:00:00. > :00:00.Hello and welcome to South Today from Oxford.
:00:00. > :00:07.In tonight's programme: Should they be a special case?
:00:08. > :00:12.Syrian refugees who've made a life in Oxford could be forced to
:00:13. > :00:14.relocate to Birmingham, because the council
:00:15. > :00:19.The villagers accusing Vodafone of holding them to ransom.
:00:20. > :00:23.They've had no signal some days for two months and no date
:00:24. > :00:27.from Vodafone as to when the problem will be fixed.
:00:28. > :00:30.The cub that knocks spots off a domestic kitten.
:00:31. > :00:33.How a leopard rejected by its mother has been hand reared
:00:34. > :00:46.William Blake's feet did in ancient times walk around this housd `
:00:47. > :00:56.now there's a move to buy hhs house for the nation.
:00:57. > :00:59.A family of Syrian refugees who ve been in Oxford for two years have
:01:00. > :01:04.been told the council can only afford to house them in Birlingham.
:01:05. > :01:08.Some of the Marud family are sufferhng from
:01:09. > :01:12.post`traumatic stress disorder and are receiving medical help here
:01:13. > :01:14.Their children have settled into school
:01:15. > :01:17.and those campaigning for them say the family are a special case.
:01:18. > :01:20.But the city council says they are not the only peopld
:01:21. > :01:26.Almasa Haji could never givd her children this stability
:01:27. > :01:29.But now her traumatised famhly face being uprooted again.
:01:30. > :01:32.The council says government housing allowances fall ?300 short
:01:33. > :01:46.So they face being moved to another cheaper city.
:01:47. > :01:52.It is really important for ts, because they do not know how we
:01:53. > :01:56.feel, they have never been through this. We want to stay here `nd we
:01:57. > :02:02.have tried everything and they are still not listening. We just want
:02:03. > :02:04.them to leave us alone. We just want to stay here.
:02:05. > :02:05.Linda and her family are amongst thousands
:02:06. > :02:08.of Syrian Kurds who've fled the country to escape civil war
:02:09. > :02:11.It's one of the largest forced migrations since World War Two.
:02:12. > :02:15.Murad still suffers from an injury caused by a car bomb.
:02:16. > :02:24.Doctors here have joined calls for the family to stay in the city.
:02:25. > :02:37.It is very difficult. I whisked which the council would stand by me
:02:38. > :02:39.and help me. But they haven't. `` I wish the council would stand by me.
:02:40. > :02:42.There are 3,000 people on the housing waiting list in Oxford.
:02:43. > :02:45.54 other families like the Lurads have been moved out
:02:46. > :02:55.But legal experts say they `re a special case.
:02:56. > :03:03.The government to be able to take into account situations likd this,
:03:04. > :03:09.acute situations like this where the family is in difficulty. Thd council
:03:10. > :03:14.says they cannot afford the rent for places like this, so they are now
:03:15. > :03:18.moving families further awax. When we asked about the family and their
:03:19. > :03:23.supports network era, they responded by saying that the family c`n access
:03:24. > :03:25.these things in other places like in Birmingham.
:03:26. > :03:28.Although they've provisionally accepted a property in the lidlands,
:03:29. > :03:31.they're desperate to keep their family together in Oxford
:03:32. > :03:34.People in Appleton near Abingdon say they're being 'held to ransom' by a
:03:35. > :03:40.Vodafone is the only servicd provider that covers the village.
:03:41. > :03:43.But a fault at the local mast means that for the last eight weeks
:03:44. > :03:45.the service has been coming and going, sometimes mid`conversation.
:03:46. > :03:48.Vodafone says it?s working to resolve the issue but cannot
:03:49. > :03:51.say when it will be fixed. Here's Brennan Nicholls.
:03:52. > :03:55.Vodafone customer in Appleton say they've been left
:03:56. > :04:00.It'll be there and you can watch the bars go four, three, two, one.
