:00:00. > :00:09.News at six. It is goodbye from me and
:00:10. > :00:14.Hello and welcome to South Today from Oxford. In tonight's programme:
:00:15. > :00:17.The rising cost of elderly care. Why some homes say councils are not
:00:18. > :00:19.paying enough towards the costs of looking after residents.
:00:20. > :00:22.Also tonight, Easter embarrassment. A council refuses permission for a
:00:23. > :00:25.Passion play because it did not know it was a religious event.
:00:26. > :00:28.Is it access all areas? We investigate how user`friendly
:00:29. > :00:30.tourist attractions are for people with disabilities.
:00:31. > :00:34.And later on, we will have all the buzzers and bells as arcade game
:00:35. > :00:46.fanatics gear up for a South Coast Slam.
:00:47. > :00:50.Good evening. Care homes in Oxfordshire are criticising the
:00:51. > :00:54.council for failing to cover the rising cost of elderly care. The
:00:55. > :00:58.County Council has increased its target rate for residents who do not
:00:59. > :01:02.need nursing care by ?6 a week, but some care homes say it is still not
:01:03. > :01:07.enough. Helen Catt is here with more details.
:01:08. > :01:10.These are the amounts that the council aims to pay for care home
:01:11. > :01:14.placements for round two`thirds of the people it places. This year it
:01:15. > :01:18.was set at ?458 a week for residential care only, nursing care
:01:19. > :01:24.they will pay more than that. That is about ?30 a week more than is
:01:25. > :01:27.paid in Swindon. Buckinghamshire told us it doesn't have target
:01:28. > :01:30.rates. What is the problem?
:01:31. > :01:34.Some care homes in Oxfordshire say that it doesn't cover the cost of
:01:35. > :01:37.actually providing the care. I have spoken to some homes who say that
:01:38. > :01:40.some residents' fees are being topped up by family, charities, or
:01:41. > :01:46.being subsidised by privately paying residents. There are claims that
:01:47. > :01:48.this could have consequences. One of the impacts on residents and
:01:49. > :01:53.families is that they cannot necessarily get the provision of a
:01:54. > :01:58.home close to where they live. You might find a husband and wife that
:01:59. > :02:04.have been separated. One 85`year`old trying to visit another 85`year`old
:02:05. > :02:09.by bus can take some hours. What has the council said?
:02:10. > :02:14.This is a target. In reality, it usually pays more. If you look at
:02:15. > :02:19.what it pays for all care home placements it comes out in the top
:02:20. > :02:22.ten highest payers nationally. I think the most important thing is to
:02:23. > :02:26.ensure that people's care needs are being met. The evidence that we have
:02:27. > :02:30.suggests that this is the case. A survey of council`funded care home
:02:31. > :02:33.places found that over 90% of people are satisfied with the standard of
:02:34. > :02:36.care they are receiving and 89% of care homes in Oxfordshire are Care
:02:37. > :02:40.Quality Commission compliant across the board. So we are receiving good
:02:41. > :02:43.standards of care for the amount we are paying. The council asked care
:02:44. > :02:46.homes to show them their costs last year, but only two responded. But
:02:47. > :02:49.the Care Home Association says it has been discussing this issue with
:02:50. > :02:53.the council for years. Thank you.
