
everyday at the airport and it is very hard. Steve Mills' famhly were | :01:32. | :01:44. | |
in court for the verdict. Afterwards his father read a short statement. | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
In my opinion, no individual person is responsible for the death of my | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
son. His attitude to life w`s to achieve perfection on anythhng he | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
undertook to complete. Time is a great healer but Steve will be sadly | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
missed for many years to cole. Kemble Air Services will be back in | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
court in the near future to be sentenced and they are likely to | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
face a six`figure fine. Firefighters say a man who tried to | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
rescue pupils from River Th`mes has had a miraculous escape. He was | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
dragged through the weir at Shiplake but escaped injury. The puphls were | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
from Shiplake College. More than 300 people angry `t plans | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
to double the size of an Oxfordshire village were at a public medting | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
tonight. Plans to build 600 homes in Shrivenham near Swindon werd | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
displayed then councillors `nswere questions from villagers. | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
Campaigners believe the village does not have the facilities needed for | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
the two developments. We are not delighted with the | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
proposals we have to put forward. However, if there are alternatives | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
out there that people can ptt forward and are viable, we `re happy | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
to engage with those. We ard discussing alternatives and those | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
proved to be viable, they c`n be included in the final plan. | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
A report is calling for new measures to help bridge the gap betwden rich | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
and poor pupils in Buckingh`mshire. The inquiry, led by teachers, | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
inspectors and politicians, wants more support for high achievers from | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
poorer backgrounds. Breakfast club at Ashmead School in | :03:15. | :03:17. | |
Aylesbury. It's an extra cl`ss open to children whose parents are low | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
earners. It's part of a nathonal initiative called Pupil Prelium The | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
school is given ?1000 for every child that qualifies. You c`n make | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
an impact with just goodwill. You can make an impact with dedhcated | :03:32. | :03:34. | |
teachers. But what the monex does is, it improves the provision in | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
those times outside of the learning day when you can really imp`ct those | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
children in families more. Natasha Jacobs says her daughter's reading | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
has improved beyond recognition this year. Her books were bought with | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
Pupil Premium money. Books `re really expensive. You cannot just go | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
and buy them, they are about ?1 and sometimes you have other thhngs you | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
need to pay for. This reallx helps. In Buckinghamshire, the gap between | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
wealthy and not so wealthy tsed to be the widest in the whole country | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
with pupils from more affludnt families performing a lot bdtter. | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
Recent results here at Ashmdad School show that that gap h`s been | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
bridged. The County Council has written a report on how it can | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
provide a fairer education for children from all backgrounds. What | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
we have tried to do is find how best to use the money. We have found that | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
one`to`one teaching has helped. Doing things to help make up for the | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
fact that they are disadvantaged. Next year there should be even more | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
opportunities at this school. Government funding for Pupil Premium | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
would increase to ?2.5 billhon. The grant for each pupil would go up by | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
a third. Three decades after it went into | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
service, the RAF's Tristar `ircraft will make its final flight this | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
month. The air to air refuelling and transport plane has been a familiar | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
sight in the skies over Brize Norton. Think of the Tristar plane | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
as a giant petrol station in the sky. First commissioned by the RAF | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
in 1983, it played its part in the Falklands, two Gulf Wars and | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
Afghanistan. Today is its l`st operational mission. With up to 130 | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
tonnes of fuel on board, thd job of the Tristar is to fly straight and | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
steady as the other plane approaches from behind at speeds of up to 50 | :05:26. | :05:34. | |
miles per hour. All that's left is for the fighter pilots to connect to | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
the end of the fuel hose dangling behind. It's a beautiful aircraft to | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
fly, very smooth and very lhght on the controls. It is a very stable | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
platform for air to air reftelling as well. I know a lot of thd fast | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
jets like the Tristar because it is nice and easy to fly behind. The | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
plane is also used for transporting military personnel to war zones | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
around the world. In all, there are nine Tristar planes like thhs but | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
the RAF says they are too old and too expensive to maintain. Hnstead, | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
these rather large pieces of British military history are to be | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
dismantled and sold for scr`p. As for 216 Squadron, which is `lso | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
being disbanded, the only thing they will be able to keep to remdmber her | :06:19. | :06:27. | |
by are their memories. Oxford United have been plaxing | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
their first match under new boss Gary Waddock tonight. Late Kick`off | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
has highlights of the game here on BBC One at 11:20 so if you don't | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
want to know the score, look away now. | :06:38. | :06:52. | |
For most of us, reasonably light and patchy and there will be a lot of | :06:53. | :07:00. | |
cloud with the rainfall makhng it not as cold as last night. We are | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
expecting a wet start to tolorrow, generally a damp day all in all with | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
a lot of cloud and limited brightness. With the rain btilding | :07:11. | :07:21. | |
in the afternoon, temperatures reaching eight or nine degrdes. It | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
will be a breezy day. The rdst of the week is staying unsettldd. | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
Sunshine and showers. | :07:30. | :07:32. |