:01:58. > :02:01.been found not guilty. My view was that to release the media
:02:02. > :02:04.prejudicial to my officer. An hour before, Daniel Dove had been
:02:05. > :02:07.arrested outside this Trowbridge night club in December 2012 for
:02:08. > :02:10.being drunk and disorderly. He's then brought here to the
:02:11. > :02:14.custody suite at Melksham police station. He's booked in standing
:02:15. > :02:21.handcuffed in front of PC Birch. The jury were told he was drunk and
:02:22. > :02:24.difficult to handle. After the Tasering, he was charged with
:02:25. > :02:26.assault, but after he took out a private prosecution against PC
:02:27. > :02:34.Birch, the CPS dropped the allegations and prosecuted PC Birch
:02:35. > :02:44.instead. The chief constable agrees that justice should be seen to be
:02:45. > :02:55.done. I fully support open justice. There is an ongoing investigation. I
:02:56. > :03:00.am the responsible authority for ensuring investigations are fair. It
:03:01. > :03:06.could have prejudiced an investigation to release it. The
:03:07. > :03:11.force has carried out a revision of its policy towards tasered.
:03:12. > :03:13.Meanwhile, PC Birch has returned to his job.
:03:14. > :03:21.Free transport to Oxfordshire's hospitals could be further cut back
:03:22. > :03:24.in efforts to save the NHS money. Every year the health service
:03:25. > :03:27.organises 107,000 trips at a cost of almost ?4 million. It's hoping to
:03:28. > :03:31.cut around a third of these journeys, and save up to ?325,000 a
:03:32. > :03:34.year. It's already become harder to
:03:35. > :03:37.qualify for free transport in recent years and voluntary groups which
:03:38. > :03:42.take people to hospital appointments are already struggling with the
:03:43. > :03:45.demand. These Witney`based volunteers say people with smaller
:03:46. > :03:46.incomes, who need care, stand to lose out.
:03:47. > :03:49.The Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group says the public
:03:50. > :04:00.will be consulted on any changes and services for the most vulnerable
:04:01. > :04:05.patients will not be affected. There will be people who say they cannot
:04:06. > :04:08.get there. The next time they see the hospital will be in an
:04:09. > :04:15.ambulance. I think it is a false economy. The Oxfordshire Clinical
:04:16. > :04:18.Commissioning Group says the public will be consulted on any changes and
:04:19. > :04:23.services for the most vulnerable patients will not be affected.
:04:24. > :04:25.Millions of pounds of Government money's on offer to Oxford
:04:26. > :04:29.businesses to connect them to super`fast broadband for free. The
:04:30. > :04:32.thing is, no`one seems to want it. It's six weeks since the scheme
:04:33. > :04:41.launched and so far, not a single business has applied. Helen Catt's
:04:42. > :04:43.here. Helen ` why's no`one interested?
:04:44. > :04:46.It's not entirely clear. Having a decent broadband connection is
:04:47. > :04:53.becoming more and more important for businesses. This creative agency
:04:54. > :04:56.near Oxford for example needs to send large graphics files and videos
:04:57. > :05:00.to clients around the world every day. Before it put in its own fibre
:05:01. > :05:08.line, that used to take hours ` and sometimes didn't happen at all.
:05:09. > :05:13.Without it, it would not be possible to think in terms of operating in
:05:14. > :05:19.these market. Things have to happen quickly, within minutes, sometimes
:05:20. > :05:23.hours, certainly not days or weeks. William sorted out his own line, but
:05:24. > :05:25.six weeks ago a government fund opened to businesses in Oxford to
:05:26. > :05:32.get superfast connections installed for free. So far, though, nobody's
:05:33. > :05:35.taken it up. And the South's other so`called super`connected cities
:05:36. > :05:38.aren't seeing much interest, either. In Brighton, nine businesses have
:05:39. > :05:43.applied since the end of February, and in Portsmouth, just four since
:05:44. > :05:46.December. In Oxford, fast broadband is already available ` and there are
:05:47. > :06:01.questions over who needs superhigh speeds. Only about 1000 businesses
:06:02. > :06:07.are bigger than about five people. You end up with this provision of
:06:08. > :06:11.what larger companies made. It is a relatively small intersection.