:02:54. > :02:56.A project in the Thames Valley to help look for people with dementia
:02:57. > :02:59.when they go missing will end next month if more funding cannot be
:03:00. > :03:03.found. The Neighbourhood Return scheme is staffed by volunteers and
:03:04. > :03:06.has been running for 18 months. But the money they received from the Big
:03:07. > :03:10.Lottery Fund ran out in October last year. The charity is now facing
:03:11. > :03:14.closure, but Age UK Oxfordshire says it is exploring other funding
:03:15. > :03:18.options for the county. An inquest has opened into the death
:03:19. > :03:21.of a twelve`year`old cyclist who was hit by a car in Southmoor at the
:03:22. > :03:24.weekend. The collision happened on Charney Road, close to the A420
:03:25. > :03:27.junction, on Saturday afternoon. Mateusz Kucinski, from Southmoor,
:03:28. > :03:32.was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital where he was pronounced
:03:33. > :03:35.dead. A family from Milton Keynes are
:03:36. > :03:39.taking legal action after their father was left with a broken neck
:03:40. > :03:43.after they say he was thrown from a stair lift. It is feared he has only
:03:44. > :03:48.got days to live, suffering complications after the accident in
:03:49. > :03:51.December. Emma Baugh reports. 93`year`old Leslie Taylor, now back
:03:52. > :03:56.home from hospital. His family wanted to care for him here. You
:03:57. > :04:03.know who I am, I am the noisy one. I am the bane of your life. Since
:04:04. > :04:06.September, he has been having around the clock care having been found at
:04:07. > :04:10.home having fallen from his stairlift. Since then he has had
:04:11. > :04:15.pneumonia and other illnesses in hospital, leaving him a shadow of
:04:16. > :04:24.the man that he once was. He was very independent before this. He
:04:25. > :04:28.lived by himself. We had taken him to Bournemouth a couple of weeks
:04:29. > :04:35.before for a weekend and he had got a mobility scooter and he used to
:04:36. > :04:41.sit on that and go different places. But to see what has happened to
:04:42. > :04:47.him, it has taken away everything. The stairlift had been fitted in
:04:48. > :04:53.2012 and the family had been unhappy with that. Several engineers had
:04:54. > :04:58.called. This is a new chair. The family said they all cheer was taken
:04:59. > :05:05.away for testing. On the day that it happened it was found hanging of at
:05:06. > :05:08.the top of the stairs. His bones had been broken by default in the
:05:09. > :05:12.stairs. The company that supplied the
:05:13. > :05:25.chairlift said that safety was their first priority. They said:
:05:26. > :05:33.The last four months have been hard on the family. It had been
:05:34. > :05:39.horrendous. Now the hospital have tried everything they can and they
:05:40. > :05:45.can do no more for him. So we have brought him home. The family said
:05:46. > :05:54.they are doing everything to make him as comfortable as they can.
:05:55. > :05:58.Oxford City Council has apologised after a religious play, which was
:05:59. > :06:01.going to be performed on Cowley Road tomorrow ` on Good Friday, was
:06:02. > :06:04.refused a licence. It says the officer who made the decision had
:06:05. > :06:09.not realised it was a religious event. Tom Turrell reports.
:06:10. > :06:17.The Methodist Church in Oxford should have been the location for a
:06:18. > :06:22.Passion play. The performance is a religious re`enactment of the last
:06:23. > :06:27.few days of Christ's life. It depicts everything from the Last
:06:28. > :06:33.Supper to the resurrection. But just one week before the scenes were to
:06:34. > :06:38.be recreated in Oxford, organisers were told that a licence was needed
:06:39. > :06:42.or they would be breaking the law. But the application was rejected and
:06:43. > :06:50.the show had to be cancelled. There is some anger, I have two say. There
:06:51. > :06:58.is also disappointment and disgruntlement. I feel sorry for
:06:59. > :07:02.those who had to learn many lines. A week later, and it is confession
:07:03. > :07:07.time for the Council's licensing team. They have admitted that they
:07:08. > :07:11.did not know what a Passion play was. In a statement, the licensing
:07:12. > :07:39.team said: This time the show will not go on
:07:40. > :07:43.all stop but in future, Oxford City Council may be hoping for a
:07:44. > :08:26.guideline intervention `` divine intervention.
:08:27. > :08:31.We do have wide aisles in the museum which is good for wheelchair
:08:32. > :08:39.access. That was designed by the Victorians to accommodate Lady's
:08:40. > :08:49.skirts. This museum scored highly in a Saudi. `` in a survey of eight
:08:50. > :09:00.disabled access. They have ramps, disabled bays, and immobility buddy.
