:00:00. > :00:00.Hello, and welcome to South Today from Oxford.
:00:00. > :00:09.The prisoner who warned he'd kill himself, and then did.
:00:10. > :00:13.Sean Brock was in Woodhill, accused of raping a 14`year`old girl.
:00:14. > :00:19.Three cash points and a village hall were set on fire using petrol.
:00:20. > :00:24.Police believe one man is responsible.
:00:25. > :00:30.The drive to get more students to spend time with elderly people.
:00:31. > :00:36.We meet the veteran returning to his training ground where a vital
:00:37. > :00:53.An inmate found dead at Woodhill jail in Buckinghamshire warned
:00:54. > :00:56.police he planned to take his life days before he hung
:00:57. > :01:01.21`year`old Sean Brock had been charged with raping a 14`year`old
:01:02. > :01:06.The inquest jury was told he was anxious about going to prison.
:01:07. > :01:09.His body was found in his cell last November.
:01:10. > :01:17.The jury heard conflicting evidence about Sean Brock's state of mind
:01:18. > :01:20.in the days leading up to his death in November 2013.
:01:21. > :01:22.On November 6th, he was arrested on suspicion
:01:23. > :01:28.After a court appearance in Northampton,
:01:29. > :01:31.the 21`year`old was transferred to HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes,
:01:32. > :01:33.a high`security prison, which houses some of the most
:01:34. > :01:41.The court heard Mr Brock confided with his solicitor
:01:42. > :01:45.before the transfer about his plans to commit suicide.
:01:46. > :01:50."He was anxious and scared of going to prison.
:01:51. > :01:54.His words were along the lines of, I'll hang myself".
:01:55. > :01:57.Ms Lockwood he also police he was suicidal.
:01:58. > :02:00.Mr Brock was assessed by prison officers when he arrived
:02:01. > :02:03.at Woodhill, but they said he was talking positively about the future.
:02:04. > :02:05.He admitted to a history of self`harming,
:02:06. > :02:11.He was also checked by a medical expert at the prison, Meta Norman.
:02:12. > :02:14."There was no obvious risk with Mr Brock.
:02:15. > :02:19.His demeanour was not of someone who was in a suicidal state."
:02:20. > :02:21.On November 10th, a prison officer checked Mr Brock's
:02:22. > :02:28.When he came back two hours later, he found Mr Brock hanging
:02:29. > :02:36.Staff tried to revive Mr Brock, but it was too late.
:02:37. > :02:39.A note was later found by police, believed to be referring to
:02:40. > :02:42.the 14`year`old girl Mr Brock was in a relationship with.
:02:43. > :02:45.It said, "I miss and love my baby girl so much."
:02:46. > :02:53.A village hall and three cashpoints have been set on fire in Banbury
:02:54. > :02:57.All four fires were started overnight using petrol.
:02:58. > :03:00.Police believe one man is responsible, and are appealing
:03:01. > :03:09.But fire fighters quickly got to the scene of this arson attack just
:03:10. > :03:17.If another incident had occurred in the Banbury area, then, whilst
:03:18. > :03:23.we would have been able to deal with it quite comfortably, it is an asset
:03:24. > :03:29.to the county that is tied up for a number of hours for no reason.
:03:30. > :03:32.It is important to stress these types of calls do put stress
:03:33. > :03:35.Three banks on the high street were targeted, Lloyds,
:03:36. > :03:41.It's unclear why these particular sites were singled out,
:03:42. > :03:47.There was no internal damage and no money was taken.
:03:48. > :03:51.But police called the Fire Service back to the area an hour later,
:03:52. > :03:56.This time, the Freemasons Hall in Marlborough Road.
:03:57. > :03:59.Police investigating this incident are looking for a man riding
:04:00. > :04:03.a bicycle on the High Street in the early hours of this morning.
:04:04. > :04:07.He was wearing a floppy fishing hat, baggy jeans and a dark coat.
:04:08. > :04:10.Detectives have released these images
:04:11. > :04:21.And are asking for anyone else with information to contact them.
:04:22. > :04:27.Thames Water has agreed to an ?86 million financial settlement, after
:04:28. > :04:31.The firm has made the agreement with the water
:04:32. > :04:34.regulator Ofwat, after admitting it got the number of properties
:04:35. > :04:37.at high risk of sewer flooding between 2005 and 2010 wrong.
