30/03/2017 South Today - Oxford

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A couple from Buckinghamshire are among five members of the same

Told he's dying from motor neurone disease, but Allan's family believe

it's another illness - Lyme disease - and are

And major work and major disruption as part of the M4 is closed in both

A couple from Buckinghamshire are believed to be among five

members of the same family to have died in a helicopter

It's thought the aircraft had taken off from the home of Kevin

and Ruth Burke in Hulcote near Milton Keynes.

The wreckage was discovered in Snowdonia.

Narrowing the search to south Snowdonia allowed

a concentration of effort, the military joining

civilian volunteer teams from Aberglaslyn and Ogwen Valley.

It must have felt like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Mid-morning they found the crash site and the five bodies.

The news was given at a police press conference.

Poor weather has been hampering the search,

with some horrendous conditions reducing visibility to less

I can sadly now confirm that a crash site has been located and five

people have lost their lives during this incident.

I'm sure you'll appreciate this is an agonising time

for the families and friends of all involved and our thoughts

The helicopter is a Twin Squirrel, manufactured by Airbus.

It took off from the Luton area yesterday afternoon to make

At some stage, it disappeared from the radar.

The helicopter was owned by Kevin and Ruth Burke,

Mrs Burke is originally thought to come from Dublin,

Conditions on the ground improved marginally through the day.

The investigation into what happened will have already begun.

The wreckage and bodies yet need to be recovered.

Roger Pinney, BBC South Today, Trawsfynydd.

Ten men have been charged with nearly 60 offences linked

to child sexual exploitation between 2008 and 2015.

Police carried out a series of raids in Banbury earlier this week.

Six more suspects were arrested in Oxford today.

The family of a paralysed man from Aylesbury say that,

"he's been sent home to die" without proper treatment.

Allan Sheppard was diagnosed with motor neurone disease.

But his family believe it's Lyme disease, caused by ticks.

They've paid for blood tests to prove it's Lyme

and are battling for him to be treated with antibiotics.

A month after falling into a coma in 2014,

Allan Sheppard from Aylesbury was diagnosed with motor neurone

disease, a debilitating neurological condition.

I couldn't talk and I couldn't move...

It was devastating and we didn't know what to think.

It didn't add up, none of it, that someone could walk

into hospital and then be paralysed and then on a ventilator.

Then Allan developed a bull's-eye-shaped rash on his leg,

and a few months later their pet dog died from Lyme disease.

She picked it up from our garden because she had ticks on her.

All these pieces came together that it was Lyme disease.

The doctors didn't really know about Lyme disease in the ICU.

Lyme disease is a bacterial infection passed on from ticks.

It can be treated with antibiotics if caught early, but if treatment

is delayed or the disease is misdiagnosed, it can lead

Simone and her mum spent ?2,000 on private blood tests in Germany.

The results came back positive for Lyme disease.

Allan's doctors agreed to put him on antibiotic

treatment for a fortnight, his family says that's

After they saw he'd regained movements, they said,

"It is all in your head, we won't give you any

They said, "You've got MND and that is the end of it."

Those in charge of Allan's care said they were unable to comment

The Department of Health says new guidelines for diagnosing

and treating Lyme disease are expected to be

Simone's still fighting to get her dad's case re-examined

and says she's prepared to raise thousands of pounds for private

Drivers planning to use the M4 through Berkshire are being warned

The motorway will be closed in both directions between Junction 12

There'll be a series of weekend closures during April and May.

Some people living along the route say they've only just

found out about the work, but the Highways Agency says it has

been writing to affected residents and businesses.

The traffic's been busy here all afternoon between junctions

12 and 13 but tomorrow night, at 9pm, it'll fall silent,

there will be no traffic on there when the work

Rosemary Boorstin is a local farmer and runs a local fishery.

What do you think of the way this has been managed?

What I was slightly upset about, I've been going around the farmyard,

and various different people I've been speaking to say,

"Do you realise the M4 is actually going to be closed completely

They're saying, "Rosemary, you're talking rubbish, as normal.

But, actually, it is going to be shut for two or three days

which is going to have a huge impact on everybody.

There is a major football match as well.

I'm especially worried about the Leeds-Reading game,

which is obviously exit 11, which is not relevant

to exit 12 but, of course, it's going to back up.

But I think it's just sad that too many people don't know about it.

Well, the work will continue on the road.

It'll stay closed day and night and reopen on Monday morning by 6am.

