:00:07. > :00:07.Hello and welcome to South Today from Oxford.
:00:08. > :00:17.After dozens of homes were flooded by a burst water main it's revealed
:00:18. > :00:19.a million pounds worth of damage has been done.
:00:20. > :00:23.In court ` six men and a teenager face charges relating
:00:24. > :00:27.And advice of on allergies ` with the number of children affected
:00:28. > :00:32.on the rise, we meet a mothdr who wants others to be prepared.
:00:33. > :00:35.And later on, the sport and weather plus the flytippers costing
:00:36. > :00:52.Thames Water says up to ?1 lillion of damage has been caused following
:00:53. > :00:56.The incident at Normandy Crdscent has ruined dozens of homes
:00:57. > :01:03.and left families living in temporary accommodation.
:01:04. > :01:06.It's the second time in seven years the pipe has burst.
:01:07. > :01:09.Some residents have been told they may be unable to go home
:01:10. > :01:13.Tom Turrell has spent the d`y in Cowley.
:01:14. > :01:17.Returning to his flat six d`ys after it was flooded.
:01:18. > :01:20.Last Tuesday Brett and his family woke to find water
:01:21. > :01:29.pouring into their ground floor flat on Normandy Cresent.
:01:30. > :01:36.This is the bathroom. Everything was washed into here and the bedroom.
:01:37. > :01:38.75 people have been forced to leave their homes for temporary
:01:39. > :01:44.accommodation, but Brett saxs it's hit him and his wife h`rd.
:01:45. > :01:54.We are as far as we can go. She sits and cries and I stay up thinking
:01:55. > :01:57.about what we are going to do. It is all right saying they were biased
:01:58. > :02:02.replacements, but it has taken us nine years to build this and it will
:02:03. > :02:14.take another 89 years to buhld the rest. The source of the problem lies
:02:15. > :02:15.12 feet underground, one of the largest water mains which this time
:02:16. > :02:17.last week burst. Thames Water say they'll pick up
:02:18. > :02:22.the costs and pay the repair bills for properties, a tab they say
:02:23. > :02:26.could reach ?1 million. But for those keen to get
:02:27. > :02:43.back to Normandy Cresent We usually say it could takd six
:02:44. > :02:46.months because the drying ott stage is intensive. We hope some can
:02:47. > :02:49.return to their houses in the next two or three weeks.
:02:50. > :02:51.Normality then is still a long way off for many,
:02:52. > :02:54.but the question many peopld here want answering is how could this
:02:55. > :03:02.A Swindon man, charged with murdering his parents in 2007,
:03:03. > :03:05.is due in court tomorrow, after being deemed fit to stand trial
:03:06. > :03:08.50`year`old Timothy Crook of Thames Avenue in the town w`s first
:03:09. > :03:14.charged with the murder of Robert and Elsie Crook on July 14th 20 7.
:03:15. > :03:18.He was declared unfit to st`nd trial due to mental health concerns.
:03:19. > :03:24.He's now due to appear at Bristol Crown Court tomorrow.
:03:25. > :03:27.Six men and a teenager, charged with a string of sex offences
:03:28. > :03:31.against seven underage girls, have appeared in court in Oxford.
:03:32. > :03:34.The offences are alleged to have been carried out in Banbury over
:03:35. > :03:44.Six men and a 17`year`old who can't be named
:03:45. > :03:47.for legal reasons face a total of 29 charges including rape, sextal
:03:48. > :03:50.activity with a child and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.
:03:51. > :03:53.The men were arrested in June after police investigating child
:03:54. > :03:56.sexual exploitation in Banbtry carried out a series of warrants
:03:57. > :04:03.It is claimed the offences against seven girls aged
:04:04. > :04:06.between 13 and 15 took placd between 2009 and this year.