:04:38. > :04:40.Thames Water will set aside ?2 million to help poor customers,
:04:41. > :04:46.and put ?5 million into community projects.
:04:47. > :04:48.People in South Oxfordshire are asking Oxfordshire County Council to
:04:49. > :04:51.oppose the closure of the main road between Faringdon
:04:52. > :04:55.Several road bridges have to be replaced as part
:04:56. > :04:59.of the electrification of the Great Western Rail line.
:05:00. > :05:02.Network Rail recently agreed to keep the A338 open,
:05:03. > :05:04.but they and Oxfordshire County Council say there's no alternative
:05:05. > :05:15.Oxfordshire County Council have a legal duty to keep the roads open.
:05:16. > :05:35.This A417 provides a lifeline. To close it for four months is an
:05:36. > :05:38.unacceptable solution. Oxfordshire County Council needs to do a deal
:05:39. > :05:43.Network Rail, keep Faringdon and Wantage working. And until they do
:05:44. > :05:46.A much`delayed plan setting out where thousands
:05:47. > :05:50.of houses can be built in North Oxfordshire over the next decade has
:05:51. > :05:59.This is something called the Cherwell Local Plan.
:06:00. > :06:05.And what it does it set out where houses should be built up
:06:06. > :06:08.For Cherwell, the district council was suggesting 16,750 homes,
:06:09. > :06:13.and that most of them should go around Banbury and Bicester.
:06:14. > :06:15.It means that any developers wanting to build outside
:06:16. > :06:18.of those areas would find it more difficult to get permission.
:06:19. > :06:22.The plan has to be signed off by the Government.
:06:23. > :06:25.This week, an inspector opened a hearing on the plan.
:06:26. > :06:29.The reason is that he doesn't think that 16,750 houses will be enough.
:06:30. > :06:32.A recent study suggested Cherwell would need nearly 23,000 homes.
:06:33. > :06:35.He's told the council to work out where to put
:06:36. > :06:41.But the council's said it will start by seeing
:06:42. > :06:43.whether it can add more houses to developments already planned.
:06:44. > :06:47.And it will also prioritise urban and brownfield sites, to try to
:06:48. > :06:53.All the time it doesn't have one in place, it's easier for developers
:06:54. > :06:56.to come along and get permission for houses in those villages
:06:57. > :07:00.and spaces where neither the council nor local residents want them.
:07:01. > :07:02.The annual Banbury And District Show has been cancelled,
:07:03. > :07:10.but has been called off due to a waterlogged ground.
:07:11. > :07:16.Torrential downpours are also expected on sunday.
:07:17. > :07:24.Safety of visitors to the show, and participants, is a priority. We must
:07:25. > :07:28.ensure every precaution is taken. Because the ground is so water bed,
:07:29. > :07:42.we feel and fortunately we had to cancel the show.
:07:43. > :07:44.Old age is something that comes to us all.
:07:45. > :07:47.But, for some, it can mean being left isolated and lonely.
:07:48. > :07:50.That's why a group of volunteers from the University Of
:07:51. > :07:53.Oxford are trying to increase their efforts to tackle the issue.
:07:54. > :08:55.It's a Thursday at this Oxford care home, and that means only one thing.
:08:56. > :08:59.This kind of help comes at a time when we're living longer and
:09:00. > :10:25.mission. We are in Weymouth as we meet the
:10:26. > :10:30.man who hopes to follow in the footsteps of Ben Ainslie.
:10:31. > :10:32.Five children and three adults have been treated
:10:33. > :10:35.for minor injuries after two school coaches collided in Berkshire.
:10:36. > :10:39.One vehicle ran into the back of the other on a hill close to
:10:40. > :10:43.The coaches were carrying 71 pupils and teachers from Westwood
:10:44. > :10:49.All those on board were wearing seat belts.
:10:50. > :10:52.The coach company TK Travel says it's cooperating fully with
:10:53. > :10:58.We are still looking to investigate what the cause of the collision was.
:10:59. > :11:01.What we can say is that the injuries resulting from that collision are
:11:02. > :11:05.believed all to be very minor and are being treated as a precaution.
:11:06. > :11:07.The children were a little bit surprised.
