:00:13. > :00:14.Hello and welcome to South Today from Oxford.
:00:15. > :00:19.17 years after an arson att`ck, a woman goes on trial accusdd
:00:20. > :00:22.Bridge to the future ` the renovations
:00:23. > :00:26.on the railway that are key to a long`awaited upgrade that could
:00:27. > :00:30.And a plea for so`called hidden carers to come forward
:00:31. > :00:36.A new bike scheme is being "pedalled" ` but cycling groups put
:00:37. > :00:53.17 years after an arson att`ck on a house which left two young children
:00:54. > :00:57.dead in East Oxford, a woman's gone on trial accused of their mtrder.
:00:58. > :01:00.Fiaz Munshi is accused of bding involved in the firebomb attack
:01:01. > :01:03.which took the lives of Majhd Khan and his younger sister Anum Khan.
:01:04. > :01:13.Magdalen Road in Oxford ` August 1997.
:01:14. > :01:16.A house fire which claimed the lives of two young
:01:17. > :01:20.children ` 15`year`old Majid Khan and his eight`year`old sistdr Anum.
:01:21. > :01:22.It's claimed this was the fatal conclusion
:01:23. > :01:25.of an ongoing dispute betwedn the Khan family and the acctsed
:01:26. > :01:32.She'd been involved in a secret romance with Antm
:01:33. > :01:39.But his family disapproved `nd told her family about the relationship.
:01:40. > :01:42.Amjad then broke it off and Fiaz, who ` the court heard `
:01:43. > :01:47.angry at his family's interfering, travelled to the Khan house
:01:48. > :01:50.from Stevenage with seven others and conspired to set the fire
:01:51. > :02:00.When the group arrived, two of them squirted petrol from
:02:01. > :02:04.drink bottles ` like these ` through the letterbox and set it alhght
:02:05. > :02:07.Seven people were in the hotse ` five had to jump
:02:08. > :02:11.But Anum was trapped and didd of smoke inhalation.
:02:12. > :02:15.Majid suffered over 50% burns and died a few days later.
:02:16. > :02:18.In November 1998, five men were convicted of killing the chhldren.
:02:19. > :02:20.A year later, Fiaz's sister Riaz Munshi w`s
:02:21. > :02:30.The jury were also told about an error by Thames Valley
:02:31. > :02:34.Police in 2005 ` which meant information about Fiaz being back in
:02:35. > :02:42.That meant plans to arrest her were delayed by eight years.
:02:43. > :02:45.Today Prosecutor Neil Moore said Fiaz Munshi was exceptionally close
:02:46. > :02:50.to the plan and it was inconceivable she wasn't part of it.
:02:51. > :02:53.He went on to say that Fiaz held a grudge
:02:54. > :02:57.against the Khan family and she was hostile on the night of the attack.
:02:58. > :02:59.38`year`old Fiaz Munshi denhes two counts of murder
:03:00. > :03:09.It's work which promises a faster, cleaner rail network `
:03:10. > :03:12.electrification of the Great Western Line into London.
:03:13. > :03:15.As part of the upgrade, work is due to start
:03:16. > :03:18.on 29 bridges across Oxfordshire, to make way for the new lind.
:03:19. > :03:21.In some cases, it means roads will be closed for months `
:03:22. > :03:38.By 2017 this line will be c`rrying electrified planes from London to
:03:39. > :03:44.Wales. First, though, overhdad cables need to go under herd. ``
:03:45. > :03:48.electrified trains. 100 bridges will be altered. 29 are in Oxfordshire,
:03:49. > :03:57.including three bitches on busy routes. Work is due to start in
:03:58. > :04:04.September, meaning this road, the A417, will be shut for four mums,
:04:05. > :04:10.which is bad news for some. I rely on this road for my business. Let me
:04:11. > :04:14.keep my business. He isn't the only business nervous about the closure.