:04:07. > :04:28.Six have been remanded in ctstody, the 17`year`old has been gr`nted
:04:29. > :04:33.All seven will appear beford Oxford Crown Court before the start
:04:34. > :04:42.The Conservatives have been setting out their economic plans for the
:04:43. > :04:46.next five years with further pension changes and a benefits freeze.
:04:47. > :04:48.Like Labour last week, the Tories have struggled to control
:04:49. > :04:51.the conference headlines ` this time with a resignation
:04:52. > :04:54.and defection proving a significant detraction in what is
:04:55. > :04:57.meant to be the last big showcase before the General Election.
:04:58. > :05:04.Our Political Editor Peter Henley sent this report from Birmingham.
:05:05. > :05:07.It is a conference that started in defections and scandal
:05:08. > :05:12.but one man's loss is Rob Whlson's gain, appointed the new minhster
:05:13. > :05:18.You wrote a book about scandals is this a strange way to cole
:05:19. > :05:24.It is not the ideal way but unfortunately,
:05:25. > :05:28.Brooks Newmark had a few problems and that opened an opportunhty.
:05:29. > :05:32.You can't leave a ministeri`l position unfilled and there are
:05:33. > :05:37.many charities in the sector that I will be responsible for who are
:05:38. > :05:45.looking for leadership and somebody to come in and take over.
:05:46. > :05:49.The Prime Minister had to act decisively.
:05:50. > :05:51.Any event that talks about the European Union sedms to be
:05:52. > :05:57.popular and there were huge queues for renegotiating the EU, something
:05:58. > :06:10.They get tired of talk and UKIP has emerged from nowhere.
:06:11. > :06:16.He is seen as a man of the people and wants to get things dond.
:06:17. > :06:20.His message is simple and a lot of what he says, I agree with.
:06:21. > :06:24.We have to adopt all of that and tell people where it is we are
:06:25. > :06:31.going so they know we have the answers to very big isstes.
:06:32. > :06:33.You say answers, David Cameron is promising
:06:34. > :06:41.I am delighted he has promised a referendum and if we win,
:06:42. > :06:59.This is a party feels it is under fire but it is fighting back.
:07:00. > :07:02.Oxford University lecturers are to be asked if they will boxcott
:07:03. > :07:07.marking work and refuse to set exams in a row over pensions.
:07:08. > :07:09.Members of the University and College Union staged
:07:10. > :07:16.UCU, which represents staff at the University of Oxford, is balloting
:07:17. > :07:22.It claims changes would see tens of thousands of pounds
:07:23. > :07:25.Universities UK says reform is necessary, but stresses
:07:26. > :07:31.A Buckinghamshire mother, whose child has severe allergies,
:07:32. > :07:34.says advice on the condition is so limited, she's set up her own
:07:35. > :07:37.Kerry Azhar, who lives in Milton Keynes, has to
:07:38. > :07:40.carry emergency medicine around with her in case her three year old
:07:41. > :07:43.daughter suffers an allergic reaction which could prove fatal.
:07:44. > :07:49.Brennan Nicholls has been to meet them both.
:07:50. > :07:53.This training could save Amhrah s life.
:07:54. > :07:56.At three years old she has a severe allergic reaction to foods
:07:57. > :08:06.She needs dozens of medications to make life bearable
:08:07. > :08:37.Put all of these in your emdrgency box. The lid goes on and thhs goes
:08:38. > :08:40.everywhere with us. We don't leave the house without it.
:08:41. > :08:43.The number of people sufferhng from allergies is on the rise.
:08:44. > :08:46.No one knows why, but up to one in three of us now
:08:47. > :08:54.Frustration at the lack of information has seen Kerry set up
:08:55. > :09:00.an allergy support group in Milton Keynes.
:09:01. > :09:07.There was many nights when we were up crying. To talk to anothdr parent
:09:08. > :09:23.or another individual that understands our frustration means
:09:24. > :09:26.everything. We need our GPs to be better trained so there is lore
:09:27. > :09:30.support out there for peopld. Families need to know there is
:09:31. > :09:34.somewhere they can go for stpport. In the more short term, what we want
:09:35. > :09:39.is more parents like Kerry who are willing to set up support groups.
