:00:00. > :00:11.That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me
:00:12. > :00:15.In tonight's programme: The cuts it's claimed will lead to more
:00:16. > :00:17.people with dementia being put into full time care.
:00:18. > :00:19.There could be less funding for services
:00:20. > :00:20.like day centres - meaning increased
:00:21. > :00:32.I know I could have gone under by now if it wasn't for this centre. I
:00:33. > :00:35.was still have my mother living with us.
:00:36. > :00:36.Also: the crime described as stealing from your friends,
:00:37. > :00:40.why a council is determined to catch people committing fraud.
:00:41. > :00:42.And later on, we revisit the adventures
:00:43. > :00:44.of Portland Bill, the plasticine characters brought to life
:00:45. > :01:03.Dementia says proposed funding cuts to day services in Oxfordshire
:01:04. > :01:06.would result in more people being admitted into full-time
:01:07. > :01:13.care and extra pressure on hospital services.
:01:14. > :01:15.Around 10,000 people in Oxfordshire have dementia.
:01:16. > :01:19.Around 800,000 people across the country are affected.
:01:20. > :01:21.At present 46 day services share almost a million pounds a year
:01:22. > :01:26.Proposals would see services having to bid for a share of ?125,000.
:01:27. > :01:29.82-year-old Jenny has been using Daybreak Oxford's dementia
:01:30. > :01:31.services twice a week for the past nine months.
:01:32. > :01:33.But a possible cut in funding from the County Council
:01:34. > :01:44.I know that if it wasn't for places like this,
:01:45. > :01:49.There was no way I could still have my mother living with us.
:01:50. > :01:52.It takes too much out of you, it puts too much of a strain
:01:53. > :01:55.on your marriage, too much of a strain on the whole family.
:01:56. > :01:58.I find on the days when she comes here, it's a different story.
:01:59. > :02:00.Oxfordshire County Council currently funds 46 services like this,
:02:01. > :02:03.catering for people with a range of needs at a cost
:02:04. > :02:06.Under new proposals, all charities would have to bid
:02:07. > :02:14.Daybreak Oxford says its services save the NHS and local authorities
:02:15. > :02:37.money by keeping people like Jenny out of care homes and hospitals.
:02:38. > :02:40.In terms of mental health beds, since 2002 I think we've lost six
:02:41. > :02:42.out of the eight wards that used to exist in Oxfordshire,
:02:43. > :02:45.there used to be seven day hospitals in Oxfordshire in 2002,
:02:46. > :02:48.there are now none and it doesn't seem as though there are any
:02:49. > :02:57.People with dementia should have the opportunity to have a good
:02:58. > :03:03.Oxford Health denies there's a lack of care for those with dementia.
:03:04. > :03:07.It says it's been commissioned to help people live independently
:03:08. > :03:10.for longer and that is offering a more integrated service working
:03:11. > :03:12.with social workers, care home staff, GPs and families
:03:13. > :03:16.The county council says it proposes to carry on funding its own dementia
:03:17. > :03:18.services which are run by the voluntary sector
:03:19. > :03:26.The Cabinet will decide later this month on the future of daytime
:03:27. > :03:35.The council says there is scope for a change following this
:03:36. > :03:43.Police are investigating a rape in Oxford last night.
:03:44. > :03:49.on Harcourt Hill and then raped in Raleigh Park.
:03:50. > :03:50.Police are looking for information about a man seen running
:03:51. > :03:57.They're also linking it to a car accident involving a Black VW Golf
:03:58. > :04:03.A 38-year-old man from Oxford has been arrested.
:04:04. > :04:06.A report into mental health at Campsfield House Immigration
:04:07. > :04:08.and Removal Centre shows an increasing number
:04:09. > :04:13.of inmates are claiming to be victims of torture.
:04:14. > :04:15.Inmates are offered counselling and the report praises
:04:16. > :04:17.the high number of nurses with mental health qualifications.
:04:18. > :04:20.Detainees spoke positively about health care in general.
