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Hello and welcome to South Today from Oxford. | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The police officers under scrutiny over the | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
The conduct of five officers is being investigated. | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
How anyone with a mobile phone can now film council meetings | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
Not just surviving, but thrhving ` 25 years since red kites were | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
re`introduced into the Chilterns, how the breeding programme has | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
Victory for Reading's Chris Mears as he claims Glasgow gold! | :00:29. | :00:48. | |
The BBC has learnt the condtct of five police officers is tnder | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
investigation in connection with the handling of the | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
Last week, Jayden's ex`boyfriend Ben Blakely was found guiltx | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
of murdering her and burying her body in his uncle's grave. | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
Now the police watchdog the IPCC says it's looking closely at | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
the force's actions after they were alerted to Jayden's disappe`rance. | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
Did Thames Valley Police do all they could to protect murdered Dhdcot | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
teenager Jayden Parkinson and when she went missing did they | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
Just two of the questions the police watchdog want answers to as part of | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
After being strangled to de`th, Jayden was buried | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
by her former boyfriend, Ben Blakely, in his uncle's grave | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
The Independent Police Complaints Commission has placed five officers | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
It's keen to know why Jayden was only initially placed under "medium | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
risk" when she was reported missing on the 4th of December last year. | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
After all, her former boyfrhend Blakely from Reading, | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
Crucially, officers intervidwed Blakely on the day Jayden v`nished. | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
They were talking to him about incident images of Jaxden | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
The question now ` did they know at that time she was missing? | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
Or worse still, perhaps thex realised she was missing and chose | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
In a statement, Thames Valley Police said: | :02:16. | :02:28. | |
Elsewhere today and the brother of Ben Blakely, Jake, | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
who was accussed of preventhng a lawful burial, has been told he will | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
face a retrial after a jury last week failed to reach a verdhct. | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
He's likely to appear in cotrt in the new year. | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
There's been major disruption for rail passengers travellhng | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
into London after a person was hit by a train this afternoon. | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
Services from Didcot, Swindon and Oxford to Paddington | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
People have been advised to travel via London Marylebond. | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
It's hoped services will improve in the next hour. | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
Attempts to put out the fird at a waste recycling site in Swindon | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
A skip at Averies Recycling in the town caught light 12 days ago and | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
Some nearby businesses were forced to close temporarily becausd | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
The water quality in the ne`rby River Cole is been monitored to | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
ensure it's not contaminated as a result of the fire. | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
From next week, everyone will have the right to film council mdetings | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
anywhere in the country and post the video onto social media sites. | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
The Government says it's good for democracry. | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
But there are fears it could lead to councillors being misrepresented | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
Our political reporter Helen Catt has the story. | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
Whether it is towers being blown up, or rain tipping down, | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
the Great British public has been capturing newsworthy moments | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
But until now, those which happened inside the walls of our councils | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
Whilst some of our councils do regularly webcast their meetings, | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
like South Oxfordshire, Cherwell and Buckinghamshird, | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
for others, like Oxfordshird County, the main way of seeing what's going | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
on is still to come along here to the public gallery. | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
In Oxford City, members of a long`running c`mpaign | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
to stop this swimming pool from closing have had their requests | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
They say the official City Council film isn't enough. | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
When you have the full council video, you only see | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
people talking, you don't actually see what's going on around them | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
The idea is to be able to show what's actually going on thdre, | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
what people are doing around it what interests they are | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
From next week, they and everyone else will have | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
the legal right to film the meetings and post them on social medha. | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
With so many smartphones around many of us will have | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
All of the councillors we'vd spoken to say they welcome | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
But some have concerns that filming could be abused. | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
Certain members of the publhc, perhaps with a grievance or | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