:09:40. > :09:41.Amirah now gets specialist treatment in London.
:09:42. > :09:43.The kind of treatment Kerry would like to see
:09:44. > :09:53.I'll have the headlines at 8 and a full bulletin at 10.24.
:09:54. > :10:04.Now more of today's stories with Sally Taylor.
:10:05. > :10:06.Still to come in this evening's South Tod`y:
:10:07. > :10:09.A walk down memory lane ` thousands step out to raise money
:10:10. > :10:17.Portsmouth is one of the most dangerous places in
:10:18. > :10:19.the country for cycling, according to new government statistics.
:10:20. > :10:22.The City Council says the r`te is relatively high because so lany
:10:23. > :10:25.people cycle in the city ` but cyclists say they're increasingly
:10:26. > :10:34.Jon Cuthill's been finding out what needs to be done to cut
:10:35. > :10:40.Portsmouth's roads can be a battle ground.
:10:41. > :10:42.Tempers are frayed between cyclists and motorists.
:10:43. > :10:51.Drivers are very aggressive in their cars.
:10:52. > :10:54.There are times when I think I must have an invisible cloak on
:10:55. > :11:09.They are a law unto themselves most of the time.
:11:10. > :11:12.Government figures show last year in Portsmouth, there were 906 cycling
:11:13. > :11:14.accidents reported to the police per million of the population.
:11:15. > :11:18.Only London and Hull fared worse in the whole country.
:11:19. > :11:21.Portsmouth City Council has pledged ?2.5 million to improving things.
:11:22. > :11:28.Some junctions and bike lands will be made safer and 20 mph spded
:11:29. > :11:36.Where we can and we have got the space, we will look to put more
:11:37. > :11:39.harder engineering measures and create more space for cxclists.
:11:40. > :11:41.The reality is, we cannot knock houses down.
:11:42. > :11:43.We have got terraced housing even on the main road.
:11:44. > :11:45.We don't have any public land available to encroach into,
:11:46. > :11:54.I think, in the short term, Portsmouth needs to look at how it
:11:55. > :11:56.can creatively make some ch`nges to junctions to make cyclists safer
:11:57. > :12:00.Nationally, the Department for Transport says it has doubled
:12:01. > :12:03.funding for cycling to ?374 million to help deliver safer juncthons
:12:04. > :12:05.For all cyclists on the South's roads, those improvements c`n't come
:12:06. > :12:19.And there'll be more on Inshde Out tonight at 7:30pm,
:12:20. > :12:21.as Jon Cuthill examines whether Dutch roundabouts
:12:22. > :12:33.The Winter Gardens in Bourndmouth used to be a major concert venue but
:12:34. > :12:36.finding a new use for the shte has proved to be a real song and dance.
:12:37. > :12:40.It's a key location in the centre of the town and a number of gr`nd plans
:12:41. > :12:42.have fallen by the wayside `mid considerable local controversy.
:12:43. > :12:45.This afternoon, councillors gave their backing to a new blueprint.
:12:46. > :12:53.Katy Austin is there ` this one got the green light?
:12:54. > :12:59.Yes, today proposals for development of the
:13:00. > :13:02.The large sloping area did contain a popular performance hall there
:13:03. > :13:06.Now as other building sites havd sprung
:13:07. > :13:09.up around it, the site remahns undeveloped, left as a car park
:13:10. > :13:16.In the past two years, two plans for developments ` of leisure
:13:17. > :13:19.space, hundreds of homes, and hotels ` have been rejected, in large part
:13:20. > :13:26.The bid discussed by Bournemouth Borough Council today
:13:27. > :13:34.The developer said it had addressed concerns over traffic and shze.
:13:35. > :13:39.And the council's planning committee agreed.
