An 80 year old woman who's been cleared of murdering her terminally ill husband have called for a new law on assisted dying Mavis Ecclestone gave her 81 year old husband Dennis an overdose of prescription drugs at their home mechanic in Staffordshire speaking outside court their daughter Joy months said her dad would have hated what's happened had dad would have been devastated at the start of his beloved wife Whiting to find out if at the age of I say she would face a life sentence in prison simply for respecting his wishes. It would if they not reckon if he had no need wife and family would have had to endure writing months of extreme anxiety and distress 3 more people all teenagers are to be charged with the murder of p.c. Andrew Harper who died after being dragged along a road by vehicle as he investigated a burglary in Boxer another man was charged with his murder last month Jeremy Corbyn is facing criticism from within Labor for hinting he'll stay neutral in another referendum on Bracks it should his party win power he says he'll invite people to choose between remain and what he calls a credible leave deal the chemical giant in he also is planning to build a new off road vehicle at Bridgend in South Wales it will be called the Granite hereafter the London pub where the idea was the 1st thought of as the B.B.C.'s Howell Griffith explains the project is a welcome boost is a true 100 jobs going to 500 jobs it Bridgend a town which is you know still recovering from the news about 3 months ago that 1700 skilled engineering jobs are going to be lost there when Ford and that engine production Bridgend next year the 1st and I just service for gambling addicts in the north of England a north middle and started taking patients today based in Leeds it's the 1st service of its kind outside of London Chris Murphy he started gambling as a teenager and says he spent over 100000 pounds on his addiction I just got to a point where all the walls were causing it and no one was willing to lend me money anymore and my. That could have Gumbel because I would have won a counter I had really had a. Dark day when I was 23 years old that was at the point when I read about this is kind of your life a strike planned by British Airways pilots in a dispute over pay has been called off members of Balco would you to walk out on September the 27th following a 48 hour stoppage last week the union says it's time for a period of reflection India has announced a complete ban on electronic cigarettes and the ban is going to come into force immediately the government says they pose a health risk particularly to young people and a look ahead at tonight's weather any rain in the north of the country should clear to leave most places dry tonight with plenty of clear spells around some fog developing later on overnight lows for most places of 29 and 10 degrees Celsius b.b.c. News it's 3 minutes past 8. Liberating way uni is. This is the South talks which take over on b.b.c. Radio all the. While come along. 8 o'clock. Wednesday evening. We are shouting about all the great stuff that happens in the final time this week bit weird feel very strange but yet wrapping things up all good things have to come to an end to make a way for some new super exciting stuff Lisa's going to be from 7 till 9 weeks every single week and so until on Wednesday night Lisa's going to be on the radio I personally am very very excited about our show is going to go so I thought well let's take this opportunity to reflect on all the stuff that we've done to have one big final boast. About all the great stuff happens in our part of the county jury member when I spoke to this guy he was row across the Atlantic while he was actually wearing I must have been sound like remember 3 days and I could be in and he got 3 days and I should be in and. Straight down the satellite 5000 mazing I'll be playing you full child very very soon also I got myself in a proper pickle in difficult ones involving one of these larger than I expected animals I'm currently holding a boa constrictor terrified I'm used to it with snakes and stuff but that was it was just I'm pretty sure as have you the May it was it was you. Plus. One massive part is the river tabs. And so I headed down a while ago to go and play with one of the locks finger on the gates. And with the hydraulics Yeah one of the highlights of my life it was fantastic and. Made in Salford share every week. Taking the chair find stuff that's made the county and about it well as Holloway which I guess the time of the year kind of coming around again right now like a month's time anyway last year she went to a South pumpkin farm and the pumpkin farmer has a very very nice favorite breed of pumpkin I love to. Say one more time I love. Marina. Music why. Me Sam Smith they were incredible and I'm playing you how do you sleep on before 9 plus Diplo has been remakes. That will be on your radio but. We begin with there this Elton John. Beautiful piece of music. Through till 9 o'clock tonight pushing the buttons keeping you company shouting about all the marvelous stuff that we have to boast about in our part of the county and thanks for having me. Just. Spoke. To me. How few. Feet that sound. The sound. Of someone just. Coming out to. Your family's going to. See her out on the telly going to be complete me and I'm. Just like meet its commitments Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me I remain weak. I mean. The Baltimore Sun. The sun shining committed to. Go All right meet A piece of music. That's. Welcome to take of us who are here and one of the highlights for my shit for this show one of my highlights. So far has got to be a meeting and following Lucas Heights Manav you don't mumble because Heitmann is now officially the youngest person to row across the Atlantic Ocean. Unassisted. Quite a feat and he did it and we were following his journey we spoke to him what he decided to to embark on this mammoth challenge we spoke to