01/08/2014 South Today

In tonight's programme. That's all from the BBC News at Six,

The island with more dementia patients than anywhere else

in the country, startling new figures on one

The social media campaign to encourage mums to be

If you are happy to flaunt it then go ahead and do it.

Victory smiles for Reading's Chris Mears as he claims Glasgow Gold!

The teenagers with learning disabilities who are taking to

Hopefully there is not going to be a crosswind, but if there is,

The full extent of the south's dementia problems has

become worryingly clear, with new figures showing that the region tops

the table for the number of people diagnosed with the condition.

Figures from the Health and Social Care Information Centre shows

the largest prevalence of diagnosed dementia cases

With its Clinical Commissioning Group or CCG

saying more than one per cent of the population, registered with a GP,

Not far behind is "Coastal West Sussex" and Dorset, both with

South Reading CCG was among the lowest nationally with

0.34%, although it's not clear how much is to do with the age

of population or the effectiveness in diagnosing the condition.

Sean Killick has been to Ryde, on the Isle of Wight,

a self`proclaimed "Dementia Friendly Town", where shopkeepers,

bus drivers, and even firemen are given dementia awareness training.

Shopkeepers here or on help and support people with dementia and

their designated safe havens for people to be taken if they are

feeling lost or confused. There is so much more.

The Alzheimer's cafe here in All Saints Church Hall is already

filling up here today, and they have got a talk as well coming shortly.

Over here, we have got Dudley and Suzanne, they

`` what did you like about coming here? It seems very friendly. Yes,

it is very friendly. This is where they can meet up with other people

and know that you are not on your own. We get a lot of support. It is

brilliant. There are six of cafes on the island, groups meeting regularly

at church halls. The bus company is making special cards for people to

explain their circumstances, the libraries have waved people delete

frames and generally all of us working together. At this fire

station today there was a demonstration by new recruits at a

passing out parade. The A1's Fire Service is also trained officers in

dementia awareness to give extra help with call`outs and it has

already proved successful. We learn through feedback from other

agencies, there have been incidences of potential fire risks which have

been identified early either through other agencies or our own community

safety teams that have prevented what could have been a worse

situation. The island is clearly showing its support but why does it

have the largest prevalence of diagnosing dementia cases in

England? We have an ageing population, 25% are over the age of

65 but we also have quite an increased rate in our diagnosis so I

think that contributes to the increase in rates of dementia. Other

parts of the country are following what is going on here to make the

area is just as dementia friendly. Earlier I spoke to George McNamara,

who's Head of Policy And I asked him what he made of

the figures showing the very high There are some real positive

outcomes and progress that has been made but the stark reality is we

need to go further and faster for the many people who are living with

dementia who still do not have access to a diagnosis and

importantly the support that they need. As far as the support is

concerned, what can be done to help those with dementia within

communities? Getting that diagnosis enables, for example, there are

treatments available but as well it enables that support particularly in

the community for social care and social services and that enables

people to work well with the condition. But too often that is not

available without a formal diagnosis. People within the

committee of the do not understand those with dementia, that can be a

problem? Yes, challenging that stigma, you will awareness across

the community is a real barrier for people living with dementia. Many

are socially isolated and lonely. But we know that a small

understanding, a small change in a community can make a huge difference

in quality of life and enable them to live well in your own home and

with their families as well. Surely that is what they want in later

life. It is interesting to go back to those figures because there are

big differences with the figures in different parts of the South. Is

this down to demographic or is it because some areas are less

effective in detecting dementia? There are a variety of factors but

we say that everyone should be entitled to the best quality care

and support that they need. We want those at the bottom end to strive to

be the best and that must be something that needs to continue, we

need investment but also a reform in the way that services are provided

to people dementia. Challenging stigma. We also ensure that services

are there to challenge and support diagnosis.