:06:12. > :06:14.Bob thinks money would be better spent getting all rural broadband up
:06:15. > :06:17.to a workable speed instead. We asked the Minister for Broadband Ed
:06:18. > :06:34.Vaizey for an interview but his office declined. Instead it sent us
:06:35. > :06:37.a statement saying it expects to see considerable interest in Oxford's
:06:38. > :06:40.scheme in the coming months and that in the other super`connected cities
:06:41. > :06:42.around the UK "take up is increasing month on month."
:06:43. > :06:45.A self`employed music teacher is demanding Thames Valley Police
:06:46. > :06:48.reimburse him almost ?1,000 in lost earnings. He says his application to
:06:49. > :06:52.work with children took three months to be approved. Steve Vintner, who
:06:53. > :06:56.lives near Bicester, was unable to teach drums and percussion because
:06:57. > :06:59.it took 13 weeks to run a series of background checks on him. It usually
:07:00. > :07:04.takes four. Mr Vintner says the delay prevented him from earning a
:07:05. > :07:08.living. I think it is a big problem. The system is faulty and there
:07:09. > :07:16.should be a system to claim back lost earnings. Thames Valley Police
:07:17. > :07:19.says it does more than 57,000 checks a year and has been struggling with
:07:20. > :07:26.increased demand, but it carries them out as quickly as possible.
:07:27. > :07:29.Plans for a ?15 million redevelopment of part of Aylesbury
:07:30. > :07:32.town centre have been unveiled. The first phase of Waterside North would
:07:33. > :07:35.see Exchange street car park and some of the old county council
:07:36. > :07:46.offices replaced by restaurants and homes. A former police station and
:07:47. > :07:48.the back of the old office buildings would be demolished. A planning
:07:49. > :07:50.application will be submitted in June.
:07:51. > :07:54.It's a scientific breakthrough that could lead to the end of a ban on
:07:55. > :07:57.taking liquids on board foreign flights. An Oxfordshire company,
:07:58. > :08:00.based at Milton Park has built a scanner capable of detecting whether
:08:01. > :08:08.what's in your bottle is a dangerous substance. Cobalt Light Systems is
:08:09. > :08:11.now up for a top industry award for its work ` which could revolutionise
:08:12. > :08:15.airport security. Stuart Tinworth has the story.
:08:16. > :08:19.2006, and a failed terror plot to use liquid explosives on foreign
:08:20. > :08:24.flights, which resulted in a ban on travellers taking drinks, suncream
:08:25. > :08:28.and other toiletres onboard planes. Eight years on, and we're still
:08:29. > :08:31.restricted to what we can carry onboard, but that could be set to
:08:32. > :08:35.change. This device is capable of cross checking what's inside a
:08:36. > :08:42.bottle in just a matter of seconds. How does this work? You take the
:08:43. > :08:47.bottle and put it into the system, closed the door. It is a five second
:08:48. > :08:54.screening. At the end, it would tell you it is clear, which means it is
:08:55. > :08:57.safe to take on board. Inside, a laser analyses the
:08:58. > :09:00.contents of the bottle. It's able to identify within seconds the chemical
:09:01. > :09:02.composition of the liquid. And that is then cross`checked against a
:09:03. > :09:05.programmed library of banned substances. The product, which costs
:09:06. > :09:13.around ?40,000, has already been supplied to more than 60 airports
:09:14. > :09:20.across Europe. Most of the content of the product are made in Britain.
:09:21. > :09:24.We employ twice as many people as we did a year ago. It is a great
:09:25. > :09:31.success story for the region and the country.
:09:32. > :09:34.The trade body for UK airports told me European airports are spending in
:09:35. > :09:39.excess of ?150 million in equipping passenger screening areas with the
:09:40. > :09:42.latest technology. Airports are now working to
:09:43. > :09:45.streamline the process, to minimise the additional time it takes to test
:09:46. > :09:52.liquids. Even so, it could be some years before the existing hand
:09:53. > :09:56.luggage rules are changed. That's all from me for the moment.
