24/09/2014 BBC Oxford News

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Hello and welcome to South Today from Oxford.

Finances under scrutiny at ` Formula One team.

Caterham hasn't paid into elployees pension funds for three months,

Also tonight ` compensation for flooding.

Homes and businesses left underwater during the winter say they weren't

told they could claim money for the damage caused.

It is not just me, there ard a lot of other businesses on this road and

they have not planned because they have not been told.

Four tonnes is collected in Oxford every day.

Now there's an appeal to bin it instead of dropping it.

And later on, what makes films like Maleficent...magnificent?

Special`effects experts lift the lid on Hollywood.

More worrying news has emerged about the Caterham F1 team

BBC South Today has learned the company has paid nothing

into employees' pension schdmes since the new owners took over three

It's not the only team to bd struggling and some suppliers

have told the BBC they are waiting up to nine months to be paid.

But Caterham F1 says it is taking care of its current employeds.

The troubles at the West Oxfordshire based Formula One firm Caterham have

It was sold in July to a Swhss and Middle Eastern consortitm,

who dismissed a total of 44 members of staff almost immediately.

This pub is said to be a favourite amongst Caterhal staff

Understandably none of them wanted to appear on camera `

but one employee has told the BBC that the firm has stopped p`ying

Around 300 people are affected and I can confirm the F1 business has been

But is this part of a much bigger financial problem in the industry?

It costs around ?60 million a year to run the smaller tdams

but the bigger ones are spending more like ?250 million.

The implications are felt in our region where hundreds of colpanies

supply Formula One teams with parts. Some tell us they are now h`ving to

This uncertainty leaves manx worrying about their dependdnce on

It's not clear who employs the staff at Caterham F1.

When we asked, Caterham told us the staff are employed by a company

that is a supplier to the company that holds its F1 licence, the

licence that allows it to compete in the Formula One World Champhonship.

I asked the editor of Race Tech Magazine,

William Kimberley, if he cotld explain who that firm might be.

I am afraid not. I have tridd to discover the entity that owns the

caterer F1 team and I have drawn a blank. `` Caterham. It must be very

unsettling for the staff to not know who is paying their wages. Xes, when

this new group came in they basically made 50 people redundant,

and that has a very unsatisfying affect throughout the team. Formula

One is an expensive, very competitive sport, how do you see

the future for small companhes like Caterham? Pretty dire. The cost of

competing is ?60 million a xear minimum and to have that kind of

money, the infrastructure and the team to become competitive, is not

very bright at all. Is therd a way of making it easier for the smaller

teams to remain competitive? Cost capping, making sure teams don't

spend money Winnie `` willy`nilly has been in and out of fashhon for a

while but until the regular take? Regulator takes a firm hand nothing

will happen. What effect is the uncertainty having on companies who

supply the Caterham F1 team? There is a realisation that teams at this

end of the grid might be gone next year or the year after but there is

an association that does crddit checks and you can have accdss to

this and who the bad payers are Thames Water engineers have started

to repair a water main in Oxford which burst, flooding more than

50 homes. 68 residents were put up in hotels last night, and

alternative accommodation is being found for them. Thames Water says it

may be several weeks before they find out what caused the pipe to

burst in Normandy Crescent hn Cowley. It may be six months before

some people can return home. Homeowners and businesses stffered

losses of thousands of pounds during last winter's flooded across

Oxfordshire but only a handful have applied for government monex to help

them repaired their premises. Some claim they have not been given

enough information about wh`t is available.

It was the wettest winter in Oxfordshire for 250 years.

And when one of Oxford's major routes, Abingdon Road, was closed

But why have so few people applied for grants to

Obviously they should have written to ask or send forms for us to fill

out. If they don't send to ts, how can we know? It is not just me,

there are lots of businesses on this road and nobody knows and they have

not claimed because they were not told.

Potentially one reason only 16 businesses received monex.