:13:40. > :13:47.If it was all about money, they would've developed the site by now,
:13:48. > :13:52.this is all about the right development. This is a great town. I
:13:53. > :14:05.have been here 33 years, I would not move. Why would we put some shabby
:14:06. > :14:09.ten hut in our town? It oncd indoor facilities to attract tourists and
:14:10. > :14:12.new homes, both will be provided by these plans. But not everybody
:14:13. > :14:18.thinks this is the right thhng for Bournemouth. Nobody knows what the
:14:19. > :14:23.facilities will be. It is all smoke and mirrors, and that is ond issue.
:14:24. > :14:27.The other issue is we need to consider the increase in tr`ffic
:14:28. > :14:36.Thomas which could be detrilental to the area. Some of those concerns
:14:37. > :14:41.were reflected by councillors in today's meeting. The decision was
:14:42. > :14:44.that something needed to be done with the site and these bozos might
:14:45. > :14:50.be a start. `` proposals. Like many small charities,
:14:51. > :14:53.the Phyllis Tuckwell Hospicd in Farnham has to work hard to
:14:54. > :14:55.raise much needed funds. But it's found itself losing money
:14:56. > :14:58.because of the thoughtlessndss Worthless furniture is being dumped
:14:59. > :15:01.outside its shop and the hospice has Staff call it "Car Boot Monday"
:15:02. > :15:23.as they're left to deal with goods Donations like these make a vital
:15:24. > :15:26.contribution for the ?15,000 that this hospice has to find each day to
:15:27. > :15:31.keep its doors open. The st`rt of the week rings a less welcole
:15:32. > :15:38.collection of items here on the doorstop. This morning we h`d a
:15:39. > :15:46.office chair, totally wet and ruined by the rain. A mangled wine rack.
:15:47. > :15:50.There comes a point when thhngs have to go down the tape or in the
:15:51. > :15:55.rubbish and with the majority of this, we have reached that point. It
:15:56. > :16:00.is relentless. These are thd type of items that have kept the hospice
:16:01. > :16:06.running for over 30 years. For the rest, it is just a fly`tipphng. To
:16:07. > :16:12.make things worse, just a short distance away, there is a fly type.
:16:13. > :16:16.They are open on Sunday and are happy to take things off of
:16:17. > :16:24.people's hands that they no longer want. We would ask people to bring
:16:25. > :16:26.things to our shop that we can sell during opening hours. Then we can
:16:27. > :16:32.work out what is good and what we cannot sell. Putting it outside
:16:33. > :16:39.means it simply will not be able to be used and we then spend money
:16:40. > :16:44.adding rid of it. The cost of disposing of other's rubbish is
:16:45. > :16:47.something they cannot afford. Derek Rankin and
:16:48. > :16:49.his family have more than 100 pets. On Saturday,
:16:50. > :16:57.they were out shopping when they saw They soon found out that it was
:16:58. > :17:02.their house that was on fird. As they rushed home, Derek's only
:17:03. > :17:05.thought was for his animals. Chris Robinson went to meet the man
:17:06. > :17:14.whose neighbours call him Doolittle. I was absolutely devastated, I
:17:15. > :17:22.wasn't worried about my house, I wanted to get in and see my animals.
:17:23. > :17:27.This is what is left of Derdk's kitchen. Thankfully, the fire did
:17:28. > :17:32.not spread. Inside the housd was dozens of pets. It was a fire alarm
:17:33. > :17:38.that alerted the neighbours. They had to climb in and pull out the
:17:39. > :17:43.animals. He was treated for smoke inhalation. Derek is thankftl for
:17:44. > :17:49.that neighbour's intervention, although he doesn't know who it is.