:11:08. > :11:13.They were strapped up and in a collar and everything else.
:11:14. > :11:16.We assessed them and got their x`rays and everything
:11:17. > :11:22.A charity which supports asylum seekers has raised concerns after a
:11:23. > :11:27.young man was found dead yesterday at The Verne prison on Portland.
:11:28. > :11:30.The man was an immigration detainee and sources
:11:31. > :11:35.say the prison authorities believe he died of natural causes.
:11:36. > :11:38.But the charity says the prison regime at The Verne is
:11:39. > :11:47.Perched high above Portland Harbour, The Verne closed last October
:11:48. > :11:53.In March immigration detainees were moved in and the plan was for
:11:54. > :11:56.The Verne to become an immigration removal centre with
:11:57. > :12:02.The Prison Service decided it should still be run as a jail.
:12:03. > :12:09.Yesterday morning, one of the inmates, Bruno Dos Santos,
:12:10. > :12:16.The police are not treating his death as suspicious.
:12:17. > :12:20.There are now over 100 detainees in The Verne, all foreign national
:12:21. > :12:22.offenders who have served their prison sentence and are being
:12:23. > :12:25.held indefinitely while the Home Office considers their status.
:12:26. > :12:28.A charity that works for asylum seekers believes the prison regime
:12:29. > :12:35.The main concern is that the regime is much harsher, the
:12:36. > :12:40.lock`up is for far longer than in prison and communication with the
:12:41. > :12:46.So people feel very isolated from family, friends and lawyers
:12:47. > :12:51.The death of Bruno Dos Santos is being
:12:52. > :12:59.investigated by the Independent Prisons and Probations Ombudsman.
:13:00. > :13:02.A 48`year`old woman has been charged by police over a suspected
:13:03. > :13:08.A 22`year`old woman was left with serious facial burns
:13:09. > :13:10.after the incident at the Royal China restaurant
:13:11. > :13:16.Sau Lin`Hin of Mulberry Way in Ryde has been charged with causing
:13:17. > :13:24.Businesses are being warned that companies who call up and claim
:13:25. > :13:28.they can reduce their overheads could end up costing them money.
:13:29. > :13:31.An investigation by BBC South has found evidence that
:13:32. > :13:36.some firms are paying to have their business rates reduced only to
:13:37. > :13:39.find that the process is unsuccessful and leaves them
:13:40. > :13:50.When this electronics company was contacted
:13:51. > :13:54.by a firm that claimed it could reduce business rates, they signed
:13:55. > :14:00.They gave us a very convincing case for why our
:14:01. > :14:08.I do not believe that case was ever based on reality.
:14:09. > :14:13.I think they were very happy to take the fee, do the minimum for it,
:14:14. > :14:17.which was put in the application, and then just walk away.
:14:18. > :14:20.Business rates are a tax on non`domestic properties.
:14:21. > :14:23.They are based on size, location and rent.
:14:24. > :14:26.The rate of the value of a premises is reviewed every five
:14:27. > :14:31.years and collected by the local authority but it can be complicated,
:14:32. > :14:34.which is why companies offer to look at them on your behalf.
:14:35. > :14:38.What many businesses do not realise is you can get this done for free
:14:39. > :14:40.by contacting the government department responsible,
:14:41. > :14:47.There is a lot of work the government has to be doing on the
:14:48. > :14:50.appeals process which would help in some way people to stop believing
:14:51. > :14:54.they can short circuit the system and go through these companies and I
:14:55. > :14:57.think the government needs to be doing more about that.
:14:58. > :14:59.On a south Reading industrial estate, this company sells
:15:00. > :15:04.They paid ?700 to have their business rates looked at.
:15:05. > :15:10.Our rates are reasonably high for Reading but we seem unable to
:15:11. > :15:22.It is like one of those people who ring you up and pester you who have
:15:23. > :15:26.not really done the due diligence and are just taking advantage of us.
:15:27. > :15:28.The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors are the professional
:15:29. > :15:57.There are a number of companies that offer the service.
:15:58. > :16:00.While some have declined to comment, one says they adhere to
:16:01. > :16:02.a strict code of conduct, have served thousands
:16:03. > :16:07.And while it is acknowledged that some customers on occasions
:16:08. > :16:10.are dissatisfied, they say they always seek to put things right.
