23/01/2017 South Today - Oxford

In tonight's programme: Could do better.

Why some schools in Oxfordshire will see their funding cut -

Also on the way: as the Oxford Children's Hospital celebrates

its 10th anniversary, there's a new appeal

We step back in history and look at the evolution of Milton Keynes.

It's been revealed nearly half of Oxfordshire's schools

are going to lose money under new government plans.

The way education is funded is being looked at across the country

to deal with unfairness in the system.

But campaigners in Oxfordshire say some schools could be worse off

It's the ultimate political football.

Oxfordshire schools have traditionally been in the lower half

of the league when it comes to school funding.

Last year, the government promised to tackle

Hopes were raised that schools here would be in

for a big win, but actually nearly half of schools are going to lose

133 schools will get more funding,

by 0.8% for Oxfordshire schools. That's below inflation.

And when the new formula was revealed,

Overall I think it's horrendous, I think we

are facing an unsustainable cut to our budgets.

And for struggling smaller schools, the consequences are very serious.

but I don't just see how that can work in practice.

And I think there will be a huge political backlash

Badgemore Primary School in Henley will lose

Headteacher Jackie Steele says that could mean losing a member of staff.

It's going to be even harder to achieve, you know,

the results and the standards that we are being

expected to achieve, the bar is being raised ever higher,

and we are being stretched ever further,

and I think that's a really big ask of school leaders.

At the other end of the funding league table,

which is getting a 2.8% boost under the new formula,

but headteacher Lynn Knapp says that money will really only

When we were looking at going to deficit, we were

actually, we can't employee any extra staff, we may even have to

So, by having either a standstill figure or at

least an increase we are just protecting the staff we've got.

The Department for Education insists the new formula will mean an

end to the postcode lottery in school funding, but in Oxfordshire

fears remained that for some schools losing out, it could be game over.

More than 40% of junior doctors have admitted to falling

asleep at the wheel, on their way home.

The BBC's Inside Out programme has investigated the impact

working night shifts, is having on staff across the south.

It's 8am, and junior doctor Sam Jayaweera has just finished

another 13 hour night shift in Oxford.

Really, really busy. Quite stressful.

and we had a full, full unit of patients.

Right, so if you'd like to come through to the simulator.

To see how working nights affects her driving,

we brought her to the Transport Research Laboratory in Berkshire.

Fatigue is a huge road safety problem.

Our own perception of our fatigue level tends to lag

behind reality, and by the time we've realised that we could have

already made a very serious mistake that could have led to a collision.

Sam is put through a series of tests on a virtual motorway,

and just 19 minutes in, she starts having micro sleeps.

Micro sleeps are a slightly longer blink, up to 15 seconds in duration,

but neurologically it's an indicator

that someone is disengaged from the task.

you can see the muscle tone in her face

Sam, you can now stop the vehicle,

this is a wake-up call about the dangers of driving tired.

What's really worrying is the number of times that

and there were 12 occasions when you failed to respond quickly enough.

And Inside Out is on tonight at 7.30 on BBC One.

The international trade secretary Dr Liam Fox has been shown around

Banbury's engineering firm, Pro Drive.

He visited the motorsport company as the government launched

It's promising to invest in science, support new businesses

and upgrade infrastructure - as part of plans to bolster

Other countries, France and Germany, have exported a bigger share of

their GDP than we are, and we need to do that because we will be

running a balance of payments deficits for some time now, and I

want to see the UK selling more of what we make and the skill that we

have abroad because there is actually a big demand for them.

This week - the Oxford Children's Hospital is celebrating

its 10th anniversary and is marking the milestone

Staff there treat children from all over the UK,

providing some of the most specialist care.

Doctor Jay Jayamohan is a leading brain surgeon who's helped

My name is Jay Jayamohan, and I'm a paediatric neurosurgeon

at the Oxford Children's Hospital here in the John Radcliffe Hospital.

We start at about 7.45 and we do a handover

..a patient who was diagnosed with spina bifida.

When he was born he was taken straight into intensive care, he had

his spine closed at two days old, he had his first shunt put in at

one-week-old, and then when he was two weeks old we went home.

