:00:00. > :00:09.In tonight's programme: so it's goodbye from me,
:00:10. > :00:11.Six weeks on, six people are still homeless
:00:12. > :00:16.following an explosion in their block of flats.
:00:17. > :00:18.Also tonight, re-united - the lorry driver meets
:00:19. > :00:25.the woman who saved his life, when his heart stopped beating.
:00:26. > :00:26.and later on , the weekend's football -
:00:27. > :00:35.could this be the start of a great escape for Swindon Town?
:00:36. > :00:39.A housing company says it's still working to find permanent
:00:40. > :00:41.places to live for people left homeless following
:00:42. > :00:47.Ten one-bedroom flats in Gibbs Crescent were destroyed
:00:48. > :00:53.The remains of one resident were found in the rubble.
:00:54. > :01:01.Habiba Gudal washes dishes in her communal kitchen.
:01:02. > :01:04.She was moved into this flat after her home was destroyed
:01:05. > :01:10.It was meant to be a temporary solution.
:01:11. > :01:16.Now she says it's prolonging her nightmare.
:01:17. > :01:28.First of all it's tiny, very small. Second, it's not easy for transport.
:01:29. > :01:33.Plus, you know, I'm sharing with people I don't know. I'm really very
:01:34. > :01:35.depressed and frustrated. Peter Schoen also had to move
:01:36. > :01:47.out after the blast. Now in a room opposite Habiba, and
:01:48. > :01:50.sharing the facilities, he too has frustrations. We're far away from
:01:51. > :01:54.the city. It takes a good half hour to get to the city. That's the
:01:55. > :02:01.frustration that I have difficulties with. On the weekend, you have to
:02:02. > :02:07.get the bus right, if you get the bus wrong, you stand there for
:02:08. > :02:11.hours. Thames Valley Police have finished their inquiries into the
:02:12. > :02:16.cause of the explosion. It's passed its findings onto the Coroner.
:02:17. > :02:23.Habiba says the uncertainty of her future is agonising. We've been kept
:02:24. > :02:33.in the dark, when, how and if I get house even, what do I have? Nothing.
:02:34. > :02:37.Everything's been lost. The flat operators A 2 dominion said they had
:02:38. > :02:38.done everything possible to help affected residents. A statement
:02:39. > :02:51.said: For Habiba, it doesn't look
:02:52. > :03:00.like a solution will be found soon. Women, travelling from the Banbury
:03:01. > :03:02.to Oxford to give birth, are facing journeys of more than 90
:03:03. > :03:04.minutes, according Victoria Prentis is campaigning
:03:05. > :03:08.against a plan to permanently downgrade the maternity unit
:03:09. > :03:11.at the Horton Hospital, so that women with more complicated
:03:12. > :03:15.pregnancies have to go to the John She tried out the journey with our
:03:16. > :03:28.political reporter, Bethan Phillips. We are just leaving the Horton
:03:29. > :03:32.maternity hospital, where I was born. We're driving to the John
:03:33. > :03:34.Radcliffe maternity wing. This is a journey that hundreds
:03:35. > :03:37.of mums to be are now facing, after the downgrade
:03:38. > :03:39.of the Horton hospital. And Banbury MP Victoria Prentis says
:03:40. > :03:42.a survey of nearly 400 patients has found that people are finding
:03:43. > :03:57.the drive takes 80 minutes, I've had lots and lots of responses
:03:58. > :04:00.to my travel survey and what the consensus of that has shown me is
:04:01. > :04:05.that most people allow about two hours to make the journey. And also
:04:06. > :04:09.to park. We might get there in an hour if we're lucky, we might not.