him just before he went cheering training while he was rowing and when he got back and it was a challenge to speak to him while he was wearing and because obviously he's running about and if he stops rowing it tends to drift around a bit while you just want to be worrying if you just run the clock want to get across the Atlantic put it you know I mean surely but luckily he brought a satellite phone and his mum gave me the number of the satellite phone and I gave him a call and we had a chat let's jump back in time to that shot because it was amazing he'd been the thing about the South Ossetia take over he will know that we have been following an amazing young man called Lucas Heights but who is currently as we speak rowing across the Atlantic Ocean and has been doing so for a while I am amazed to say Lucas is with me on the phone from the Atlantic Ocean hello because they were probably better than you. Given that you are right across most of the island Goshen how much you got left go about a 140 north which is I think just over 250 kilometers so not long that 3 days and I should be in Antigua and you've done it by yourself which is even more modest house up and not having any company and I know that you lost your music and that kind of thing yeah it. Had its ups and downs I mean being alone obviously there's like the whole nice thing about it of genuinely being comparing it and having to see yourself and there is a nice aspect and then there's also a bit weird I mean you know even things like dreams and. Like real you know shit that's like warnings response and I just get me out of it and then you wake up and you're in the middle of the ocean going to get. It is a sometimes like sometimes you feel you know when you know how to describe it I get a little bit nauseous. You just think oh I'm actually really far away from anyone out there any help or anything you like I just need I need to hear a voice. Yes it's been good it's been good has not been times where things have got a bit tricky and useful I can really pull myself here but the only person that's going to fix this is mate like when you think when stuff like that. I was actually . Being a passing thought like you know I just been trying to redeem myself I was one of the reasons why I wanted to do so it was a kind of you know I. Mean we all know what I know and big part of Exhibit No one is going to fix it and so I kind of enjoyed that side of things and tried to kind of look at everything positively and more as a challenge rather than like this you know I have to do this now and in the end is it depends on how you look at the if I if I when Jing because things challenging . And I mean I actually decided to write a nation of. People literally go mad plan to save of a seagull not only a very strong body but also a very strong mind. Well it's going to be the 1st thing you do when you get back on land 1st stand up straight apparently with a gun and because of all these of like delinquents and rocking of the day. Once you get on and you kind of get seasick land and logic I guess and then having a huge meal and. Some real food that has like savor and taste. All right. And what about people. Before people and places and sound stuff I mean it's yeah it's you know even things like colors are you can see what it's really even and his owner. To talk to people yeah. I think I'll be caught in a way for a few hours before very long. But rightly so I mean what an achievement and he did it he did it. He did it in subsequent days he got the wild caught he now will ventures around the world giving talks inspirational talks to people unbelievable guy it was just such a pleasure to me I mean it's all because of the show I. Love this chain it's called Falling b.b.c. Radio it's for Taylor Swift plays next. To our. stadium if you think you might want to go to right you have to go honestly it isn't . Saying working at this place I love every minute of it if you want to get into radio these things that happen very often. You. B.b.c. Radio Luxembourg. Just like. It's been. In the street. But. That's a cop out just like. You. Know there's just. There's no fire. And so. I. Thought. I. Would. The to. Be. Just a. Piece of history . But we. Need to. Be ready for this we're also the South. Thanks for having us all and we're doing a little like highlights thing of all the best bits of the south as we take it because it's. One of my highlights was the did caught summer now if you don't remember this it happened on it's us. Today 3rd of August I think in a park. And I went along and I wasn't I remember at the most because I was I'd never been to one before and I wasn't expecting it to be what it was it was huge massive so many people had that the sense of community that was real Everyone knew everyone and everyone wanted to talk to everyone I somehow managed to fit straight and which doesn't happen. And it was it was just a great place to be and there were the highlights of the day but the other side of the fact that they got so much that. People together you can get a bad day sounds nice is not right that people are happy right but it's amazing it brings like everybody together the kids families and it's just a really good and gets people to feel something to do you believe day what we've got here is homemade cake so we've got picture you some weight you've got chocolate cake. And a selection of bake some shortbread. The community of did cause is a great community I think they're very connected they really enjoy living here they seem like a smart bunch to me too I love how many people here how many foods there are it's really pretty barge and there's a lot to look at and do it's great for my. Rugby Club people who join the club well into their fifty's and who actually love having a chance. But I wasn't expecting this many people people round up to see friendly So pretty good but. You got all kinds of people from all over to call Come and have a look around and see things that they