So he's had quite a few operations

What we're going to need to do is get him seen by

physiotherapists, community paediatricians.

Sometimes, you have to give bad news to families.

It is possible and probable that he'll

But as long as he continues to make progress then we just keep going.

Being able to make them understand that actually this is the best way

forward and this is something that has to be done requires a lot of

Come on, big lad! He's heavy.

Ooh! Come on!

Having children has certainly has impacted

It's no good if you get so overwhelmed that

you can't do the operation, so you have to be

able to say yes, this is a really big deal

but that actually we've got to get on with it

and do it in a calm and controlled manner.

Leighton is a young boy who had problems

with fluid build-up on his brain

for which he had a telescopic operation.

Amy got a phone call from the hospital to say

I put his life in the hands of Mr Jayamohan

and I've never been more happy at the decision I've

Since then everything has just gone uphill.

Mr Jayamohan rings Amy just out of the blue,

We struck gold with our consultant, he's amazing.

I get to come in every day and do operations on sick babies and

make them better, and for those that I can't make better I make what time

they have as enjoyable for them and their families as possible.

And tomorrow, we'll meet four-year-old

who received life-saving treatment for cancer at

There's also coverage of that story on the BBC Radio Oxford breakfast

After a nine-month delay, a new unit to provide urgent medical

support at the Townlands Hospital in Henley has now

Building work is finally complete on the the Rapid Access Care Unit -

which is part of the ?10 million hospital project.

The unit's a consultant and GP-led service -

giving patients assessments and rehabilitation support,

The centre was supposed to open in March last year.

Next tonight: Milton Keynes has officially turned 50 today.

Half a century ago, the town was formed from a collection

of rural villages and it's grown to a town of more than a quarter

Mike Cartwright has this special report

which takes us back to the beginning:

When millions first got a glimpse of Milton Keynes,

an ad campaign to tempt more people to live here.

Diane Sutton moved four times in 40 years in MK, and last,

to here, where the world home exhibition was held in the 80s.

and the right-hand one he used as his office.

In her 20s, she lived in one of the first states built up she

worked at the Open University, based here.

was going to be a great place to live.

It's a place which is not scared to do things that other

We've got the first big shopping centre up

we had the first multiscreen cinema at The Point.

From a handful of houses, it became Europe's most

Lee Shostak, a town planner in the States, helped plan MK.

Yes, it's still young, but 200 years from now

when you come back to Milton Keynes what will you find?

You'll find our city's landscaping is the gift

That isn't going to change, that, that is what makes

No building should be higher than the tallest tree,

that's what the planners first said,

but of course with the arrival of buildings like Xscape,

Now, there's talk of even taller buildings going up

Its corporation came up with the plans.

Its chair, Lord Campbell, this, one of the many

But here is where the formal ground-breaking for MK happened.

Next to the old A5, only 16 people here.

Businessman Jim Wyatt, one of them.

I think the only reason it was here was because

the main trunk road limitation of what was behind us.

Everything behind us was basically fields right to

Warehouses here now super-sized,

more than 10,000 businesses based here.

Among them, Niftylift, started small

but its reach is now global.

It's our shop window, so our customers

And so that's quite important, we're in a dynamic environment, and Milton

Keynes is a great backdrop to our operation, here.

We've grown to a company of something in the order of 450

people, now, and you know, worldwide sales,

They made fun of its roundabouts, but today it's one of the

fastest-growing towns in the country.

And the new kid on the block has grown up.

Now, there's been a church at the site St Mary Magdalen

in the very centre of Oxford as far back as Saxon times.

But the years have taken their toll and the church roof

The church choir have now taken matters into their own hands

We need a fairly large sum of money because the roof

The problem mainly is that part of the building is

medieval and part as Victoria and where things have been joined

together then the lead is splitting or the guttering is giving way,

slates are loose, and of course, being a listed building, then,

everything has to be specially chosen and specially

arranged, and we need to keep this old lady,

you know, in good working order,

and she needs a new hat, I suppose you might say.

Byrd's music is very, very well written for the text.