A week after Thames Water was given a record fine for pumping billions

of litres of untreated sewage into the River Thames,

households are being warned they may also be polluting waterways -

Liquids poured down storm drains often flow directly

into local rivers and streams, without being filtered or treated.

Armed with boxes of warning notices, tubes of heavy glue and leaflets

to put through letterboxes, these volunteers are on a mission.

Rainwater-only warning stickers are being put on each and every

drain on this Newbury estate because everything that goes

down them flows directly into the River Lambourn -

a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Some people have something to get rid of, they will think,

"Shall I put it down the drain, in the house...?

No, don't do that, let's pour it down the drain out in the street,"

Earlier this month, dozens of swans had to be rescued when diesel oil

Absorbent booms had to be deployed as part of a huge

And when it comes to pesticides, even the smallest amount

Visually, people cannot see there is pollution until people get

in and do a thing called kick sampling and you find

that the inveterate population has crashed, which is what happened

in 2013 on the River Kennet, where literally two teaspoons full

of a chemical was put down a storm drain and it caused devastation

for the wildlife from Aldborough all the way down the Hungerford.

So it is just so important that, particularly with storm drains,

that people do realise that whatever goes down a storm drain goes

completely untreated straight into that river.

And now, thanks to these volunteers, there're little reminders everywhere

A tortoise from Aylesbury has become an internet sensation.

Called Bubba, he loves to chase a ball around his home.

A video of him in action has had around 60 million views.

There's nothing he likes best than a good runaround.

Ever since he joined this family in Aylesbury,

Since he targeted the cat's treat ball, though, things

From Twitter, to Facebook, to YouTube, Bubba is now a major

internet star with this video racking up around 60 million views.

Making him one of the most famous tortoises on the planet.

The ball happened to be on the floor.

We got him out, as we usually do, just to have a runaround

and exercise, and he saw this ball and went for it, which

So I thought I'd record it and stick it up for a bit of fun on Twitter.

It's kind of just the fact that it's a tortoise going so quickly.

That's not what people think tortoises are like.

There's so many videos posted on your Twitter and Facebook,

and this has happened to be this one that's famous.

Bubba's video continues to draw an audience.

The hope is he may even start earning online royalties.

The star, oblivious of his fame, continues to enjoy time in his

His family say what he enjoys most of all is being out

Now he is known by more people than anyone could have imagined.

Happiness for Bubba is chasing a plastic purple ball.

There's probably a life lesson there in that for all of us.

Good evening. Overnight tonight we are looking at increasing cloud and

outbreaks of rain but it will be mad. Temperatures remaining in

double figures in most places with those of ten, 11 Celsius. The rain

will be light and patchy but we could have the odd heavy burst for

Western parts can the early hours of the morning and dry weather to,

particularly for the East where we particularly for the East where we

will see clearer skies. A mild and cloudy start tomorrow, are bits of

rain during the morning, which will clear. With the breeze coming from

the South, F. Two draw in some slightly drier conditions through

tomorrow afternoon. Still the rest of the odd isolated shower,

temperatures reaching a high of 15, maybe up to 16 Celsius in any

prolonged periods of sunshine and the winds will be light during the

afternoon, so it will feel pleasant in any sunny spells. Through the

course of tomorrow night, there is the chance of patchy rain and

increasing cloud. Saturday is a sunny spells and scattered showers.

Even the risk of the odd thunderstorm with hail. The winds

will be light, as you can see a widening of the mist Abbas, so if

you catch the showers on Saturday, they may be slow-moving with hail

and thunder. Over the next few days, a lot of cloud around each morning

but brightening up each day and a lovely, sunny day on Sunday.

time of year. The chance of a shower on Saturday. Sunday will be dry.

Hello, it will cool off over the next few days but that's not

unusual, given how warm it was today. This was London. We just had

the warmest March day since 2012, 20 two Celsius in the Sunnis skies in

the south-east. It was much warmer than recently in north-eastern

Scotland, but in between we had a zone of outbreaks of rain. It's

pretty wet in south-west Scotland and North West England at the

moment. This was the scene earlier, with rainy skies. There's more rain

to come overnight. We could see a few splashes running eastwards into

England, but most of the wet weather is further west. We will see heavy

rain arriving in Northern Ireland. Further training north-west England

and also for Scotland. -- further rain. It will stay very mild for the

time of year. Tomorrow, there may be a little early sunshine for East

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