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The dangers of air pollution to your health and what authorities | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
A dark day at Didcot as a non-league football match | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
And the latest on Oxford's bus strike as passengers again are hit | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
by industrial action, with drivers putting two more strike | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
First tonight, the head of the World Health Organisation | :00:19. | :00:27. | |
says more than 90% of the world's population breathe poor quality air, | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
presenting a greater health problem than HIV or Ebola. | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
But this isn't only a problem for Beijing, | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
Cherwell District Council has estimated as many as 10% of adult | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
deaths in Oxfordshire may be due to air pollution. | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
Toxic pollutants like nitrogen dioxide, particularly | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
from diesel vehicles, are at dangerously high levels | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
Oxfordshire's lead GP for respiratory conditions thinks | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
air pollution is having a direct impact on some of his patients. | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
When people come and see me, they say they have been much better | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
until they came to Oxford city, whereupon they got all | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
Equally, you will find people who have struggled | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
to control their asthma and then they move back home or go away | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
from the Thames Valley only to discover their symptoms get better. | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
Pollution levels in Oxford have been cut by a third over the past decade | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
but the city and county councils want to do more. | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
One idea is to create a zero emission zone, | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
only accessible to electric vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians. | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
It has to go in those streets where pollution is dangerously high. | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
It's worked very successfully in the high street where we see only | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
buses during the daytime, so it is a similar sort of thing. | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
People are used to not bringing their cars into Oxford | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
Pollution targets are being breached in 11 areas across Oxfordshire, | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
including the market town of Wallingford. | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
Here, there are proposals to close the main bridge to try to reduce | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
the amount of vehicles travelling through the town but the idea | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
I think closing it will be really difficult for | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
It will certainly make it more pleasant walking across the bridge | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
It is a possibility if it helps but I am not sure it will be | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
Environmental campaigners say lives are at risk if more action is not | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
We are specifically talking about the air quality management | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
action zone in the centre of town which has had illegally toxic | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
limits that break the EU directives for 12 years. | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
And it's that that will be stopped by doing this. | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
Back in Oxford, councillors say attitudes to how we get | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
It's investing in electric charging points and hopes a zero emission | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
So, what does all this pollution do to us? | :03:12. | :03:21. | |
Earlier, I spoke to Dr Matt Loxham, who studies airborne pollution | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
at Southampton University and asked him how air pollution | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
People who are otherwise healthy, they might just get | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
a cough or a sore throat, but in people who are at risk, | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
and this can be asthmatics, it can be very young people, | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
very old people, we see a whole range of health effects | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
that we wouldn't see if they weren't in polluted environments, | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
things like asthma attacks, heart attacks, strokes, | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
they are all linked to exposure to air pollution, and right | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
across the life course, from very young children to elderly | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
people, you see these effects of air pollution that you wouldn't see | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
When we cover stories like this, we often bombard | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
Is there really a safe level of pollution? | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
That is one of the things we are pretty sure about, | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
there is no safe limit, so however low it goes, | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
as long as there is pollution there, it's still damaging your health. | :04:08. | :04:11. | |
The good news is that if you make any reduction, it will result in | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
an improvement to health, so any reduction is better | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
than nothing but there's always further we can go. | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
So, in brief there is no straightforward one bullet | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
It's got to involve a lot of joined-up thinking, | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
a lot of activity from a wide range of contributors, whether this is | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
big companies and big organisations or people at the individual level | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
as well, and it's got to involve commitment from all of those | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
groups of society as well, and it's only then, with all this | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
joined-up work, will we really see a major impact on air quality | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
Other news now and officials at Didcot Town Football Club | :04:51. | :05:00. | |
are counting the cost after a pitch invasion by away supporters | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
saw their stadium vandalised and players abused. | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
Hereford fans invaded the patch and match officials | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
Fans and stewards spill from the terraces and onto the turf, | :05:08. | :05:15. | |
in a scene more resembling of a bar-room brawl | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
Today, staff at Didcot Town FC were assessing the damage, | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
after their home game with Hereford turned into chaos. | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
We were being battered at that time so we knew we weren't | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
And then all of a sudden we saw a ruckus on the pitch, | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
our goalkeeper was surrounded by a few supporters | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
and our own players trying to protect him, and, | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
yeah, it sort of kicked off from there. | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
This stadium has a capacity of more than 3,000 people | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
but for Saturday's visit of Hereford there was a gate of 796. | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
Now, 700 of those were away supporters, and all was fine, | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
until the 87th minute, when Hereford took the lead. | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
Luckily, we had TV footage available to us, we had a company | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
which was filming this game, so we've got everything, in HD, | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
wonderfully, so, yeah, we'll be presenting that | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