:04:10. > :04:12.What it won't be, I'm sure, is the sort of journey, described by the
:04:13. > :04:14.Trust and the clinical commissioning group in their evidence, which is
:04:15. > :04:18.just taken from Google Maps. It's a journey currently
:04:19. > :04:21.being contemplated by Heidi Yates, who's 35 weeks pregnant
:04:22. > :04:22.with her second child. Theo arrived just an hour
:04:23. > :04:25.after her waters broke. So she's nervous about
:04:26. > :04:32.having to get to the JR. It's something that I'm trying not
:04:33. > :04:36.to think about, whilst a lot of people think you're very fortunate
:04:37. > :04:41.to be able to have a quick labour and in most cases, I've been very
:04:42. > :04:45.lucky, but the prospect of that becoming a major concern about my
:04:46. > :04:47.not making it to the hospital, it's not something that I'm feeling
:04:48. > :04:49.particularly lucky at having. Meanwhile, on the road
:04:50. > :04:58.from Banbury to Oxford, I feel so sorry for the dads. We're
:04:59. > :05:03.an hour and five minutes into this journey. We are stuck in almost
:05:04. > :05:09.stationary traffic. By this point, if the labour is progressing well,
:05:10. > :05:13.their partners will really not be feeling great and will be quite
:05:14. > :05:17.frustrated by being stuck in traffic. It must be awful to be the
:05:18. > :05:20.dad and just feel completely powerless to do anything to help.
:05:21. > :05:22.This journey took us one hour and nine minutes.
:05:23. > :05:25.The clinical commissioning group - which is behind the plans to change
:05:26. > :05:28.health services in Oxfordshire - says it will consider the survey
:05:29. > :05:30.of journey times carried out by Victoria Prentis.
:05:31. > :05:36.Two men have been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment
:05:37. > :05:39.with a minimum term of 30 years each, following a murder
:05:40. > :05:43.Mohamed Noor, on the left, and Albert Prempeh approached
:05:44. > :05:48.a house in Osprey Close at 5am on the 13th September last year.
:05:49. > :05:52.Noor pointed a gun through an open window and fired, shooting
:05:53. > :05:58.He later died at Milton Keynes General Hospital.
:05:59. > :06:02.A ?6 billion contract to decommission a dozen Magnox
:06:03. > :06:05.nuclear power stations, including site being decommisioned
:06:06. > :06:08.at Harwell, has been scrapped after what's been described
:06:09. > :06:14.As a result, around ?100 million has been paid out in compensation
:06:15. > :06:20.The Business Secretary, Greg Clark, told the Commons that an independent
:06:21. > :06:23.inquiry would now take place, with the possibility
:06:24. > :06:30.A lorry driver has been reunited with the woman who saved his life,
:06:31. > :06:33.after he had a cardiac arrest while on a delivery in Cirencester.
:06:34. > :06:36.Stuart James returned to the spot where he died,
:06:37. > :06:40.then came back to life, just three weeks ago,
:06:41. > :06:52.Without you, I wouldn't be here today. It's an emotional time.
:06:53. > :06:55.Holding hands with the woman who saved his life, lorry driver
:06:56. > :06:58.and father of two young children Stuart James is back
:06:59. > :07:04.Stuart was delivering a sofa with his colleague Craig,
:07:05. > :07:12.when he collapsed on the pavement and had a cardiac arrest I looked
:07:13. > :07:20.I looked round a I thought, he's gone. I said, are you OK? He wasn't
:07:21. > :07:25.breathing. He was purple and not responsive. At that moment an
:07:26. > :07:28.eyewitness ran into the dog groomers opposite, knowing Drawn, who worked
:07:29. > :07:32.there, had been in the Army. She came straight outside to help Stuart
:07:33. > :07:37.and at that point, her military training kicked in. I made sure his
:07:38. > :07:46.airway was clear. I checked his pulse. There was absolutely nothing.
:07:47. > :07:52.I started two rescue breaths and then the chest compressions. Dawn's
:07:53. > :08:00.quick actions kept the blood pumping around Stuart's body bringing him
:08:01. > :08:04.Stuart was airlifted to the Great Western Hospital in Swindon.
:08:05. > :08:07.When he woke up a few hours later he had no idea what had happened.
:08:08. > :08:11.I just thought I might have passed out and banged my head,
:08:12. > :08:14.then to be told I'd died and been brought back, it's quite
:08:15. > :08:18.I can't thank her enough for giving me a second chance.
:08:19. > :08:23.Knowing I can still see my kids grow up.
:08:24. > :08:25.Dawn is now raising money for a defribrillator to be placed
:08:26. > :08:28.outside her dog grooming shop, so that others can be saved
:08:29. > :08:33.A boy from Aylesbury has been told his life-threatening
:08:34. > :08:36.Ollie Gardiner was given just months to live,
:08:37. > :08:40.after being diagnosed with cancer of the brain and spine in 2015.