:04:15. > :04:18.People commuting from smalldr villages to Stanford in the Vale
:04:19. > :04:20.have got the villages that they can cut through. We need to find a
:04:21. > :04:55.different route for the HEV is. The circumstances at this p`rticular
:04:56. > :05:00.bridge are that we do some of the land but we don't own all of it We
:05:01. > :05:06.would have to acquire a significant amount of land in order to `void
:05:07. > :05:09.closing the road, which would severely disrupt local residents and
:05:10. > :05:15.local businesses and is therefore not a viable option. Ted and other
:05:16. > :05:20.business owners are still hoping Network Rail might change their
:05:21. > :05:24.mind. A petition to keep thd A4 7 open has got many signatures.
:05:25. > :05:27.The number of people with type 2 diabetes in
:05:28. > :05:30.our region has risen dramathcally over the last two years.
:05:31. > :05:32.In Oxfordshire alone, there were nearly 24,000 people
:05:33. > :05:36.Last year the number stood at more than 26,000.
:05:37. > :05:39.Nationally, researchers tod`y warned that more than a third of adults
:05:40. > :05:43.in England are on the verge of developing type 2 diabetds
:05:44. > :05:50.Within the last hour, Campaigners in Goring opposdd to a
:05:51. > :05:53.new Tesco store opening in the town have staged a protest to delonstrate
:05:54. > :05:57.how dangerous and unsuitabld the area is for a supermarkdt.
:05:58. > :05:59.Earlier this year, hundreds of people turned ott to
:06:00. > :06:02.a public meeting to oppose the plans ` but the supermarket
:06:03. > :06:07.giant insists the area is stitable and will provide local jobs.
:06:08. > :06:09.Meanwhile, others in the town have expressed
:06:10. > :06:14.Victoria Cook has just sent this report.
:06:15. > :06:20.More than 50 people have turned up here this afternoon to protdst
:06:21. > :06:27.against Tesco being built their old local pub kind me. They say that if
:06:28. > :06:30.it is built, the local shopkeepers will close down and they sax the
:06:31. > :06:35.roads around here are too d`ngerous for pedestrians to walk to ` local
:06:36. > :06:38.supermarket. I am with one of the campaigners for the group. This is
:06:39. > :06:43.already got planning permission from the council as a supermarket so what
:06:44. > :06:48.are you hoping to achieve? Ht's still got to go through one more
:06:49. > :06:54.step. They have put in minor works applications for the signagd is the
:06:55. > :06:58.cool rooms around the back, and they have to pass through south
:06:59. > :07:01.Oxfordshire district Council. Our hope is that we will persuade the
:07:02. > :07:07.council to reject those applications on the grounds of safety at the
:07:08. > :07:11.site. The parish council has already signalled that they consider the
:07:12. > :07:14.site on safe and they have recommended to the county council
:07:15. > :07:18.that the plans be rejected on the grounds of safety. Tesco sax that it
:07:19. > :07:23.could bring business to the area and will bring 20 new local jobs stop
:07:24. > :07:26.what do you say to that? We have enough shops here already. We have
:07:27. > :07:30.everything that Tesco are going to sell already. All they will do is
:07:31. > :07:33.drive away some of that custom from the shops that will gradually slow
:07:34. > :07:37.down and close and those shops are in the middle of the villagd. This
:07:38. > :07:41.is quarter of a mile out of the village. Once they've closed,
:07:42. > :07:46.everyone will have to walk down here, down this narrow, dangerous
:07:47. > :07:52.footpath, to get to the shop. Today in a statement, Tesco said that they
:07:53. > :07:54.hope the shop will be very popular locally and reiterated that they
:07:55. > :07:58.hope it will bring more jobs to the area but they are now seeking the
:07:59. > :08:02.This week is National Carers Week ` and a charity
:08:03. > :08:05.in Milton Keynes is urging thousands of so`called "hidden carers"
:08:06. > :08:09.Many of those looking after a family member don't see
:08:10. > :08:12.themselves as a carer ` but now a campaign is highlighting the need
:08:13. > :08:26.Dave Hunt, a former policem`n, had a stroke three years ago as hd walked
:08:27. > :08:31.his dog. His wife Sue took darly retirement to care for him.
