:00:00. > :00:11.Thank you very much. That is all from Edinburgh. There
:00:12. > :00:14.Concerns have been raised about the number of prison officer
:00:15. > :00:24.The number has fallen by around a third over the past five xears.
:00:25. > :00:26.Campaigners have described the situation as a ticking timebomb
:00:27. > :00:29.warning of an increase in vholence and self`harm as inmates ard locked
:00:30. > :00:36.But are the prisoners and prison officers inside
:00:37. > :00:41.According to figures shown exclusively to BBC South Today
:00:42. > :00:44.by the Howard League for Penal Reform, despite the fact thd number
:00:45. > :00:51.of inmates in Bicester's Bullingdon Prison and Milton Keynes' Woodhill
:00:52. > :00:53.Prison has steadily been rising the number of prison staff watching
:00:54. > :00:56.In 2010, Bullingdon Prison employed 263 prison officers.
:00:57. > :01:00.The trend is much the same in Woodhill Prison.
:01:01. > :01:03.Four years ago, it employed 452 prison officers
:01:04. > :01:06.This year it only has 290 and some of the prisoners there are
:01:07. > :01:17.Jodie's fiance has been behhnd bars for the last nine years.
:01:18. > :01:21.But she is worried the dwindling number of prison officers could be
:01:22. > :01:25.You worry about what will h`ppen to prison officers and prisoners
:01:26. > :01:28.If a volatile situation did arise, whether it be rioting,
:01:29. > :01:32.fire or a safety issue, whether they would have a suitable number
:01:33. > :01:42.Jodie's concerns are echoed by a charity which campaigns for
:01:43. > :01:49.All those people will come back at onto our streets.
:01:50. > :01:53.If mental health problems and drug addictions have not been
:01:54. > :01:58.dealt with, they will be more dangerous when they come out than
:01:59. > :02:12.But the government says that is not the case.
:02:13. > :02:14.In a statement the Ministry of Justice told me:
:02:15. > :02:17."Staffing levels at the prison are safe and the prison is delivering
:02:18. > :02:20.We are fundamentally changing the way all prisons work whhlst
:02:21. > :02:22.maintaining safe, decent and secure establishlents
:02:23. > :02:31.They all seem to be striving for the best conditions for our prisons
:02:32. > :02:39.But the question of how manx staff is required remains unanswered.
:02:40. > :02:42.A woman is being questioned on suspicion of murder, after the death
:02:43. > :02:45.Michael Redpath was pulled from a burning house,
:02:46. > :02:49.Investigators have been here all day.
:02:50. > :02:52.Trying to piece together what happened.
:02:53. > :02:57.Leaving one man dead, a wom`n under arrest and neighbours wondering
:02:58. > :03:00.I was up in my room and I hdard banging, people shouting, w`ke up.
:03:01. > :03:04.I opened the door and my nehghbours were out of their houses.
:03:05. > :03:16.I heard them smashing windows and banging the door down.
:03:17. > :03:19.Firefighters dragged a man from the top floor flat
:03:20. > :03:32.He was taken to hospital but doctors weren't able to savd him.
:03:33. > :03:45.All efforts to save his lifd were put in place, but sadly he died
:03:46. > :03:47.Crews are still working at the scene, while a post lortem
:03:48. > :03:51.Tonight, a 29`year`old woman is being
:03:52. > :03:54.questioned on suspicion of lurder at Gable Cross Police Atation.
:03:55. > :03:56.Police have arrested another man on suspicion of child sex offences as
:03:57. > :03:59.part of the same operation that saw raids in Buckinghamshire last week.
:04:00. > :04:02.More than 100 officers were involved in the raids `
:04:03. > :04:07.The latest man arrested is 27 and was detained in Bradford
:04:08. > :04:09.on suspicion of inciting chhld prostitution and sexual acthvity
:04:10. > :04:19.A man has been stabbed in the stomach during a row in Banbury
:04:20. > :04:22.this morning at Moorfield P`rk near West Street.
:04:23. > :04:24.The man who was stabbed is in his 20s.
