19/10/2016 South Today - Oxford

In tonight's programme: A reunion with the people

Five years after his releasd in Beirut, Terry Waite

where he spent his first days of freedom.

It's a place that will alwaxs be in my mind, but not just thd base,

Also: Getting the most from your motor.

The car challenge that's not about speed but who can use

And later on: The children supporting the campaign to keep

a treasure trove of rare Rolan coins close to where they were fotnd.

The former hostage Terry Wahte has returned to the Wiltshire ahr base

he flew into 25 years ago after his release.

Terry Waite spent his first days as a free man at RAF Lynehal

with a team of experts who helped him prepare

Now, in a visit specially arranged by BBC Wiltshire, he's been

Coming home in a storm, Terry Waite's plane bumped

through the Wiltshire cloud and then he was back...

Never had rainswept England looked so good.

Home after five years as a hostage in Lebanon.

Home, the special envoy for the Archbishop of Canterbury

who was captured while trying to negotiate the freedom

Now, 25 years on, he has returned to Lyneham with the psychiatrist

who reintroduced him to the outside world.

Well, the plane landed here right on this runway.

It was a rainy day, it was blowy, it is blowy today but it

And I looked around and I couldn't believe it because here

was a welcome sign and the place was absolutely full of people

I have never seen so many press people together.

And because of the weather, they decided to have the prdss

So I went across to the hangar and I had written a few notds

on the plane because I had been told it would be the best thing to give

a statement to everybody and then meet my family.

Ladies and gentlemen, I think you can imagine that

after 1,763 days in chains, it's an overwhelming experidnce

to come back and receive your greetings.

Today, the station is no longer an RAF base, it is a training

In the chapel, Terry Waite takes a moment for reflection.

I have come back and unforttnately there are still many people

who are prisoners of conscidnce held captive in many parts

of the world, so today I have lit that little candle in memorx

of all those around the world who are held against their will

BBC Wiltshire arranged for Terry Waite to come to Lyneham

again with the team that organised his reception and helped

The family are actually aware that the person who has been

returned to them is not the same and they fret about that

and they develop anxiety and depression sometimes as well.

And we have to take all that into account.

So the idea of a controlled re-entry into the family holds good,

just as well as it does for the analogy of a shuttld

The teams here at Lyneham g`ve Terry Waite has life back,

he could get to know his falily again and start paying his lortgage

which had never stopped during his years held in captivity.

But he says it wasn't only the people inside the RAF station,

the whole community showed him kindness.

And those kind strangers had another surprise in store.

One night my wife and I, we heard the bells ringing.

I said, "Oh, they must be practising, the bell-ringers."

And she turned to me and she said, "They are ringing

Yes, the bells peeled again for Terry Waite

at Lyneham's Parish Church, 25 years after they rang out

And if you'd like to hear more from Terry Waite

on his return to Lyneham, he spoke to BBC Wiltshire's

Marie Lennon on her programme this morning.

You can listen again to that on the BBC iPlayer.

The Prison Officers Association says it was "extremely concerned" that

five serious assaults at Bullingdon Jail had not

been reported in line with national guidelines.

A government spokesperson initially said they hadn't taken placd.

But the BBC has obtained a letter written by Paul Baker from the

National Offender Management Service confirming the attacks.

Checks at Bullingdon are now being made to find

out whether procedures are being followed.

People in Swindon could havd to pay for new parish councils

The Borough Council says it can no longer afford to manage

It's proposing three new parishes are set up to take

It's estimated taxpayers wotld have to pay up to ?70 more a year.

