27/02/2017 South Today - Oxford

Welcome to the programme. Tonight, coming face-to-face with her

boyfriend 's killer. The meeting between a woman from Swindon and the

man whose careless driving on the A34 led to her boyfriend losing his

life. I want to know how he's feeling now, how it might affect

him. To let him know how I'm feeling, how carbon's family are

feeling. We will also assess it the A34 is one of the region 's most

dangerous roads. The parishes in Oxfordshire putting up council tax

anger in some campaigners. Later, a full round-up of the

football results including wins for Oxford United, MK Dons and Swindon.

These are the faces of people who have died in car

crashes in the south - all of them victims of motorists

This week, a new law comes into force which will double

Well, one teacher here in the south is calling for schoolchildren to be

taught about the dangers of using mobile phones at the wheel.

She has her own personal reasons for wanting to change the culture.

Gavin was an Australian through and through.

We'd talked about holidays potentially going out

It was something we were both really looking forward to.

He was on his way to work and then he was about 6 miles

or so from work and then just didn't make it.

Lewis Stratford - a 24-year-old painter and decorator

from Oxford was driving - and arguing with his

girlfriend on the phone - when he crashed into Gavin's

I wish I could turn back time, change obviously

And from that moment I was just blaming everything on me.

And I didn't want to get better then, I didn't want the physio,

I didn't want the treatments, I feel like I've been kept

here to pay for the mistake that I've made and punished.

Gavin died of his injuries four days after

Lewis has already pleaded guilty to causing his death

When someone gets convicted of a crime or an offence you never

get to see what that person's like and what

Just days before he's due back in court to be sentenced,

I want to ask what he was thinking, what possessed him to pick

up his mobile phone behind the wheel - I want to know

how it might affect him and to let him know how I'm

with our cameras present, and restorative justice

An apology that's given in court is very often mistrusted

by a victim whereas if a victim sits down face to face with the person

who has caused the harm that can be enormously helpful in allowing

victims then to be able to move on from what's happened.

I'll never forget it ever and I'll never be sorry enough

but I can't every time I say sorry it sounds a bit cheap,

it just sounds not good enough but I am.

so many people do it, so many people.