:09:57. > :09:59.I'll have the headlines at eight and a full bulletin at 10.25. Now more
:10:00. > :10:13.of today's stories with Sally Taylor.
:10:14. > :10:16.to bring it under control. Still to come in this evening's
:10:17. > :10:18.South Today: What price football success ` the Cherries count the
:10:19. > :10:22.cost of promotion. A Southampton man has described the
:10:23. > :10:25.moment he and two of his colleagues were blown off a lorry when it was
:10:26. > :10:27.struck by lightning. 26`year`old Kyle Taylor was unloading
:10:28. > :10:31.scaffolding from a vehicle in Camberley when it was hit by
:10:32. > :10:34.lightning. He does not know how long he was unconscious for but remembers
:10:35. > :10:36.being taken to Frimley Park Hospital. Pictured here with a
:10:37. > :10:43.co`worker 20 minutes before the incident happened, he claims he's
:10:44. > :10:49.lucky to be alive. I saw this massive blue flash, and I was in
:10:50. > :10:53.agony, I flew 12 feet, apparently, I woke up and the pain I was in was
:10:54. > :10:59.excruciating, I had pins and needles down my body. I couldn't feel my
:11:00. > :11:03.body, apart from pins and needles, I was in agony laid on a cold wet
:11:04. > :11:07.floor. The Prime Minister has paid tribute
:11:08. > :11:10.to the five servicemen who died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.
:11:11. > :11:12.Four of those on board, three soldiers and an airman, were
:11:13. > :11:15.stationed at RAF Odiham in Hampshire. The fifth, an Army
:11:16. > :11:18.reservist, was based in London. The Ministry of Defence said the crash
:11:19. > :11:22.near Kandahar air base appeared to have been a "tragic accident". The
:11:23. > :11:28.Prime Minister paid tribute to the victims of Saturday's crash in the
:11:29. > :11:30.Commons. These tragic deaths reminders of the continued
:11:31. > :11:35.commitment and sacrifice of our Armed Forces, and I know that our
:11:36. > :11:38.deepest sympathies are with their families at this very difficult
:11:39. > :11:41.time. It was money which was meant to
:11:42. > :11:45.provide transit sites for gypsies and travellers ` but instead it's
:11:46. > :11:47.being used to put the barricades up against them. One travellers' group
:11:48. > :11:51.has described Poole Council's decision to use nearly a quarter of
:11:52. > :11:54.a million pounds in this way as "crazy". The council says it's
:11:55. > :12:01.spending tens of thousands of pounds every summer to clear illegal camps.
:12:02. > :12:05.Steve Humphrey reports. People in this part of Poole say it
:12:06. > :12:13.was a nightmare last year when travellers set up camp on this
:12:14. > :12:16.recreation ground. A worrying time. Residents didn't feel safe, children
:12:17. > :12:22.wouldn't go on the road because of the travellers. To get increased
:12:23. > :12:25.powers from moving travellers from unauthorised sites, the council
:12:26. > :12:29.wanted to build two temporary transit sites but after a heated
:12:30. > :12:36.meeting a few weeks ago, that plan was thrown out. The council has now
:12:37. > :12:40.decided that instead of spending ?230,000 on those travellers's
:12:41. > :12:44.transit sites, it will improve security at recreation grounds like
:12:45. > :12:51.this and other public open spaces. It will be investing in more
:12:52. > :12:54.barriers and by Lars. I feel we need to keep the spark it, it would be
:12:55. > :13:00.better if they had better security boulders to keep them from coming
:13:01. > :13:06.in. The Conservative run council says it is not just try to keep
:13:07. > :13:08.travellers out. We are still trying to negotiate with government for
:13:09. > :13:13.changes in the law which would allow us to work with our neighbours on
:13:14. > :13:18.providing a site so there are a number of strands to this. But the
:13:19. > :13:24.funding switch from provision to prevention has appalled travellers
:13:25. > :13:27.groups. There should be permanent sites and transit sites for those
:13:28. > :13:32.who still travel in search of work. This sort of crazy merry`go`round of
:13:33. > :13:38.evictions is costing you and I and the taxpayer something like ?18
:13:39. > :13:41.million a year. Meanwhile Poole council want central government, but
:13:42. > :13:53.a national strategy for providing traveller and gypsy sites.