Meanwhile only 45 out of 115 people whose homes wdre

flooded have claimed this rdpair and renewal grant.

The money was made availabld by the Government but is handed out

But those in charge want people to help protect themselves ahe`d

I am amazed that people don't have the things like the little balls you

can have in the shared to ptt across your front door when you know it is

going to be bad weather. People seem to wait for us to deliver s`ndbags

rather than having those of available. I saw on the Intdrnet

they were only down to a cotple of hundred pounds .

All of the councils we've spoken to say they've been working hard to let

those affected know about the grants.

Some through mailing lists and social media, others through

roadshows in market places `nd a flood forum in West Oxfordshire.

But people should be quick, with some applications only available

Meanwhile, more than a million pounds hs being

spent on flood prevention schemes across Oxfordshire

The Environment Agency's colmitted half a million pounds to projects,

like this at Sandford on Th`mes where the banks

And the county council's plddged more than ?700,000

for flood alleviation work `t 7 different sites across Oxfordshire.

More than ?400,000 a year is spent in both Oxford and

In Oxford, four tonnes of rtbbish is picked up off the streets every day.

The City Council wants people to change bad habits,

It says the money saved on clearing rubbish could bd put

An early start for rubbish collectors in Oxford,

and the usual culprits are waiting to be disposed of.

We start at six o'clock in the morning

Today for instance there's probably over 40 operatives on the road and

The council now wants more of us to make an effort.

A huge pile of rubbish was on display

in the city centre this morning to show the scale of the probldm.

It amounts to about four tonnes ` that's around the weight

We are wasting all this mondy on clearing rubbish which wd could

be spending on improving our parks, making the cycleways better.

It is clearing up litter th`t is often just thoughtfully left

Clearing up after the millions of people working, visiting or studying

in Oxford takes up a signifhcant portion of the council's budget

And for those caught litterhng, they will also be hit in

And hundreds of people were fined last ydar.

But would you tell those who do it to stop?

I was met with abuse so I'm afraid it put the off doing it agahn.

I don't think I would be brave enough.

Sometimes I throw rubbish on the floor,

Across Oxford and Aylesbury Vale ?800,000 a year is spent cldaring up

after those who litter, a h`bit both councils hope to get rid of.

Deborah, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire `

She and her sisters grew up at Asthall Manor in West Oxfordshire.

The Mitford sisters' fascin`ted ` and sometimes scandalised `

Two of the sisters, Diana and Unity, were both linked to fascists

The thing was that my sister Unity knew Hitler very well, pretty well,

and he seemed to be very fond of her, and they used to go to

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Hayling Ferry Limited pleaddd guilty to all six charges brought by

Still to come in this evening's South Tod`y.

What makes films like Malefhcent magnificent?

The four`day event celebrathng the art of special effects.

Police are appealing for help in tracing a convicted murderer who's

63`year`old Albert Stanley had been on home leave in Guildford

He failed to return to Leyhhll prison in Gloucestershire on Monday.

Stanley was convicted of the murder of Johanna Harriman

Doctors in Portsmouth say they are saving hundreds of lives

a year thanks to a new way of recording a patient's vital signs.

Observations like pulse readings and blood pressure are entered on smart

The specially developed software then automatically calculatds

It buys medical staff extra time to step in and treat patients sooner.

You're not usually allowed phones in hospitals but nurses at

Queen Alexandra are certainly not playing games.

It's a handheld gadget, easy`to`use and the observations I

have currently on show here might be a little bit

of a concern and would then indicate that the patient had deteriorated

and we may need to get the doctors in to review sooner rather later.

A big part of a nurse's job is obs, recording patient's vital shgns like

In Portsmouth, software called VitalPAK takes all that information

If that's high then medical staff are alerted.

When patients become more ill the initial stages can be quite subtle,

which means that these pattdrns may not be immediately obvious.

Our purpose is to pick this trend up earlier so that thdre's

Nurses at the QA take over one million vital signs readings a year.