an agenda who film particul`r councillors, particular deb`tes | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
cut it down, put something on the Internet, which is then seen to | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
In the long term it's bad for democracy, when it starts off | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
Mr Speaker, once again, he has no clue about the detail | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
And for a generation used to seeing images like this from the House | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
of Commons, it's worth remelbering that they weren't always welcomed | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
There were very many similar debates happening | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
around the televising of Parliament, brought in in the 1980s. | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
People were worried about precisely the same thhngs | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
The rules come into force next Wednesday. | :05:48. | :05:56. | |
Plans for a major upgrade to Oxford Railway Station have gone | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
Funding still needs to be sdcured, but the scheme could see | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
a new two`storey station buhlding and new platforms. | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
The plans have been on display at the Westgate Shopping Centre | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
Officials say the new station will help accomodate growing passenger | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
It's being called the most successful conserv`tion | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
On this day, 25 years ago, five red kites were reintroduced to | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
the Chilterns in a bid to save the species. | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
Now, a common sighty in the skies over Oxfordshire, there | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
Living proof of a major conservation success story. | :06:32. | :06:41. | |
It was 25 years ago today that five kite chicks were brought | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
Then over the next five years, 88 more were brought to join them. | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
Now, it's thought there are more than 1000 breeding pairs here. | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
It hadn't been done before, really, in any great thing. | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
We knew they were fairly easy to handle because they ate carrion | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
so you didn't have to go and kill masses of stuff for them, | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
and they could feed themselves from a very early age. | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
But, basically, nobody knew what was going to happen. | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
These days it's not unusual to spot a kite. | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
They're an impressive sight, with a wing span of up to five fdet. | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
But some say there are now too many of them | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
Conservationists say people should stop feeding them. | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
They tend to cluster togethdr, particularly where there is | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
a food source and that's whdre we've got a bit of an issue. | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
Because, where people feed them they all gather together | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
and that gives people the impression there are too many. | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
It also means they're getting incredibly bold and perhaps coming | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
into people's gardens, maybd disrupting your picnic or b`rbecue. | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
So the message we'd really like to get across is don't feed them. | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
And then they'll find a nicd happy balance in the countrxside. | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
On the whole, this project is seen as a big success. | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
More than 300 birds have bedn taken from here to other sites | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
And populations are now thriving there too. | :08:05. | :08:14. | |
People living in a north Oxfordshire village have built | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
a trench to mark 100 years since the start of the First World War. | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
The Hornton History Group bdgan working on | :08:22. | :08:22. | |
The standout feature of this exhibition is this trench, | :08:23. | :08:32. | |
which has taken people here in the village about three weeks to make. | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
Most of the materials have been locally sourced and you can hear the | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
the sandbags are stacked up against the wooden concrete sleepers. | :08:41. | :08:56. | |
Just having four or five minutes in that trench hopefully will give | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
them some idea of the horrors that the guys went through when they were | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
Creating this exhibition has been a real village effort here in Hornton. | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
The history group has accumtlated quite a lot of information | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
about the village of the tile but we wanted a way to communicate it. | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
As well as the trench experhence, the local choir will also bd singing | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
Adina Campbell, BBC South Today in Hornton. | :09:20. | :09:31. | |
On Monday we will have a spdcial edition of South Today, marking | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
We'll be live at locations across the region as the Sotth gets | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
involved in Lights Out ` an event organised by the Royal | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
British Legion to mark 100 xears since Britain entered the conflict. | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
Back to tonight and there are more stories coming up with Sallx. | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
This is the fastest racing track in the country and this weekend some of | :09:48. | :10:19. | |
the best Superbike riders from all over the world will be racing | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
machines like this one in the British Superbike championship. | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
A social media campaign, launched by hospitals in thd south, | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
to encourage women to breastfeed in public places ` and let people | :10:32. | :10:34. | |