It's been revealed that five Thames Valley police officers, involved

in the search for murdered teenager Jayden Parkinson, are being

Misconduct notices have been issued by the Independent

It comes a week after Ben Blakeley, from Reading, was jailed

for life for strangling Jayden, and burying her in his uncle's grave

Did Thames Valley Police do all the good to protect the murdered

teenager Jayden Parkinson? Did they take it seriously enough? Just two

of the questions the police watchdog want answers to as part of their

investigation into the force. After being strangled to death, Jayden

Parkinson was buried by her former boyfriend in his uncle 's grave at

this church. The Independent Police Complaints Commission has placed the

five officers from the force under investigation. They are keen to

understand why Jayden Parkinson was only placed under medium risk when

she was reported as missing on the 4th of December last year. After

all, her former boyfriend had a violent past. Crucially, officers

interviewed him on the day that Jade and vanished. They were talking to

him about indecent images of Jayden Parkinson found on his phone. Did

they know at that time that she was missing, or worse still, perhaps

they realised she was missing and chose not to ask any questions. In a

statement, Thames Valley Police said, UDI PCC's ongoing

investigation, it would be inappropriate for Thames Valley

Police to comment at this time. Elsewhere today, the brother of Ben

Blakeley, Jake, who was accused of preventing a waffle burial, was told

he will face a retrial after immediately feels to a verdict. He

is likely to appear in appear in court in the New Year.

A driver who killed two teenage girls while high on drugs,

has had an appeal against his nine year prison sentence refused.

14`year`old Jasmine Allsop and 16`year`old Olivia Lewry died

last November in Gosport, when Samuel Etherington drove into them.

The 21 year old, who's been described as a

"menace behind the wheel", denied manslaughter, but admitted

Now his appeal has been turned down, Gosport MP Caroline Dinenage says

This was a man driving a double the speed limit on the wrong side of the

road, on a cocktail of drugs and alcohol that caused these deaths.

There must be something of flexibility in the sentencing to

allow for that serious form of crime.

A mum and her six`year old son from Basingstoke have had

a narrow escape from the large gas explosion in Taiwan overnight.

They were visiting family in the region,

and were due to stay in a hotel that was hit by one of the blasts.

25 people have been killed in the explosions.

Paul Bensilum's wife messaged him on Facebook to let him

know what happened and to tell him they were safe.

Southampton Airport has been put up for sale.

It is currently owned by Heathrow Airport Holdings,

which used to be known as BAA in the days when it also owned Gatwick.

It's hoped the sale will be completed by the end of the year.

The Spanish company Ferrovial is a likely bidder.

In elderly women is fighting for her life in hospital after being hit by

a car in Sussex. She was airlifted to hospital in Southampton. She had

what police describe as a serious life`threatening injuries. Are

appealing for witnesses. Still to come in this evening's

South Today, weekend weather coming up with Sarah Farmer and

Tony Husband is at Thruxton. This is the fastest racing track in

the country and this weekend some of the best Superbike riders from all

over the world will be racing machines like this one in the

British Superbike championship. A social media campaign,

launched by hospitals in the south, to encourage women to breastfeed

in public places ` and let people It comes as part of

World Breast Feeding Week, which begins today, and also as

a fightback after recent cases of mothers being filmed, while nursing,

and then insulted on the internet. Four years ago a new law gave women

the right to breast`feed in public, in parks, cafes, shops, buses, any

public place. The law is one thing but attitudes are another. This

group of mothers in Gosport are supporting a new campaign to

encourage breast`feeding in public. Just to make more people aware that

it is acceptable to breast`feed, there are still far too many places

out and about with you perhaps feel uncomfortable and it is known that

you are not welcome from people. It is important to get breast`feeding

more out there, more known to the wider population and more normal.

The campaign is using social media, including twitter, where mothers are

encouraged to post pictures of themselves breast`feeding in public.

I think some people are perhaps against breast`feeding and the arm

more against being embarrassed. I they do not know where to look or

something, I don't know. I do not think there is any stigma against

the actual doing of it but people do not want to see it. The campaign has

because the big reaction on social media, that is by the support but

some debate about how discreet mothers can be. You can be very

discreet and even if you do not use a scarf or an apron then there is a

lot of flesh onshore and I think you see more on a beach than you do when

you walk past a breast`feeding mum. Health organisations are clear about

the benefits of breast`feeding but fewer than half of British mothers

stick with it. The hope is that as feeding becomes more normal,

breast`feeding will become more popular. It shows mums to be that if

they are uneasy about whether or not they have to go back to the dark

ages of rushing back home or feeding in the car or going into the

toilets, that it means that they are aware that they have the right to be

feeding out and about. We asked for your opinions on this

and hundreds of you have been in touch, the overwhelming majority

strongly supporting the NHS campaign and mums who breastfeed in public.