:08:41. > :08:42.After a number of failed sessions of chemotherapy,
:08:43. > :08:47.his community raised more than ?400,000 so he could
:08:48. > :08:53.Matt Graveling has been to meet him.
:08:54. > :08:57.In this house, even the most mundane of moments are cherished.
:08:58. > :08:59.10-year-old Theo and 11-year-old brother Ollie.
:09:00. > :09:04.Sorry, 12-year-old brother Ollie, have an extra special bond.
:09:05. > :09:08.Ollie is currently battling cancer, but with the love of his
:09:09. > :09:17....and cat Lucy, Ollie is winning his fight.
:09:18. > :09:19.One year ago, this normal life seemed gone forever, but now,
:09:20. > :09:23.thanks to a huge fundraising drive to pay for private treatment,
:09:24. > :09:37.Here we are at, this is where Olly goes to school as a year nine. He's
:09:38. > :09:41.going to be doing his GCSEs here... Actually I'm in year eight. This is
:09:42. > :09:46.a hard job, do you think you can do better? I think I can do a lot
:09:47. > :09:56.better. Give me the microphone. Hi, I'm Olly. In 2015, I was told that I
:09:57. > :10:02.had cancer in my brain and my spine. I had ten sessions of chemotherapy
:10:03. > :10:10.and 34 sessions of radio therapy, but this didn't work. My treatment
:10:11. > :10:15.now isn't available on the NHS, so lovely people have raised ?400,000
:10:16. > :10:20.for me. We've been stopped in the street and he gets a hug and people
:10:21. > :10:25.just love him. They've taken him to heart. The fundraisers and
:10:26. > :10:31.donations, without that, Olly wouldn't be here today. Last week, I
:10:32. > :10:37.was told my tumours are shrinking. After my treatment, I hope my
:10:38. > :10:40.tumours will be gone forever. Olly's such a positive young man. He comes
:10:41. > :10:45.into school and the school community love to see him. He comes back with
:10:46. > :10:48.piles of marking for teachers and he just approaches everything with such
:10:49. > :10:51.fortitude that we're really proud of him. That's how you do it. Right,
:10:52. > :10:58.can I have my job back now please? No. Olly gardener, BBC South Today.
:10:59. > :11:02.One of the best pieces of this programme for a very long time. Snvm
:11:03. > :11:17.Follow that Sally Taylor. Bye for now.
:11:18. > :11:20.A care home in West Sussex says it will have to close within a month,
:11:21. > :11:26.The Abbeyfield in Bognor Regis provides shelter for up to 18
:11:27. > :11:28.elderly people, but at a time when many areas
:11:29. > :11:30.are struggling to find accommodation in care homes and nursing homes,
:11:31. > :11:35.it's having to give up due to lack of demand.
:11:36. > :11:44.Lunchtime for the few remaining residents at Abbeyfield.
:11:45. > :11:46.It's provided sheltered accommodation for 60 years
:11:47. > :11:49.and additionally a care home for two decades.
:11:50. > :11:52.However, a ?30,000 boiler replacement bill caused budget
:11:53. > :11:59.The boiler issue was resolved, but in the meantime, nine of the 14
:12:00. > :12:01.care home residents left, and it's now unviable
:12:02. > :12:06.The home, rated good by the Care Quality Commission,
:12:07. > :12:09.says it's offered rooms to help relieve hospital bed-blocking
:12:10. > :12:14.Twice a week, the hospital sent it to
:12:15. > :12:18.others to see what bed availability we have.
:12:19. > :12:21.We tell them, but we never hear anything back.
:12:22. > :12:23.My chairman last year, when there was a lot of talk
:12:24. > :12:26.in the media about it, she wrote to Worthing Hospital,
:12:27. > :12:29.Bognor Hospital, Sir Richard's at Chichester and
:12:30. > :12:34.social services to say we had rooms and respite rooms available for
:12:35. > :12:45.people and not one of them replied, nobody.
:12:46. > :12:47.Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust said it provides a list
:12:48. > :12:50.of care and nursing home vacancies to patients who cannot return
:12:51. > :12:52.to their own home, but it doesn't make recommendations.
