:00:08. > :00:13.Good evening. In the first study of its kind, thousands of pregnant
:00:14. > :00:16.women's health and lifestyld are to be monitored in Oxford ` before and
:00:17. > :00:18.after having a baby. Researchers hope to develop a better
:00:19. > :00:24.understanding of depression, diabetes and weight gain. Stuart
:00:25. > :00:29.Tinworth reports. Nadia back at home with
:00:30. > :00:32.two`month`old Evan. She was one of the first to sign up to this
:00:33. > :00:35.pioneering research project. The scheme eventually hopes to recruit
:00:36. > :00:40.thousands of young women like her, following their journey before and
:00:41. > :00:45.after becoming pregnant. Getting pregnant is a bit overwhelmhng, the
:00:46. > :00:48.idea. I always assumed that there is a lot more knowledge, or evdryone is
:00:49. > :00:53.more well`informed than thex actually are in certain things. So I
:00:54. > :00:57.was a bit surprised that nothing like this has been done before. So
:00:58. > :01:00.that was the reason. It was just really fascinating and will be
:01:01. > :01:03.really useful for future generations. The study will look at
:01:04. > :01:07.women's health. Those taking part will have their blood presstre
:01:08. > :01:10.taken, blood tests and a he`rt scan. But they'll also be asked to
:01:11. > :01:14.complete a detailed and confidential survey into their lifestyle. It s
:01:15. > :01:17.all to help understand how `nd why their health is affected in later
:01:18. > :01:23.life ` especially after havhng children. It's never really been
:01:24. > :01:26.done before, other than looking at nutrition of women before
:01:27. > :01:29.pregnancy. We hope that one of the things that this research whll help
:01:30. > :01:32.us identify are the risk factors for women that may lead to a colplicated
:01:33. > :01:38.pregnancy or long`term complications for them. Hopefully by identifying
:01:39. > :01:43.them, we'll be able to go on and look at early interventions and
:01:44. > :01:45.treatments. This entire study is a joint collaboration between
:01:46. > :01:51.Oxfordshire University and the John Radcliffe Hospital and alre`dy,
:01:52. > :01:55.about 100 women have signed up. Now the teams here want another 200
:01:56. > :01:58.women to take part and this time, they're looking for women intending
:01:59. > :02:02.to get pregnant within the next year. If the pilot's successful the
:02:03. > :02:09.scheme will expand, taking on 1 ,000 women across the country. The aim `
:02:10. > :02:12.to build the biggest ever hdalth picture around pregnancy.
:02:13. > :02:17.A police officer is to stand trial accused of assaulting a hotdl night
:02:18. > :02:20.porter in Swindon. Swindon Magistrates' Court has heard how
:02:21. > :02:23.Avon Somerset PC Gary Tester, seen here in the red jumper, was arrested
:02:24. > :02:29.at a Premier Inn in January, following a disturbance abott noise.
:02:30. > :02:34.He's pleaded not guilty to `ssault by beating and is due back hn court
:02:35. > :02:38.in August. A detainee has been sentencdd to
:02:39. > :02:40.more than two years in prison for starting a fire at Campsfield House
:02:41. > :02:44.Immigration Centre near Oxford. Farid Pardiaz had pleaded gtilty to
:02:45. > :02:47.arson. Two people were taken to hospital and more than half the
:02:48. > :02:52.detainees were temporarily loved to other centres following the fire in
:02:53. > :02:55.October. An Oxfordshire woman says she feels
:02:56. > :03:00.lucky to be alive after a lhghtning bolt hit her house. It blew out a
:03:01. > :03:04.window and melted plugs and sockets. Elisabeth Whitaker was at home with
:03:05. > :03:11.her husband in Watlington when the storm happened last Friday. She s
:03:12. > :03:14.been showing us the damage. As you can see, this is the glass
:03:15. > :03:27.that was shattered by the lightning. And then the major
:03:28. > :03:31.damage... Was inside the garage All the electric points are dead. And
:03:32. > :03:38.the roof is in this state, so everything's got to be repl`ced It
:03:39. > :03:48.was very frightening. In a way, I'm glad we are all alive. Not telling a
:03:49. > :03:55.different story. But you can come inside the house and see thd rest of
:03:56. > :04:00.the disaster. After the big bang, I came into this room, the sitting
:04:01. > :04:05.room. And I saw bits of debris, of this type, all over the carpet. And
:04:06. > :04:12.here, it was the beginning of a little fire. Because the carpet is
:04:13. > :04:23.scorched here and you can sde, as well, it's all black. This was
:04:24. > :04:28.melted. It was like a bomb. I thought it was, like, the T`liban.
:04:29. > :04:33.I'm a rational person but you become irrational on those sort of
:04:34. > :04:43.occasions. And, yeah, it was very scary.