Eventually I will probably be able to forgive you. But I just needed

some questions answering first. about the dangers of using mobiles

behind the wheel before they start And a short time ago, I spoke to Meg

from our studio in London. I asked her if the meeting had

helped give her some I think it has helped put

the hows and whys together. The ifs and buts we had in June

were irrelevant when I met with Lewis and he was very open

with me and answered what I needed. It must have been incredibly

difficult to come face-to-face with the person who killed

your boyfriend. What was that initial feeling,

being in the room with him? The initial anxiety came before

I went into the room just because I didn't know

how I would be feeling, how he would be feeling,

how the conversation would get started, but actually

when we started to talk and we had the mediator

to There was a sense of

determination, I guess, from both of us to get this message

out to people to show the impact of using your mobile phone can

have behind the wheel. Did he have genuine remorse,

did you get a sense of him being He said sorry and he

showed his compassion and I offered him some

of mine as well but he said that it

wasn't about him because he's put people through so much

so yes, there was a sense of compassion there

but You mentioned in the interview you

wanted to forgive him eventually. Do you think there will

ever be a point in your At the end of the day, he's

a human being and he made a very silly mistake,

picking up his mobile phone, and he's now got

to live with the consequences

of it so in time I would You're now calling for

schoolchildren to learn Do you think that will be

a big benefit in the The fact we teach about sex

education, we teach about drugs, alcoholism, all before the legal age

anyway so it is an introduction within personal development days,

having children aware to know the impact of mobile phone

use is going to rub off And you can see the full meeting

between Meg and Gavin - on Inside Out, tonight at 7:30

on BBC One. Meanwhile a report commissioned

by BBC South has found that the A34 isn t more dangerous than other

roads - despite its reputation and the perception of some living

along or regularly using the route. The data has been

analysed by experts. Who could forget the terrible crash

last year which claimed the lives of In the last five years,

the road has been closed 56 times due to accidents

in which people have So, is this road

unusually dangerous? Obviously, there have been a number

of very high profile collisions on this

road but when we look at the collision rate compared

to other roads of a similar type

we actually find it's got Over the last ten years,

the number of crashes has gradually reduced, broadly in line

with the national trend. Some parts of the route

are higher risk than others. The northern and southern

ends are worst. This is a complex picture

and there are different ways of measuring road safety but the crash

rate here on the A34 is around one third less than the national average

for this type of road. The crashes here are,

mostly, due to driver error, not to the design of

the road, or the number of vehicles. Here, just over one vehicle in ten

is a lorry so we looked specifically at crashes involving

heavy goods vehicles. Over the last ten years,

the rate has fluctuated but overall the trend is downwards and it is

ahead of the national average. The A34 has seen some

truly horrendous crashes but putting all the

statistics together, we've found no evidence that the A34

is significantly more dangerous than In other news - a prison officer

is going to be charged with manslaughter and misconduct

in public office, over the death of an inmate in Woodhill

prison in Milton Keynes. Joseph Travers will appear before

magistrates in April. It follows the death of a prisoner

at Woodhill in May 2015. Specialist police officers digging

at the former Swindon home of the convicted murderer

Christopher Halliwell have Investigators began looking

in the gardens and garages of two properties in Broad Street last week

but paused over the weekend. Wiltshire Police says this search

is based on new information. Halliwell is serving two life

sentences for killing Becky Godden A group of squatters who had

until today to leave a former car showroom in Oxford have moved

into another building owned The University says it is aware that

30 people, a mixture of homeless people and volunteers,

have moved into the old derelict power station

building in Osney Mill. A spokesperson says

the university sympathises with their plight and is trying

to resolve the situation. What people have to remember

is that if they're not here, then they're

in the doorways of the city centre

and already we have enough people complaining about how many people

in the city centre are sleeping, begging, drinking

in the city centre. We have to come to some kind

of arrangement with the people of It's been described as a council tax

rise by the back door. Parish councils have increased

charges in Oxfordshire by 17% in the last 3 years according

to new BBC research. Some bills for our lowest tier

of local government have Some campaigners aren't

happy about it. It's not long before council tax

bills will be landing on our mats and if you've got

a parish or town council in your area, you might be in for a shock -

with some parishes by more than 500% district and county councils

are deliberately passing on responsibilities to parish

councils, who aren't restricted by a 2% cap on increases,

that applies to most other Parish councils have the choice of

saying no, we'll do it, or losing the service. They have no cap on the

parish councils. Continuously the government has promised they would

look at it, look at it, but they do nothing about it.

charging the most for Band D homes - they're currently paying nearly ?180

hasn't actually asked for more overall - but the amount of tax

it's been able to raise has been decreasing,

at the same time its list of responsibilities

Budget are being cut at county level, district level and the

parishes are being expected to do more and more. As an individual I am

not averse to local people having local decisions, it does concern me

that as volunteers, were giving up our time to do well by the community

and more and more things are being asked of us.

Carterton Town Council has been helping to keep a children's

centre going in town - after ongoing county council funding

I'm paying council tax twice because you've put our step up but they've

taken the same amount of money but not providing the same service. But

the comment I have had made to me. What do you say back to that? I

would go along the line that we have to keep this service.

to demonstrate restraint when it comes to council tax rises -

but a cap, similar to the one placed on district and county councils,

doesn't seem to be on the cards at the moment.

A company in Oxford is hoping it can become a major contributor

to the future care for elderly and vulnerable people.

Oxe-health - a spin out from Oxford Unviersity's Institute

of Biomedical Engineering - has developed software that remotely

It's been trialled at Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire.