It comes as part of World Breast Feeding Week, | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
which begins today, and also as a fightback after recent cases of | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
mothers being filmed, while nursing, and then insulted on the internet. | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
Four years ago a new law gave women the right to breast`feed in public, | :10:45. | :11:03. | |
in parks, cafes, shops, busds, any public place. The law is ond thing | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
but attitudes are another. This group of mothers in Gosport are | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
supporting a new campaign to encourage breast`feeding in public. | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
Just to make more people aw`re that it is acceptable to breast`feed | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
there are still far too manx places out and about with you perh`ps feel | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
uncomfortable and it is known that you are not welcome from people It | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
is important to get breast`feeding more out there, more known to the | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
wider population and more normal. The campaign is using social media, | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
including twitter, where mothers are encouraged to post pictures of | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
themselves breast`feeding in public. I think some people are perhaps | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
against breast`feeding and the arm more against being embarrassed. I | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
they do not know where to look or something, I don't know. I do not | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
think there is any stigma against the actual doing of it but people do | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
not want to see it. The campaign has because the big reaction on social | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
media, that is by the support but some debate about how discrdet | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
mothers can be. You can be very discreet and even if you do not use | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
a scarf or an apron then thdre is a lot of flesh onshore and I think you | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
see more on a beach than yot do when you walk past a breast`feedhng mum. | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
Health organisations are cldar about the benefits of breast`feedhng but | :12:30. | :12:31. | |
fewer than half of British lothers stick with it. The hope is that as | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
feeding becomes more normal, breast`feeding will become lore | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
popular. It shows mums to bd that if they are uneasy about whethdr or not | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
they have to go back to the dark ages of rushing back home or feeding | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
in the car or going into thd toilets, that it means that they are | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
aware that they have the right to be feeding out and about. | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
We asked for your opinions on this and hundreds of you have bedn in | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
touch, the overwhelming majority strongly supporting the NHS campaign | :12:59. | :13:00. | |
and mums who breastfeed in public. On Facebook, Lucy Jewell saxs: It | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
absolutely horrifies me that people have a problem with this. Especially | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
women! What planet do they live on?? Not everyone was of the samd view. | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
With one saying: "Its wrong in a public place, should not happen | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
"Its wrong in a public placd, should not happen. | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
With Government funding for students falling, colleges here | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
in the South are looking at new ways to bring in mondy. | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
The teaching of foreign students is a lucrative | :13:32. | :13:33. | |
business and is increasinglx making up the shortfall. | :13:34. | :13:35. | |
As well as teaching here, Highbury College | :13:36. | :13:37. | |
in Portsmouth has colleges `s far afield as Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
It's now looking to a new elerging market in Eastern Europe. | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
Our Business Correspondent, Alastair Fee, has been to Romania to | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
Romania's youth have never had it so good. | :13:46. | :13:57. | |
Their economy is growing, and that brings opportunity. | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
We can learn from you how you teach your specialisation | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
and you can learn from our students, we have good students. | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
Highbury college has come to this southern town to see how | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
it can support a previously untapped student market. | :14:16. | :14:17. | |
Our business is educating young people and we are always looking | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
We currently work in places such as India and Africa and with | :14:22. | :14:29. | |
the growing economy in Romania we are hoping to be one of the first | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
That is because teaching can be a lucrative business. | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
In Portsmouth more than 600 foreign students attended classes at | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
The education market is attractive because there is work to be done. | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
The average age of a skilled worker is between 40 and 50. | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
Employers have told me that young people are not leaving colldge ready | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
to start work because of sole facilities in education havd not | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
That has led to an education advisor comin here to help out. | :14:57. | :15:05. | |
From the students that we h`ve spoken to there is certainlx a | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
skills shortage that we can support, their mindset is very much on | :15:09. | :15:11. | |
the academic and what we wotld like to do is support and change that | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
mindset of both parents and students to encourage them to go | :15:16. | :15:17. | |
into more vocational aspects which is much needed | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
Romania has a skilled workforce but it is ageing. | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
At this factory everything hs made on site but the future relids | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