:04:01. > :04:04.You have lost your phone call from somebody and within seconds,
:04:05. > :04:08.Or maybe there's nothing for five minutes and then it will be
:04:09. > :04:11.fine for four hours, but you can't rely on it to have any
:04:12. > :04:15.The trouble is Vodafone is the only service provider
:04:16. > :04:20.However, its mast has a fault, one the company hasn't been able to
:04:21. > :04:28.Business people can't get hold of me, so they ring somebodx else,
:04:29. > :04:30.and my 92`year`old mother who has dementia and lots of carers,
:04:31. > :04:34.if something goes wrong, I will not know about it until it is too late
:04:35. > :04:38.I have teenage daughters, one of them, the other night,
:04:39. > :04:45.Local businesses are also feeling the strain.
:04:46. > :04:48.The owner of this Oxford coffee shop lives in the village and is
:04:49. > :04:53.The fact we have just been told lots of different stories from lots
:04:54. > :04:56.of different departments in Vodafone, it just feels that
:04:57. > :05:00.It feels that Vodafone is just palming us off.
:05:01. > :05:04.Vodafone declined to give us an interview today.
:05:05. > :05:06.In a statement, it apologisdd to customers,
:05:07. > :05:10.but said there were faults at a mast and a local installation.
:05:11. > :05:14.To fix these it needed a cherry picker, but was having
:05:15. > :05:20.It said the work was being treated as a priority.
:05:21. > :05:23.Its Appleton customers though say they've been left wondering what
:05:24. > :05:33.Zak Garner`Purkis is the edhtor of Mobile Magazine.
:05:34. > :05:37.I asked him how common this sort of breakdown is.
:05:38. > :05:41.It is common for network coverage to fail, but the length of time
:05:42. > :05:46.So many of us take mobile phones for granted, but a lot
:05:47. > :05:53.Yes, these areas are called not spots, they are dotted everxwhere,
:05:54. > :05:57.it is places where it is difficult for the signal to go in
:05:58. > :06:04.A lot of places have 4G now, a lot of places have nothing,
:06:05. > :06:09.there is a lot of disparity in reliability of signal.
:06:10. > :06:12.Yes, one of the difficult things abott the UK
:06:13. > :06:16.is that it is rolling countryside, so it is difficult to get shgnal
:06:17. > :06:23.in, but there are ways around it that operators are trying to find.
:06:24. > :06:27.Even if you have a reasonably reliable signal,
:06:28. > :06:30.you find it can drop out or run down to something that is barely usable
:06:31. > :06:38.That is just the nature of the network, it is difficult to
:06:39. > :06:52.But they are looking to find ways around it, so for example, with the
:06:53. > :06:55.new iPhone 6, the EE network will have Wi`Fi calling, so when you are
:06:56. > :06:58.at home and the signal is f`lling out, which can be very irritated in
:06:59. > :07:02.your living room with no signal but you have it in your bedroom
:07:03. > :07:04.well, you can use Wi`Fi to lake a phone call.
:07:05. > :07:07.What about the day when we could have data roaling in
:07:08. > :07:10.the UK, where you can changd network as you move around the country,
:07:11. > :07:16.Yes, the government is very keen on that, David Cameron is kden to
:07:17. > :07:20.get data roaming, because hd can not get signal in his own consthtuency
:07:21. > :07:25.sometimes, but the operators are reluctant to follow through with
:07:26. > :07:28.that, because one of their key selling points to customers is that
:07:29. > :07:32.we offer the broadest cover`ge, we offer the best network coverage,
:07:33. > :07:36.so if all of a sudden, they are lending a bit to their rival, they
:07:37. > :07:43.A group of 10 MPs are calling for a direct rail service
:07:44. > :07:48.Passengers now have to change at Didcot if they're travelling
:07:49. > :07:53.The Conservative and Lib`Del MPs are asking the Transport Secret`ry to
:07:54. > :07:57.include the route in the next Great Western franchise.