:04:21. > :04:29.Police are looking for a driver who moved an ambulance
:04:30. > :04:33.Staff were in the back carrying out emergency treatment
:04:34. > :04:37.It's thought the man released the ambulance's
:04:38. > :04:39.handbrake to move it and then drove his car
:04:40. > :04:43.It happened on Pelican Lane in Newbury two weeks ago.
:04:44. > :04:45.The man's described as white, in his 50s,
:04:46. > :04:50.Detectives say the patient could have suffered
:04:51. > :04:56.It was a very reckless act to undertake.
:04:57. > :04:59.Obviously the ambulance could have moved forward,
:05:00. > :05:02.the individual would have had no proper control of that vehicle at
:05:03. > :05:04.the time and anything could have happened.
:05:05. > :05:06.It could have hit a pedestrian, could have hit another vehicle
:05:07. > :05:09.and it could have put the lives of the patient
:05:10. > :05:11.and the crew in the rear of the ambulance at danger.
:05:12. > :05:14.Councils are turning to Investigation Units to tackle
:05:15. > :05:19.West Oxfordshire district council is the latest to give its backing
:05:20. > :05:23.to team dedicated to curbing abuse of the system including council
:05:24. > :05:26.Fraud is estimated to cost the authority more than
:05:27. > :05:30.Last year, in Oxford, the city council recovered
:05:31. > :05:39.Katharine Da Costa has been looking into the problem.
:05:40. > :05:46.Investigation units like the one in Oxford cover many areas including
:05:47. > :05:49.tenancy Ford, council tax, business rates and the abuse of social
:05:50. > :05:55.housing and the right to buy scheme whereby someone buys a council house
:05:56. > :06:00.when not entitled to. With such high demand for affordable housing in the
:06:01. > :06:06.city, it is a key priority. In the last financial year, the recovered
:06:07. > :06:10.nearly ?4 million. 21 social housing properties were recovered and 33
:06:11. > :06:16.right to buy applications were turned down. On top of that, last
:06:17. > :06:19.year the council secured 15 prosecutions, this most serious
:06:20. > :06:26.offenders can face ten years in prison and unlimited fines. A couple
:06:27. > :06:30.of years ago, they were investigating housing benefit fraud.
:06:31. > :06:35.Many disbanded the fraud investigation services. In Oxford we
:06:36. > :06:39.retained hours and the likelihood that we will recover 400 -- ?4
:06:40. > :06:43.million suggests it was the right decision. It is important that fraud
:06:44. > :06:49.is tackled and Pete -- people don't get away with it. Local authorities
:06:50. > :06:54.are working harder than ever to make sure every pound spent on front line
:06:55. > :06:57.services. West Oxfordshire and Cotswold district councils are
:06:58. > :07:04.following in the footsteps by backing plans for investigation
:07:05. > :07:11.units. The more fraud that is identified, that is money that isn't
:07:12. > :07:19.as it were. It will help protect front line services and reduce the
:07:20. > :07:24.cost to the taxpayer. It is estimated by 2020, no -- councils
:07:25. > :07:27.will not receive any funding. They say a failure to detect Ford will
:07:28. > :07:30.result in the loss of precious resources.
:07:31. > :07:32.Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service is looking to recruit 40 on-call
:07:33. > :07:36.There are currently 300 of them, making up more than half
:07:37. > :07:40.They earn up to ?9,000 a year and receive the same training
:07:41. > :07:47.Fit and healthy men and women aged 18 and over are being
:07:48. > :07:49.Two poems written by an 11-year-old George Michael have been unearthed
:07:50. > :07:51.by an old school friend in West Oxfordshire.