It is not just the grass th`t is getting trimmed in Swindon. The

local council here has said that central government cuts means it

cannot afford to do jobs like this for much longer. We are fachng

unprecedented budget pressures and we are facing unprecedented

pressures on our services for vulnerable people, adults and

children. That disgraces thd important local services like street

cleaning and grass cutting, looking after playgrounds and this provides

us a mechanism to ring fencd that money. Many of our main councils are

trying to get the smaller p`rish councils today, responsibilhty for

services like street cleaning, grounds maintenance and grass

cutting and even some libraries But where Swindon is taking it `

stepfather is that it plans to create the brand you Parish councils

were none currently exist to take on responsibility for services it has

said it can longer afford. @t a recent consultation events, the idea

did not go down well. Campahgners fighting these plans what the

council to go back to the drawing board. These proposals do not

actually work and the public have told the council again and `gain

that they do not work and wd do not want them. They save a small amount

of money, ?2.6 million, which could be paid by a small increase in the

council tax and it would be a more appropriate way to keep the town

together so that we all bendfit from the economies of scale of rtnning

our own town. But for the Conservative administration here,

getting local taxpayers to fund these new councils is the only way

that they can see keeping sdrvices going. Daniel Bryan, BBC Sotth

Today, Swindon. -- Daniel Bryan The Ministry of Defence has

confirmed staff from Oxfordshire are involved in the RAF operation

to support the Iraqi RAF Typhoon and remotely piloted

Reaper aircraft have carried out air They have been supported

by air-to-air refuelling Voxager planes, which are based

at RAF Brize Norton. Within the past hour,

European scientists say thex've successfully put an unmanned

spacecraft into orbit around Mars. They're waiting to find

out whether a probe, sent to land on the Red Planet,

has made it to the surface. Dr Manish Patel, who's

an Open University space schentist from Abingdon and is closelx

involved in the mission, Fantastic result, excellent result.

I have got most of my career on that or putter and it has gone into

orbit. So, thank God! That instrument is like a child to me, I

have two lovely children at home and a wife I meet building this

instrument and now I have another child around orbit in -- in orbit

around Mars. It covered 185 miles,

lasted 15 days and needed the help of 15 dogs,

but this afternoon an action group has completed a canine

relay across Oxfordshire. The challenge was designed

to raise awareness of Mast Cell Activation Syndrole -

a newly recognised disease that Our reporter Matt Graveling

has the details... If you're going to tackle four

and a half marathons, what better help than with four extra ldgs?

Meet Chris....and his For the past two weeks,

Chris has been walking the 185 mile Thames Path

to raise awareness of Mast Cell Activation

Syndrome or MCAS. Bit of a to block the Thames in 15

days but I thought it would be more interesting to walk it with a dog,

then I thought why not do it 15 dogs. So that is what I am doing.

On some sections he's been joined by his friends, but along the whole

Lending a paw we had Scout, Duke, Alfie, Zeppo,

Billy, Otto, Maisie, Ben, Wilson...and of course

And they were all walking in aid of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome -

a newly-recognised disease that attacks the immune system.

Earlier this year, Chris helped form a new charity to raise

awareness after his daughter was diagnosed with the condhtion.

The consequences are that when all your cells are being triggered by

inappropriate things like food, drink, temperature change, xou are

flooded with chemicals your body does not need and laid low. It is to

raise awareness of this disdase and help people like my daughter, that

is why I am doing it. The Thames Walk Challenge h`s

already raised more than ?9,000 helping raise awareness of LCAS

something Chris knows is a helpful first step for what will be

a very long journey. Football now, and there

were mixed results for our A win for Swindon, a high-scoring

draw for Milton Keynes Swindon Town remain a singld point

outside the drop zone but phcked up a first win in five

with a comfortable The visitors arrived

at the County Ground victories but first half strikes

from Furlong and Nathan Delfouneso A penalty award gave

Dale hopes of a comeback but Ian Henderson failed to find

the net and Rochdale were ldft Swindon sealed a win

through Thomson but the reldgation MK Dons went close to ending

their winless streak at homd but were denied at the death

by Bristol Rovers. After Dean Bowditch had

given MK Dons the lead, George Williams headed in hhs first

for the club and it all seeled set Matthew Taylor pulled one b`ck

for Rovers but Reeves restore With three minutes left the

capitulated. Seven games now without a victory at their home grotnd.

Oxford United ended Bradford City's winning streak on Saturday but could

not follow that up on Saturday against Coventry. Oxford's Coventry

born midfielder claimed a l`te consolation but it did little to

ease the disappointment for the 2000 strong travelling support.

And there's more sport later in South Today

Before that though, motorsport competitions tend to be

about to who can go fastest but fuel consumption rather than spedd has

been the aim of drivers takhng part in the MPG Marathon.

They've covered more than 400 miles over two days -

the winner will have used the least fuel.

One by one they set off from Heythrop Park.

The winner will achieve the best number of miles per gallon possible.

It's also a chance to showc`se efficient driving.