On Facebook, Lucy Jewell says: "It absolutely horrifies me that people

have a problem with this. Especially women! What planet do they live on??

Not everyone was of the same view. With one saying: "Its wrong in a

public place, should not happen. "Its wrong in a public place,

should not happen. With Government funding

for students falling, colleges here in the South are looking

at new ways to bring in money. The teaching

of foreign students is a lucrative business and is increasingly making

up the shortfall. As well as teaching here,

Highbury College in Portsmouth has colleges as far

afield as Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. It's now looking to a new emerging

market in Eastern Europe. Our Business Correspondent,

Alastair Fee, has been to Romania to Romania's youth have never had it

so good. Their economy is growing,

and that brings opportunity. We can learn from you how you teach

your specialisation and you can learn from our students,

we have good students. Highbury college has come to

this southern town to see how it can support a previously

untapped student market. Our business is educating young

people and we are always looking We currently work in places such

as India and Africa and with the growing economy in Romania we

are hoping to be one of the first That is because teaching can be

a lucrative business. In Portsmouth more than 600 foreign

students attended classes at The education market is attractive

because there is work to be done. The average age of a skilled

worker is between 40 and 50. Employers have told me that young

people are not leaving college ready to start work because of some

facilities in education have not That has led to an education

advisor comin here to help out. From the students that we have

spoken to there is certainly a skills shortage that we can support,

their mindset is very much on the academic and what we would like

to do is support and change that mindset of both parents

and students to encourage them to go into more vocational aspects

which is much needed Romania has a skilled workforce

but it is ageing. At this factory everything is made

on site but the future relies It is compulsory to have more

skills, it is compulsory. Without very well trained personnel

it is not possible to do something at the level of quality to compete

with other Western European Everywhere building

work is going on. At this new exhibition centre

businesses of all kinds are being offered space

to win lucrative new contracts. The contracts are good

because contracts mean opportunity. If Romania would be

so well developed why would you come One could take advantage

of these opportunities and make very good money while

actually bringing opportunities and going not only the market but

the society in a very healthy way. From this fact`finding trip it is

clear there is opportunity here. The skills shortage coupled with

the interest from young people make Romania

a new frontier to do business. Onto sport and Tony is once again

out and about and tonight it's all about speed, because he's

at Thruxton for the superbikes. It should be. Up to 50,000 people

here this weekend on this circuit, they will hit speeds of around 200

mph this weekend, the latest round of the British Superbike

championship this year. Take a look at this action from earlier today.

45 or 50,000 fans watched the base reach these speeds very, very fast

in seven classes. Among the racers was Tommy Bridewell is with me now.

The local driver. How was it for you? Very good today, I am from only

30 minutes down the road but unfortunately this has not been my

favourite track or best track but today we were second and then we

ended up fastest in free practice so I am over the moon with that. You

will hope for a good position, Sunday? The boys are working well

and so is the Yamaha. I will keep my head down and feet on the floor and

hopefully we will fight for the win come Sunday. There could be rain,

and that affect things? It can but luckily this track is good with

great in the wet and so is the bike. We will take it as it comes. Wet or

dry we can be strong. We wish you the best of luck. That was Tommy

Bridewell. At the Commonwealth Games the south

secured another gold medal with Chris Mears winning in the 3 metre

syncro alongside Jack Laugher. The pair produced a stunning set

of dives to seal top spot on the Mears just missed out on a medal

in the individual event so this was reward for him, while Farnborough's

Nick Robinson Baker and partner It needs absolutely everything, we

spend so much time together at home professionally and socially as well

so we are such close friends, to come out here and smashed it today

like we really wanted to and dream of it was amazing. Especially a

couple of days ago when I was so close to the bronze and missed out

by five or six points that was gassing funny so to come here and

get a cold and do what I knew I could that was fantastic.

In the Men's Fours Lawn Bowls England lost their gold medal match,

Berkshires Andrew Knapper led the side against Scotland,

It's his second medal of the games after securing bronze in

We are chuffed, the start of this preparation we went out there

looking to try and win the gold but for everyone in the team to win a

medal is a fantastic achievement, it is believable. Do not forget the

athletics and eight on BBC One. As for the hockey, the women guaranteed

a gold or silver medal after a very tense match against New Zealand this

afternoon. The match was decided on penalties after it finished one long

regulations, England went ahead and went on to secure a dramatic win in

the shoot out in the face Australia for gold. That'll be tomorrow.