:07:52. > :07:53.Penny Ling, who now lives in Longcot,
:07:54. > :07:55.discovered them in her old primary school year book, written
:07:56. > :07:58.by the singer when he attended Roe Green Junior School in North
:07:59. > :08:01.As well as writing poems, he was just one of the
:08:02. > :08:20.We all would soon pop songs and we were both in the school choir. We
:08:21. > :08:23.both played violin. He didn't stand out, if he wasn't a show off. He was
:08:24. > :08:25.just one of us. A nine-year-old boy from Swindon has
:08:26. > :08:27.sent his special motorised wheelchair to a girl in Bosnia
:08:28. > :08:30.who has the same condition as him. Oscar Moulding has
:08:31. > :08:32.muscular dystrophy. When he got a new wheelchair
:08:33. > :08:35.he wanted to give his old one to his friend in Bosnia where access
:08:36. > :08:38.to such equipment is limited. Thanks to his state of the art
:08:39. > :08:48.motorised wheelchair, Oscar Moulding can do most
:08:49. > :08:51.of the things that make him fit in. Whether it's at home or at school,
:08:52. > :09:08.since he was four-years-old. I play with my brother. I do all the
:09:09. > :09:14.things that I want. I can race around in my chair a lot. If you
:09:15. > :09:19.want to sit at the table, it doesn't matter how high the table is. He
:09:20. > :09:22.needed those facilities to get the most out of life.
:09:23. > :09:26.but when he grew out of it and got another one,
:09:27. > :09:28.he wanted his old one to go to Bosnia.
:09:29. > :09:30.His family are friends with a family there,
:09:31. > :09:35.They raised the funds to ship it over.
:09:36. > :09:40.Now little Sophija says it's going to change her life.
:09:41. > :09:57.I can open the door, I can reach things. She can reach things by
:09:58. > :10:02.herself and healthy people think that they took these things for
:10:03. > :10:03.granted. She opened the door for her -- for the first time in her life
:10:04. > :10:06.and she is almost nine. The families are in touch
:10:07. > :10:09.regularly and Oscar has already seen Sophija
:10:10. > :10:10.in her new chair. He's delighted he's
:10:11. > :10:20.been able to help. I think of her like Oscar racing
:10:21. > :10:24.around with her friends and going from class to class taking herself
:10:25. > :10:28.off to dinner and into the playground. Just joining in with
:10:29. > :10:33.life like everybody else does. Do you think it will make a really big
:10:34. > :10:35.difference? It will change her life completely.
:10:36. > :10:37.They raised enough money to pay for any future
:10:38. > :10:40.maintenance, so the chair should be good for many years to come.
:10:41. > :10:48.A simple act of kindness that's brought joy to two young lives.
:10:49. > :10:51.Alexis is coming up with the weather forecast later in the programme -
:10:52. > :11:17.Later, we revisit an 80s children's TV series.
:11:18. > :11:26.Come with me the BBC South Today, where the weather is still to come.
:11:27. > :11:29.We will travel to 1983 with Portland Bill.
:11:30. > :11:31.A new centre using state-of-the-art simulators to train nurses
:11:32. > :11:36.and midwives has opened in Reading at a time when the NHS is struggling
:11:37. > :11:39.to recruit enough staff to care for mums and their babies.
:11:40. > :11:41.Part of the problem is finding enough hospital placements
:11:42. > :11:45.for trainees, so could technology be part of the answer?
:11:46. > :12:05.The bump may feel real enough. But the patient most definitely isn't.
:12:06. > :12:12.But this is no dummy. Linda gives birth like a real mum. So realistic,
:12:13. > :12:18.it is not the time viewing. The centre has opened. We were able to
:12:19. > :12:24.practice in our own time for our exams. It has been very valuable for
:12:25. > :12:29.us to have this invested for us and for the rest of the students within
:12:30. > :12:35.the university. My name is Claire, I am one of the nurses here. The
:12:36. > :12:39.mannequins come in all shapes and sizes and just like a flight
:12:40. > :12:44.simulator, the force trainees to make life or death decisions. The
:12:45. > :12:47.whole point of the Centre is that students can reserve their skills.
:12:48. > :12:53.They can learn in a safe environment and it is safe but also safe for
:12:54. > :12:59.patients. Midwife numbers in the Thames Valley have risen 10% but
:13:00. > :13:04.live births are up half as much. The biggest problem is finding hospitals
:13:05. > :13:07.with the budget to find clinical placements for these trainees.