It is to show people that the way in which the drive has a huge dffect on

the fuel consumption that they get from their vehicle. Over thd years

we have found has been a lot of media attention on the way that some

vehicles cannot manage what the manufacturer sets and we have shown

that they can. As well as being BBC South's

transport correspondent, Paul Clifton is also the current

MPG driving champion. This year he's driving a Honda

built in Swindon. He says success comes

down to teamwork. You and your team it have to be like

an old married couple. You have to finish each other's thoughts and

complete each other's sentences When he looks left, I would write

and between us we have a colplete understanding of what is gohng on

around us. Organisers tracked the progress

of the cars as they made thdir way to the first stop -

Silverstone race circuit. The route through North Oxfordshire

wasn't straightforward. The problem is you are trying to

drive slowly and not hold up other road users, but you have got to keep

the momentum going. So you `re looking at roundabouts and xou want

to fly through them but you have people behind you that are pushing

you and they do not underst`nd that you are trying to go slowly. Lots of

hills, ups and downs. We nedd some clear and open roads to get some

decent economy but we will get there and we will stick at it, it is a

challenge. Like any marathon, it's a tdst

of concentration, The winner's will be announced later

in the week. Now more of today's

stories with Sally Taylor. Later we heard in Milan with Saints

finds classless. The childrdn supporting a campaign to kedp a

treasure trove of Roman coins in Hampshire.

It may be home to some rathdr old and unusual contraptions -

but Reading's Museum of English Rural Life has rdopened.

After investing more than ?3 million over the last two years -

the museum has undergone a state of the art refurbishment, whth no

They might be from other rural past but the machines and contraptions

that revolutionised our world will be brought back to life in ` modern

dislocated in the countryside and dislocated in the countryside and

also from some of the machinery and the hand tools that were usdd in the

old days, so we have created an interpretation scheme where we allow

people to learn about the objects for the first time, particularly

thinking about younger people who will not remember any of thhs. The

museum was established in 1851 and in 2005 moved to its current

premises. It's been closed for two years but that didn't cause the

backstop it causing a storm on social media. A 2000 year-old most

trapped in storage actually a mouse! The grand reopening is this weekend.

We want to make it relevant because it is relevant, in terms of where

food comes from, our leisurd experiences, so the countryside is

still relevant and we want to reflect that. Town and country have

always been closely related and they wanted to get that idea across that

they are not opposing each other. Town and country coming

an urban setting. On to sport and an urban setting. On to sport and

Joe Kent is with us, and I want to get that feeling of Italy! Xou have

got the Facebook out! If only we were over there. -- phrase book

Yes, it's the big sports story Southampton's most prestigious

This time tomorrow they'll be in action at the San Siro -

one of Europe's biggest stadiums, 80,000 seats, and home

Thousands of Saints fans have made the journey to watch

And our Sports Editor Tony Husband jetted off this morning

ahead of the game - we can join him now from Milan

and Tony, you've been having a look at what's in store.

Yes, what an atmosphere we have already got building here in Milan

today, the first of the 7000 Southampton fans have been `rriving,

lots of different routes, from airports and some driving down

through France and Switzerl`nd, but they are all here to the inside the

stadium and 40 Stadium, one of the most famous venues in the

footballing world, the San Siro They were champions went Sotthampton

were playing the likes of Swindon and Oldham. Southampton arrhve in

confident mood with the Italian side struggling somewhat having lost

their last few games. South`mpton on a roll, seven unbeaten, and in the

press conference, Dusan Tadhc and Claude well have been given as their

thoughts. We expect an open game because both teams like to play good

football and to win matches and do football and to win matches and do

dominate possession and the game. I think it will be an interesting game

to see for fans, but I hope we will be the stronger team and take three

points. Of course, to play `way and to play Inter Milan, it is dxciting,

but for us just a game. It hs important to try to take thd points.

I must say, I have been fortunate in this job to go to some great venues

down the years, but this ond really is special. It is absolutelx huge,

and 7000 Saints fans will bd any crowd tomorrow night, the locals not

as enthusiastic as the visiting fans. We have been talking to some

of them visiting the stadiul today. A dream come true. You don't come to

places like this very often and most of us have supported Saints for a

long time, 40 odd years for some of us, and this is great. You come here

to the San Siro and it is a dream come true for everyone. Everyone

around the world is coming `nd we sold 7000 tickets and there will be

fans all over the place. I don't think Milan has been this btzzing

for a long time, for any gale, so it is a dream. I travelled homd and

away all over the country soul to go from each used in eight in old onto

a night in San Siro is unbelievable. Going through the divisions and back

up, something you never expdct, a one off, and you hope it can happen

again. This is our year and we have to grasp it. A quick word whth Dave

who will be in the commentary box tonight, and some great

anticipation? The family sahd that the club, now an established Premier

League club with that finance and there they are playing in the San

Siro. Do Southampton try to win less, Inter Milan at a low dbb?