:09:01. > :09:06.`` buggy. Four out of ten said that they turned up having been told it
:09:07. > :09:09.was accessible, but it was not. Seven out of ten said that because
:09:10. > :09:14.of the information they do not go to tourist attractions. Now he wants
:09:15. > :09:21.all pubs and clubs to welcome him to. It is difficult to get in and
:09:22. > :09:25.out. People need to think about how much a ramp will cost. It would be
:09:26. > :09:57.worth it for a few more customers. terrible. Developers say cabin like
:09:58. > :10:01.these could each bring ?24,000 to the Sussex economy every year but
:10:02. > :10:15.locals worried the riches of the countryside are being neglected to
:10:16. > :10:18.boost the coffers. Still,: Your bank holiday weather forecast and did you
:10:19. > :10:25.guess the mystery object? All will be revealed. There's been the
:10:26. > :10:28.biggest increase in the number of people in Berkshire getting scarlet
:10:29. > :10:31.fever in seven years. Scarlet fever is a bacterial illness that causes a
:10:32. > :10:35.distinctive pink`red rash. 150 patients have been diagnosed so far
:10:36. > :10:38.this year ` up more than a quarter on last year's figures. Health
:10:39. > :10:50.authorities have stressed that they will not go on outbreak alert. An
:10:51. > :10:54.operation is underway to protect Dorset woodland from damage
:10:55. > :11:02.including the risk of arson. Last year there were 111 fires. Operation
:11:03. > :11:08.heathland involves high visibility patrols and public education
:11:09. > :11:12.measures. A lot of ours are making plans for this weekend but imagine
:11:13. > :11:18.you had to put extra thought into every query you planned to go. That
:11:19. > :11:28.is what one charity for disabled table says is the problem for their
:11:29. > :11:41.members. Over half of the tourist attractions assessed did not have
:11:42. > :11:44.wheelchair access. Now to Finn's Country ` Roger Finn's weekly report
:11:45. > :11:48.from the countryside. This week he's in Dorset with tales of lions, snow
:11:49. > :11:51.leopards, and chalk streams. Roger's linked up with one of the world's
:11:52. > :11:55.top wildlife cameramen ` Hugh Miles. After a long career filming all over
:11:56. > :11:58.the planet, Hugh has settled near Wimborne, where he's fallen in love
:11:59. > :12:03.with the River Allen and the wide variety of creatures that live in
:12:04. > :12:08.it. The source of the river Allen, near the village of Monkton up
:12:09. > :12:12.Wimborne. It flows for just 13 miles and one man has come to know every
:12:13. > :12:21.inch of it. Hugh Miles has just made a film about the Allen with the
:12:22. > :12:27.title, Liquid Gold. Pure fresh water, more valuable than gold, we
:12:28. > :12:34.can live without gold but they would die without water. This is
:12:35. > :12:40.Britain's only native freshwater crayfish and the River Allen is one
:12:41. > :12:44.of its most important refuges. Hugh has a particular passion for fish,
:12:45. > :12:47.but his career as a cameraman took off with much larger prey. In the
:12:48. > :12:55.1970s he joined the team on David Attenborough's Life on Earth. We
:12:56. > :12:56.went to Africa to film a lion hunt. They had tried twice already to get
:12:57. > :13:52.the modern ones. There was often a risk
:13:53. > :15:29.in getting this close. I have been lucky. I have had two new hips
:15:30. > :15:32.We need to be allowed to do more to improve the habitat for wildlife,
:15:33. > :15:38.the insects, the fish life and then the waters and birds along the
:15:39. > :15:42.river. It is becoming increasingly important for the community and my
:15:43. > :15:46.hope is that we will win the battle and this River will continue to
:15:47. > :15:55.thrive for many years to come. Like macro that was so beautifully shot
:15:56. > :16:05.and so calming. Last week Roger showed ours the mystery object from
:16:06. > :16:14.the rural life Museum in Surrey. So, here he is with the answer and the
:16:15. > :16:20.next puzzler. Last week's was the potato masher. He lives this week's
:16:21. > :16:39.we will reveal the answer next week. `` here is this week's now onto the
:16:40. > :16:47.sport. The Bournemouth boss said his side have to pick up maximum points
:16:48. > :16:57.in their final four games. Sheffield Wednesday are currently two points
:16:58. > :17:06.behind in six. Lewis Brabant has not trained all week because of injury.