:16:11. > :16:13.That is little comfort for those left out of pocket who say
:16:14. > :16:17.they will just have to put up with this tax until it is next reviewed
:16:18. > :16:20.Sport, and Bournemouth striker Lewis Grabban has joined
:16:21. > :16:40.Chris Jordan has received his first call up to the England Test squad
:16:41. > :16:43.after being named in the 12 for the first test against Sri Lanka which
:16:44. > :16:50.London Welsh have won promotion act London Welsh have won promotion act
:16:51. > :16:54.to the premiership. They beat Bristol in the second leg of the
:16:55. > :17:00.play`off final last night, giving them a 20 point win on aggregate and
:17:01. > :17:06.securing a return to the top flight season after being relegated.
:17:07. > :17:11.He has been dubbed the next Ben Ainslie but he is keen to believe
:17:12. > :17:23.his own trail. The Weymouth `based sailor certainly has the winning
:17:24. > :17:28.habit. `` Weymouth`based sailor. Sailing to victory, Giles Scott has
:17:29. > :17:33.been in for a double form. Is when this week was almost a procession at
:17:34. > :17:40.the Olympic venue. It is two years to the next Games but he is hungry.
:17:41. > :17:43.It is amazing how close the Games feels. You almost feel like you do
:17:44. > :17:50.not have a great till of time. As you get closer, that imminent
:17:51. > :17:55.feeling becomes greater. He was in the form of his life in 2012. It was
:17:56. > :18:04.Ben Ainslie who represented Team GB and won gold. Now is the time for
:18:05. > :18:11.Scots to emerge from his shadow. The next Ben Ainslie. How does that suit
:18:12. > :18:16.you? I am not the next Ben Ainslie. I am Giles Scott. I will never be
:18:17. > :18:22.Ben Ainslie. There is a lot I want to achieve in selling and hopefully
:18:23. > :18:31.there is more to come. He has mixed emotions, having fought an intense
:18:32. > :18:35.battle with Ben Ainslie and losing out to selection. It is where I lost
:18:36. > :18:42.the Olympic trials and where I watched the Games. It was an
:18:43. > :18:49.interesting situation was ultimately without the selection `` throughout
:18:50. > :18:57.the selection then was trying to assert his dominance and I was
:18:58. > :19:02.trying to break that down. The competition stayed on the water,
:19:03. > :19:08.which is a good thing. The leading Olympic contenders will head to Rio
:19:09. > :19:13.de Janeiro this autumn. I am a believer in wanting to win every
:19:14. > :19:17.competition and I do. It is going to be a big learning calves. It will be
:19:18. > :19:28.the first time I have been to Rio de Janeiro during Games time. He could
:19:29. > :19:38.be the next big thing in British sailing.
:19:39. > :19:46.We can return to the 70th anniversary of D`Day. We tangled to
:19:47. > :19:53.what was a secret training ground for a top`secret D`Day mission. It
:19:54. > :20:04.prepared them for one of D`Day's most important battles.
:20:05. > :20:09.With its spectacular views across four counties, this is a mecca for
:20:10. > :20:14.walkers but anyone who tried to come here in the spring of 1944 would
:20:15. > :20:23.have found all of this countryside" as an elite unit appeared for a
:20:24. > :20:27.secret mission. `` prepared. The mission was to disable four
:20:28. > :20:31.placements built by the Germans on the Normandy coast so the Allied
:20:32. > :20:40.forces could land. We covered the forces could land. We covered the
:20:41. > :20:47.beach six miles away. We flew six miles a minute, it would have caused
:20:48. > :20:57.carnage for the fellas landing. It had to be silenced. Photographs
:20:58. > :21:04.reveal that bombing of the area had failed so The Parachute Regiment was
:21:05. > :21:06.given the task to finish the job. It was so well fortified area liquor
:21:07. > :21:21.was needed for the troops to practice on. The man who devised the
:21:22. > :21:25.plan is, `` is in this picture. He decided upon here, one of the main
:21:26. > :21:35.reasons was that was quite secret. It was very difficult for access.