maybe didn't know were about for our services they didn't know we're here and it's just great way to meet people go here to bring the community together and buy some money. Challenge today's comp so full It's been amazing days well underway in the photo lots of fun tonight with the yeah I'm just trying to be a bit of a rainbow right and then we have various things that you can buy some pay made to bring the Hitchcock's rainbow purses which Magnitsky things rain by Penguin community is so important in terms of bringing people together and making people feel that not to let And here that there is something to everyone so it brings everyone out to meet and it's an absolute honor to actually meet with the different people around did something you'd otherwise never get. I totally agree honestly it was an absolute bolt and while I was there I met some really inspirational people not just friendly people and happy people but people who are doing amazing amazing things in our part of the county there so people that you me and you think you know I'm really proud to say that yeah you're from here. Check this out my name's track Kirk and I'm Joe Cole and what are you guys doing today we have representing the charity sound about which is a charity which uses music to change the lives of people with profound than multiple learning disability and I was going for you today from Tufts that we've met some up to you lovely local people and what we're trying to do is promote it so my music making the week that I knew why I'm going to sit by and so we're trying to get people to come along and just join in and have fun making music with us. And what you love about local events like this where the local based charities that we're based in the cornerstone nots and to ourselves so how much chance to meet people from all. Of that this is really important to us it just helps us commit to look at me and see where it went with based on watching events like this do for the community I think they're absolutely brilliant the community is so important in terms of bringing people together and making people feel that not to let And here that there is something for everyone so it brings everyone out to meet and it's an absolute honor to actually meet all the different people around did. He had other life never get under my skin so and so I run trusted in Congress reps all rescue me I know what is this country hold in a boa constrictor we have rope pipe and say it's a day and called Snakes on a bearded dragon and what you love about the fact that a. Lot of them are people I hasten be honest I wasn't expecting this many people base their absolute bigger than a lot of people around everyone seems friendly some really good they hadn't talked to me love it more about about what you do how many snakes you and I think Well basically we have about 5060 reps almost snakes lizards told choices we rescue them from people that count how many more Jews even know how for this animal got bigger the more they expected it to. They just come and go the cracks for the animals so we take my boss we look after him rescue him and spring into these events are people can understand the animal before they go out and start buying and why reptiles. I don't know if off guessers when I was younger I was told I was never ever allowed one so I was since then always wanted one and they just missed something different is not the usual cause my usual dog is something different so it's not so nice quite new so I enjoy this is the local Doc's pull and fundraising Greek's week to South Dakota so we've got a look at the top and some brandy trite stuff that we just raising money for docs and why events like this so important to you guys. It brings back awareness of people for guide dogs and for me I've got so here's a guy I don't have in training here and it's good training for her because she gets out to meet lots of people and talk to people and people like to see the real live guide dogs in action and give them a stroke it makes it real charity and how long does it take to train a guide dog does it vary. The puppy walk it stage last about 18 months so puppy comes to a puppy 7 weeks and stays until it's somewhere between 16 and 18 months and learns to be hopefully calm well behaved obedient in any situation from a fare like this to trains buses cafes all sorts of things and then if they get to that stage they go on to proper training like big school. Where they learn now they've got the basics they learn the clever things that guide dogs to like finding places to cross roads finding a seat on a train and all of those clever things that you see and tell you about this car door that you've got here she's 12 months old and she's called Zoe and she's a cross between a fox red Labrador of a golden retriever and she's doing very well hopefully she will pass and become a real fully trained guide dog will solve testicles are enough to pass the tests all the way through at different stages but they're monitored even throughout the whole defers dating months to make sure they're on track even from birth they will refuse their bread at a breeding center that they specifically bred crossed and they might fail at the very early stage any point up until this the 2nd year they go. Through point trusting stuff to us here south of here to take over we're bringing in the best bits of the shadow and on the way next Dave glass here with the music from b.b.c. Introducing. Post the long road I'm gone. Until I come Oh it's good as an addict of laws acts and Billy Ray Cyrus is track called Old Town Road I like that one a lot you know who else brings us great music every single week Dave get out for the b.b.c. Introducing to he has a look around South chair and looks at all of the submissions that have been sent in from people in our part of the county producing great music picks what he thinks is the best one that week and you know what I have never never been doing the show for over a year never