:13:08. > :13:12.Simulation centres are very important because we can do a lot of
:13:13. > :13:16.our training within the simulation centre and help relieve the pressure
:13:17. > :13:21.of the amount of places we need in practice. The need for trainees to
:13:22. > :13:24.metaphorically get their hands dirty, practising on real-life
:13:25. > :13:28.patients, is not going away any time soon.
:13:29. > :13:34.If you've got young children, did they have you up in the night?
:13:35. > :13:36.Many parents struggle to get their babies and toddlers
:13:37. > :13:38.into a good routine but, for some families, the problems
:13:39. > :13:42.BBC South has had special access to the work of
:13:43. > :13:42.Southampton's Sleep Disorder Service.
:13:43. > :13:45.It's just for children and, in recent years, the clinic
:13:46. > :13:49.It's under the leadership of one woman, Dr Cathy Hill.
:13:50. > :13:52.She's on a mission to give desperate mums and dads a good night's rest.
:13:53. > :14:05.Imogen has a typical light tap routine. She however wakes
:14:06. > :14:10.repeatedly through the night. She sleepwalks around the house and
:14:11. > :14:19.frightens her parents. Even though the wise up wide-open, she is sat
:14:20. > :14:25.bolt upright and is rocking. She walked down the stairs, completely
:14:26. > :14:29.asleep. Southampton's specialist leet service treat children with
:14:30. > :14:34.complex sleeping disorders, the hardest cases. By the time we see
:14:35. > :14:40.bees families, quite often those problems have been going on for many
:14:41. > :14:46.years. The parents have forgotten what it is like to sleep. Building
:14:47. > :14:50.on work that began in 1980, Cathy has done much to develop the
:14:51. > :14:55.service. It is now based in Southampton hospital and sees
:14:56. > :14:59.children from around the UK. The strongest, most powerful trigger the
:15:00. > :15:06.sleepwalking, if you have got those other tendencies there, is not quite
:15:07. > :15:11.getting enough sleep. Cathy is quick to diagnose imaging with behavioural
:15:12. > :15:15.insomnia and sleepwalking. Children will have a night terror or
:15:16. > :15:18.sleepwalk within one or two hours of falling asleep, and what is
:15:19. > :15:24.happening is that the child's brain is half asleep and half awake, so it
:15:25. > :15:28.will do complex things like walk around, climb, but they have no
:15:29. > :15:33.memory of it or no awareness of what they are doing. The brain is
:15:34. > :15:38.obviously. That is the slave wage of sleep when our brains are vulnerable
:15:39. > :15:46.to do this funny switch. -- that is the stage of sleep. She has really
:15:47. > :15:51.gone into not just image and ask, down to what she's doing at bedtime,
:15:52. > :15:57.why she's getting up. She gave us advice we need. We will. By
:15:58. > :16:02.measuring from just between your eyes to the back of your head. In
:16:03. > :16:06.Southampton, this high-tech sleep lab is used to investigate the most
:16:07. > :16:12.difficult disorders. Cathy designed it based on similar setups in
:16:13. > :16:16.Australia, adapting adult testing to sue for younger patients. Some of
:16:17. > :16:21.her other patients do not need help with sleeping but with staying
:16:22. > :16:27.awake. Falling asleep in class, falling asleep as soon as we get in
:16:28. > :16:33.the car, falling asleep at home and at times, in weird places. This is
:16:34. > :16:38.nothing unusual among college students per right now Chloe is
:16:39. > :16:44.medicated to stay awake. Her narcolepsy need careful management.
