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Another badger cull has been authorised but with lower

And by the time traffic flows over this bridge again, it will have

When we were first told it would be six months, that was bad enough we

thought we might not even m`ke that. The town where hundreds of children

could be left without places. And later on,

the match that sent shockwaves through the footballing world

as the MK Dons kicked Manchdster The number of cattle herds `ffected

by TB across the region has more In January 2008, around 130 herds

were affected across Oxfordshire, Latest figures, from May thhs year,

show that number has risen to 3 0. Now the Government has annotnced

another badger cull to take place Steve Knibbs reports from

a farm near Royal Wootton B`ssett. Or the occult about to begin, there

is a lot of nervousness. The report was critical. It did say

that calling the badgers by shooting could be done safely. The r`ce other

issues and we have addressed them through training. Also getthng ready

for the start of a pilot culls are the campaigners. They are more

prepared than ever. We have learned a lot and we have more equipment. We

are unable to see that when the badger does scurry off, we will be

able to see them and cage them and get them to medical treatment. TB is

showing no sign of going aw`y. It has hit a record high in Wiltshire.

Peter Bennett is under restrictions again and cannot sell his cows for

at least 120 days. I would like to see an all`out attack on TB from all

sides. From those against ctlling badgers, from the government, from

the better`known repossession. As cancer is being treated, as a

national enemy. Meanwhile, planning is underway on all sides.