disagreed with them check always got this week going. To sing. Nothing to boast about. In our part of the county. A very very enjoyable it's. Good to have a good Wednesday evening. As may push the buttons through. The South. And on the way between now and. Take a trip to South Wales which is part of the tabs and have a bit of a mess around with one of the locks your finger on the gates a food. And. Hi Charlie Yeah that was. Probably the highlight of my. Thought in striking a rhino with flood that was the outbreak and also on the way sorry because when to visit a man who has quiet me a quiet n.h. . Enthusiastic nest meant he's in a few just ticking quiet thing it's this type of pumpkin I love Zucker. Who doesn't love as you can Marino to kill. White What's not to love that's on the . Look at your very latest news at 9 o'clock this sucks it should take us on b.b.c. Radio tears an epic piece of music. Muse and feeling good playing at b.b.c. Radio Oxford next I visit a lock and get to open the gate was amazing. Pick a piece of music that isn't news and feeling good. B.b.c. Radio was 1st Wednesday evening cellphones which are taken over Hi I'm well and we don't like highlights of stuff you take over and I went to visit a lot Quantz I probably picked the worst day to go back the lock keeper because it was a bank holiday Monday. And you know I was on the river with my family just putting away having a nice time and I thought you know what I bet she's interesting she was very interesting school Katie Marshall she's a lock in a way a keeper I was asking her how busy it was that day being quite busy. It's nice to see it they say we enjoy it yeah there's been a few people around today there's quite a few hard. Station just above us lots of people go out on a Monday then come back on the Friday so it's quite fun they're all new to the river it's good to introduce them to boating and try and get as many people as we can using the river and how long have you been doing this for I've done this for 11 years I used to work from Teddington lock up to. And then I've been here for about 4 or 5 years and I love it it's lovely and have you seen the river change much over your time I mean it hasn't changed dramatically you know I mean it's been there for hundreds of years and it's always been the same sort of thing there are different. You know the river there are different that happen and you know it's quite a popular place but lots of changes no no it's pretty much stays as it is and your duty now we're actually just what you call it when you're moving a boat for a lot just in transit just going for a look here so we're just stood by the pedal still operating the silly skate so the water can come in once the waters in and up in can open the lock gates. And we use the locks to hold back. To feel reservoirs to make sure marinas have. Enough. Doesn't it it kind of goes down say it's like a big ladder. And how long of luck. Being used for hundreds of years. Can know the exact dates but I think the 1800s they were they started putting boards in making temporary wares and hold back. Hundreds of years if you're. Ever operated a manual look yes. Down in my old patched lot that's got a manual lock and an automatic. When you break down you have to use the manual log and they are quite hard work. Especially if you. Feel like you've got your muscles at the end yes pushing and pulling the. How they used to do in the old days you know the canals of still and if you go above. The looks at the top of got them and what you love most about the river particularly the kind of a stretch of the river in South Wales which are it's just such a pleasant place to be it's very calming and of course people most people around their holidays and that generally spend their boating so it's a nice place to work but people are nice the Environment Agency who I work for they're really good company to work for and also you get to be outside you get to see kingfishers some wildlife and you know it's just it's an interesting place to work I'm very lucky and what's your kind of time cycle of your lock up and so on because it's a new time to open the gates again yep yep so it takes maybe 3 or 4 minutes to feel the look trying to do it safely so we can make sure nobody gets any burns or anything about 3 to 4 minutes to feel grateful many. A and depending on the size of the bites this is quite small luck that we sometimes get maybe part 45 and I mean it's you say it's a small lot but it's quite a large one a surface area I mean there must be sort of whole swimming pools worth of water you're moving every time yeah yeah that's a lot of love cubic metre is that going in and now it is oh my say said well this one it's small in length and width but it's quite deep but I'm Yeah that's quite a lot of the case here every time you have a boat coming for you and obviously it's something that we supply in the summertime so try and put as many boats in this we can to conserve water and great well I think if you know it's kind of on this off with your theories and off we go that is a lot about the right time yet you're going to think it's going to shore so it's a spot a right finger on the gates. And we're going to hear all the hydraulics Yeah. And the pressure of the oil pumping free opens up the gates Yeah but there you go what have you got a few pushing them a baby. Cinnamon Yeah you know a lot easier to just push about yeah yeah absolutely and I would go. Great are you Katie don't you try. You know your trip she was a great person to me it was also. A great person Sam Smith this is that it is called How Do You Sleep b.b.c. Radio wants for the South also which a takeover. Wasn't The. B.b.c. Tomorrow morning 7. Such a funny show that will. Bring you the highlights from the Paul because this is. His current Romero. Every single week I'm exploring our part of the county the amazing talented and dedicated people who make sound. So special from asparagus to Creameries from pumpkins