:04:44. > :04:46.In the next six years its thought that Chinese tourists will spend
:04:47. > :04:51.more than a billion pounds hn Britain. Now a number of attractions
:04:52. > :04:54.in our region are adapting to encourage more Chinese visitors In
:04:55. > :04:59.Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire several tourist hot spots are
:05:00. > :05:01.already leading the way. Seeing Oxfordshire from an oriental
:05:02. > :05:06.perspective. Chinese tourisl is worth around ?300 million to the
:05:07. > :05:10.UK. Now places like Blenheil Palace are trying to make themselvds even
:05:11. > :05:13.more welcoming to eastern vhsitors. We have Mandarin`speaking gtides in
:05:14. > :05:16.the palace, so that we can communicate properly to our Chinese
:05:17. > :05:19.visitors and give them a grdat experience. We have leaflets and
:05:20. > :05:22.communications and websites in Chinese and in Mandarin, so that
:05:23. > :05:28.they can, again, be communicated to in the right way. We have UnionPay
:05:29. > :05:31.facilities that we've installed in the shop, just generally to ensure
:05:32. > :05:34.that when they come to Blenheim they get a fantastic experidnce
:05:35. > :05:37.Blenheim, along with Bicestdr Village, a hotel in Woodstock, and
:05:38. > :05:40.Waddesdon Manor in Buckingh`mshire, have signed up to a
:05:41. > :05:44.Government`backed scheme called the Great China Welcome Charter. It
:05:45. > :05:49.means the venues will be helped to market to Chinese tourists. It's one
:05:50. > :05:53.of the main emerging markets coming into the UK. It's doubled in the
:05:54. > :05:56.last five years. Visit Engl`nd are getting behind it, Government are
:05:57. > :06:01.getting behind it, and lookhng to grow it to 382,000 visitors by 016.
:06:02. > :06:06.It's a market we want to be involved in and make sure we get a phece of
:06:07. > :06:09.that action here in Oxfordshire On a gloriously sunny day like today,
:06:10. > :06:13.it's easy to see why more than 700,000 visitors come to Bldnheim
:06:14. > :06:17.each year. Last year, more than 3,000 of those were from Chhna. Now
:06:18. > :06:20.that Blenheim has signed up to this special charter, they're hoping to
:06:21. > :06:24.increase that number. If thdy do, it won't just be good for the palace
:06:25. > :06:29.but for all of the local economy, too.
:06:30. > :06:32.A 300,000`year`old tusk belonging to an extinct species of eleph`nt has
:06:33. > :06:37.been found by a team led by an Oxford University professor. The
:06:38. > :06:40.tusk was found in the desert in Saudi Arabia. Scientists sax it s
:06:41. > :06:45.remarkably preserved. It's on land that would have once been a lake.
:06:46. > :06:49.That's it from us for now. We're back in BBC Breakfast tomorrow
:06:50. > :06:50.morning, but for now goodnight. And with the weather, here's Aldxis
:06:51. > :06:55.Green. Good evening. A lot of cloud tonight
:06:56. > :06:59.but there will be a few bre`ks and it should stay mainly dry. So we
:07:00. > :07:03.may, where we have the breaks in the cloud cover, have a few mist and fog
:07:04. > :07:06.patches forming in the usual prone spots. A very mild night to come
:07:07. > :07:11.with temperatures only fallhng to around ten Celsius. We start the day
:07:12. > :07:14.tomorrow on a dry note. There is the risk of a shower, and showers are
:07:15. > :07:18.more likely for western are`s during the morning time and through the
:07:19. > :07:21.afternoon. But where we do have the sunshine, expect temperaturds to
:07:22. > :07:25.rise nicely to a high of 16 or 7 Celsius. The winds are fairly light.
:07:26. > :07:29.Looking ahead to the rest of the week, still a a lot of cloud, a lot
:07:30. > :07:32.of low cloud in places, but there will be some bright and sunny
:07:33. > :07:34.spells. Do stay tuned because coming up
:07:35. > :07:36.be dry. The air pollution has been hitting the headlines today. For
:07:37. > :07:44.more information on that, here is my colleague.
:07:45. > :07:49.Good evening. Very hazy skies in London today and many other towns
:07:50. > :07:53.and cities across the UK. On Thursday there is the chance of some
:07:54. > :07:57.pretty high pollution in the south-east and East Anglia but by
:07:58. > :08:03.the time we get towards the end of the week, we will see clearer
:08:04. > :08:07.Atlantique air coming in and we should get rid of the Saharan dust
:08:08. > :08:12.which has been making services grubby in the last few days. You can
:08:13. > :08:20.see the pattern across the Atlantic. We also have a weather
:08:21. > :08:29.front. The beginning of that change is affecting many western areas of
:08:30. > :08:33.the UK. This particular cloud across the North Sea, you can see there is
:08:34. > :08:37.a general drift here towards Scotland and the North Sea coasts.
:08:38. > :08:43.It has been cold and cloudy and I think that cloud will drift further
:08:44. > :08:44.southwards and westwards through the course of the night.