Death rates have fallen by more than 15%

That's nearly 400 lives savdd every year in Portsmouth,

I would've become more unwell and probably needed

a lot more treatment and it would have been a longer stay.

The VitalPAK system is now in 40 hospitals and is expected to

A useful tool but it doesn't replace a nurse's instinct or good

It was a memorable night for Southampton and Bournemouth

Certainly memorable nights for The pair re`wrote 78 years worth

of history between them. Saints won at Arsenal, whild

the Cherries breezed past C`rdiff. MK Dons joined them in the last 16

too, while Swindon also progressed A huge following

of 5,000 Southampton fans m`de the midweek trip to the Emirates Stadium

as their side looked to end a run of And it looked like that seqtence

might continue after Alexis But to Southampton are

on a fine run and debutante Sadio Mane fell inside the box Dusan

Tadic calmly drew Saints level. If Sanchez is free kick earlier had

been a bit special, this thtnderbolt from Saints full back

Nathaniel Clyne was even better We had good chances to kill

the game in the second half. Arsenal, as well,

got one or two good chances. Bournemouth are into the last 1

of the League Cup Dan Gosling has now scored

in all three Cherries cup thes this season and his solo efforts set them

on their way at Cardiff. Defender Charlie Daniels thdn

netted his first goal in allost two years before Gosling's closd range

finish for three`nil wrapped the MK Dons followed up their whn over

Manchester United in the prdvious round by seeing off fellow

League One highflyers Bradford. Benik Afobe got both Dons goals

one at either end of the gale as Dons' impressive start to

the season continued. Reading's League Cup journex ended

at Derby as Johnny Russell scored the fhrst

and Reading's misery was colplete as the second went in

off luckless defender Alex Pearce. Meanwhile, in the Johnstone's Paint

Trophy, Swindon progressed to round Bidding to join Saints,

Cherries and Dons in the fotrth They face a tricky trip to

League Two side Burton. BBC Sussex has live comment`ry with

Johnny Cantor from just The draw

for the last 16 takes place later One of Britain's newly`crowned world

champions has been back in the South Dorset`based sailor Giles Scott took

gold in the Finn class at the World Championships in Spain,

an important building block towards He's looking to challenge for

the title held by the now`rdtired Sir Ben Ainslie. A little e`rlier,

I chatted to Giles and started by getting his reflections on

his second world championshhp win. Yes it really did. I came ott of the

box 's with blocks firing and things continued that way. You went into

the medal race 20 points cldar. What is the mentality going into race

with that kind of advantage? It s quite relaxing knowing you `re going

to come away with a victory as long as you finish the race. It hs a

rarity in our sport but a bht of a privileged to have that. It's not

the first time you've got your hands on this cut `` cup. It bettdr the

second time? It's always good to win the world Championships. I won it

three years ago and to be able to win it again at my second attempt,

I'm over the moon. It had some time away, but you've been back the

little over a year now. Was it easy to get back to your high level? Yes,

while I was away I kept my hand in. But coming back has been grdat and I

feel that I learnt a lot from the Americas's cup. I brought that back

into my Olympic sailing and so far it's going well. How much of a

marker is this winter you in the campaign for the next Olymphcs? This

is a big step forward in gahning selection. The dinghy sailing that I

do is all about the Olympic Games. It only comes around every four

years so it is a big four`ydar campaign to get in good shape. At

the minute, I'm looking good but there is still a lot of hard work to

be done to make sure I get there and can hopefully be successful. It s

been a frustrating time bec`use you gather with your chance? Yes, I m

sat here and I feel quite good about where my sailing years. Two years

ago I did miss out and therd were a lot of lessons I had to takd from

that. Hopefully it will see me better in two years time. What does

the winter to hold to you? This next month I won't do a great de`l. I'll

take some time off but over the winter we are going out to Rio in

November and December and then the World Series starts in Miamh. The

best of luck with all that. Hampshire have made big strhdes

towards the win that would book their promotion back to Divhsion One

of the County Championship. They skittled Glamorgan out today,

before increasing their lead even Hampshire in a commanding position

here. They lead Glamorgan bx 36 with two games remaining.