:08:32. > :08:35.Overnight, our lives have ttrned upside down. I was a teacher and
:08:36. > :08:47.divide gone into a classrool and I wasn't trained in at first ht's
:08:48. > :08:53.dreadful because I haven't had any training but I am my husband's nurse
:08:54. > :08:58.and his counsellor and his physiotherapist and there is an
:08:59. > :09:02.awful lot of pressure. But then Sue found an independent charitx in
:09:03. > :09:05.Milton Keynes that support tnpaid carers in the area. Their mdetings
:09:06. > :09:11.are an opportunity to have ` chat and sometimes a cry. David has also
:09:12. > :09:14.found his own support network. We learned a lot by talking to other
:09:15. > :09:21.people and learning from thdir experiences. That's what got us
:09:22. > :09:25.through a lot of it, learning by other people's experiences. It is
:09:26. > :09:30.estimated there are 21,000 carers in Milton Keynes alone. Many are
:09:31. > :09:35.looking after a child or parent so don't think of themselves as carers.
:09:36. > :09:38.Being a carer can often be very isolating. You find that yotr life
:09:39. > :09:42.shrinks down to the size of the person you care for and all the
:09:43. > :09:46.things you did previously lhke work and social life can fall aw`y. One
:09:47. > :09:50.of the things carers need is emotional support so they c`n stay
:09:51. > :09:51.emotionally well. Sue believes that getting support transformed her
:09:52. > :09:55.life. A survey's underway in Banbtry to
:09:56. > :09:59.find out how many species of fish Experts from the Environment Agency
:10:00. > :10:03.have been using specialist dlectric equipment to temporarily sttn
:10:04. > :10:06.the fish ` before catching them The check`up is to find out what
:10:07. > :10:19.state the river is in, and how The fish populations are probably
:10:20. > :10:24.moderate and could be better. Things like water quality we look `t and
:10:25. > :10:28.also things like Habitat works. We can get in there and do thel so the
:10:29. > :10:33.little bits of things we can do might provide habitat for the fish
:10:34. > :10:37.and other wildlife and improve the water through bamboo itself. ``
:10:38. > :10:39.through Banbury. A giant statue of Olympic mddal
:10:40. > :10:42.winner Greg Rutherford has gone up The Leaping Man statue has been
:10:43. > :10:48.built in honour of Greg Rutherford's A campaign to erect it began
:10:49. > :10:52.in November 2012, with The final touches
:10:53. > :10:56.of landscaping are due to bd The long jumper,
:10:57. > :11:00.who lives in Woburn Sands, leapt to I'll have the headlines at 8pm
:11:01. > :11:13.and a full bulletin at 10.24pm. the last four years.
:11:14. > :11:18.Robert Donovan was jailed in 19 4 for stabbing a man to death in
:11:19. > :11:22.London. He absconded from Ford Open Prison, near Arundel, in June 2 10.
:11:23. > :11:25.Donovan may have family livhng in Portsmouth, and could be ushng the
:11:26. > :11:28.alias David Green. It comes weeks after Ford admitted two simhlar
:11:29. > :11:31.cases of inmates walking out of Still to come in this evening's
:11:32. > :11:34.South Today... An inquest has heard how a lan died
:11:35. > :11:38.after setting fire to himself in a dentist's surgery in Chichester
:11:39. > :11:40.Witnesses said Anthony Chasd, who was 66, argued with staff bdfore
:11:41. > :11:43.dousing himself in flammabld liquid. His family told a coroner's court he
:11:44. > :12:03.had a history of mental health The receptionist and went to get the
:12:04. > :12:11.manager after an argument. But another receptionist saw hilself
:12:12. > :12:15.pulling a flammable liquid over himself and setting light to
:12:16. > :12:21.himself. Staff moved quicklx to douse the flames and he was taken to
:12:22. > :12:26.hospital where he died of extensive burns a few days later. Her sister
:12:27. > :12:31.said her brother had had a long history of mental health problems.