to the Southern League and the FA when we're called upon to do that, | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
and they hopefully have captured everything that went on. | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
Two men have been arrested following the incident, | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
and in a statement a spokesperson for Hereford FC said... | :06:23. | :06:34. | |
It's yet to be decided if Saturday's result will stand, | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
or whether any potential rematch will be played behind closed doors. | :06:37. | :06:46. | |
Bus drivers in Oxford have gone on strike for a second day. | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
Unite union members at the Oxford Bus Company | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
are demanding payment for working five holiday days over Christmas. | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
For the latest, our spoke to our reporter David Lumb. | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
If you ever wanted an indication of the strength of feeling around | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
this, you could see it quite clearly today. | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
There were more than 100 workers on the picket line - | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
many of them with placards, flags, vuvuzelas. | :07:08. | :07:11. | |
It was really, really emotional and strong. | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
A number of services have been disrupted. | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
They include the X90 bus service between London and Oxford. | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
The Unite union, which has been backing these workers, | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
says it wasn't a decision that was taken lightly. | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
However, the passengers and the public have been really | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
We humbly apologise for the disruption but at the end | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
of the day you have to make a stand and the only way you can make | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
a stand is to do what the guys and gals are doing behind me. | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
On the face of this it's a dispute about how much workers should get | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
In practice, though, the union says that that is just | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
the straw that broke the camel's back. | :07:53. | :07:54. | |
It says workers have deep-rooted frustrations about the pay | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
and working conditions they are having to deal with. | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
I did speak to Phil Southall from the Oxford Bus Company. | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
He says that he's made a number of offers, | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
Well, today we've managed to get around 90% of the service out. | :08:06. | :08:16. | |
We are focusing on minimising the inconvenience to our customers, | :08:17. | :08:17. | |
so we've got a really good level of service out, we've had more | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
people coming to work than we were expecting and therefore | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
we have tried to minimise the impact in what was very difficult | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
Two more days of strike action have been scheduled for next Friday | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
Both sides say they hope an agreement can be | :08:33. | :08:35. | |
More than 100 people have taken part in a women's | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
The event in Cowley over the weekend included practical workshops | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
about improving strength and flexibility, | :08:46. | :08:46. | |
There were also talks from female champions and local cycling clubs. | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
We're back in BBC Breakfast tomorrow morning, but for now goodnight | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
and with the weather here's Alexis Green. | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
We've had a lot of dry weather today but through the course of this week | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
There will also be some dry interludes and some sunny | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
It will turn milder, especially from Thursday onwards. | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
Under the clear skies tonight, there may be a frost | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
There, temperatures could fall to around one Celsius. | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
These are temperatures in our towns and cities. | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
The winds will be fairly light to start the day tomorrow | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
but through the course of the morning, after blue skies | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
initially, the sunshine will turn hazy and we will see increasing | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
cloud during the latter part of the afternoon. | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
Through daylight hours, it should stay mainly dry tomorrow, | :09:33. | :09:34. | |
with some decent amounts of sunshine, and temperatures | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
It is tomorrow evening and overnight tomorrow night the cloud | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
will thicken even further and we will see some outbreaks | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
of rain, which could be heavy at times during the early hours | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
So, a soggy start to Wednesday, some torrential downpours in places. | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
Temperatures tomorrow night will drop to around 5-6dC. | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
So, a wet start in places on Wednesday. | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
Slowly but surely things will start to dry out during the course | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
of the day but it may take some time in a few places with a few brighter | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
spells through the afternoon, and a milder temperature. | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
The winds coming in on the south-west, drawing in that | :10:09. | :10:19. | |
Atlantic mild air and, with it, a weather front | :10:20. | :10:21. | |
which will bring a change in the air coming in from the Atlantic | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
So on Thursday we could see highs of 14, even 15. | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
And a similar scenario also on Friday. | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
Both Wednesday, Thursday and Friday will be very similar days. | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
Good deal of cloud, one or two brighter spells, | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
and the chance of outbreaks of rain at times. | :10:37. | :10:44. | |
But there will be some dry interludes between the rain, | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
and on Friday we're looking at highs of 12-13. | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
Now, looking ahead to the weekend, it is a few days away | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
so things can change but, at the moment, there will be some | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
Showers as well, and windy, and feeling a little less mild | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
cool, it will be windy at times as well and still rather unsettled with | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
some blustery showers around. That's the London forecast and now for the | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
National forecast, over to Nick Miller. | :11:08. | :11:15. | |
North-west France and Plymouth were miles apart weather-wise. This | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
southern flank in north-west France there was a wind gusts of 120 mph | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
which we just dodged. That area of low pressure continues to move | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
quickly south-eastwards so that by tomorrow it is in Italy on its | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
southern flank, stormy in Sardinia and around it strong winds blowing | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
through south-east France. We've got a little bump in the ice bars with | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
lighter winds, a brief ridge of high pressure, things briefly settled | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
going into tomorrow, overnight there are some showers around moving | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
through western Scotland and north-west England and the Midlands, | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
clearing Wales, one or two in the east, the North Sea tip of high | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
pressure, things briefly settled going into tomorrow, overnight there | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
are some showers around moving through western Scotland | :12:01. | :12:01. |