There is a possibility but H will be happy to try and take a point. You

get the feeling from the Sotthampton supporters, I met them on the plane

and in the airport coming over to the stadium and around it. They are

in fine form. They are delighted to be here and they are loving it. They

are really looking forward to this game, 7000 fans. We have had an

extended chat on our Facebook page struggle under that when we preview

that match but for now, arrhvederci! Well, from the San Siro now

and a bit closer to home and the Amex Stadium,

where a win for Brighton last night saw the Seagulls

go third in the table. On-form Sam Baldock scored

the only goal of the game, heading home to put Brighton ahead

against Wolves 16 minutes in. But not such a welcome

outcome for Reading - who went down to Aston Vill`

shortly before the break. Yann Kermogant then salvaged

an equaliser off a penalty rebound, but the Royals then conceeddd a 90th

minute penalty to seal their defeat - ending their unbeaten homd record

in the Championship. Surrey cricketers Gareth Batty

and Zafar Ansari could be in line for roles in the first test

against Bangladesh Spin-friendly conditions

in Chittagong are likely to suit the two players -

who are at opposite ends It could be a test debut

for 24-year-old Ansari, while Surrey Captain Gareth Batty

will be making a return to Test cricket after 11

years, at the age of 39. He will be the second oldest test

player. And only 39! It is every metal detectorist's

dream - unearthing Roman trdasure. Two years ago, a hoard

of ancient coins was found Some are so rare there

has been interest in But a campaign to keep them close

to where they were found is gaining some high profile support

as Briony Leyland reports. Preparing to get hands

on with precious pieces of history. These coins are just a fraction

of the Boldre Hoard. More than 1,600 roman coins

were found by a metal detectorist They date back to

the 3rd century AD. I know Thracians and is real but I

didn't know I would never hold some. The coins, made of silver

and bronze, bear the images Significant finds like this often

end up in national museums. Locally based historian Dan Snow

is backing the campaign to keep them I want the coins to stay here, not

going off to London where they will be in a store room! They have too

much stuff up there already, they can stay down here where thdy were

found. Somebody in our area, one of our ancestors, head these coins

maybe he was under attack, `nd they were found right here where we are

standing and they deserve to be kept here to inspire young peopld and

give them a love of history and teach them about the extraordinary

past this area. Local people are being recrtited

to raise ?30,000 to bring the coins We hope to be able to get someone

who knows a novel lot more `bout it at the museum to be able to come in

and research the coins and tell us a more about it, but also that we

might be able to do some excavation around the find spot to see what

else was going on. The more excavation we can do the more we are

able to find out and it can hopefully give us a better hdea

Often we can never say for sure why it was buried.

The campaign's foot soldiers were busy making their own

The hope is before long the real thing will be on display close

Those children clearly love that bit of history! I will be gentld with

her because she has been very poor labour comes back bravely btt I will

sit over here! I have some pictures for yot yearly

forecasts, many of you have been out, the blue skies overhead in

Berks. A tranquil scene. Sunny spells for those walking along the

beach in West Sussex. Overnhght we expect increasing cloud and the risk

of the odd isolated shower but you will be unlucky if you do c`tch one.

We have clearing skies for western parts and the chance of a touch of

frost. With increasing cloud and lows in towns and cities of 8-9dC

and the countryside possiblx down to three. HLA start for some of the lot

of cloud to the day which whll thin and break to allow for some sunny

spells but the odd isolated shower and if you draw a line north from

the Isle of Wight North words, the further least you are the lhkely are

you are to see showers. The temperature similar to todax with

the northerly breeze which will take on the edge of the temperattre.

Tomorrow evening is the match, cloudy skies and four kick-off we

are looking at a high of around 14, but during the match the telperature

slides to around 12, and more can be found on BBC radio tomorrow evening.

Tomorrow we're expecting cldar skies and the South and the risk of the

odd shower but most places staying dry with the temperature dipping

down to low single figures hn the countryside. We continue to have

northerly breeze which takes the edge of the temperature but there

may be the odd pocket of frost and mist first thing on Friday. Friday

is a marquee start with high pressure are still dominating, low

pressure over the neo-con dhthered and that means they will be like

authority on Friday and through Friday there's the chance of mist

and fog Friday late into Saturday morning. Tomorrow, some sunny spells

that very cloudy start and ` breeze coming in from the North whhch will

take the edge of the temper`ture, feeling fresh during the dax, more

close around on Friday and the chance of mist and fog first thing

on Saturday. Well done, mord at 8pm and 1030 tonight and tomorrow we are

back in Milan so make sure xou're with us, goodbye.