25/03/2014 BBC Oxford News

Good evening. interview with Paul Flowers,

Good evening. 500 jobs are set to go at the Honda

plant in Swindon, after the car`maker announced it's cutting

production. The company blames poor car sales in

Europe. Three shifts will bd reduced to two and one production lhne will

close. Workers have told us they're surprised and angry at the news

Will Glennon reports. As workers left their shifts at

Honda today the mood was as grey as the skies. It will not be long

before 500 of them do not h`ve jobs any more. I have got a young family

and I don't know what to do. It is hard times for us and the company.

Just got to go with it and see what happens, I suppose. It is a sad loss

again but not the first timd it has happened. Basically just want to

know what the people at the top are doing.

The announcement has come as a surprise to everybody involved.

There was a lot of anger and disbelief, based around the fact we

had only just completed a rddundancy programme last year, and thd

anticipation was things werd on the up, and there would be recrtitment

and growth. The reason for the cuts is simple,

Honda can make too many cars and not enough people in Europe are buying

them. Between them the two car plants are capable of making 25 ,000

vehicles per year. But Hond` isn't selling anywhere near that number,

so it is going to stop prodtction in car plant two all together by

October, and will then stand idle, possibly for years. Last ye`r Honda

made 140,000 cars here, this year it's expecting to make 20,000 fewer.

Although the UK has some signs of growth more recently, a number of

major economies have shown the opposite trend, very weak growth,

and that has impacted the ddmand for new vehicles. We are in a shtuation

where our production and deland do not align and we have to take action

to reduce production, unfortunately. There are still 3000 people

employed, and Honda insists it is confident about the long`term future

of the plant, if and when Etrope's economy starts to bloom agahn.

It's become an online sensation millions of women posing in what's

called a selfie, with no make up, to raise money for cancer rese`rch But

now after being sexually assaulted and beaten up one student in Oxford

has posted her own picture, showing horrific injuries. She's now raised

more than ?10,000 for the chty's rape crisis centre. Stuart Tinworth

has the story. A shocking picture that has already

been shared thousands of tiles online. Oxford student Jeanne Ryan

posted this self`shot photo. After refusing a sexual advance on a

nightclub dance floor, she was then punched repeatedly in the f`ce.

They were calculated blows so I think he is probably a really

dangerous person, because hd aimed directly for my nose, which is

broken, and my cheekbone and my eye around here. And I actually fell

down, got back up and he kept hitting me.

She was attacked at this nightclub on Friday night and the man`gement

here have said they are all devastated by what they havd

described as a revolting attack They are now helping the police

track down the offender and they have stressed today they relain one

of the safest venues in the city. But while police investigatd,

Jeanne's own campaign has already raised thousands of pounds for the

Oxford Rape Crisis Centre. I wanted to do something positive. I

posted it and I was hoping something good would come of it but I wasn't

expecting such a response. @fter he touched me, kept on telling me to

smile, and now I am smiling because people have donated so generously.

Unfortunately it is not an hsolated case, we see things like thhs

regularly. It happens across the UK, 400,000 women will experience some

form of sexual violence every year. Jeanne says she hopes her actions

will now give others the strength to speak out.

A man from Bampton has been given a nine`month suspended prison sentence

after he deceived a woman ott of the life insurance she was awarded

following the death of her son in Afghanistan. Jason Mackie dhed in

2009. His mother Lee was later persuaded by Gary Sheehy to invest

more than ?4,000 in a busindss he had no intention of starting. He

will have to do 120 hours of unpaid work and pay Lee Mackie ?2,000 in

compensation. A new study has suggested a bad diet

during pregnancy may affect a child's chance of developing

Alzheimer's disease later in life. The research has been discussed at a

conference in Oxford. Scientists looked at pregnant mice who were

given a high`fat diet. They found that blood vessels in both lother

and baby were less efficient at clearing a protein linked to

Alzheimer's disease. It is an age`related diseasd so we

will have to wait to see how those adult children will respond, but it

is definitely a promising, interesting field because it gives

us another target if we can pre`empt it by asking or informing pregnant

women, that might be another avenue for preventing it.

A teenager has been hospitalised after cycling over a pothold at high

speed near Cirencester. Ollhe Pike had been taking part in a cxcle race

in Dagglingworth when he avoided one pothole, only to hit another. He

suffered a broken collar bone, stitches to an eyebrow and lultiple

scratches. His mum thinks the region's roads are unaccept`ble It

is appalling. I do the school runs every day and I travel all the back

lanes all the time, and I al constantly trying to avoid potholes

and sometimes you can't, if there is an oncoming vehicle you havd got to

go in them sometimes. The state of the roads is awful and I worry all

the time. Gloucestershire County Council won't

comment on individual cases, but says we do respond to reported

potholes, the busiest roads are inspected at least every month and

our priority is to fix unsafe potholes immediately.

A couple of football results to bring you from League One tonight.

The MK Dons were beaten 1`0 at home against ginning but there w`s a 2`1

victory for Tranmere. That's it from us for now.

The showers have eased but we are looking at clear skies, a touch of

frost in the countryside, some mist and fog patches first thing

tomorrow. With the increasing breeze tomorrow in mist and fog should

disperse pretty swiftly. Sole sunny spells, shows popping up around

midday onwards. Some sunshine to be had, the breeze coming in from the

North and East. As we look `head towards the end of the weekdnd ``

towards the weekend temperatures are on the up.

10 degrees. The outlook, it stays chilly and temperatures look like

they will pick up towards the eight -- weekend.

In early spring, a bit of sunshine