:17:07. > :17:10.The levels of performance have been so high and in a short period we
:17:11. > :17:16.have improved so much, that is the only surprise, that it has come so
:17:17. > :17:24.quickly, I never doubted we would get there. The challenge is to
:17:25. > :17:32.maintain. Like macro in the championship reading face a tough
:17:33. > :17:45.fixture away to Wigan. MK dons and Swindon are both away from warm. And
:17:46. > :17:48.in league two Oxford host your city. Eastleigh are on the brink of
:17:49. > :17:52.winning promotion to the Conference Premier League for the first time in
:17:53. > :17:55.the club's history. After their 1`0 win on Tuesday against Dover, the
:17:56. > :17:58.Spitfires need just one more point and are at home to Basingtoke
:17:59. > :18:01.tomorrow. A draw would also secure Richard Hill's men the league title.
:18:02. > :18:03.And remember the Olympic torch relay? We are doing something
:18:04. > :18:10.similar head of the British Commonwealth Games in Glasgow this
:18:11. > :18:27.summer. It will visit Southampton in June. It will be exciting times and
:18:28. > :18:30.big crowds are expected. Thank you very much. Whether it's Flappy Bird,
:18:31. > :18:34.Call of Duty or Candy Crush Saga, it seems we're spoilt for choice with
:18:35. > :18:38.games you can play at home or on the move. But there are those who never
:18:39. > :18:41.fell out of love with old`style video games ` and some of those 90s
:18:42. > :18:44.arcade favourites have become collector's items. This weekend, a
:18:45. > :18:47.special event in Worthing will bring together one of the largest retro
:18:48. > :18:51.collections in the world. Caroline and I got to grips with one of the
:18:52. > :18:55.pinball machines earlier and you can see how we got on in a moment.
:18:56. > :19:05.First, Chrissy Sturt has been to meet the event organiser. The 1980s
:19:06. > :19:12.and games go electronic. New and cool, this was the species we to pet
:19:13. > :19:17.man against machine, boy against boy and girl against girl. What was once
:19:18. > :19:22.cool soon became dated and forgotten but some never do out of these games
:19:23. > :19:31.and suddenly they are vintage and valuable. This is the defender made
:19:32. > :19:37.in 1980 it is regarded as one of the all`time greatest video games. It is
:19:38. > :19:46.super hard and had its own dedicated control panel. The artwork itself is
:19:47. > :19:54.also really iconic. Anyone who knows their stuff will instantly recognise
:19:55. > :20:00.Defender. This man's home is a shrine to the arcade and all the
:20:01. > :20:05.family are hooked. It is something I have had to get used to. For the
:20:06. > :20:10.seven years we have been together they have been gradually coming more
:20:11. > :20:21.and more into the house and I am just used to it now. Will has even
:20:22. > :20:31.got his own mini arcade devoted to pinball. I'd macro the intensity on
:20:32. > :20:35.your face is really something. It is really an intense game. When you are
:20:36. > :20:41.in the zone you are connecting to the machine. When you play a really
:20:42. > :20:49.good game it is great when the machine starts flashing at you. How
:20:50. > :20:54.do you stop it completely taking over the house? We had the rule
:20:55. > :21:03.there would not be any more than six pinball machines. I think we have
:21:04. > :21:11.four. He has been convinced to keep another two machines in the house.