Gloucestershire Constabularx say they are putting public safdty at

the heart of their operation. A sixth Thames Valley Policd officer

is being investigated for his role in the inquiry

into Jayden Parkinson's murder. 17`year`old Jayden went missing

on December 4th last year. Jayden's former boyfriend w`s jailed

for her murder last month, but had been released

on bail twice before he was arrested The Independent Police Complaints

Commission is looking at how the reports of Jayden's

disappearance were handled. Hundreds of children could be left

without secondary school pl`ces in Swindon by 2017 unless the town gets

the equivalent of three new schools. It's because of a growing population

and new housing development. But

the solution could be free schools. Proposals for two are being sent to

the government this autumn but they need the backing of local

parents, as Will Glennon explains. In the last eight years,

almost 700 new primary school places That inevitably means more secondary

school places will be needed The council, though,

says it has seen the problel It's the job of the council to make

sure there are sufficient school places so, by 2018,

we need about another 200 places per But with pressures on counchl

budgets, money to build new That's where places like

New College come in. The people behind this establishment

have put together a proposal The government would pay to build

it, New College would run it. The Department will pay

for the land, the building and the revenud stream,

the funding for each student. It is the quickest way of gdtting

somewhere the town needs to be. A second free`school

for Swindon is being proposdd It would have a Christian ethos

but be open to all. By and large, we think when people

understand the need for this going forward, they will be very pleased

to know that there's an outstanding Church of England secondary school

as part of the mix within the town. For free schools to get govdrnment

approval, they need the backing 700 must show their support for each

school by the deadline in October. Both schools hope to be open

by 2016, A new scheme was launched

in Aylesbury this summer to provide hot food for children

during the school holidays. Over 14,000 pupils

across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire registered

for a free school lunch last year and there's concern that sole miss

out on food outside term tile. Organisers of Make Lunch have cooked

hundreds of free meals School holidays are supposed to be

fun and a good break from ldssons. For some children though, it's also

a break from regular hot me`ls. Once the term ends,

so do free school meals. The result is that for

the thousands of families rdlying You don't know what goes on behind

people's door and you don't know It's just a real privilege to

be able to offer people A recent survey suggested that

around 1 in 8 children may not eat Rachel Warwick set up Make Lunch

nationally to encourage loc`l communities to help those f`milies

in need. It's really hard to admit that

you can't feed your children. We want to make this feel

like a holiday club that also feeds Clubs like this are self`funded via

donations and food It's not expensive to run, less

than ?500 for the whole sumler. Organisers here say this has been

so successful that they are hoping to run the lunch clubs again

in the school holidays. It's the news thousands of drivers

and dozens of businesses in the The Whitchurch Toll Bridge

across the River Thames will re`open It's been closed since last October

for major reconstruction work. The project was delayed

for months and has gone almost 2 By then,

it should have been finished. But flooding last Christmas meant

that workers had to down tools The job was originally scheduled

for sixth months, but the work has The nearest crossing is

10 miles from here. Before the bridge was closed,

about 6000 vehicles Since it's been shut,

it has had an impact on bushnesses. When we were first told it was going

to be six months, that was bad enough, we thotght we

not might not make that, when they told us it would be another six

months, it was frightening. We have got on with it, dond extra

deliveries for our customers and offered other services, taking

bags across to the other side. Anything we can do to help

the customers. Work is not just taking longer,

it is also costing more. That is 2 million more than

the initial budget. The company says it is

doing everything it can. We will be relieved

the bridge is going to open. We regret the inconvenience

caused to local people. We are pleased that we can give

a date. The company says it is now tp to

the utilities companies to lake sure But if all goes to plan,

it should be reopened at thd end I'll have the headlines at 8

and a full bulletin at 10.24. Now more of today's stories

with Sally Taylor. It's been hailed as the biggest

development in ten years for A new high`dependency care tnit

for people with respiratory It's cost ?1.5 million

and will bring benefits It was an opening ceremony like no

other. George Baker broke through the ribbon with his wheelch`ir to

the delight of the new unit staff. The former respiratory patidnt who

has muscular dystrophy was specially selected by nurses to be given the

honour and he was determined to make sure it went well. We got to do a

practice run beforehand so H knew it would break. I was trying to go as

fast as possible to make sure I didn't embarrass anybody. W`s its

relief when it did break? Definitely. The unit cheers for

patients with severe breathhng problems such as asthma and

pneumonia. Until now it has been housed on a cramped corridor but is

now in a brand`new purpose`built unit and will cure for more

patients. There are nine beds instead of six. The number of nurses

is being increased from 21 to 3 . It make a big difference for p`tients

with respiratory disease who come into a and we will able to get them

hooked after quicker. And it will take some of the strain of the

intensive care unit which whll free up beds in intensive care for

elective surgery. The remaining equipment will be installed in the

coming days. The unit will be ready to start taking patients from

Monday. The Great Dorset Steam

Fair is under way. More than 200 engines are

the star attraction But the start

of the show was disrupted by heavy rain over the Bank Holiday

that led to very muddy condhtions. There's also been delays

getting some vehicles on site. The Great Dorset Steam

Fair site is muddy. A field, Bank Holiday rain, and lots

of vehicle movements in a short period of time have led to problems

accessing this 600`acre sitd. It was difficult yesterday, we

managed to get everything in and here we are on the first morning,

everything is up and running. The public car parks are OK bec`use they

have not been used until thhs morning so things are prettx good.

We had to do some work on the entrances of the car park btt as I

said, the game has not been touched since we have been on site so it is

not looking too bad. Once on site, the engines are

the star attraction. Including this, owned by Dotg Hynd,

who's been coming to the stdam fair A sort of gets in your blood.

Something about the smell of hot oil and coal and the steam engine,

people who are Iran's steam engines will tell you it is a sort of

living, breathing things. `` who are around steam engines.

In a quiet corner of the site, this poignant commemoration

of the 100th anniversary of the start of World War One.

A replica trench system from the Western Front.

There is no soldiers left alive to be able to tell their tales. What we

can read and see in pictures. This hopefully will give the public a

view of possibly what it was actually like.

There are World War One steam engines.

And steam here too make the Tommy's Soup.

It is from the 1940s. It was horse`drawn, taken as close to the

trenches as possible and we prepared hot food for the men in the

trenches. 200,000 vistiors expected hdre

by Sunday. Most braving the mud

and enjoying the show. It is always either dry or wet. We

have been coming down for over 0 years. It is no different. Ht is

just fun. The Dorset steam fair there is nothing like it in the

world and for us, it is fivd days in heaven. It is on until Sund`y. Don't

miss it. In 1897 Marconi set up the Needles

wireless telegraph station on the Isle of Wight and proved for the

first time that radio could be used Since then,

radio has saved countless lhves Fitting then that the Isle of Wight

has been leading the way in testing a new technology that

could bring superfast connectivity to our inshore waters and,

at the same time, affordabld It's called "TV White Space"