No composers afterwards apart from Purcell and Britten

have come up with an ability to really make sure the text comes

His position as a Catholic within Protestant

Britain meant that the music is absolutely

it's just fantastic to sing, and really very wonderful

I think Byrd, for me, is a very important composer, he worked

in many different institutions, Anglican, Catholic, in a time that

was very, very different to what he was perhaps used to doing

He seems to have a sense of humour, he seems to have a

sense of good word setting and wordplay and how

Quite a challenge to sing so much music continuously which is why

we've got a team of people, so we're doing it in shifts.

I've got three other members of my family singing,

We're doing it partly to raise awareness

but also to have a chance to sing this music and have a sense of how

it fits together, I mean, how it fits in the history of the church,

I'm back with headlines at 8 o'clock and another

Sally Taylor and the rest of the team are next,

with the rest of today's news, sport and weather.

Stay with us - Tony has all the weekend sport.

Alexis has the weather - more fog on the way.

It's back with a vengeance, dense fog patches already causing problems

this evening, the details shortly. The bill for protecting Portsmouth

from flooding is set to top ?150 million,

a government minister Most of the money will have to be

spent re-building Victorian defences in Southsea after storms breached

the wall in 2014. Environment Minister Therese Coffey

denied the city was soaking up money Our Political Editor

Peter Henley reports. Much of the city of Portsmouth lies

below sea level. When storms breached defences at Southsea, plans

were drawn up in a major reinforcement of the sea walls. Any

visit today the floods minister said the project looked ready to uproot.

The City Council said it would be a real amenity for the setting. To use

that seawall as almost a seating to watch some of the spectacular

sailing that goes on and to have some more cycle pathways and to make

it really safe, as much as we possibly can. This is just a

temporary solution to make a permanent new seawall will cost ?140

million. That money is probably on the way but the worry is that big

schemes like this soak up all the available funds. It leaves less for

rural areas. Areas like Hambledon have now seen major schemes but not

everywhere can be protected. In the rural areas, it is difficult to get

enough interested parties and money together to justify schemes that are

easily justifiable in a place like Portsmouth when you're protecting so

much in terms of number properties. It is a no-brainer. Some work has

already been completed. This line of granite imported from

Norway at a total cost of ?44 million. This is future proofed

against proposed estimated climate change impacts. Never the less we

will continue to encourage people to make their homes resilient as the

one thing I cannot promise is that no one will be flooded ever again.

When it comes flooding causes huge destruction and although the total

bill has now topped over ?150 million, compare to the loss

flooding would cause, the authorities believe it is a sensible

use of taxpayer money. Prince Harry has been in Wiltshire

today to see how former members of the Armed Forces are being helped

with mental health issues. The prince spent the afternoon at the

recovery Centre in Ted is worth what supports ex-service personnel and

their families living with anxiety, depression and stress. No stranger

to Help For Heroes, Prince Harry came today to learn more about the

field of mental health. They call at the head and wins service where men

and women find themselves dealing with depression, stress, anxiety and

something turning to alcohol. There is a risk at the moment that people

get used to experiencing low mood and anxiety and stress and think

they don't need support, so the more we can raise awareness and see their

stuff we can do and we can help you, if you can recognise those symptoms

and yourself. The Prince was shown the things they do and introduced to

people they help. They have found lots of ways to help people here.

This gives them space to think but also they are in the outdoors, using

tools and their hands and working as part of a team. I have got both

physical and mental issues that I need to address, I am no longer the

person I was when I joined the force. We would all agree it is a

therapeutic environment and we enjoy being out and enjoy the company of

Comrade is. Learning new skills and defining ourselves by what we can

do. Lots of friends are still battling through but they have been

pointed in this general direction by myself and other friends and

colleagues. It is invaluable. With Prince Harry highlighting the issue,

Help For Heroes hopes to remove the stigma of mental health problems.