:21:12. > :21:16.Is this a hobby or an obsession? More of an obsession. I go to bed
:21:17. > :21:24.thinking about them. And you have an understanding wife? Yellow macro she
:21:25. > :21:29.has to be. If you have not got the space for one of these fool size
:21:30. > :21:34.machines or a partner sympathetic enough to let you buy one, these
:21:35. > :21:39.days you can go online and download any of the classic games, and play
:21:40. > :21:46.them for free. But small does not work for everyone. I have the dream
:21:47. > :21:53.of an arcade at the bottom of the garden. Jessica would be happy as
:21:54. > :22:00.well to three the room up for our little boy. I have a dream one day
:22:01. > :22:09.to build a really super cool arcade. Have a there fridge and live there
:22:10. > :22:13.forever really. We have a beautiful pinball machine here in the studio
:22:14. > :22:27.this evening. We have lowered well away from his desk. Tell me what is
:22:28. > :22:33.happening at the South Coast Slam? It is on for play all weekend. It is
:22:34. > :22:37.a massive arcade where people can play their hearts out. How would
:22:38. > :22:46.something like this machine go for? Yellow macro around ?3500, quite a
:22:47. > :22:55.prize. This is for the children's charity. All the money raised goes
:22:56. > :23:04.directly to them. I will have to find another newsroom novice to play
:23:05. > :23:14.against. Welcome to the South Today battle of the novices. Caroline
:23:15. > :23:51.versus Lewis. # Pinball Wizard. Game over. And the
:23:52. > :23:57.winner is... Caroline. Yes! I cannot tell you how much fun that was.
:23:58. > :24:03.South Coast Slam runs on Saturday and Sunday in wording. You can get
:24:04. > :24:09.more about that and the charity it is supporting online. It was hugely
:24:10. > :24:19.addictive. Yellow macro yes, for you, you won! It might be something
:24:20. > :24:30.I could challenge you to later. Now let's move on to the weather. Two
:24:31. > :24:39.good days and two not so good days. Your first weather picture. This was
:24:40. > :24:43.a misty start to the day. That this photograph of a butterfly in
:24:44. > :24:54.Hampshire. And a very obliging sworn. You can send all your weather
:24:55. > :25:00.pictures to us via e`mail. It will be a cool and clear night. Perhaps a
:25:01. > :25:07.touch of frost out in the countryside under clear skies. One
:25:08. > :25:11.or two stray showers will tend to fade away. Temperatures will fall
:25:12. > :25:19.away under the clearing skies. Temperatures in Bucks more likely to
:25:20. > :25:24.have a pocket of frost first thing tomorrow morning. Mile along the
:25:25. > :25:29.south coast. It will not be wall`to`wall sunshine throughout the
:25:30. > :25:35.day. Easy sunshine in places. Temperatures reaching a high of 14
:25:36. > :25:41.or 15 Celsius. In some areas today we reach the high of 18 degrees but
:25:42. > :25:46.the wind tomorrow will be fairly light and under the clear skies
:25:47. > :25:52.tomorrow night he will do it again. There will be a widespread frost. In
:25:53. > :25:58.the towns and cities the low just seven Celsius. In the countryside
:25:59. > :26:04.down to freezing. On Saturday high`pressure still hanging on in
:26:05. > :26:08.there. We will see a decent day with plenty of sunshine and variable and
:26:09. > :26:15.minds of Cloud, possibly more during the afternoon. The bank holiday
:26:16. > :26:21.weekend at the wall, two good days and two not so good days. Friday and
:26:22. > :26:28.Saturday dry hot rain from Sunday onwards. Monday not too bad, the
:26:29. > :26:33.mixture of sunny spells and the odd scattered showers. Here is the
:26:34. > :26:37.outlook for the rest of the week. Some high cloud feeding in during
:26:38. > :26:45.the afternoon which will burn the sunshine easy. Sunday and Monday
:26:46. > :26:49.will burn fairly wet and windy. Low pressure will move in from the new
:26:50. > :26:56.continent on Sunday and that rain will stay with us on and off on
:26:57. > :27:08.Monday. It is the weekend of two haves. Friday and Saturday the best.
:27:09. > :27:13.As ever, there is a fool five day forecast available on our website.
:27:14. > :27:21.The best day of the weekend is Saturday. Now, Lewis, what are you
:27:22. > :27:28.doing this weekend? I am joining a group of cyclists to cycle to Villa
:27:29. > :27:43.Park. 106 miles. A good weather forecast for that! That is all from
:27:44. > :27:47.us for this evening. Have a lovely Easter. Goodbye. Good evening.