:17:50. > :17:57.There are many exotic animals here as well as the common ones. We have
:17:58. > :18:04.got tortoises, one is, a cotple of a bearded dragons, a couple of the
:18:05. > :18:09.bullfrogs. Sadly, several animals died in the fire. This frog was
:18:10. > :18:14.lucky, she was black but was resuscitated. She has made ` full
:18:15. > :18:22.recovery. Here she is with `nother dog, being booked after by the
:18:23. > :18:26.firefighters who treated thdm. Once we established that no human life
:18:27. > :18:31.was at risk, we had to look at the best interest of the animals left
:18:32. > :18:37.behind. That is I think that is playing on Derek's mind as well Do
:18:38. > :18:43.you think you will stop havhng so many animals? We will have to, but
:18:44. > :18:48.animals are my life. I prefdr animals to people. He is so fond of
:18:49. > :18:55.his pets, these turkeys havd survived many Christmases. Happily,
:18:56. > :19:01.they will look forward to this oneone, two.
:19:02. > :19:10.Onto the sport, now. I haven't seen you for months. Yorked wearhng a
:19:11. > :19:13.good colour, because the fans of this club will be happy. Thdy
:19:14. > :19:16.cleared up ?7 million of debt. Pompey had two spells
:19:17. > :19:18.in administration between 2010 and 2013, in which the business failed
:19:19. > :19:21.owing tens of millions of pounds, and the team was relegated from
:19:22. > :19:24.the Premier League to Leagud Two. A supporters' trust now owns Pompey
:19:25. > :19:27.and the regime in charge believe their business model is one other
:19:28. > :19:35.football clubs should follow. Now that's gone, we can rebtild for
:19:36. > :19:38.the future, but what we can't do is take our eye off the ball. @nd
:19:39. > :19:42.really, we are at ground zero now, we've cleared that, we've started,
:19:43. > :19:44.we're in a really good position But in any business, especially a
:19:45. > :19:47.football club, three or four bad months and you can be back hn
:19:48. > :19:50.trouble again. So we've just got to make sure we keep our eye on the
:19:51. > :19:54.ball, keep moving forward and keep working to the disaplines that we
:19:55. > :19:57.have done for the past 18 months. A former Portsmouth manager, Harry
:19:58. > :20:00.Redknapp, had a losing return to the south coast this weekend as another
:20:01. > :20:03.of his former clubs, Southalpton, All the goals came quickly
:20:04. > :20:06.after the break. Ryan Bertrand with his first for
:20:07. > :20:08.the club put Southampton in front. The former Poole town strikdr
:20:09. > :20:12.Charlie Austin levelled for the visitors but standbx
:20:13. > :20:41.for a brilliant goal from Graziano A former Swindon boss was there
:20:42. > :20:47.Mark Cooper's side through Danny Wilson's hospitality back in his
:20:48. > :20:56.face. In the spate of 23 minutes, there were these goals that sent
:20:57. > :21:04.town into the top three. Th`t means Swindon have MK dons who went in
:21:05. > :21:12.full of confidence. They recovered from going two goals down. They
:21:13. > :21:21.enjoyed parity for only a fdw minutes. The only team to h`ve
:21:22. > :21:24.beaten Bristol city in any competition remains Oxford Tnited
:21:25. > :21:29.who knocked them out of the League Cup. Fat lot of good that h`s done
:21:30. > :21:35.them up as they are at the bottom again. Oxford did wage chads is but
:21:36. > :22:13.a second`half penalty was converted.
:22:14. > :22:19.Balcombe has moved to Surrex, where he's agreed a two year contract
:22:20. > :22:22.Justin Rose emerged as one of the standard bearers of the
:22:23. > :22:25.European team, winning four points as Europe retained the Ryder Cup.
:22:26. > :22:26.While he was doing that, Bournemouth's Georgia Hall was
:22:27. > :22:29.winning her first professional tournament.
:22:30. > :22:31.The 18`year`old won the Strasbourg Open by four shots.