:13:54. > :13:55.MPs have called for a new polar research ship to be built in
:13:56. > :13:58.Portsmouth. The ?200 million vessel is due to replace the UK's two
:13:59. > :14:01.current polar exploration ships. City MPs Mike Hancock and Penny
:14:02. > :14:04.Mourdant have requested meetings with Business Secretary Vince Cable
:14:05. > :14:08.and Chancellor George Osbourne. 900 jobs were cut last year when BAE
:14:09. > :14:10.ended shipbuilding in the city. The English Democrats have launched
:14:11. > :14:15.their campaign for the forthcoming European elections. The party, which
:14:16. > :14:19.is putting up a full slate of candidates in the South East and
:14:20. > :14:22.South West, says it is looking after English interests. It argues it's
:14:23. > :14:25.unfair for the English to pay prescription charges and tuition
:14:26. > :14:29.fees when they are free elsewhere in the UK. It's leader says being
:14:30. > :14:38.English, not British, also makes them different from other parties.
:14:39. > :14:46.In the 2011 census results we have 32 million people, over 60%, say
:14:47. > :14:48.they were English and not British. In the year of the Scottish
:14:49. > :14:53.independence referendum, clearly we have something to say that UKIP
:14:54. > :14:58.simply is not interested in saying. Time for the sport now. We will
:14:59. > :15:05.start with a success story but it is kind of a bittersweet one. Yes, AFC
:15:06. > :15:13.Bournemouth have had a successful season. But it tells a bit of a
:15:14. > :15:16.story. The cost of AFC Bournemouth's promotion to the Championship last
:15:17. > :15:20.year has been revealed in the club's annual accounts. The headline figure
:15:21. > :15:24.is that the club made a loss of more than ?15 million in the financial
:15:25. > :15:27.year ` that's an increase of ?11.9m from the previous 12 months. And
:15:28. > :15:33.player and staff wages soared to ?11m, a jump of around ?7m year on
:15:34. > :15:35.year. These number represent the cost of promotion to the
:15:36. > :15:39.Championship. The next set of figures may bear some heavy numbers,
:15:40. > :15:46.in terms of the Cherries' success in staying there. The celebrations of a
:15:47. > :15:53.season that thrilled unsurprised in equal measure. But success doesn't
:15:54. > :15:58.come cheap. The financial figures reiterate their reliance on their
:15:59. > :16:02.Russian benefactor. He doesn't want to be shelling of that kind of
:16:03. > :16:06.money. We're trying to put things in place and produce our own players.
:16:07. > :16:10.But in those figures, there are a range of things, not just player
:16:11. > :16:15.wages and transfer fees, there is investment going on for the future
:16:16. > :16:21.as well. Lasted's promotion was Catholic is to be worth around ?5
:16:22. > :16:32.million `` last year 's macro promotion was calculated. They
:16:33. > :16:34.retain their long`term vision. You don't get some of the football we
:16:35. > :16:39.have played this season without investment, so to push the team, it
:16:40. > :16:41.will cost us money we don't have. The board were not available for
:16:42. > :16:48.interview but the chairman did release a statement. He says he is
:16:49. > :16:50.keen to put the loss into perspective and there by achieving
:16:51. > :16:54.promotion, the end justified the means. The statement also reiterated
:16:55. > :17:01.their benefactor's long`term investment. He will have his own
:17:02. > :17:04.aims and dreams for the club and I think he will want to see them
:17:05. > :17:08.realised. The challenge for us is to make it happen as quickly as
:17:09. > :17:12.possible. They finished their season at Millwall. Also exciting for
:17:13. > :17:15.Reading and Brighton. In cricket's County Championship,
:17:16. > :17:19.two poor batting efforts from Sussex left them on the wrong end of an
:17:20. > :17:22.innings defeat to Somerset at Hove. Despite 93 from skipper Ed Joyce,
:17:23. > :17:26.Sussex were bowled out for 219 in their second innings, 11 runs short
:17:27. > :17:29.of making Somerset bat again. And at the Ageas Bowl in Division Two,
:17:30. > :17:32.Hampshire and Surrey ended up scrapping only for bonus points in a
:17:33. > :17:41.drawn game, after losing large chunks of their game to rain. The
:17:42. > :17:46.former Cheltenham Gold cup winner long one has missed out on winning
:17:47. > :17:53.the Irish rain. He was forced to settle for third place. The horse
:17:54. > :17:57.was returning after his fall in the Grand National.