:16:45. > :16:47.My eyes are watering. Carefully timed daytime sleep has been part of
:16:48. > :16:55.her routine out the three years whether she is but a condition
:16:56. > :16:58.called cataplexy has been harder to solve. She collapses, she drops
:16:59. > :17:08.things, she cannot hold onto anything, all her grip is gone. Her
:17:09. > :17:12.head will go and she would just collapse and she slurs her words,
:17:13. > :17:20.her mouth goes to one side. She copes with it very well. It is what
:17:21. > :17:26.is, it makes who she is, and there is nothing we can do about that
:17:27. > :17:40.other than support her. We have a cheesy strapline. We want them to be
:17:41. > :17:45.at and achieving. Six weeks on, imaging and her family have made
:17:46. > :17:53.progress. You might not have heard of them but sleep fairies are
:17:54. > :17:57.everywhere. I just want to say well done for good sleeping. Cathy has
:17:58. > :18:01.suggested Imogen should have happened sleep very. She visits a
:18:02. > :18:06.night-time when image and sleeps well, leaving encouraging little
:18:07. > :18:11.letters. She has a sleep Ferrador that the fairy visits. I have had to
:18:12. > :18:15.be a bit more strict bedtime. The last couple of weeks have been great
:18:16. > :18:21.so we're doing really well. A full night's sleep for everybody.
:18:22. > :18:23.Onto sport and big night of football for Southampton in the League Cup
:18:24. > :18:25.semifinal and a trip to Wembley up for grabs.
:18:26. > :18:32.It's 30 years since Southampton last contested a League Cup semifinal
:18:33. > :18:34.and, such is the way that the footballing fate works,
:18:35. > :18:37.that was against Liverpool - the same opponents they face this
:18:38. > :18:58.evening in the first of two legs for a place in the final at Wembley.
:18:59. > :19:00.For Saints, it's part of a hugely busy January
:19:01. > :19:03.in which they could face as many as nine games.
:19:04. > :19:05.The halo has slipped slightly for Claude Puel's side
:19:06. > :19:07.in the last few weeks - three straight Premier League losses
:19:08. > :19:26.were followed by a frustrating FA Cup draw at Norwich at the weekend.
:19:27. > :19:46.This game against Liverpool, a good team, it is a good thing for us. We
:19:47. > :19:51.need to try to have good result. It is a fantastic opportunity for us.
:19:52. > :20:02.We did well to stop it was only a draw in the end. A really good
:20:03. > :20:07.performance. Sometimes, the temptation can be to rotate the
:20:08. > :20:12.squad. We know that Claude Puel well has rotated to some effect.
:20:13. > :20:14.On the team news front, Puel said that he wouldn't be
:20:15. > :20:16.playing want-away captain Jose Fonte, so Maya Yoshida
:20:17. > :20:20.is set to continue alongside Virgil van Dijk.
:20:21. > :20:26.Adam Larner is in the Liverpool side, Flamini, Sturridge.
:20:27. > :20:30.You can follow all the action, of course, live on BBC Radio Solent
:20:31. > :20:32.with Adam Blackmore and the former Saints manager, Dave Merrington.
:20:33. > :20:42.Dorset's Scott Mitchell has seen his bid to win a second BDO
:20:43. > :20:46.World Darts Championship end in tatters today.
:20:47. > :20:49.The Bransgore farmer, who won the title two years ago,
:20:50. > :20:51.crashed out this afternoon at the Lakeside to Belgian
:20:52. > :20:55.Mitchell, himself seeded number two, suffered a 4-2 defeat after missing
:20:56. > :21:03.He exits in the second round in Frimley Green.
:21:04. > :21:10.Staying on a Wembley theme, Oxford United moved a step closer
:21:11. > :21:21.to a quick return to the Arch in the Checkatrade Trophy.
:21:22. > :21:28.Do you know any of these iconic names?
:21:29. > :21:32.They're locations in the BBC Radio 4 shipping forecast.
:21:33. > :21:35.But, as well as being coastal stations, they also became
:21:36. > :21:37.the characters of a children's TV series, which first
:21:38. > :21:42.Alexis Green went to meet the man who co-wrote the music
:21:43. > :21:59.The 1980s saw the birth of the large number of children's TV programmes.
:22:00. > :22:09.But one that sticks firmly in my memory is based on this lighthouse,
:22:10. > :22:15.the adventures of Portland Bill. Oh, come with me to the rolling sea,
:22:16. > :22:25.where the weather is calm still... It was the brainchild of John Grace.
