:00:10. > :00:16.The man accused of murdering Didcot teenager, Jayden Parkinson,
:00:17. > :00:17.was violent towards his previous partners,
:00:18. > :00:21.Ben Blakeley, from Christchurch Road in Rdading,
:00:22. > :00:24.denies murdering his former girlfriend, 17`year`old Jayden.
:00:25. > :00:26.Today, the prosecution's cl`imed he pushed a different girlfriend
:00:27. > :00:30.down the stairs when she was seven months pregnant.
:00:31. > :00:34.Victoria Cook spent the day at the hearing in Oxford.
:00:35. > :00:36.The prosecution told the jury today that Ben Blakely had
:00:37. > :00:40.had a number of girlfriends that he was violent towards in the past
:00:41. > :00:44.It was in 2007 when he was dating Kirsty Penford that she clahms he
:00:45. > :00:49.She was seven months pregnant at the time.
:00:50. > :00:54.Richard Latham QC said he only allowed her to wear make`up to
:00:55. > :00:58.He would regularly threaten to kill her when in a temper.
:00:59. > :01:04.He went on to say that, in 2011 he was violent towards another
:01:05. > :01:12.Significantly, he said, he tried to strangle her.
:01:13. > :01:14.The jury was told that Ben Blakely often confiscated mobile phones
:01:15. > :01:18.This afternoon, a member of staff from One Foot
:01:19. > :01:24.Forward, a youth hostel where Jayden was staying here in Oxford city
:01:25. > :01:27.centre, described meeting J`yden two weeks after she moved in.
:01:28. > :01:31.She told the court that Jayden's boyfriend wouldn't let her have
:01:32. > :01:34.a shower or use the toilet at the youth hostel.
:01:35. > :01:36.This statement prompted Ben Blakely to shout lies,
:01:37. > :01:44.The jury heard that, not long after this happened, Hannah Ryan helped
:01:45. > :01:46.Jayden Parkinson take a pregnancy test and that came out positive
:01:47. > :01:51.She then recalled the phone call that Jayden had made initially
:01:52. > :01:58.Jayden was repeating what Bdn said to her
:01:59. > :02:00.so that Hannah could understand and hear what was being said.
:02:01. > :02:02.She told the court she was saying, 'what's that?
:02:03. > :02:05.If I am pregnant, you're gohng to push me off a bridge?
:02:06. > :02:08.If you lay a finger on me, I will call the police'.
:02:09. > :02:15.Ben Blakely denies murder and the trial continues.
:02:16. > :02:17.They're known as 'beds in sheds ` makeshift
:02:18. > :02:21.and often dangerous illegal homes being built in back gardens.
:02:22. > :02:24.It's been a problem in placds like London and Slough for xears.
:02:25. > :02:28.The City Council says it's demolished three such buildhngs
:02:29. > :02:32.in the last six months, and it's expecting more to follow.
:02:33. > :02:38.Our political reporter Helen Catt has more.
:02:39. > :02:43.An illegal home being demolhshed in London.
:02:44. > :02:47.It's a scene we're starting to see repeated in Oxford.
:02:48. > :02:50.The City Council believes there could be several hundred 'bdds
:02:51. > :02:57.in sheds' like these hidden in back gardens across the city
:02:58. > :02:59.Because they haven't been btilt in accordance with building
:03:00. > :03:01.regulations, there will be electrical safety
:03:02. > :03:02.issues, ventilation problems, adequate arrangement of rools.
:03:03. > :03:06.Everything that could be wrong, we are finding in beds in sheds
:03:07. > :03:09.The big problem for authorities is finding them in the first place
:03:10. > :03:13.One was discovered under construction in this street in
:03:14. > :03:18.Headington but from the strdet it would be almost impossible to tell.
:03:19. > :03:24.Just a few feet square, but intended for living in.
:03:25. > :03:28.The owner was eventually forced to demolish it himself.
:03:29. > :03:32.But with house prices 11 tiles the average salary in Oxford, it's easy
:03:33. > :03:38.At the moment we are seeing a really desperate shortage
:03:39. > :03:43.of affordable housing so people are left with few options.