A mock hospital room in the offices at Oxford science Park. Cameras with

infrared eliminators are measuring breathing and heart rate. The

patient is alone in this room but his activity is being monitored from

afar. As as there is movement, there is an immediate alert. This is its

breathing rate right now, totally contact free and only a digital

camera and it is medically graded accuracy. Here is the same, live

contact free heart rate so if I put a contact device from a hospital in

the room, it would return the same values. But it also looks at the

activity in the room and says that the patient is in bed. It is

therefore deduced that he is safe. This but the movement. He's going to

get out of bed and there you see we have detected it and the vital signs

have stopped. The software is attracting global attention because

of an increased demand on the care sector. It is of little surprise

that hospitals locally have been trialling it. It can be used in

multiple locations, starting for example in a hospital, going back

into Oxfordshire and testing it both in acute wards, working with the

hospital but also to track help Asians recover after operations in

John Ruddy hospital. The method by which they measure is the same for

everyone but what you get back varies. Babies can get very fast and

slow heart rate, maybe 170 down to 20. They would be very extreme in an

adult. You can build personalised models wherever this person at this

time of day, this is worrying, but this isn't and that is where this

technology will go in the future. This innovation looks set to become

a major part of the world's health technology.

I'll have the headlines at 8 and another bulletin at 10:30.

Sally Taylor is next with the rest of today's news stories.

He was always laughing and joking, always smiling. He was just a lovely

man. Alexis has the weather forecast

later and some people Will the wet and windy weather

continued? Some of us love it and some of us don't.

On to sport and there really is the one big subject to talk about. A

great day out for Saints fans but not the result they wanted and what

about that disallowed goal? We ended a programme on Friday standing here

and waving flags because that is what it will be remembered for. A

flag that was incorrectly raised for offside, by most people's reckoning.

The interpretation of the rule has changed but the current law stands

and it brings into question whether football will change with the times

you bet. And the company behind this new technology. We have featured

Hawk-Eye and this could be one of the companies that comes in to bring

the goal-line technology, or more than just the going technology, the

changing decisions. They are testing it in the likes of Italy and the

Netherlands. Taking goal-line technology to the next phase.

World football's governing body FIFA will meet with the home nations this

Friday at Wembley to discuss extending the use

The venue is apt after what seems another example

of human error in yesterday's EFL Cup final.

Southampton were beaten 3-2 by Manchester United

but they were left to rue a critical early call which denied them a goal

and their new star striker a potential Wembley hat trick.

Full of praise for their team and frustration for the officials. The

ones of this final will take time to heal for the Saints fans. We should

be proud. We are gutted, we should have won that game. The march to

Wembley began at Saint movies and match these don't come much bigger.

Swamped by red and white. 15 days to prepare men they looked fresher

what's on Manchester United fans still arguing the gall to any final

back in 1976 was offside. Perhaps this was payback. Few believe Ryan

Bertrand was interfering with play. You need those decisions to go for

you especially any major final, playing against a team of the

quality of Manchester United. It would have been massive for us as we

got that. A cruel moment ruthlessly exploited by United before the

break. Ibrahimovic's goal priceless. When Jesse Lingard made it two, some

thought it was all over, but the Saints stamped and they grabbed one

back and in a wonderful start to the second half, he would level.

Gabbiadini has done it again! The game then came down to two headers,

but with wood minutes to play, Ibrahimovic's hit the net, and soon

after it was all over. Everyone is very sad. They must be proud of what

we has done and we wanted to feel it. I didn't think we were going to

get a single goal tonight. You could look at it in a negative way and we

were in a cup final! I think we were the better team and the statistics

will say that. We put the ball on the net three times and it should

have gone to extra time. I really thought we had it at one point and

we just needed one more goal. Revenge from 1976 but Saints won't

forget this one in a hurry. A lot of the reaction has focused

on the goal that wasn't In today's Daily Telegraph former

Referee Keith Hackett describes the offside flag as atrocious

and goes onto to say "Either way it should have been an easy decision

and it is one that officials at this Saints legend Matthew le Tissier

kept it short: "disgusting decision" The view from NBC Sports'

Joe Prince Wright: "It was a shocker of a call and ultimately changed

the outcome of the game." One from yours truly as Gabbiadini

scored his second "that's Lloyd sent us this picture

of supporters gathered in Dubai. And here's the red and white

turnout in New York City. Good turnout as well. One other

piece of news from Southampton, the club's director of scouting Ross

Wilson has been targeted by Rangers as their new director of football.