It is compulsory to have more skills, it is compulsory. | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
Without very well trained pdrsonnel it is not possible to do solething | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
at the level of quality to compete with other Western European | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
Everywhere building work is going on. | :15:45. | :15:57. | |
At this new exhibition centre businesses | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
of all kinds are being offered space to win lucrative new contracts. | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
The contracts are good because contracts mean opportunity. | :16:09. | :16:10. | |
If Romania would be so well developed why would you come | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
One could take advantage of these opportunities | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
and make very good money whhle actually bringing opportunities | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
and going not only the markdt but the society in a very healthy way. | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
From this fact`finding trip it is clear there is opportunity here | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
The skills shortage coupled with the interest | :16:31. | :16:31. | |
from young people make Romania a new frontier to do business. | :16:32. | :16:41. | |
Onto sport and Tony is once again out and about and tonight it's all | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
about speed, because he's at Thruxton for the superbikes. | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
It should be. Up to 50,000 people here this weekend on this chrcuit, | :16:49. | :17:07. | |
they will hit speeds of arotnd 00 mph this weekend, the latest round | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
of the British Superbike championship this year. Takd a look | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
at this action from earlier today. 45 or 50,000 fans watched the base | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
reach these speeds very, very fast in seven classes. Among the racers | :17:24. | :17:31. | |
was Tommy Bridewell is with me now. The local driver. How was it for | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
you? Very good today, I am from only 30 minutes down the road but | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
unfortunately this has not been my favourite track or best track but | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
today we were second and thdn we ended up fastest in free pr`ctice so | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
I am over the moon with that. You will hope for a good position, | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
Sunday? The boys are working well and so is the Yamaha. I will keep my | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
head down and feet on the floor and hopefully we will fight for the win | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
come Sunday. There could be rain, and that affect things? It can but | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
luckily this track is good with great in the wet and so is the bike. | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
We will take it as it comes. Wet or dry we can be strong. We wish you | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
the best of luck. That was Tommy Bridewell. | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
At the Commonwealth Games the south secured another gold medal with | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
Chris Mears winning in the 3 metre syncro alongside Jack Laughdr. | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
The pair produced a stunning set of dives to seal top spot on the | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
Mears just missed out on a ledal in the individual event so this was | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
reward for him, while Farnborough's Nick Robinson Baker and partner | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
It needs absolutely everythhng, we spend so much time together at home | :18:45. | :18:58. | |
professionally and socially as well so we are such close friends, to | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
come out here and smashed it today like we really wanted to and dream | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
of it was amazing. Especially a couple of days ago when I w`s so | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
close to the bronze and missed out by five or six points that was | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
gassing funny so to come here and get a cold and do what I kndw I | :19:15. | :19:16. | |
could that was fantastic. In the Men's Fours Lawn Bowls | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
England lost their gold med`l match, Berkshires Andrew Knapper ldd | :19:20. | :19:21. | |
the side against Scotland, It's his second medal of | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
the games after securing bronze in We are chuffed, the start of this | :19:25. | :19:37. | |
preparation we went out there looking to try and win the gold but | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
for everyone in the team to win a medal is a fantastic achievdment, it | :19:43. | :19:52. | |
is believable. Do not forget the athletics and eight on BBC One. As | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
for the hockey, the women gtaranteed a gold or silver medal after a very | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
tense match against New Zealand this afternoon. The match was decided on | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
penalties after it finished one long regulations, England went ahead and | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
went on to secure a dramatic win in the shoot out in the face Atstralia | :20:12. | :20:13. | |
for gold. That'll be tomorrow. Glorious Goodwood saw a photo finish | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
in the Bet Fred mile this afternoon. Red Avenger and Heavy Metal, | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
the joint favourite couldn't be separated on the line in front of | :20:20. | :20:21. | |
another bumper crowd on the downs. Jimmy Fortune and Red Avengdr were | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
eventually declared the winner, the Preperations are almost complete | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
as thousands of sailors descend on the Isle of Wight for a week long | :20:30. | :20:42. | |
festival of sailing and sochalising. In the course of the next wdek Cowes | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
will mark the Great War at Sea, while many stars from the world | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
of sport will be there to s`il. We'll be there during the course | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
of the week. So, usually quite out here `t the | :20:54. | :21:08. | |
moment. Just wait until tomorrow. 50,000 fans over the weekend and | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
some very fast bikes. I would have paid money to see you | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
on the back of one of those based! No chance! | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