:07:58. > :07:59.They say it would run along existing track that is
:08:00. > :08:01.currently being electrified and would require relativelx little
:08:02. > :08:07.From today, people living in Milton Keynes will have to dial thdir area
:08:08. > :08:11.Ofcom has introduced the change because the town is one
:08:12. > :08:14.of several across the country which is running out of numbers
:08:15. > :08:15.Dialing the 01908 prefix will creatd enough
:08:16. > :08:21.After that, the town will have two codes to cope
:08:22. > :08:29.Now many of you might be cat lovers and know they can be
:08:30. > :08:33.But the curator of Cotswold Wildlife Park has hand reared a clouded
:08:34. > :08:36.leopard in his bathroom aftdr it was rejected by its mother.
:08:37. > :08:45.We sent Peter Cooke into the wild to find out more.
:08:46. > :08:48.It may be cute, but it's not so cuddly anymore.
:08:49. > :08:52.Abandoned at birth by its mother, Nimbus is now two months old
:08:53. > :08:58.The mother leopard can abandon the cub for a variety of re`sons.
:08:59. > :09:00.There could have been a disturbance between the p`ir.
:09:01. > :09:08.It could have been that she bred so well over the years that she
:09:09. > :09:12.It could have been that somdthing was wrong with the cub,
:09:13. > :09:15.There are some reasons that we cannot understand.
:09:16. > :09:18.The clouded leopard cub spent six weeks living with and being nurtured
:09:19. > :09:21.Its den ` the family's easy`to`clean bathroom.
:09:22. > :09:24.So what was it like sharing with the not so ferocious feline?
:09:25. > :09:27.Once she became a bit more `ctive, there was a certain amount of
:09:28. > :09:31.trickiness in negotiating your way across without getting ambushed
:09:32. > :09:37.And the kids played an active role, so they were used to her.
:09:38. > :09:40.They have grown up around the zoo, so even though I wouldn't stbject
:09:41. > :09:44.them to anything like that, or the animal to them, it is nice to have
:09:45. > :09:47.someone to distract them whdn you're helping the animal to go to the
:09:48. > :09:51.Jamie's also hand`reared a number of primates
:09:52. > :09:56.And although the smallest of the world's big cats,
:09:57. > :10:01.clouded leopards have the largest teeth of any wild cat.
:10:02. > :10:04.She is OK to play with now, but in around 12 months timd,
:10:05. > :10:07.she will weigh up to two stone and be the size of an average dog.
:10:08. > :10:10.The zoo are planning to gradually introduce her to other leop`rds
:10:11. > :10:19.but for now, she's just enjoying the attdntion.
:10:20. > :10:23.I'll have the headlines at 8:00 and a full bulletin at 10:24.
:10:24. > :10:33.Now more of today's stories with Sally Taylor.
:10:34. > :10:34.Still to come in this evening's South Tod`y:
:10:35. > :10:39.Not satisfied with 37 world records to his name, Alan Priddy talks
:10:40. > :11:08.Residents have complained about a charge rec amended on the Isle of
:11:09. > :11:10.Wight Bridge. Residents say the costs would mount up and wotld be
:11:11. > :11:12.damaging for businesses there. Campaigners fighting plans to change
:11:13. > :11:15.flight paths to and from Gatwick are claiming vhctory
:11:16. > :12:04.after the airport announced it was The final day of the Conservative
:12:05. > :12:08.Party conference in Birmingham was a chance for the Prime Minister to
:12:09. > :13:45.make his big pitch to the p`rty There have been more than 70
:13:46. > :13:48.crashes so far this year involving vehicles hitting animals on
:13:49. > :13:50.New Forest roads. If the ponies or cattle survive
:13:51. > :13:54.they often have to be destroyed Hampshire Police are targethng local
:13:55. > :14:02.drivers who break the 40mph speed limit, especially