Glorious Goodwood saw a photo finish in the Bet Fred mile this afternoon.

Red Avenger and Heavy Metal, the joint favourite couldn't be

separated on the line in front of another bumper crowd on the downs.

Jimmy Fortune and Red Avenger were eventually declared the winner, the

Preperations are almost complete as thousands of sailors descend on

the Isle of Wight for a week long festival of sailing and socialising.

In the course of the next week Cowes will mark the Great War at Sea,

while many stars from the world of sport will be there to sail.

We'll be there during the course of the week.

So, usually quite out here at the moment. Just wait until tomorrow.

50,000 fans over the weekend and some very fast bikes.

I would have paid money to see you on the back of one of those based!

No chance! Make sure you have your sea legs for

next week. Let's get on to the weather because

there is some rain on the way. Saturday will be the wet day but we

have had some lovely weather pictures as always. A busy time for

farmers, the harvest was captured by James Cook. And the water droplets

on the geraniums from Nick Lucas. Today has not been too bad, we have

had some decent plate and sunny spells, especially the father used

to have been. It is the West we have seen some wet weather, especially

from parts of Salisbury. The show was all spread out over the region

in the overnight period. We will have some showers, not all of us

seeing the wet weather but it will be very much a hit and miss study.

The temperatures will be fixed in our 16 degrees. The shower is how

that might be showers tend to come and go. For Saturday, certainly

looking to be the wet day of the weekend, looks like into the middle

part of the morning is when we will see the showers and a rumble of

thunder. This will go north eastwards during the day. Enter the

afternoon there will be a few more dry and bright intervals working

their way in, and if you see that sunshine it is not doing too badly,

temperatures 22 or 23 degrees. Into tomorrow evening the showers will

fade away, so becoming dry through the overnight period and people

start to see a fresher feel to things, 12 or 13 degrees. We have

not seen whether like that for a while so a slightly cooler nights to

come as we head into Sunday. This is the weather system with us on

Saturday, working its way into the North as we go into the weekend and

by Sunday a try in great condition to come, but it will feel on the

easy side. The wind is really quite noticeable. Not for long though, as

we start next week we see the wings start to take a step away and it is

a case of some summer showers but good sunny spells as well.

Plenty going on this weekend and for the battle prongs there may be one

or two showers early in the evening but it looks like an improving

picture. And the rugby grounds could see a brighter day on Sunday. Lots

of family fun. This is your summary for the coming days. Saturday one or

two heavy showers in the morning and improving later, Sunday a try and

bright datacom, breezy, and then scattered showers for next week.

Looking good. They're four young lads with mild

to moderate learning disabilities. But they've been given

a challenge which they've risen to The teenagers have been learning

about all things aviation in a project funded by BBC Children

in Need. One of the students is even hoping

to train for his pilot's licence. Their hard work was recently

rewarded with a very memorable It's graduation day for four

disabled youngsters who had a course Over the year the students were put

through fire drills, they learned about aircraft control and in`flight

privilege that not many people get privilege that not many people get

to enjoy and it is fantastic to be able to share that privilege.

The charity has the backing of the organisation that oversee air

traffic control in the UK. Young kids who are not even able to drive

a car but in an aircraft the belief, live and have been flying solo

around the airfield here which is just a fantastic experience for

them. It gives them a huge amount of confidence and a huge opening into a

really exciting area that was not available to them before.

With extra funding from the charity, the students are doing great. I will

get a beleaguered fly today, because it is so lovely and nice. Everyone

here loves aviation. Not nervous? Now. Hopefully there will not be a

crosswind but if there is the more interesting it becomes! Every year

the charity works with more than 500 people with a range of

disabilities, physical, mental, learning, even people who are blind

and visually impaired are able to take to the skies. Back on the

ground, proud parents were gone. We definitely did not think we could do

anything like this, did we? If Andrew can do it so can everyone

else. When they are little you see what he wants to be in they see a

pilot. It might not be possible but this makes it possible. When he

comes back he is absolutely beaming. The boys are flying high in more

ways than one! James, you saw in the blue hornets there is hoping to get

his pilot 's licence. We will mark the entry of the First

World War on her next programme. Good night.