:12:32. > :12:36.She said he had been diagnosed as having paranoid schizophrenha and
:12:37. > :12:41.had refused in recent years to take his medication. She said th`t he did
:12:42. > :12:52.not think there was anything wrong with them. He had cut off I'll
:12:53. > :12:58.contact with his family. . The coroner said that the man h`d died
:12:59. > :13:20.of his own deliberate actions when the balance of his mind was
:13:21. > :13:25.disturbed. Now I welcome thhs paper has come up with an eye`catching way
:13:26. > :13:34.to highlight the issue of trading cards. The subject of his c`rds are
:13:35. > :14:11.Cabinet members of Sussex County Council. Country`mac in Portsmouth
:14:12. > :14:16.``Surrey County Council. We ordinary people do not understand wh`t is
:14:17. > :14:25.going on. It is good. I shotld apply for a job there. In a an independent
:14:26. > :14:32.panel recommended cutting some salaries. They ignore this `nd
:14:33. > :14:38.decided to increase the sal`ry. And this is only a few months after the
:14:39. > :14:44.Conservative group on a County Council decided they would not pay a
:14:45. > :14:46.living wage to Novell emploxees In a statement, Surrey County Council
:14:47. > :14:52.said they have not raised allowances for four years and while th`t was
:14:53. > :14:55.the right thing to do for the time they feel it is important that
:14:56. > :15:00.adjustments are made to reflect this increased realism responsibhlities.
:15:01. > :15:19.The Paper presented `` Antarctica. It's often a quicker ` and healthier
:15:20. > :15:24.` way to get to work so why aren't more people getting on their bike?
:15:25. > :15:27.Fewer than one in 30 workers cycle and in the South the rate is
:15:28. > :15:29.falling. Bucking the trend is Southalpton,
:15:30. > :15:32.Portsmouth and Bournemouth where the numbers cycling to work has gone up
:15:33. > :15:35.44% in a decade. But in Rushmoor it's fallen by 0%
:15:36. > :15:39.in a decade ` one of the largest falls in England.
:15:40. > :15:42.Today a new bike hire schemd launched in Reading and Wokhngham.
:15:43. > :15:45.200 are being made availabld to try to encourage drivers out of their
:15:46. > :15:48.cars ` but cycling groups s`y it's the wrong approach to getting more
:15:49. > :15:55.people back on the saddle as Joe Showing off our stores on a bank has
:15:56. > :16:00.become something of a right of passage for politicians to deal with
:16:01. > :16:10.the turn of the transport bts and leading to hit road. It is only
:16:11. > :16:16.achieved the and a maximum dffluent at anchor for the day is as ?4. It
:16:17. > :16:22.is an internal to try out for the short hops scene might otherwise
:16:23. > :16:30.have done in your car. This was the first day of the scheme to try and
:16:31. > :16:39.win people over. Are you telpted to use them? Yes, definitely. Why not.
:16:40. > :16:50.When, arrogant. I have not seen many people use them. From 2002 2011
:16:51. > :16:55.there was no increase in thd amount of people using bikes to around
:16:56. > :17:03.Reading. I think the main problems are a lack of cycling infrastructure
:17:04. > :17:07.and agile in that cycle network Even regular cyclist like this man
:17:08. > :17:18.heard not always feel safe on the roads in the town. How can between
:17:19. > :17:28.those buses and get home safely If you have a child or in shaphng it is
:17:29. > :17:33.impossible. This man is waiting for surgery after Barry hit by ` van and
:17:34. > :17:37.what she regards as badly ddsigned cycling looked acknowledges the role
:17:38. > :17:42.played by fears about safetx. I am settling campaigner and Eddhe not
:17:43. > :18:15.want this kind of thing to put people off. Then when I had to the
:18:16. > :18:25.prayers of this nail could cost up to ?2 million.
:18:26. > :18:29.The main sporting story of the day has been Sir Ben Ainslie's plans to
:18:30. > :18:35.mount a challenge to win thd America's Cup. It's the olddst
:18:36. > :18:38.trophy in sport but Britain has never won it, 163 years aftdr the
:18:39. > :18:41.first race staged off the Isle of Wight. Few journalists know more
:18:42. > :18:45.about the past and the presdnt of the event than journalist Bob Fisher
:18:46. > :19:00.How big a challenge is this? It is like and clear in our Seo? H suppose
:19:01. > :19:05.it is and we have never clahmed it but we have never really done it
:19:06. > :19:16.justice and the potential of challenges for it it has not worked.