:14:03. > :14:05.at this time of day ` dusk. Our transport correspondent
:14:06. > :14:17.Paul Clifton reports. This is how most people think of the
:14:18. > :14:25.new Forest. Animals wandering freely, with no appreciation of the
:14:26. > :14:30.highway code. This family h`s looked after parties here for 13
:14:31. > :14:34.generations. She knows first`hand what a speeding driver does to an
:14:35. > :14:41.animal. @ holiday`maker found one of my ponies with its front leg
:14:42. > :14:48.shattered. It would never h`ve survived. Here is what happdned to a
:14:49. > :14:57.car hitting a horse at 40 mhles an hour. Last year, there were 181
:14:58. > :15:00.collisions between cars and animals here. 72 animals were either killed
:15:01. > :15:09.or had to be destroyed soon afterwards. Reporting a collision
:15:10. > :15:14.with an animal is an easy ldgal obligation, but drivers oftdn ignore
:15:15. > :15:18.that. Police don't hear abott most incidents. Unfortunately, it is
:15:19. > :15:24.local people. People who either live in and around New Forest or commute
:15:25. > :15:30.through. They are the peopld mainly involved in these accidents. With
:15:31. > :15:34.the clocks are routed to ch`nge the sunsets over the forest as people
:15:35. > :15:40.return home from work. Collhsions peek at this time of year. So
:15:41. > :15:45.Hampshire Police are putting a speed camera on forest roads for ` month.
:15:46. > :15:51.It is fitted with a camera that works as well by night as it does by
:15:52. > :15:56.day. The majority of collishons that happen are at dawn or dusk. We are
:15:57. > :16:03.looking at the times when it hits, when commuters are going along. The
:16:04. > :16:08.collisions increase. The police inquiry that education is as
:16:09. > :16:10.important as enforcement. This is because the drivers are oftdn
:16:11. > :16:14.local, the people who should know better.
:16:15. > :16:25.Let's go straight to sport, and straight to football. You wdre at
:16:26. > :16:34.the game last night, weren't you? I saw something that I'd never seen
:16:35. > :16:36.before. A goal was given, then and someone was sent off. We will see it
:16:37. > :16:38.now. Let's tell you about that. There was a major talking point
:16:39. > :16:42.in the game at the iPro Stadium as Bournemouth slipped to ddfeat
:16:43. > :16:43.at high`flying Derby. Just after the hour mark,
:16:44. > :16:46.Cherries keeper Lee Camp handles the ball outside the box,
:16:47. > :16:49.but the ball bounces into the net And then, no, as referee Scott
:16:50. > :16:54.Mathieson changed his mind, sent Camp off instead, and disallowed
:16:55. > :16:58.the goal ` much to the astonishment The Cherries then hung on at 0`
:16:59. > :17:03.for 20 minutes, before Will Hughes The game was wrapped up by
:17:04. > :17:10.Chris Martin in added time. From our perspective, we wotld've
:17:11. > :17:13.preferred to keep 11 on the pitch and take the 1`0 deficit and
:17:14. > :17:16.try and come back, but from that moment, it was really tough to keep
:17:17. > :17:19.an attacking thread in the game Meanwhile Brighton and Hove Albion
:17:20. > :17:24.failed to make their dominance count,
:17:25. > :17:26.at home to manager`less Cardiff A spectacular volley from Bruno put
:17:27. > :17:30.Albion in front in the first half. That lead lasted only a mintte,
:17:31. > :17:33.though, as another long ball saw Seagulls keeper David Stockdale
:17:34. > :17:38.going walkabout, and Kenwynd Jones Visiting keeper David Marsh`ll
:17:39. > :17:44.made a string of saves, including Reading play this evening
:17:45. > :17:50.in the Championship. They're at Leeds, looking
:17:51. > :17:52.for a first win in four gamds, and BBC Radio Berkshire has full
:17:53. > :18:02.commentary from just after 7pm. And Reading's teenage strikdr
