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forget a first look at the papers over on the BBC News

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forget a first look at the papers Good evening.

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A building company has been found guilty of breaching health `nd

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safety laws following the ddath of worker on a building site. Lark

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Williams from Oxfordshire w`s killed in 2011 when a forklift truck fell

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onto him. The day before he died, he'd raised concerns about safety on

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the site. The developer, Costain, ignored his warnings. They will be

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sentenced later this month `nd they are expected to get a fine.

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It is a painful journey thex make everyday and have done so for the

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last three years. The familx of Mark Williams have made his gravd a focus

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for their loss and grief. I like to candle every night or his d`d does.

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We come here at weekends, or all of us. We have picnics here and

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birthday cakes here. Mark dhed in July 2011 while working on `

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shopping centre in Newbury. Three years later the developers Costain

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have been found guilty of breaching four health and say to yours,

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breaches which led to his ddath Mark Williams was a skilled operator

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of a large forklift truck whth a long extendable arm. Throughout the

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trial the Crown Court heard how Mark had complained the day before he

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died that he was working in a tight and crowded space and was constantly

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making twists and turns in order to operate the forklift truck properly.

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As he was lifting tiles to the roof on July 19 it toppled. He tried to

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jump clear but was crushed. Costain has undertaken a thorough rdview of

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our operations and we are implementing a three`year strategy

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to ensure that safety remains our number one priority. What about a

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message for the family? I h`ve no other statement to make at this

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time. The forklift truck was unsuitable for the confines and

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cluttered area. The princip`l contractor should have ensured a

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more appropriate piece of epuipment was being used on site and dnsured a

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safe system of work was provided. The company Mark had worked for for

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more than 20 years were also on trial but found not guilty on all

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charges. Now I know what re`lly did happen the day before and on that

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day. It has been hard listening to details that no mother wants to hear

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really. No mother should he`r. That is what I think, and if it stops

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another family from going through the pain that we are actually going

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through, something good will have come out of it.

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Earlier I spoke to represent `` visit `` representative frol the

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union. Our union would like to send our sympathies to Mark's falily and

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all the other families of constructed workers that have died

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sadly too frequently. 40 construction workers died l`st year

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in the midst of a recession. Why is the death rate for construction

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workers so high? It is becatse companies get away with it very

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often. They pay fines but I am afraid lessons are not learned. To

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learn lessons I think we have to look at the directors and the

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directors duties. For example, if I leave this studio today and jump in

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my car and kill somebody and I have not taken due care and attention

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then, rightly so, I should be arrested and I could face a

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custodial sentence. That is only right and proper and it shotld be

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the same with company directors Mark Williams told his bossds the

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day before he died Betty was concerned about the safety of the

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site. What can builders do hf companies do not listen?

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Construction employees should come to their union and raise thd

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concerns with us. What we should be doing and companies should be

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encouraged to do is engage lore with their workers and we should have

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union health and safety representatives on all sites.

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A man's been jailed for secretly filming staff at Abingdon police

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station. Christopher Richardson`Blake from Peterborough

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was sentenced to ten months in prison, six for voyeurism and four

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for stealing a laptop. He's been put on the sex offenders registdr for

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ten years. He was carrying out electrical work inside the building

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when his camera was discovered in September.

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The BBC's discovered there have been more than 260 breaches of p`tient

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confidentiality at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon in the last four

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years. Nine of them are described as serious. The hospital says patient

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confidentiality is very important and it has taken disciplinary action

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against five members of staff who looked up patients records without

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authority. Action against a sixth is ongoing. Trams and a monorahl could

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be running through Oxford in the future if one man's vision becomes

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reality. A County Council h`s outlined how he would like to

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improve transport in the city but are his plans to ambitious?

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Could this be how Oxford looks in years to come? A pedestrianhsed St

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Giles and said Georges Stredt and a tram system to the airport `nd a

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rail link to Cali. These ard the big ideas that the County Counchl leader

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things could solve the problems We have done a bit of research and we

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have not costed all of this done the research but we want to start the

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debate and have that conversation. Even he admits it is a vision in the

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early stages. With the County Council dealing with huge btdget

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cuts, some people say these plans are just simply fantasy. I lived in

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Melbourne as a child and tr`ms are great but I think it is much more of

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a complicated project than people think. The cost is going to be

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enormous. I think it might be a pipe dream. The county is growing fast.

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100,000 new homes and 80,000 new jobs are forecast by 2031. Hf you do

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not deliver those improvements in public transport the other non`car

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modes, then you will not get people to get out of their cars. Bhg ideas

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cost big bucks and the prospect of Oxford getting a tram systel and

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monorail may just be a step too far. That is it from us for now. We have

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the weather forecast. From dveryone here, good night.

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The odd shower tonight but lost places will be dry in the e`rly

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hours of the morning. We max have a touch of mist and fog in thd usual

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promo spots and the clearing skies but there will be a good dinner of

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cloud and temperatures will fall. A dry day tomorrow with the slim

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chance of the odd shower but most places will start to see sunny

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spells developed tomorrow afternoon. In the sunshine not as warm as

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recent days but fairly nice in the sun with highs of 14 degrees. The

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south`westerly wind is helphng to push the pollution away tow`rds the

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North Sea. For the rest of the week into the weekend there will be rain

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at times. A dry start to thd weekend. Next

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had today. That is the way the weather looks. Now the latest on the

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pesky pollution. Good evening. They say a change of

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air is good for you and that is what we have on the way. The brush that

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will sweep away all of the air pollution is a weather system

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developing in the Atlantic. The Atlantic implements very much across

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the UK from the next few days - over the next few days. Cleaner air

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from the Atlantic. Ringing rain as well. That is also good because it

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tends to wash the particles out of the air. We have seen that happening

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today with fairly heavy rain at times across parts

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