:22:26. > :22:29.Sadly, you passed away in 2004 but his colleague, Nick Parsons,
:22:30. > :22:35.co-wrote the music. John entered a photographic competition and won it.
:22:36. > :22:41.It was based on the three plus the scene characters. As a result of
:22:42. > :22:47.that, he was contacted by a film fare who made the wombles in
:22:48. > :22:52.Paddington. The director asked if you would like to make the series
:22:53. > :22:56.and John said, I will write the script, would you like the music? So
:22:57. > :23:03.we collaborated. It was a nice project to work on. One day, Ross
:23:04. > :23:07.was having a terrible time, trying to scrap the steps clean. Most of
:23:08. > :23:17.the characters were named after sea errors and coastal stations around
:23:18. > :23:20.the British Isles. West 40s, north-westerly, six -- eight.
:23:21. > :23:27.Portland Bill was the main character and manned the lighthouse. Two
:23:28. > :23:35.Seabees altogether, 26 episodes and stories. The theme tune is the most
:23:36. > :23:40.memorable. Come with me, to the rolling sea, where the weather is
:23:41. > :23:47.common still. We will have some fun, the adventures of Portland Bill! It
:23:48. > :23:51.has lasted for years and even now my students will come to me and say, do
:23:52. > :24:04.you still write music for Portland Bill?
:24:05. > :24:11.Overnight tonight, we are expecting very chilly conditions and tomorrow,
:24:12. > :24:19.the chance of snow. A lovely scene today. Blue skies overhead. Very
:24:20. > :24:23.chilly conditions overnight. The winds will increase in strength,
:24:24. > :24:29.very windy. Coming in from the north-west, taking the edge of
:24:30. > :24:33.temperatures, but mainly dry by the odd isolated shower. Temperatures
:24:34. > :24:37.could drop as low as three Celsius. The winds will be very strong
:24:38. > :24:41.tomorrow. Light spells first thing but clouding over very quickly and
:24:42. > :24:45.the Met Office have issued the yellow snow warning. The risk of
:24:46. > :24:52.heavy snow in many places tomorrow, which could cause is. Through the
:24:53. > :24:57.day, rain first which will help temperatures rise joined the
:24:58. > :25:03.morning. A northerly breeze digging in. The potential for snowfall. More
:25:04. > :25:08.likely for air is not a boxer. Intense rain at times, up to 30
:25:09. > :25:11.millimetres in an hour, and the strength of the winters well. You
:25:12. > :25:17.need keep three key ingredients for snow, the cold air from the north,
:25:18. > :25:22.the right wind direction and intense rainfall. The risk of snow
:25:23. > :25:27.everywhere tomorrow evening, whisking eastwards and clearing most
:25:28. > :25:33.places tomorrow night but then the big risk is following the snow and
:25:34. > :25:37.rain. Temperatures tomorrow night, in the countryside, minus three
:25:38. > :25:42.Celsius. In our towns and cities, minus one Celsius. A risk of snow
:25:43. > :25:49.and ice with this feature drifting down the eastern part of the
:25:50. > :25:53.country. We could see snowfall for the rush-hour. Really intense winds
:25:54. > :25:59.coming in from the north, making it feel bitterly cold. The big risk of
:26:00. > :26:04.snow tomorrow almost anywhere. Stay tuned to the forecast annual local
:26:05. > :26:37.radio station. Don't forget to send us photos as well if you can.
:26:38. > :26:41.I think my political beliefs are really quite straightforward.
:26:42. > :26:43.I believe that our country needs to work for everyone.
:26:44. > :26:46.Not just for the rich, not just for the privileged,
:26:47. > :26:48.not just for those who know the right people or who've got
:26:49. > :26:52.the loudest voices, but a country that really works for everyone,
:26:53. > :26:57.has the opportunity to be who they want to be.
:26:58. > :27:00.In order to make sure that the country works for everyone,
:27:01. > :27:04.Standing up for the vulnerable, for the voiceless,
:27:05. > :27:09.against those who feel that they're strong and powerful.
:27:10. > :27:13.If you're doing the right thing, then you must do that however