:18:03. > :18:05.Jake Taylor was handed his first Meanwhile, the England squad
:18:06. > :18:08.for their upcoming Euro 2016 And there's much hope at Sotthampton
:18:09. > :18:12.that full`back Nathaniel Clxne could Clyne has been one of the stand`out
:18:13. > :18:15.performers for Saints, in His manager Ronald Koeman s`id this
:18:16. > :18:19.week that he feels the 23`ydar`old is ready for international football,
:18:20. > :18:22.with England struggling to find A sailor from Portsmouth has
:18:23. > :18:25.unveiled an attempt to break the world record for circumnavigating
:18:26. > :18:28.the globe in a powerboat. Alan Priddy's near ?3 million
:18:29. > :18:31.project centres involves a new torpedo`style boat and some
:18:32. > :18:35.ground`breaking fuel technology ` both of which, Alan hopes, will
:18:36. > :18:49.help him set his 38th world record. Breaking records is nothing new for
:18:50. > :18:52.Alan Priddy, but everything else about his latest adventure hs. Six
:18:53. > :18:57.years in the planning, the project centres around a new vessel that
:18:58. > :19:04.pierces the ways, rather th`n surfing over. Most boats go up and
:19:05. > :19:08.over waves, and the boat we have been working on for sometimd now
:19:09. > :19:12.it's designed to cut the top of the ways off, which is the harddst part
:19:13. > :19:18.of water. Passed round the world trips and crossings we have done,
:19:19. > :19:21.when the boat lands at night, it is very uncomfortable. We were adamant
:19:22. > :19:27.we were going to do that ag`in and we were going to push the boundaries
:19:28. > :19:32.to find new technologies to stop it. The vote will be powered by
:19:33. > :19:37.eco`friendly fuel, which reduces consumption by 30% and cuts harmful
:19:38. > :19:41.admissions. The guys who designed this fuel, to come up with ` formula
:19:42. > :19:45.that you can mix water and fuel together to burn, it is
:19:46. > :19:50.outstanding. Truly amazing. Allen has been part of many challdnges
:19:51. > :19:54.over the years, some successful and some not. At the age of 61, he has
:19:55. > :20:00.no plans to park up the powdrboat for good anytime soon. I trx to
:20:01. > :20:05.garden or go shopping, but this is in me. It has been in me all my
:20:06. > :20:09.life, as I was in a youngstdr. I can see what I can see, I can't see what
:20:10. > :20:17.I can see. That is what drives me on. New record is just short of 61
:20:18. > :20:23.days, but Allen plans to take ten days of that. Yes, I have 37 records
:20:24. > :20:26.already, but they are in thd past. I am always looking for the ndxt one.
:20:27. > :20:32.I know that we have been dohng it for a long time, but I have no plans
:20:33. > :20:39.to stop yet. 38, 39, 40, onwards and onwards.
:20:40. > :20:46.That is amazing. Is that a world record, 37 world records?
:20:47. > :20:49.It could be. It is not my b`g. Gardening, that is.
:20:50. > :20:51.And finally, Dorset`based World and European Champion Finn sailor
:20:52. > :20:54.Giles Scott will have his exes on one more prize this year,
:20:55. > :20:57.having been named today on the shortlist for the prestigiots World
:20:58. > :21:01.We're going to play a littld of music in a second.
:21:02. > :21:03.Now, I'm sure that most people watching will recognise this
:21:04. > :21:23.Jerusalem, of course ` what you may not know is th`t
:21:24. > :21:26.the poet William Blake wrotd the words to Jerusalem in his house at
:21:27. > :21:29.Felfum in West Sussex, a pl`ce he called the sweetest spot on earth.
:21:30. > :21:33.Well, that house is up for sale ` and a campaign is being launched to
:21:34. > :21:35.buy Blake's historic cottagd for the nation.
:21:36. > :21:42.Sean Killick has been along to find out more.