:19:17. > :19:21.So how can be done now? He could win it. There is no finer sailor in the
:19:22. > :19:29.mail. He has trained with the New Zealand team were runners`up last
:19:30. > :19:37.time and with the Americans so he has that as well as for growing
:19:38. > :19:41.medals and a silver medal in the Olympic campaign. He is funding and
:19:42. > :19:49.a great team behind them. C`n bring those brought together? There was a
:19:50. > :19:54.lot of power and a lot of money and the defendants and they havd one of
:19:55. > :20:03.the richest men in the world behind them. He could not get much more
:20:04. > :20:09.than Larry Ellison as to his name that they have a lot of people
:20:10. > :20:15.behind them and airing the start of it. But talking now of having 2 % of
:20:16. > :20:19.that in Leeds and typing a nightmare, he was looking for ? 8
:20:20. > :20:24.million and I think it will probably overrun that but that is a lot of
:20:25. > :20:29.money to start thinking abott and if he gets that, surely you must be on
:20:30. > :20:38.their way. That's about a ldgacy from Sir Ben Ainslie? Is thdre a
:20:39. > :20:44.risk that if this does not go collect, people think this hs one
:20:45. > :20:52.area when it did not providd for them? I don't think so. It did not
:20:53. > :20:59.know it will affect previously greatest sailor before Sir Ben
:21:00. > :21:03.Ainslie came along. To do it for Great Britain is the man who has to
:21:04. > :21:08.do. I think there's every chance of winning this one. There will be
:21:09. > :21:09.accepted as being back from defeat. They have to look at that and
:21:10. > :21:20.Samantha. Some other sport, Reading's academy
:21:21. > :21:23.boss Eamonn Dolan is the favourite to succeed former Royals boss Brian
:21:24. > :21:25.McDermott at Leeds United. Dolan's earned a glowing reputration
:21:26. > :21:29.for his work with the youth set up at reading in a decade at the
:21:30. > :21:32.Madejski stadium, last season the Under 21 a side won the Prelier
:21:33. > :21:36.League Cup. Reading have refused to Southampton's sought`after captain
:21:37. > :21:39.Adam Lallana says his experhences in Brazil so far have put things in
:21:40. > :21:41.perspective. As he prepares for Saturday's opener
:21:42. > :21:44.against Italy, Lallana and other England players visited a ndw sports
:21:45. > :21:49.complex built with World Cup money, on the outskirts of Brazil's largest
:21:50. > :21:52.favela. The complex provides sport and medical facilities for people
:21:53. > :21:54.living in poor conditions. It?s great. You know, we?re not
:21:55. > :21:57.bored. No excuses, it?s gre`t to come to places like this today and
:21:58. > :22:01.give back to the kids and you?re starting to get a real buzz about it
:22:02. > :22:05.now and you really feel that the nation?s a massive football nation
:22:06. > :22:09.and everyone?s got a real btzz for Portsmouth Football Club has
:22:10. > :22:15.launched a crowd`funding calpaign to pay for two new football pitches.
:22:16. > :22:18.The club hopes to raise a qtarter of a million pounds to build additional
:22:19. > :22:22.pitches for the Pompey Acaddmy at their new training facility. It s
:22:23. > :22:25.the first time a Football Ldague club has undertaken such a campaign
:22:26. > :22:28.and relies on lots of fans giving Cricket, and Sussex's top order was
:22:29. > :22:33.blown away by a sensational over from
:22:34. > :22:35.Alfonso Thomas as the Somerset quickie took four wickets in four
:22:36. > :22:38.balls. James Anyon was bowldd, Rory Hamilton B?rown trapped LBW and Ed
:22:39. > :22:41.Joyce was caught behind for the hat`trick, before Matt Mach`n was
:22:42. > :22:45.bowled on the first ball of his next Somerset needed just 20 overs to
:22:46. > :22:49.chase down their target ` a six from Craig Kieswetter clinched the
:22:50. > :22:50.six`wicket win. In their top`of`the table clash
:22:51. > :22:52.against Worcetershire, Hampshire were forced to follow on.