Straight on to sport and let's stop football and look ahead to

Wednesday. I went to see their manager today and he was talking

about they deem it would be to get Southampton to a major cup final,

more on that coming up. Southampton ended a four game losing

streak in the Premier league and will head to Anfield

in a confident frame of mind after a convincing win over

Leicester yesterday. The champions were no match

for Saints in the midday sun. James Ward-Prowse swept

in a fine first goal. Jay Rodriguez thumped in a second

by reacting first to the lose ball They had a goal disallowed for

offside early in the second half. Then Shane Long was bundled over

in the box and Dusan Tadic completed Did you strike it as cleanly as you

would have liked? I can't even remember, sometimes a bagel in and

if you hit it too sweetly it goes on to the stand but I am just pleased

to get the goal and it is a massive result going into Wednesday, gives

us confidence and belief. In the Championship, Brighton's

dramatic win over Sheffield Wednesday on Friday night briefly

put them back on top of the table. Newcastle promptly won on Saturday,

but tomorrow Chris Hughton's men can go back to the summit if they beat

Cardiff in their game in hand. Reading have dropped to fifth

after their loss at Derby. They really drop points if they

score first saw the omens were good when they led at Derby through John

Swift. The home side followed that with three balls on the bounce.

They fought to the end, this header the last, but tomorrow they have a

key game against Fulham. Eddie Howe raised much of his side's defending

in the 2-2 draw against Watford but undone by two corners from the

physically powerful visitors. Italy in the second half it was level as

Joshua King completed a fine move to slot in the equaliser. Bournemouth

are still to win in 2017 and any chance of that changing probably

vanished when Troy Deeney punished them again from a set piece. Home

games are certainly entertaining. Benik Afobe took his goal well to

earn a point. Real quality goals and they worked really hard for them so

disappointing to give that away. Bournemouth are 12th in the table

and have cup weekend off before hosting struggling Crystal Palace a

week tomorrow. Portsmouth didn't play as the pitch

at Crawley was frozen, So Pompey player Christian Burgess

went on social media to ask if anyone had

a game on he could watch, Burgess then got a reply

from Bransbury Park under 12's. Sure enough, he turned up to help

out at training and give the players an experience

they would never forget. That is great! Footballers are not

all bad at all. There was disappointment

for Team Solent Kestrels men and women's clubs this weekend

on the basketball court, they lost their national

final to Northumbria Worthing Thunder maintained

their unbeaten start to 2017 at home with this victory over

London Lituanica in what was a warm up in the league before

their National Trophy semi Lyonell Gaines scored 37 points

including nine rebounds. And the freezing weather no doubt

made ice hockey players feel Basingstoke Bison and Bracknell Bees

squared off in a local derby. The Bison came out resounding

winners scoring five unanswered Bracknell remain a place off

the bottom of the table while Guildford flames are sixth

after one win and one Worried about that fog actually. The

big issue overnight tonight and tomorrow is fog, again. That is

right and we have had freezing fog lingering in many places today so

the temperature tomorrow could be even lower.

John Lewis photographed the dense freezing fog at Barton on Sea.

This eerie picture of the fog in Blandford was taken by Greg Stretch.

And Rebecca Beusmans captured a frozen bubble

The start on a foggy note. The weather for the week ahead, it will

start to feel less called by the end of the week with the lot of dry

weather this week but bitterly cold temperatures, particularly on

Thursday, and overnight tonight, some really dense fog patches. The

Met office have a fog warning in force. This is up until midday

tomorrow, solemn pomp polices the fog may not even left. Some bright

and sunny spells with lows overnight of potentially minus five. A

bitterly cold start to the day with lingering fog patches that may stay

with us through much of the day. Some of the fork me left into low

cloud and quite cold temperatures with the lack of sunshine but where

we see sunny spells, a high of five Celsius. He called into the day and

once again freezing fog will develop through the early hours of Wednesday

morning. We are expecting it to be more densely further east you are.

The further west you are, the milder the temperature, dropping to

freezing or just below. We are hoping the freezing fog will start

to thin and left. This allows for some bright and sunny spells of on

Thursday, a filament of cloud. A bitterly cold day, and Europe at the

moment around freezing so the temperature will be very cold on

Thursday but with plenty of sunshine. A dry and sunny day. This

weather front is expected to arrive through Friday, some patchily and at

times and a lot of dry weather and on Friday after the potentially

frosty start we see bright spells with the temperature reaching a high

of 5-7. A contrast to today, with some places heading just 2-3. The

weekend less called and mainly dry with some sunshine.

That's it from us this evening, tick here if you have to be out and

about. Tomorrow you will want us to a new sport, cyclo-cross. That's all

from us, good night.