:17:58. > :18:00.A Dorset club has become one of only a handful of organisations around
:18:01. > :18:03.the country to provide archery for blind or visually impaired people.
:18:04. > :18:05.The weekly sessions have been part`funded by a charitable
:18:06. > :18:07.foundation ` and they've already attracted some enthusiastic and
:18:08. > :18:17.skilful participants. Bob Everett reports.
:18:18. > :18:24.Normally, archery requires a careful combination of hand and eye. Yet
:18:25. > :18:31.these archers are all either blind or visually impaired. I thought it
:18:32. > :18:36.was unreal. Absolutely fantastic what they are doing. They are
:18:37. > :18:42.practising together at the Bournemouth Society for the visually
:18:43. > :18:49.impaired, following a collaboration between the Steve Balmer foundation
:18:50. > :18:52.and a local club. We set up a foundation in honour of my son who
:18:53. > :18:57.was killed in a car crash. We decided to set up a sports
:18:58. > :19:03.foundation to help those with a disability in elite sports. The
:19:04. > :19:07.foundation asked for provision to be made for disabled and youth sport.
:19:08. > :19:13.They didn't expect blind archers, but the scheme is clearly working.
:19:14. > :19:18.Did you think you would ever be able to do this? No, I didn't think
:19:19. > :19:24.visually impaired people would be doing archery. I'd never heard of it
:19:25. > :19:34.before. So I thought, I will give it a go! We just initially set them up,
:19:35. > :19:42.they get a few arose to set themselves up and off they go. ``
:19:43. > :19:50.arrows. I'm not very good with my our site, `` eyesight, it is mainly
:19:51. > :19:57.colour, it just goes blurry. I aim for the centre and if I get the
:19:58. > :20:01.centre I am doing well. Soon these archers will move on to shoot
:20:02. > :20:05.outdoors over longer distances. Their proficiency and enthusiasm for
:20:06. > :20:10.the sport suggests this is one sporting initiative that's really
:20:11. > :20:13.hitting the mark. And finally, congratulations to
:20:14. > :20:16.Itchen College Girls football team from Southampton. They won the
:20:17. > :20:21.British Colleges FA cup final, beating York College 12`0. Striker
:20:22. > :20:35.Millie Farrow scored eight of those goals. She is one to watch! Well
:20:36. > :20:42.done! Ever planted a tree? Not a tree, no, maybe a view plant on the
:20:43. > :20:51.windowsill! There is still time! Just imagine what you would need.
:20:52. > :20:57.Acres of land? Bit of space? Yes and a lot of help! Well, Wendy Davis,
:20:58. > :21:00.who's a teacher in Andover, had none of these but that didn't stop her.
:21:01. > :21:04.She was determined to rope in the whole community. Caroline Richardson
:21:05. > :21:12.has been to see how her project is ` if you'll pardon the pun ` taking
:21:13. > :21:18.root. Today the children are planting cowslips in harmony would.
:21:19. > :21:20.10,000 children, from 25 schools, guides and scout groups, will be
:21:21. > :21:26.involved in the ten year project, which started two years ago. I think
:21:27. > :21:29.they thought I was mad to think we could get a piece of land where we
:21:30. > :21:40.could collectively get the children to plant trees on but we managed it.