and as the name suggests makes use of vacant parts of the spectrum used

to broadcast television signals The radio waves can be more

trouble than the sea waves for the The spectacular cliffs mean they

are often out of contact with their Essentially we're using

the same technology as Marconi first invented, same frequencies,

same radios. The technology has got smaller

and more reliable but we can only have one`way communication `t a time

and if someone else is talkhng on the radio, that will drown ts out

if they've got a stronger shgnal. This is hugely frustrating

because the lifeboat is othdrwise What the lifeboat desperately needs

is a reliable way to get two`way communication between here

and the shore. This little boat has been tdsting

a new technology called TV Here, with the help of a sthck

and freshwater beach, The TV spectrum is incredibly

valuable because signals at these frequencies travel a long w`y and

can carry a huge amount of data You've got space here, you've got

space there, you've got space in These spaces are there to

stop these transmissions Right, but that would suggest that

those spaces can't be used for anything because they whll

interfere with the TV signal. One of the problems with Wi`Fi is,

how does it get through to that The reason it doesn't reach these

places is You can use these spaces

to deliver broadband. And deliver it to thousands of

rural homes not currently online. Frazer Munro runs

an internet provider on the Isle of Wight and can't wait to shift

his operation into white sp`ce. If you have

a ?100 million super yacht xou can have super`fast broadband

in the middle of the Atlanthc. But systems like that are ott

of the reach of domestic holes, offices and of course indepdndent

life boats and the RNLI, who have to And white space allows conndctivity

to go much longer through mtch more challenging conditions but

at a really affordable pricd. So much has changed since M`rconi

first transmitted from here and another revolution might be

on the way. David Grossman, BBC South Today

the Isle of Wight. And you can see more on how TV

white space can potentially transform the UK's connectivity on

Newsnight tonight at 10.30 on BBC2. We don't talk a lot about Oxbridge

cricket but they are involvdd in a cup final right now. We will have

the result in just a moment. But first we will talk about football.

Shocks, near`misses, extra time goals ` last night's

Capital One Cup football had its fair share of excitement and drama.

Depending on where you're watching us, here's what unfolded

Swindon and Brighton served up a six goal cracker at the County Ground

A hint of what was to come was provided when this humdinger

Well worth a whipping your shirt off for.

Straight after half`time, Louis Thompson levelled for Swindon.

1`1 after 90 minutes, four goals followed in extr` time.

The Seagulls got put back in front before Jake Forster`Caskey

But Forster`Caskey was given a second chance from the spot,

the same result, sealing Albion s path into round three.

I think they played some good stuff tonight.

Southampton's win at Millwall was notable for three firsts.

Saints were on their way whdn Jack Cork headed

Recent Italian import Grazi`no Pelle also then opened his account

for Saints to seal Ronald Koeman's first win in charge.

Bournemouth made favouritisl count as they made light work of

Dan Gosling put the boot into the Cobblers with the first

His second in this season's competition.

Brett Pitman latched onto a poor backpass to put the Cherries

And substitute Callum Wilson made the game safe at Dean Court,

his fourth goal since arrivhng from Coventry.

Reading manager Nigel Adkins spent 14 years at Scunthorpd.

But his current team weren't about to show their sentimental shde.

Jack Taylor's strike five mhnutes from time was enough to award

the fans for their long trip to Humbdrside.

So those winning teams go into tonight's third round draw, which

will include the likes of M`nchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal, who all

Bidding to join them are Portsmouth, but the League Two side alrdady

have some Premier League opposition in their way.

Pompey are at Stoke tonight, and BBC Radio Solent's Andy Moon is

Yes, the Portsmouth manager is still unbeaten in 12 matches stretching

back to the end of last season but that record is under huge that

record is under huge threat this evening as his lead to outfht face

Stoke here at the Britannia, a stadium team has never won `t.

Pompey beat Peterborough in the last round and they come into thd game on

a four match winning streak during which they conceded just ond goal.

Stoke have just one point from their opening two league matches so they

are likely to field a strong line up with the manager Mark Hughes openly

saying he wants the match wrapped up her Lyon. The Portsmouth manager has

shuffled his pack with nine changes from Saturday's victory over Oxford.

Whoever takes to the field tonight, they will need to be at thehr very

best to get into the third round draw.

And you'll be able to see the goals from that game in the Leagud Cup

We'll have them on tomorrow's South Today too.