:12:53. > :12:56.The Bognor home is an independent local charity but affiliated
:12:57. > :12:59.to a national umbrella group called The Abbeyfield Society,
:13:00. > :13:02.which says it has been financially supporting the Bognor home recently
:13:03. > :13:05.and will continue to do so until all residents are re-housed
:13:06. > :13:07.when the building will be sold to recover costs.
:13:08. > :13:15.No date has been confirmed for the closure.
:13:16. > :13:17.Police are appealing for more information
:13:18. > :13:20.after a body was discovered in Winchester last week.
:13:21. > :13:22.Police have released this photo of the victim,
:13:23. > :13:29.His body was found at a house in Birch Court
:13:30. > :13:31.in the Stanmore area on Wednesday afternoon.
:13:32. > :13:34.A 58-year-old man from Winchester who was arrested on Friday has
:13:35. > :13:40.The Bournemouth East MP and Foreign Office Minister Tobias Ellwood has
:13:41. > :13:42.said he's "heartbroken" that he couldn't do more to help
:13:43. > :13:47.the officer killed in last week's attack on parliament.
:13:48. > :13:51.Mr Ellwood gave first aid to PC Keith Palmer after he was stabbed
:13:52. > :13:54.by Khalid Masood at the gates of the Houses of Parliament.
:13:55. > :13:57.Mr Ellwood said in a statement today that he was "deeply
:13:58. > :14:03."humbled and overwhelmed" by messages of support.
:14:04. > :14:07.Tributes are being paid to the leader of West Berkshire Council
:14:08. > :14:09.who has died five weeks after he was involved
:14:10. > :14:15.70-year-old Roger Croft was seriously injured
:14:16. > :14:22.in the collision last month, which killed his wife, Zelda.
:14:23. > :14:24.I think he was a very no-nonsense character,
:14:25. > :14:27.he knew what he wanted and was not afraid to say it, which
:14:28. > :14:30.But he also listened, and I think that is
:14:31. > :14:32.extremely important for us to remember.
:14:33. > :14:34.He did listen to others and he did lead
:14:35. > :14:41.Modern-day piracy may seem a world away from the south.
:14:42. > :14:44.But the trauma of kidnappings at sea are now at their highest level
:14:45. > :14:47.for a decade with obvious implications for a region which
:14:48. > :14:53.Now a Hampshire-based charity has launched a crisis response
:14:54. > :14:55.network to help victims of piracy and trauma.
:14:56. > :15:06.When I got to the captain's room, the pirates were shouting,
:15:07. > :15:11.They did not know that he was already dead in the engine room.
:15:12. > :15:15.32-year-old Adi Manurung from Indonesia was one of 26 people
:15:16. > :15:18.kidnapped when the fishing boat he was on - the Naham three -
:15:19. > :15:21.was seized by pirates, just off The Seychelles.
:15:22. > :15:25.These BBC News pictures show the crew's release last October.
:15:26. > :15:35.They forced us to eat one by one and we were frightened.
:15:36. > :15:41.The food was terrible and we ate mice and wild cats to survive.
:15:42. > :15:44.Thousands of miles away in a corner of Hampshire
:15:45. > :15:50.the Southampton-based Sailors' Society are helping people like Adi.
:15:51. > :15:57.Their crisis response network means they've trained 20
:15:58. > :16:03.They offer 24 hour support to victims of piracy
:16:04. > :16:11.And if you think about coming out of a trauma and having no support
:16:12. > :16:13.which for many of these people that's the case, you know
:16:14. > :16:16.the majority of seafarers now come from developing countries and that's
:16:17. > :16:21.where we step in so, yes, it's invaluable.
:16:22. > :16:24.It comes just a few weeks after this: Somali pirates
:16:25. > :16:27.hijacking an oil tanker off the coast of Somalia.
:16:28. > :16:31.There was no hope, but I just kept praying anyway.
:16:32. > :16:34.Adi says it's thanks to his faith that he survived five
:16:35. > :16:50.He now want to help others like him to rebuild their lives.
:16:51. > :17:20.Now for the sport. Where are we at as far as the takeover is concerned?