:21:41. > :21:46.She persuaded a land land owners sell the land to the County Council
:21:47. > :21:51.had handed it over. We have 44 acres that will be woodland and in the
:21:52. > :21:54.middle of it, there is this little seven acres, that the children of
:21:55. > :22:04.the town, supported by families and volunteers, will grow into a wood.
:22:05. > :22:10.Where'd you get your trees from? A charity which exists solely to get
:22:11. > :22:15.trees to children to plant in nurseries and schools, they look
:22:16. > :22:21.after them for a while, Dick, when they are a `year`old and we bring
:22:22. > :22:25.them out of the wood to plant them. We're getting rid of the weeds so
:22:26. > :22:27.they don't die because the woods take all the good stuff and the
:22:28. > :22:34.trees can't get anything so they will be forced to die. When we die
:22:35. > :22:40.and everything, people will be able to see the trees we planted here. I
:22:41. > :22:50.like it because we are making it a bit more greener. Even though it's
:22:51. > :22:55.hard work? Yes! Many of the total are now part of a scheme at the UN.
:22:56. > :22:59.Do you wish you might be able to live for another hundred years so
:23:00. > :23:03.you could see it? I would love to see it in the future. I'm looking
:23:04. > :23:10.forward to the tent and a bursary. That to me will be very special. You
:23:11. > :23:13.need somebody with energy and vision to get a project like that going.
:23:14. > :23:17.Well done. And on a similar theme, let me tell
:23:18. > :23:20.you that Roger Finn will be back tomorrow with another Finn's
:23:21. > :23:23.Country. This week he's at Iffley Meadows, famous for Oxford's iconic
:23:24. > :23:28.wild flower ` the Snakes Head Fritillary. A few weeks ago the
:23:29. > :23:33.meadows were flooded waist deep and the Wildlife Trust wasn't sure how
:23:34. > :23:42.badly the flowers would suffer. The only way to find out is to count
:23:43. > :23:45.them. Which is exactly what he is still doing! Hopefully he will be
:23:46. > :23:48.here tomorrow with the film! Onto the weather.
:23:49. > :23:52.Maureen Coles captured a foggy start to the day at the entrance to
:23:53. > :23:55.Portsmouth Harbour It brightened up pretty quickly ` though ` thanks to
:23:56. > :24:00.Bob Boyd for this shot of a nightingale in full song at
:24:01. > :24:02.Pulborough Brooks. And there's a bluebell theme at Chilworth near
:24:03. > :24:04.Southampton from Lorraine Lambeth ` taken at two o'clock as shown by the
:24:05. > :24:17.dandelions! Good evening. We have some quite
:24:18. > :24:21.unsettled weather to come over the next 24 hours or so. Thereafter,
:24:22. > :24:26.things get better. As we head into the holiday weekend, hopefully the
:24:27. > :24:31.sunshine will be back out all the gardeners beware, there is a risk of
:24:32. > :24:37.frost into the weekend. Some quite heavy showers possible tomorrow,
:24:38. > :24:42.even with the risk of hail and thunder. An area of low pressure is
:24:43. > :24:46.moving over us, that will introduce some unstable air so the showers are
:24:47. > :24:55.quite big ones over the next 24`hour is. That cloud and rain will creep
:24:56. > :25:04.in so it will go downhill, temperatures should be falling no
:25:05. > :25:10.lower than around nine or tell. Ten. It will be a bit murky tomorrow
:25:11. > :25:14.morning, some mist around, temperatures not as warm as today
:25:15. > :25:21.but then the showers get going. 12 of them could be quite heavy. There
:25:22. > :25:26.is a Met Office warning about them. Looking further ahead, we see things
:25:27. > :25:32.improved. Along the coastline, the winds are south`westerly, those
:25:33. > :25:40.times of high water are for Portsmouth. This is the area of low
:25:41. > :25:43.pressure generating those showers. It starts to move away from us, and
:25:44. > :26:16.eventually these