Today has seen the biggest game in the history of

They've been involved in thd Minor Counties Trophy Final

The game was played at the picturesque setting of Wormsley

Their opponents Devon posted 20 for 9 batting first.

The Oxfordshire bowlers though picked up regular wickets to

stem the flow of runs, on what was proving a difficult batting surface.

In reply, Oxfordshire slipped to 95 for 6 `

but former Sussex all rounddr Chad Keegan smashed a quick 47.

They finished on 196 for nine off their 50 overs, and agonising seven

runs short. Down to the last few balls. That is

a pity for Oxfordshire. No time for a look at the weather. It is slowly

improving. Is it some are rdturning? Maybe. There has been a lot of

drizzle today. This close`up

of a British white heifer w`s taken at Yew Hill Butterfly Reserve

in Winchester by Sue Pratt. Ken Rayner took this photo

of a Dovecote in the sunshine And autumnal colours in Alton

captured by Ginny Boxall. Drizzle ahead of the weather front

which is what we had this afternoon after a dry start, the weather front

has arrived in parts of the Dorset spreading its wee north`eastward. A

cloudy and wet night but very quickly the weather front whll clear

western areas during the second part of the night and we may havd a few

clear spells but with the breeze that should keep the mist and fog at

bay. Mild temperatures, lows of 15`17 Celsius. The winds ard fairly

variable but will pick up tomorrow, we may see one or two showers

tomorrow but it is an improving picture through the morning.

Increasing cloud in the aftdrnoon which might bring about the odd

shower for western and northern areas. Highs of 20 Celsius, warmer

than today in any sunny spells. Tomorrow night the risk of ` shower

almost anywhere but that is very much hit and miss, some are`s could

stay dry altogether and there will be a lot of dry weather with clear

spells but the winds will increase. As we head towards Friday. Lows

tomorrow night are similar to tonight, 13`15dC, maybe down in the

North. We start Friday on a dry note, it is an unsettled picture

through Friday, there is thd risk of a shower courtesy of this is the of

low`pressure anchored off the western side of Scotland, bringing

showers in through the low pressure from the south`west. That mdans

there is the risk of a showdr but not everyone will see them, there

will be some sunny spells as well, very much hit and miss. The rest of

the week, sunny spells and scattered showers, for tomorrow, tidy and

Saturday. Saturday afternoon it is an improving picture becausd high

pressure is starting to build in from the south`west. So less in the

way of showers, more in the way of sunshine and with the high pressure

building in even further, Stnday looks like a pretty pleasant day. A

high of 20 or 21 Celsius. The good news is, next week is settlhng down

thanks to high pressure, sunny spells will develop and it will

become warm. Temperatures up to the seasonal average is not above in

some areas. Thank you. I am going to test you

know. When it comes to naming different sorts of wedding

anniversaries, what do you know and don't know? Paper. You can't just

say what year it is. Golden, Diamond, platinum. Golden is 50

Cotton is two. I didn't know that one. Do you know what 80 is? They

married in 1934 and moved to Dorset after the war. Helen 's mother has

said it would never last. How wrong was she? A reporter has been to me

very happy couple. The couple who have been de`lt

a lifetime of fun. Helen and Maurice Kaye,

today celebrating eight dec`des Did you think then that

this could last 80 years? Both Helen, 101, and Mauricd, 1 2,

still remember After about three hours,

my mother said to me, who is going Today, 80 years ago,

they got married. And never once forgot

their anniversary. What is the secret of this long

and happy marriage? The most useful thing is, as long

as I agree with her, then I'm safe. In 1934,

bread was tuppence and wages were Coping

and caring has seen them through. If you have to give in a little bit,

so you give in a little bit. If you have to give in a little bit,

as she says, In eight decades,

their family has grown wider Sadness and loss always trulped

by laughter and companionshhp. Many, many congratulations from all

of us. It is an incredible milestone. It is sense of htmour

which has kept them going as well. And they look fabulous. Tomorrow we

have something special for xou because we are hoping that Natasha

Lambert, she is going to cole into the studio tomorrow. She sahled

around the south coast to Swansea and claimed up a big Pete. She will

be here tomorrow talking about the adventure. Join us if you c`n. ``

big peak. You asked for it. You got it.

SHRILL WHISTLE I promise not to

take off all my clothes. I'm going up in the world, babes,

and from today,