:22:53. > :22:56.Surrey meanwhile racked up ` huge score against Gloucestershire.
:22:57. > :22:58.Solanki and Burns with nearly 3 0 They lead
:22:59. > :23:18.by 460 with five wickets relaining. Art has been used as a form a
:23:19. > :23:22.therapy for years. Now it's being used to help unlock the memories of
:23:23. > :23:26.soldiers who are sick, wounded or are suffering emotional tratma.
:23:27. > :23:29.Later this week some of the images and textiles created by vetdrans
:23:30. > :23:32.will go on display in Hampshire Nikki Mitchell reports. When he left
:23:33. > :23:41.the Royal Highland Fusilers, Michael Crossan suffered from mental health
:23:42. > :23:44.problems. Today, after taking part in a series of veterans' art
:23:45. > :23:47.workshops, one of his screenprints is the focal point of artist Susan
:23:48. > :23:50.Stockwell's exhibition piecd. I couldn't believe it when shd
:23:51. > :23:53.actually told me she was ushng my piece as a sort of centre point for
:23:54. > :23:58.the project and now, when I see it, it still gives me goosebumps to look
:23:59. > :24:01.at it. It's absolutely amazhng! For me, it encapsulates the
:24:02. > :24:03.brothers`in`arms theme of the military from the beginning of time.
:24:04. > :24:09.It just shows me and other guys there is life after the milhtary and
:24:10. > :24:13.there is help out there so for me from coming from living two years
:24:14. > :24:21.homeless to having a piece of artwork that will tour the country
:24:22. > :24:25.really gives me inspiration. The artwork's made out of discarded Army
:24:26. > :24:27.blankets. Veterans have been encouraged to try their hands at
:24:28. > :24:50.sewing and quilting to exprdss So the to have a tanker. Thhnk that
:24:51. > :25:25.is really reflective of the ways in which to practice can be usdd.
:25:26. > :25:28.Eleanor McBay captured this view looking east today from above Durdle
:25:29. > :25:30.door. Mary Hopcraft took this photo of the
:25:31. > :25:33.purple poppies in West Wittdring. And Bill Law captured Faringdon
:25:34. > :25:52.We are looking at sunshine hn varying amounts. There is the risk
:25:53. > :25:57.that by the weekend we could have they honour translated showdr. Quiet
:25:58. > :26:00.conditions overnight and mild with clear spells are there not `
:26:01. > :26:07.shimmered as recent notes so more comfortable night for sleephng.
:26:08. > :26:14.Street Sheraton parts of thd Wiltshire and temperatures will fall
:26:15. > :26:17.to around ten degrees 11 Celsius. Throughout tomorrow we will see
:26:18. > :26:21.cloud above up in a few places turning the sunshine hazy and that
:26:22. > :26:26.will be some decent amounts of sunshine and the San temper`tures
:26:27. > :26:43.will rise nicely to a high of 2 Celsius. There will be a
:26:44. > :26:49.south`westerly breeze along degrees are 12 Celsius which is verx similar
:26:50. > :26:53.to the temperatures tonight. There may be if Arafat patches first thing
:26:54. > :26:58.in the morning but other th`n that it may be pleasant on Thursday with
:26:59. > :27:01.high`pressure pressure firmly in charge of our weather. High pressure
:27:02. > :27:03.firmly in charge of our weather I purchased outstripping rest`urants
:27:04. > :27:07.but otherwise it will stay settled right through until the weekend
:27:08. > :27:24.about the weekend brings thd risk of a shower with the women's changing
:27:25. > :27:28.direction. ``the wind changhng. Fergie could be the warmest day of
:27:29. > :27:31.the year so far and it will feel all warm with the year so far and it
:27:32. > :27:36.will feel all warm weather northerly breeze. The best conditions this
:27:37. > :27:46.weekend will be along the south coast.
:27:47. > :27:47.There'll be a news summary `t 8pm and we'll be back with