:03:44. > :03:46.Unfortunately there are unscrupulous landlords out there who are taking
:03:47. > :03:51.advantage of these people and letting out substandard,
:03:52. > :03:55.unacceptable, illegal properties, and people have no option btt to
:03:56. > :04:01.The Government has taken its fight against unlawful houses to
:04:02. > :04:06.the air, analysing data collected from a spy plane it sent up in March
:04:07. > :04:12.It hopes its actions will stop families in Oxford ending up
:04:13. > :04:19.Thousands of cars built in Swindon are being recalled
:04:20. > :04:23.Honda says it will contact owners of vehicles thought to have
:04:24. > :04:28.A total of two million vehicles are affected worldwide.
:04:29. > :04:30.Among them are five models built at its Swindon plant
:04:31. > :04:38.It's only a few months since flooding caused widespread
:04:39. > :04:42.disruption in parts of the Thames Valley.
:04:43. > :04:44.As well as affecting hundreds of homes and businesses, many sporting
:04:45. > :04:49.With pitches flooded and fixtures cancelled, they were out of
:04:50. > :04:54.But, as Adina Campbell reports, with help, they're now getthng back
:04:55. > :05:00.Getting some much needed hydration from the sprinklers.
:05:01. > :05:04.But it's fair to say, the m`in pitch here at Aylesbury football club has
:05:05. > :05:11.For nearly 16 weeks, footballers were unable to play any homd games
:05:12. > :05:16.because of damage from the winter floods, causing the club to lose
:05:17. > :05:22.But repair work has now started to get things back to normal,
:05:23. > :05:33.thanks to more than ?6000 of cash from a Government lottery ftnd.
:05:34. > :05:36.There was a lot of sewage on the outside pitches.
:05:37. > :05:40.There was a hell of a lot of repair that needed to be done, so
:05:41. > :05:45.Almost ?25,000 of funding h`s been awarded to sports groups in our area
:05:46. > :05:50.including Henley Town Footb`ll Club, which has received ?2000.
:05:51. > :05:53.And nearly the same amount of money has been given to
:05:54. > :05:58.Bletchley Rugby Club and thd Town Cricket Club have also got
:05:59. > :06:05.But an even bigger amount of money has been given to
:06:06. > :06:12.This was how it looked back in February, the main pitch
:06:13. > :06:16.A lot of these clubs are the heart of their local colmunity,
:06:17. > :06:19.so it is the vibrancy of everyone playing there, the very
:06:20. > :06:26.talented or the people trying to get fitter for health reasons.
:06:27. > :06:29.The Academy team here and other squads within this club are now back
:06:30. > :06:31.to normal training sessions but without the thousands of pounds
:06:32. > :06:43.of funding from Sport England, this pitch wouldn't be in use.
:06:44. > :06:45.We have regular bulletins tomorrow during BBC Breakfast from 6:00am
:06:46. > :06:48.here on BBC One. Join us thdn if you can.
:06:49. > :06:50.Next up, the weather with Alexis. Good night.
:06:51. > :06:56.Good evening. A lot of more cloud than last night.
:06:57. > :06:56.With it, the chance of a shower but they will be very hit and miss.
:06:57. > :06:58.Cloud is increasing from the north overnight with
:06:59. > :07:07.Similar to last night, but feeling fresher and less humid.
:07:08. > :07:13.We start tomorrow with one or two showers but they will be few
:07:14. > :07:17.and far between and we will see them pop up as the day wears on.
:07:18. > :07:20.A mostly dry day with some sunny spells tomorrow and a high
:07:21. > :07:26.Temperature slightly lower than today where we reached 22 Cdlsius.
:07:27. > :07:29.Staying settled until the end of the day on Thursday.
:07:30. > :07:31.Friday, sunshine and showers with the odd thunderstorm.
:07:32. > :07:35.with the summary. Turning more unsettled as we head towards the
:07:36. > :07:44.weekend. Good evening. After what has been a
:07:45. > :07:48.glorious few weeks of summer sunshine for many of us, things are
:07:49. > :07:52.about to change over the next 2 hours. We are seeing the change
:07:53. > :07:57.marked by the weather front on the satellite image. To the south of
:07:58. > :08:02.that, 25 degrees, in Bournemouth for instance, but in the north and east,
:08:03. > :08:07.cooler, fresher air. That sets the scene for tomorrow. A cooler day. We
:08:08. > :08:12.will have hazy sunshine on offer, although cloudier skies than we have
:08:13. > :08:15.been used it over the past week Tonight we have thicker cloud
:08:16. > :08:19.bringing more two spots of drizzly rain for some southern areas. Many
:08:20. > :08:21.parts dry, but we have the rain heading in towards the far
:08:22. > :08:23.north-west for the early