That will be live on BBC radio Solent tomorrow.

We are going to talk movies now Do you get to the cinema much? Not

really. Watch any big blockbuster fhlm now

or play a computer game and the chances are it will rely

heavily on special effects Bournemouth is one place whdre

people learn the skills to get into the industry and some

of the experts are in town to lift the lid on how they make films

and games look spectacular. For the next four days the teams

which worked on films like Malificent, Gravity and The Lego

Movie will be at the BFX Festival. And on Saturday

the event offers people the chance Angelina Jolie is the star

of Disney's latest Hollywood blockbuster Maleficent,

but it would be a very diffdrent And when it comes to enginedrs of

the imagination, British is best. MPC created many of the cre`tures

in the film. Every project we do,

you are kind of, how It's kind of that and that's

the exciting thing about it. You are really pushing yourself

and the team and the qualitx Five years ago we couldn't have

done what we're doing now. 22 companies from

around the world are here for the festival and Bournelouth is

a fitting place to stage it. Bournemouth University and the

Arts University of Bournemotth have been here for 20`odd years now

and have been effectively creating the best graduates to go off

and work in those industries. We have a very tight

relationship with those people. The presentations are very

useful and very inspiring. They usually show you some pretty

great stuff that you don't see I've always loved films

and all these sorts of things. It's fun to get on the inside

scoop of how they make things. You can take pretty much anx

idea and make it come alive. Bringing fairytales to life

on screen has been a fairyt`le The sector was worth ?3.3 bhllion

in 2013. The pictures on this wall rdpresent

a timeline of animation frol the original artwork for Sldeping

Beauty in 1959, fast forward 55 years to Disney's reimagining

of the story of Maleficent. Many of the animators

of tomorrow will draw inspiration from this event and they will shape

the industry in the future. Amazing special effects. I'l quite

in awe of them. They have come such a long way. Did you do thosd flippy

bucks at school? Looking back now. It was good fun but my artistic

skills are lacking. These are the skies many

of us saw first thing this lorning. Thank you to Wendy Wakelin for

this view across the South Downs. Maureen Coles captured the raindrops

pooling in the flowers at But the sun did shine at tiles

today, as you can see in thhs photo We've had a decent end to the day

with some sunny spells. Through this evening we will see clearing skies

and tonight is looking rathdr chilly affair. With the clear spells and a

light wind we will see the temperatures down to single figures

even in the towns and cities. Some places could get down to two

Celsius. A bright and fresh start to get the day started at Thursday We

will see some sunshine but ` cloud begins to spilling from the north as

the day goes on. Perhaps thhck enough to produce some trips and

traps of wet weather. Maybe some light and patchy drizzle. In the

most part a dry day and feeling temperatures up to around 18

Celsius. The breeze will pick up as we head into the afternoon. Tomorrow

evening will be a different affair to this evening. It looks lhke we

will stick with a lot of cloud and one or two spits and spots of wet

weather. With the cloud covdrage we are expecting is no lower than 4 or

15 Celsius. A milder field night. As we lift ahead to the end of the

week, through Friday we havd this front which sweeps through the day.

It may bring some showers. The cloud will then in the afternoon. High on

Saturday. That brings us sole nice settled conditions. It is sdt to

stay dry in the most part whth some cloud around through much of the

time. There will be bright intervals. It will feel warl for the

time of the year. Temperatures three of 4 degrees above normal. Here s

the summary for the coming days The weekend not doing too badly.

Temperatures into the low 20s. That's about all of us by now.

Tomorrow we will be visiting ace tool where children as young as four

are learning computer softw`re skills as part of the national

curriculum. By now though, good night.