:22:32. > :22:34.Georgia, who plays at Ferndown, turned professional earlier this
:22:35. > :22:37.year and her main aim is to earn a full
:22:38. > :22:42.Speedway now, and both Poold Pirates and Swindon Robins start thd end
:22:43. > :22:47.Pirates finished top of the Elite League table after
:22:48. > :22:59.the regular season, but are without Darcy Ward, who's suspended.
:23:00. > :23:01.44 million people in the world have dementia,
:23:02. > :23:07.so it's easy to see why finding effective treatments is a priority.
:23:08. > :23:11.The Alzheimer?s Society is spending ?5 million a year on research `
:23:12. > :23:16.This weekend, thousands of people came together to raise funds and
:23:17. > :23:19.awareness for the Society, taking part in the annual Memory W`lk
:23:20. > :23:23.Roger Finn met up with a falily in Portsmouth who were taking part
:23:24. > :23:41.Warming up for the walk. Among those taking part, this couple. Three
:23:42. > :23:44.years ago, Sheila noticed that the ball but was becoming more vague,
:23:45. > :23:54.repeating things and forgetting things. `` Bob. I noticed that he
:23:55. > :24:01.would begin his speech and start again halfway through. They find
:24:02. > :24:07.regular support at a cafe rtn by the charity. The walk is their way of
:24:08. > :24:12.giving something back. Many people here covered ten km, although some
:24:13. > :24:20.random shorter. All of them are raising money for funding for
:24:21. > :24:27.research into this. I would say take it up clearly, the get it in the
:24:28. > :24:31.eye, and say to yourself, wd will live with this every day, btt we
:24:32. > :24:37.will not die. We will live life to the full.
:24:38. > :24:40.Well done took part of the walks. It was a misty start
:24:41. > :24:43.in places today. This picture of Corfe Castld
:24:44. > :24:49.was taken by Andy Lyons. Steve Pullen also captured
:24:50. > :24:51.the murky start on the the And John Cropp took this photo
:24:52. > :25:07.of a cow cooling off in watdr For some of us, it was a warm day.
:25:08. > :25:12.Through the course of today, we are expecting some sunny spells. Rain is
:25:13. > :25:18.likely tomorrow night and towards the end of the week. It will turn
:25:19. > :25:24.cooler. Through the course of the night, like last night, there are
:25:25. > :25:30.risks of fog and mist patchds. There will be one or two showers skirting
:25:31. > :25:39.the coast. Under the cleared skies, it does not he will see somd fog,
:25:40. > :25:42.but it won't be as dense. It predominantly dry start to the day
:25:43. > :25:49.tomorrow. Some murkiness first thing, but it will clear. The audit
:25:50. > :25:56.shower is a possibility, especially along the south coast. `` odd
:25:57. > :26:02.shower. The temperature will be warmer, perhaps 21 Celsius. Tomorrow
:26:03. > :26:07.night, we will see initiallx a lovely evening, but the clotds will
:26:08. > :26:12.increase and the rain will `rrive. Outbreaks of patchy, light rain
:26:13. > :26:19.although not too much. The temperatures will fall to a mild 15
:26:20. > :26:23.to 16 Celsius. A mild and d`mp the start to the day on Wednesd`y,
:26:24. > :26:30.introducing rain and showers throughout the day. Generally, lots
:26:31. > :26:34.of clouds. That cloud will produce outbreaks of rain and drizzle. Not
:26:35. > :26:47.too heavy, but there could be the odd heavy worsted here and there. ``
:26:48. > :26:55.odd heavy shower. There is ` lot of cloudy weather, with tomorrow with
:26:56. > :26:59.the best of the warmth. Tomorrow, there will be risks of showdrs,
:27:00. > :27:08.which becomes more likely through Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
:27:09. > :27:15.He was just saying, he won't have to turn on the boiler. He was so
:27:16. > :27:20.excited. We will be back tolorrow at 638 M. There is more tonight at 8pm
:27:21. > :27:23.and 10:30 p.m.. Good night.