:17:21. > :17:28.So many people will remember that the dreadful, dreadful fall from
:17:29. > :17:33.grace Portsmouth had and lived it, they will want to be reassured that
:17:34. > :17:37.of an overseas investors coming in, it is absolutely for the right
:17:38. > :17:39.reasons. He's taken a big interest in the club and is monitoring things
:17:40. > :17:41.very closely. Portsmouth's prospective
:17:42. > :17:43.new owner was among those celebrating their victory
:17:44. > :17:45.on Saturday as Paul Cook's men pushed closer to
:17:46. > :17:49.promotion from League Two. Carl Baker played a lovely ball
:17:50. > :17:52.into Kyle Bennett as Pompey took It was 2-0 after the break when
:17:53. > :17:59.Conor Chaplin set up Kal Naismith. But the Welsh side did show some
:18:00. > :18:02.fight and pulled a goal back Pompey held on and the win
:18:03. > :18:09.was greeted by this tweet from American Michael Eisner
:18:10. > :18:11.who listened to the commentary Portsmouth have a six-point lead
:18:12. > :18:25.over Stevenage in fourth and a much They remain seven points
:18:26. > :18:28.behind Plymouth who won Pompey face Hartlepool, Yeovil
:18:29. > :18:42.and Plymouth in their next three. There were goalless draws for both
:18:43. > :18:46.Oxford and MK Dons this weekend United keeper Simon Eastwood saved a
:18:47. > :18:48.penalty as Oxford held Northampton. Meanwhile a priceless win
:18:49. > :18:51.for Swindon, in the 94th minute of their game with Millwall,
:18:52. > :18:53.substitute Conor Thomas secured a 1-0 win to keep their hopes
:18:54. > :18:59.of avoiding the drop alive. An Aldershot Farnham and district
:19:00. > :19:01.runner mixed with the best cross country athletes in the world this
:19:02. > :19:03.weekend Louise Small put in a very
:19:04. > :19:06.creditable display in breaking the top 40 in the women's race
:19:07. > :19:09.of the world cross country In a field dominated by Africa's
:19:10. > :19:14.traditionally strong runners, Small finished 37th out of 106
:19:15. > :19:40.in a quick race which finished The National League season and with
:19:41. > :19:44.Reading dropping to third after losing a close game at... The
:19:45. > :19:56.rockets are now set to face the kestrels at the end of the season.
:19:57. > :19:59.The scale of the challenge facing Sir Ben Ainslie and his Portsmouth
:20:00. > :20:01.based team competing in the America's Cup is highlighted
:20:02. > :20:04.by the latest results from practice races in Bermuda where the cup
:20:05. > :20:06.will be defended by America this summer.
:20:07. > :20:09.Britain won two of the ten races it competed in last week,
:20:10. > :20:12.while the Americans dominated the field winning nine
:20:13. > :20:16.BAR have released more images of their boat and the team hard
:20:17. > :20:30.60 days until racing starts for real, but the phoney war
:20:31. > :20:39.Five of the six teams that will compete in the America Cup racing
:20:40. > :20:45.These first images from the British team's
:20:46. > :20:48.drone show the race boats are one, hitting the water and at times,
:20:49. > :21:05.They won two of their ten practice races last week, so Ben
:21:06. > :21:09.Ainslie described it as a useful few days going into the next design
:21:10. > :21:12.No new team has ever won the cup at the first attempt.
:21:13. > :21:39.Ainslie once again is trying to make history.
:21:40. > :21:54.A host of golden daffodils in Thatcham - Dot Williams
:21:55. > :21:59.A lovely day for a walk in Emsworth - here's a brave poodle
:22:00. > :22:11.And this is Harnham Bridge in the lunchtime sun -
:22:12. > :22:27.It was a glorious day in the region with sunshine and temperatures of 16
:22:28. > :22:31.Celsius. What of the week ahead have in store? There will be sunny spells
:22:32. > :22:34.throughout and the warm air that goes with it, too. But things will
:22:35. > :22:41.become a bit more showery from midweek. For tonight, a clear night
:22:42. > :22:47.and a bit of mist and fog by dawn for some places, but not too bad.
:22:48. > :22:52.Most places having lows of around seven Celsius. Same for tomorrow
:22:53. > :22:55.morning, and any mist and fog burns off quickly when the sun comes up.
