29/05/2014 BBC Oxford News

There are calls for the closure of a care facility in Oxford where

Conor Sparrowhawk was 18 when he drowned in the bath at Slade

An inquest found that his death could have been prevented

Last September, a damning report from the Care Quality Commission

By December, inspectors said Slade House had made

improvements so warnings about cleanliness were dropped.

Today the Care Quality Commission published its latest report on Slade

House saying many changes have been made but there's still work to do.

Southern Health run Slade House in Headington.

In response to this recent report, it told us it was delighted to have

the warning notices lifted and will continue to scrutinise

every area of care to ensure improvements are kept up.

But in a statement, the CQC said the service was still not effectively

respecting and involving people in significant personal decisions.

For example, the unit banned baths after

His stepfather thinks that's ridiculous and now there's only

Do you think Slade House should close?

It appears to me for it to be too easy for substandard care to be

maintained for too long in too many cases by too many organisations.

That just doesn't strike me as acceptable.

The unit still isn't open for new patients.

The CQC wants Slade House to make improvements by next month.

Seven members of staff have been suspended

because of previous failings and we understand disciplinary

A 42`year`old man has been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping

after a father and his daughter went missing in Oxfordshire.

Ewan Donald and his three`year`old daughter were

The man arrested is also being questioned on suspicion of

A housing charity in Buckinghamshire says it's at risk of closure

if plans for the high speed rail line HS2 line go ahead.

The Winwood Almshouse Trust says the land which provides its income

When Veronica's husband died, she had nowhere to live

so she moved here, to the Quainton Almshouses which support

I am a clergy widow so I would have to go into a clergy widow's home.

In my day, we couldn't afford our own house and

The almshouses are funded from income from this land but HS2

A local farmer rents the land from the charity and is worried about the

It will segregate a parcel of about 130 acres

and potentially leave the whole area unusable because of the disruption

That is an unknown at the moment and how much land will be taken during

construction and how much will be left usable after construction are

There is little support here for HS2, but people say

if it does come, they want to be treated fairly and for the charity

to secure the compensation it needs to support the community here

People living in a village in north Oxfordshire say it's taking too long

to fix a wall which partly collapsed last year, closing the road.

Old Bridge Road in Bloxham has been shut for 14 months

and people living nearby claim it's causing parking problems.

The repairs are expected to cost ?100,000.

Oxfordshire County Council says the work is a low priority.

Our customers regularly phone in to see if they can get access to

It affects our business and other businesses down the road and makes

it more difficult for our customers to come in and for the village

Plans to build a new Tesco Express store in a south Oxfordshire village

have been rejected by parish councillors.

Tesco wants to build it on a former pub site in Goring and says

But there are concerns it would lead to village shops losing trade.

More than 2,000 people have signed a petition against the plans.

rifle attack in which a cat was shot in Oxford. It needed a ?600

operation to save its life. The RSPCA says, nationally, it's had

more than 300 calls about air rifles this year. Tom Turrell reports.

On the prowl once again in his Kennington home.

But it could have been a very different story

for Paddy the cat who was recently shot in the leg by an air gun.

It's left his owner upset and suspicious of those living near by.

We have had animals in the past that have never come to any harm.

It is just very frightening that somebody in this vicinity has

an airgun and doesn't think twice about using it on an animal.

The X`ray showed the pellet had penetrated

If it had involved the knee joint, it could have resulted

in extensive reconstruction of that joint and even amputation

of the leg if the owners could not afford the other surgery options.

Air guns are legal in this country and you don't need a

licence, but using them in this way is most certainly against the law.

Thames Valley Police have told me an official investigation is underway.

I know they have been knocking at neighbours' doors to see

if they can shed any light on exactly what happened.

The police are reiterating, this is a criminal act

As for Paddy, well, he's back on his feet and I guess

Alexis is coming up with the weather.

It is set to turn a little more settled over the next

Cloudy overnight tonight and the risk of an odd shower, but

They could be on the heavy side if you catch one.

Most places enjoying a dry night with temperatures

Cloudy start to the day tomorrow, but it won't stay that way.

We are expecting the cloud to thin and break up in the afternoon.

A slim chance of a shower tomorrow, but most places will stay dry,

the temperatures reaching 15 or 16 Celsius.

Feeling pleasant, with varying amounts of cloud.

We are looking at a settled picture over the weekend.

On Sunday, the cloud will increase and rain will arrive.

Good evening. Most of us look like ending the week on a dry note. Some

of us end it today on a particularly wet note. Notably across parts of

south-west England and up into the Midland, a line of vicious storms

and thunder in there too. They have been spreading further west in parts

of Wales and southern counties. They'll tend to fade away the rest

of the night, but one or two lingering on. Most other places

having a quiet night. Cloud and mistiness out there.

Across the glens of northern Scotland, temperatures will get well

down into single fir. But for most of the rest of us, a relatively mild

night staying in double digits. One or two showers from word go across

the south-west which will be the focus for any showers tomorrow.

There won't be that many. Most of the country will have a quiet day,

albeit rather cloudy. Through the afternoon, a snapshot,

mid afternoon one or