The Glasgow club are restructuring their setup after losing Mark

Warburton. Lots of other football this weekend, here is the round-up.

The first of two mega matches at the annex in four base, well beaten by

an Albion side that fought them on the break. This neat control helped

put Brighton into a first-half lead. Albion picked the moment in the

second half putting the game to bed, Jamie Murphy outpacing the backline.

Chasing the game, the Reading defence was threadbare. The points

sealed ten minutes from time. Tomorrow night a capacity crowd sees

Newcastle visit. Eddie Howe's Bournemouth haven't won in 2017 and

on Saturday they suffered their fourth consecutive defeat in the

league. They won an early penalty, but Locke wasn't on the site as the

shot took a wicked deflection to equalise. More eyes on the keeper,

flapping at the corner and suddenly they were 2-1 up. Five points above

the drop zone. Portsmouth are on the up, three goals in the last 20

minutes. Gary Roberts putting them one up and look at this one from

long range. Into stoppage time we go and plenty of space to make it three

goals and points, hunting the top three. Very good. Just to say, a lot

of football the last few days and the big match coming up but also

sailing. The Duchess of Cornwall has praised

the skill and spirit of soldiers returning home

to Hampshire from Iraq. She spoke to soldiers

of The Fourth Battallion "The Rifles", in Aldershot,

about their recent deployment helping to train

Iraqi security forces. Friends and family watched on as it

rained heavily on the parade More to continue and we saw a bit of

a lovely puddle jumping deadlier. We had some lovely rainbows. A bit of a

blustery day and blustery conditions continuing through this week.

It was a cold and wet start to the day on Hythe Pier.

This picture was sent in by Penny Wade.

Camilla Woodhouse captured a double rainbow in Duntish in Dorset.

A cold and blustery start and there will be sunshine at times as well

and a brisk wind on occasion. Clearing skies and that may be the

case overnight with the chance of one to two wintry showers the

further north you head, slightly more rain towards the Isle of Wight

and the temperature falling to freezing. HLA start and mainly dry,

one or two wintry showers and lots of sunshine. During the course of

the day we see the showers rolling and maybe went to the over high

ground but sleeps next and as well, the temperature reaching a high of

eight Celsius and the wind risk from the West. Showers rattling their way

through and the showers will continue for some tomorrow night.

For most it will be dry with a few clear spells and the temperature

falling to freezing in the countryside, these are the

temperatures in our towns and cities, so the chance of ice on

untreated surfaces and a dry and bright start for Wednesday and

through the course of the afternoon rain starts to push up from the

south mainly affecting southern coastal counties, still a bit of

uncertainty as to how far north the rain will be but the further north

you are we hold onto the sunshine through most of the day, highs 8-10.

Thursday is the highest with a rich of high pressure building and decent

amounts of sunshine although the wind starts to increase and the next

weather system will arrive through the course of Friday and that rain

band on Friday could be quite heavy at times. This is just an indication

of the weather on Friday because of his a few days away but we hope it

clears in the evening with the temperature reaching a high of nine.

A few days away, things can change, but rain or showers and feeling

chilly with sunny spells at times. That's it from others, more later

but tonight we leave you with some of the images of the fans from

yesterday's cup final. Good night. To be in the Lords,

you have to be punctual... literally have to slam

the door in somebody's face. What right do they have

to tell ME about my fashion sense.