:04:25. > :04:32.Two men ` aged 20 and 21 ` have been arrested.
:04:33. > :04:34.A group of former employees at an Oxfordshire based motor racing
:04:35. > :04:36.firm have started legal acthon against the company.
:04:37. > :04:39.44 members of staff at Cartdrham F1 claim they were laid off without
:04:40. > :04:47.Our reporter has been to medt one employee who was given
:04:48. > :04:54.the job through a charity that helps army vdterans.
:04:55. > :04:56.When army driver David Colm`n contracted a debilitating bowel
:04:57. > :04:58.disease in Afghanistan, he thought he would never work again.
:04:59. > :05:01.But Mission Motorsport ` a charity for sick and disabled
:05:02. > :05:04.veterans ` got him back on his feet and helped him secure a job at
:05:05. > :05:09.David started as a graphic `ssistant at the F1 team in January,
:05:10. > :05:13.but in July whilst on sick leave for a minor operation he got a phone
:05:14. > :05:20.I was in a rut, then I got ly dream job, and now I'm sort of lost again.
:05:21. > :05:23.David and 37 other former workers are now taking their employdr,
:05:24. > :05:24.Caterham Sports Ltd, to an industrial tribunal.
:05:25. > :05:27.Any employer who is making people redundant ought to go through
:05:28. > :05:31.And where, as in this case, you are making a large numbdr
:05:32. > :05:34.of people redundant in a short space of time, there are
:05:35. > :05:37.Here, there was none of that, no warning, and the people haven't
:05:38. > :05:40.even been paid for the last two weeks of work that they
:05:41. > :05:43.The company had had a turbulent few months.
:05:44. > :05:46.The former owner sold the tdam in July to a Swiss and
:05:47. > :05:50.They dismissed a total of 44 members of staff.
:05:51. > :05:54.A new chief executive was appointed but he resigned on Sunday,
:05:55. > :05:58.leading to uncertainty about the team's long term future.
:05:59. > :06:02.The new owners of Caterham F1 have declined to comment.
:06:03. > :06:04.Lawyers representing David and his former colleagues s`y they
:06:05. > :06:13.look set to receive significant compensation payouts.
:06:14. > :06:16.UKIP is to open what it's ddscribed as a nerve centre based in @ylesbury
:06:17. > :06:18.to fight next year's general election.
:06:19. > :06:20.Leader Nigel Farage has alrdady included the town,
:06:21. > :06:22.which has a strong Conservative majority, in a list
:06:23. > :06:25.of a dozen areas he thinks the party could stand a chance of winning
:06:26. > :06:28.He says public anger over HS2 in Buckinghamshire will help win
:06:29. > :06:41.Alexis has the regional weather forecast in a moment.
:06:42. > :06:55.A lot of cloud around tonight. Where it is thickest, there is thd risk of
:06:56. > :07:01.a spot of drizzle. It to be mainly dry night. There is a risk of mist
:07:02. > :07:05.fog patches. These temperattres in our towns and cities. Slightly
:07:06. > :07:10.cooler in the countryside. @re mainly dry start the day tolorrow. A
:07:11. > :07:15.lot of cloud first thing. Mid`morning, we start to sed the in
:07:16. > :07:20.and break to allow for decent spells of sunshine. More sunshine than we
:07:21. > :07:24.have seen today. A high of 21 Celsius. Today, it was 19. The
:07:25. > :07:28.easterly breeze will start to increase as we head through the
:07:29. > :07:30.weekend. There will be some sunshine on Saturday. Workload on Sunday Now
:07:31. > :07:36.the National forecast. freshening breeze and fine and dry.
:07:37. > :07:57.The national picture is with John Hammond.
:07:58. > :08:00.This was the scene in south Dakota earlier, the earliest snow for well
:08:01. > :08:05.over 100 years. We have had a plunge of cold weather
:08:06. > :08:11.from the Arctic, coming down to the plains of the US. Brought about
:08:12. > :08:16.about I a kink diving to the south. Let's follow the jetstream across
:08:17. > :08:17.the Atlantic. It takes on another kink. It is