:21:43. > :21:57.Has and is there, the latter of angels descends through the air
:21:58. > :22:04.And this cottage, William Blake created some of his most acclaimed
:22:05. > :22:07.work. As expert Rachel clails. This was the room where William `nd
:22:08. > :22:11.Catherine spent most of thehr time. They worked together printing his
:22:12. > :22:16.work, so this room would've been filled with a massive wooden rolling
:22:17. > :22:22.printing press. Now it is up for sale, and the owner, a Blakd
:22:23. > :22:29.enthusiast, has offered to sell it for ?20,000 to a Blake apprdciation
:22:30. > :22:36.Society. They wanted as a lhve in a museum, to install another wooden
:22:37. > :22:40.printing press, to carry on his work of the imagination and creativity.
:22:41. > :22:46.Also do have poets and painters perhaps staying here. Reallx, making
:22:47. > :22:53.a little hive of creativity right in the heart of this town. Right where
:22:54. > :23:00.he would sat and worked. It is hoping that it could benefit people
:23:01. > :23:08.the way other places have. Jane Austen in Hampshire, Charles Dickens
:23:09. > :23:10.in Portsmouth, this could bd Blake's country. It could bd
:23:11. > :23:18.significant for the area because he could put it on the map and attract
:23:19. > :23:22.people from wide and far. So far, ?60,000 have been raised and there
:23:23. > :23:26.is the possibility of a ?25,000 grant through the County Cotncil. On
:23:27. > :23:31.Monday, there is the launch of a crowd funding appeal. The
:23:32. > :23:36.enthusiasts now have one month to find half ?1 million, but they will
:23:37. > :23:40.not cease from the fight, nor will their swords sleep in their hands,
:23:41. > :23:49.until they have bought this cottage in this green land. Excellent, if
:23:50. > :23:54.only he had sung it. He would've got ten out of ten for that.
:23:55. > :23:56.And if want to make a donation towards
:23:57. > :24:06.the purchase of the Blake house there's a Just Giving page online at
:24:07. > :24:10.It was 18 Celsius last night, but it will be cooler tonight. Let us take
:24:11. > :24:15.a look at your weather picttres Nick Edwards captured Cowes
:24:16. > :24:17.lifeboat evening training Amber Lauren photographed this
:24:18. > :24:19.morning's misty sunrise And John Connor took this photo
:24:20. > :24:38.of a field of pumpkins A bit cooler tonight, some fog and
:24:39. > :24:46.possibility tonight. There will be the odd shower, but most pl`ces
:24:47. > :24:51.overnight will stay overnight drive with cooler temperatures. It will be
:24:52. > :24:55.a mainly dry start to the d`y tomorrow, a pretty decent d`y once
:24:56. > :24:59.the mist and fog clears, whhch should be during the morning for mid
:25:00. > :25:05.land areas, maybe around midday for the coast. Once it clears, we should
:25:06. > :25:08.see some drier and brighter weather. Temperatures are very simil`r to
:25:09. > :25:18.what they were today, but tomorrow night will turn slightly cooler We
:25:19. > :25:26.will have a fresh breeze 32 `` starting to increase. There will be
:25:27. > :25:32.some patches of rain in sheltered spots, with temperatures down around
:25:33. > :25:43.13 to 15 Celsius. Friday is a pretty decent day. We will have sole late
:25:44. > :25:46.winds, strengthening through the day, and this weather front will
:25:47. > :25:51.arrive through the evening. This will bring autumn our way. Ht could
:25:52. > :25:58.be persistent and heavy through Friday, into Saturday warning until
:25:59. > :26:03.lunch time. It brings autumn into the end of the week, but let's look
:26:04. > :26:07.at the outlook for tomorrow. A murky start, but getting sunnier. Right
:26:08. > :26:14.and sunny spells will allow temperatures to arrive at 18 to 20
:26:15. > :26:17.Celsius. We will see some mtrky start on Friday, but the mist and
:26:18. > :26:24.fog won't be as dense or widespread as it was. Saturday, we will see the
:26:25. > :26:25.heavy rain. The risk of loc`lised flooding, so stay tuned to xour
:26:26. > :26:29.local BBC radio.