Make sure you have your sea legs for next week. | :21:25. | :21:26. | |
Let's get on to the weather because there is some rain on the w`y. | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
Saturday will be the wet dax but we have had some lovely weather | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
pictures as always. A busy time for farmers, the harvest was captured by | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
James Cook. And the water droplets on the geraniums from Nick Lucas. | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
Today has not been too bad, we have had some decent plate and stnny | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
spells, especially the fathdr used to have been. It is the West we have | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
seen some wet weather, especially from parts of Salisbury. Thd show | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
was all spread out over the region in the overnight period. We will | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
have some showers, not all of us seeing the wet weather but ht will | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
be very much a hit and miss study. The temperatures will be fixed in | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
our 16 degrees. The shower hs how that might be showers tend to come | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
and go. For Saturday, certahnly looking to be the wet day of the | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
weekend, looks like into thd middle part of the morning is when we will | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
see the showers and a rumbld of thunder. This will go north | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
eastwards during the day. Enter the afternoon there will be a fdw more | :22:40. | :22:41. | |
dry and bright intervals working their way in, and if you sed that | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
sunshine it is not doing too badly, temperatures 22 or 23 degreds. Into | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
tomorrow evening the showers will fade away, so becoming dry through | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
the overnight period and people start to see a fresher feel to | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
things, 12 or 13 degrees. Wd have not seen whether like that for a | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
while so a slightly cooler nights to come as we head into Sunday. This is | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
the weather system with us on Saturday, working its way into the | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
North as we go into the weekend and by Sunday a try in great condition | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
to come, but it will feel on the easy side. The wind is really quite | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
noticeable. Not for long though as we start next week we see the wings | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
start to take a step away and it is a case of some summer showers but | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
good sunny spells as well. Plenty going on this weekend and for | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
the battle prongs there may be one or two showers early in the evening | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
but it looks like an improvhng picture. And the rugby grounds could | :23:40. | :23:47. | |
see a brighter day on Sundax. Lots of family fun. This is your summary | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
for the coming days. Saturd`y one or two heavy showers in the morning and | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
improving later, Sunday a try and bright datacom, breezy, and then | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
scattered showers for next week Looking good. | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
They're four young lads with mild to moderate learning disabilities. | :24:06. | :24:07. | |
But they've been given a challenge which they've rhsen to | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
The teenagers have been learning about all things aviation | :24:11. | :24:12. | |
in a project funded by BBC Children in Need. | :24:13. | :24:14. | |
One of the students is even hoping to train for his pilot's licence. | :24:15. | :24:17. | |
Their hard work was recentlx rewarded with a very memorable | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
It's graduation day for four disabled youngsters who had a course | :24:21. | :24:31. | |
Over the year the students were put through fire drills, they ldarned | :24:32. | :24:53. | |
about aircraft control and hn`flight emergency procedures. Flying is a | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
privilege that not many people get to enjoy and it is fantastic to be | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
able to share that privilegd. The charity has the backing of the | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
organisation that oversee ahr traffic control in the UK. Xoung | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
kids who are not even able to drive a car but in an aircraft thd belief, | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
live and have been flying solo around the airfield here whhch is | :25:18. | :25:19. | |
just a fantastic experience for them. It gives them a huge `mount of | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
confidence and a huge opening into a really exciting area that w`s not | :25:25. | :25:26. | |
available to them before. With extra funding from the charity, | :25:27. | :25:45. | |
the students are doing great. I will get a beleaguered fly today, because | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
it is so lovely and nice. Everyone here loves aviation. Not nervous? | :25:51. | :25:58. | |
Now. Hopefully there will not be a crosswind but if there is the more | :25:59. | :26:09. | |
interesting it becomes! Every year the charity works with more than 500 | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
people with a range of disabilities, physical, mental, | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
learning, even people who are blind and visually impaired are able to | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
take to the skies. Back on the ground, proud parents were gone We | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
definitely did not think we could do anything like this, did we? If | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
Andrew can do it so can everyone else. When they are little xou see | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
what he wants to be in they see a pilot. It might not be posshble but | :26:39. | :26:47. | |
this makes it possible. When he comes back he is absolutely beaming. | :26:48. | :26:56. | |
The boys are flying high in more ways than one! James, you s`w in the | :26:57. | :27:06. | |
blue hornets there is hoping to get his pilot 's licence. | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
We will mark the entry of the First World | :27:13. | :28:00. | |
And it's about time that I did something about that | :28:01. | :28:27. | |
I leave the ashram, travel halfway across the world to find my father, | :28:28. | :28:32. |