:22:56. > :23:02.Good sunny spells and a bit more cloud through the afternoon. A odd
:23:03. > :23:10.shower coming from the south-west. Tomorrow's high, 15 Celsius. A bit
:23:11. > :23:14.cooler along the coast. Through tomorrow evening, cloud builds and
:23:15. > :23:18.we may see rain, especially for the southern part of the region, but the
:23:19. > :23:25.cloudy skies, temperatures not dropping much below double figures,
:23:26. > :23:28.tender Celsius mostly. Looking to Wednesday, it is a cloudy picture,
:23:29. > :23:34.but many places are staying dry throughout the day. We had this rain
:23:35. > :23:38.band to the north and it is never far away. It may just wiggle in now
:23:39. > :23:46.and then. Most places will spend the day dry with a high of 14 Celsius.
:23:47. > :23:52.Looking toward Thursday, we will see high pressure moving away to the
:23:53. > :23:57.continent and a cold front moving in from the West will impact things.
:23:58. > :24:01.Some cloud on Thursday, bright spells, too. By Friday, it is a
:24:02. > :24:07.better picture. Cooler, fresher conditions and some rain coming
:24:08. > :24:11.persistence for a while. For the weekend, we are looking at: showery
:24:12. > :24:15.conditions on Saturday and Sunday, a ridge of high pressure builds up and
:24:16. > :24:17.we may see sunny spells. Thank you, Sam.
:24:18. > :24:19.It's one of the oldest heritage sites in the South
:24:20. > :24:21.and was the capital of England's cultural and political life
:24:22. > :24:27.But despite their international significance, the ruins
:24:28. > :24:29.of Reading Abbey have been closed for eight years since
:24:30. > :24:34.Now, after years of delays and wrangling over cost,
:24:35. > :24:36.work has started to repair the crumbling walls ahead
:24:37. > :24:38.of the grand opening of the town's Abbey quarter,
:24:39. > :24:45.It was built by Henry I for the salvation of his soul.
:24:46. > :24:48.Nine centuries later, the ruins of Reading Abbey
:24:49. > :24:53.These techniques actually go back over 10,000 years
:24:54. > :24:55.and it's one of the earliest forms of building, and it's literally
:24:56. > :24:59.within the last two or three years that we're really re-learning
:25:00. > :25:02.and re-discovering how these buildings were actually originally
:25:03. > :25:05.built, and there's nothing better for the building itself
:25:06. > :25:07.then using the material it was intended to be built with.
:25:08. > :25:11.This hot lyme mortar is exactly what Henry used
:25:12. > :25:18.What's left though is just 20% of a vast complex that stretched
:25:19. > :25:24.Pretty much every King or Queen came here.
:25:25. > :25:29.they might have been here staying with the Abbot.
:25:30. > :25:34.There's a thousand years of history here.
:25:35. > :25:36.It's internationally important history, it's
:25:37. > :25:39.not just local history, and Reading needs to shout about it
:25:40. > :25:40.and that's what this project's about.
:25:41. > :25:45.Henry is buried here, but there were worries that he wouldn't
:25:46. > :25:51.has closed the ruins for the best part of a decade.
:25:52. > :25:53.In 2009, repairs began but the damage was more
:25:54. > :25:59.In April 2011, plans for an eight million pound
:26:00. > :26:05.But it was late 2015 before funding was finally secured
:26:06. > :26:11.Back in the 1100s, Reading Abbey would have
:26:12. > :26:13.taken 40 years to build, the equivalent cost in modern times
:26:14. > :26:19.But the team here have just one year to complete this before it
:26:20. > :26:23.The total cost of the restoration, about three million pounds.
:26:24. > :26:25.A figure that may sound like a king's ransom,
:26:26. > :26:31.but less than half has come from the council coffers.
:26:32. > :26:33.Reading obviously is associated with commerce,
:26:34. > :26:40.and that's great, but also Reading is also placed with a fantastic
:26:41. > :26:43.cultural offering and we believe we can build on that,
:26:44. > :26:46.develop the Abbey Quarter as a cultural attraction
:26:47. > :26:48.and attract a wider public to Reading.
:26:49. > :26:51.Once finished, the ruins will re-open as the centre
:26:52. > :26:55.of the new Abbey Quarter, taking its rightful and original