:21:36. > :21:39.The Hill would act as a but for the fire. To give us the best times of
:21:40. > :21:49.success and survival. He was a hard past master `` past master. This man
:21:50. > :21:54.has not seen these fields in 70 years. Most of the attackers were
:21:55. > :22:00.planned by parachute at night but he was part of a smaller group with an
:22:01. > :22:09.even more dangerous role. He wanted 60 men to volunteer to crash land
:22:10. > :22:23.inside. One of the officers begged and pleaded to go in the glider, he
:22:24. > :22:26.was a volunteer. He said, I am not going to send my regular officers on
:22:27. > :22:38.a suicide mission. He did not tell me that. One officer referred to the
:22:39. > :22:45.mission as a stink of a job. The cardinal was anxious about details
:22:46. > :22:49.leaking out. He gave his men the night off and that has to come into
:22:50. > :22:56.town. The young woman so eager to make conversation were members of
:22:57. > :23:00.the workforce. Their task was to try to engage the men in conversation
:23:01. > :23:04.and get them to divulge details of their secret mission. Despite the
:23:05. > :23:08.pubs of nobody, not one man breathed pubs of nobody, not one man breathed
:23:09. > :23:16.a word. Today, nothing remains of the training ground, the only key a
:23:17. > :23:22.simple stone memorial. You can be the best soldier in the world, but
:23:23. > :23:31.bullets can be fired. There's a lot of luck attached to survival. It is
:23:32. > :23:36.very sad. The troops returned to their base on Salisbury Plain, ready
:23:37. > :23:39.to put their plan into action, but little could prepare them for what
:23:40. > :23:46.was actually happening on that daring D`Day mission.
:23:47. > :23:49.We will have a special programme tomorrow night marking the 70th
:23:50. > :23:55.anniversary of the D`Day landings. Our reporter is in France.
:23:56. > :24:01.Join us for a special programme tonight live in France. 70 years ago
:24:02. > :24:08.British soldiers came ashore here in Normandy. We will be telling the
:24:09. > :24:13.story of one of those soldiers from Dorset. We will be finding out about
:24:14. > :24:25.the mission to disarm the German gun battery which is just the few
:24:26. > :24:29.colonic `` kilometres down the road. We will be with the veterans, so
:24:30. > :24:34.many of them from the south, who have made the journey to remember
:24:35. > :24:41.their comrades. Join us tomorrow night live in France.
:24:42. > :24:45.That is at the later time of 7pm. At 7pm tonight we will be live in
:24:46. > :25:15.Normandy. It was a much better day.
:25:16. > :25:24.It goes downhill on Saturday. A display in honour of D`Day veterans
:25:25. > :25:28.captured by Sean. Tonight is a fairly quiet night with
:25:29. > :25:34.clear skies and the risk of one or two mist patches in the usual spots.
:25:35. > :25:41.Under the clear skies, maybe the odd shower. Temperatures dropping away
:25:42. > :25:48.to single figures. Possibly lower temperatures in the countryside. The
:25:49. > :25:54.winds are fairly light. This and Falkirk will clear tomorrow with the
:25:55. > :26:00.old shower. It is a decent and Friday like today. Temperatures will
:26:01. > :26:05.reach 23 Celsius with a light southeasterly wind. The wins
:26:06. > :26:13.tomorrow are southeasterly, drawing up the mild air from the continent.
:26:14. > :26:20.70 years ago temperatures were around 10 degrees lower than that,
:26:21. > :26:28.the winds drawing in cooler air, so choppy conditions on the 6th of June
:26:29. > :26:34.1944. Tomorrow night we can expect some settled conditions until the
:26:35. > :26:37.early hours of the morning when it turns fairly unsettled from the
:26:38. > :26:42.south west and the south with the band of thundery showers moving up
:26:43. > :26:49.from France. Quite a humid night to come. The winds will start to
:26:50. > :26:55.pick`up. Band of rain or showers will reach its way up from the
:26:56. > :26:59.channel on Saturday. The Met Office have issued a yellow weather
:27:00. > :27:07.warning. There could be localised flooding full of that will clear
:27:08. > :27:11.through Saturday night. You may have some sunshine on offer. The showers
:27:12. > :27:16.may not affect everyone. Some areas could they drive. We have high
:27:17. > :27:25.pressure coming in from the Atlantic. The thunderstorms will be
:27:26. > :27:43.hit and mist. Join us tomorrow.