depositories I'm sorry because and this is my. Other And sorry. About the project it another day. Every single week. All the. People in south Wales whichever. It was a round about this time of year maybe like a month's time how to win was on and Sarah went to a. Pumpkin Valma really really interesting let's take a trip back to that I happy Halloween. Where would we be without. So. For you the tradition of. He started in Ireland hundreds of years ago where they used potatoes or turnips So it wasn't until they are immigrants landed in America where they discovered the pumpkin that the creative carving juices really started to flow it's an amazing fruit member of the Gore family which includes melons Cumbers So 90 percent of the pumpkin water very very versatile you can eat it's flowers it's see it's an overseas flesh which mass a 11 calories and fat and very high fiber so what's not to like on Sunday I headed off to stand in line farm to intern which is about 10 miles from Oxford to catch up with George Bennett who's a farmer with a passion Heigl which I've come along here to a pumpkin celebration thank you so much for spending a few minutes with me we're standing in front of an incredible array of pumpkins the comma search a graphic it's a red some orange some 3 months in there so can you tell me about your pumpkins Yeah well we've we've grown 29 different varieties you have a squash and pumpkin. One of which is the jack o'lantern which is the one that everyone cops but all of the other. Colonies caliber squashes are ones that you Cocaine makes you make soups roast them you pumpkin pies pumpkin breads all sorts of things so do you grow from your own seat. Pumpkins and squash quite difficult to save your own seed because the bees cross-pollinate all of them so that the children tend to be a big mix of all sorts so I do tend to buy proceed in every every year from from organic see patients. Say how many acres do you think potatoes I suppose cultivate for pumpkins we have about 3 acres for squashing pumpkins which equates to around about 2 and a half to $3000.00 plants money that's an awful lot somehow doesn't. Roughly can you say how many pop. It's from one plant Well some of them like these huge Boston went to squash you might get 2 per plunks some of them you might even get sort of up to 20 of out of the school or ones per plant in terms of a kilo or trying get roughly sort of a kilo there's a take us apart and when did you 1st start planting pumpkins I grew up in the states and pumpkins big things over there and I've had a yearning to have you know grow lots of pumpkins have big displays and this is kind of the culmination of that. And so when I came back to the farm with my father 7 years ago this is one of the areas that really stood was interested and started to grow I don't see over there 7 years has grown in popularity Yes And actually this year if you put aside the carving pumpkins this year I've I've sold more of the squash than ever before so I think people are really starting to see squashing pumpkins as you know as a vegetable not something that you would just cough which is fantastic because yeah I do like doing that growing the carving ones but really my interest is in the flavors and the textures of the other ones and to say because you are such fried organic and I write such rights with a source like. Say to was just touching on the weather everybody's been talking about the amazing summer we tackle see how has it affected your home. Most things it's been a real challenge because we have field scale here irrigation However for the squash and pumpkins it's been an amazing. I've never had so many. Little so the size of them it's been extraordinary and we were got some some pumpkins here that are up to 28 of us so it's me it's been extraordinary. I'm going to go and have a look because I can see you've got lots of recipes here to see wasted pumpkins What's your favorite I love Zuko Marina to kill John Italian squash is fantastic roasted bit of olive oil salt and fresh rosemary straight in the oven for. About 1015 minutes is absolutely gorgeous fantastic said as you talk to thank you George and they let you get back to your guests and the display is truly wonderful thank you amazing thank you so much to everyone. It's been an absolute dream. And exciting times to come for football that's great but been insulated and then said that Lisa Simmons is radiate from 7 till 9 at p. Am from Wednesday's have a great a Wednesday evening she is in a place. On St and on b.b.c. . Is b.b.c. Radio. B.b.c. News and 9 I'm wrong doesn't the family of an 80 year old woman have called for a change in the war after she was cleared of rain had terminally ill husband Mavis and Denis Ecclestone took an overdose of prescription medicine after making a suicide pact at their home in Staffordshire but she survived jurors rejected the prosecution's argument that Mr Ecclestone who had bowel cancer hadn't known the drugs were lethal Sarah wouldn't chief executive of the campaign group Dignity in Dying has welcomed the verdict this 80 year old woman who has been 18 months and faced the prospect of life in prison simply for acting out a fluff so I mean what didn't he dying to say is that compassion shouldn't be a crime but under our current law it is and that's got to change 3 teenagers have been charged with murdering p.c. Andrew Harper the police officer was killed as seen Vesta gated a burglary in Baghdad last month a 20 year old man had already is already awaiting trial on the same charge Jeremy Corbyn has refused to say which side he would support in another bricks at referendum after outlining his plans to hold a further public vote if they win the next general election he says a Labor government would offer people the choice between remain and what he calls a credible leave deal Labor Affairs Minister of why. Drake that says he'll campaign to stay in the e.u. Wash Labor candidates will be standing on the Welsh Labor opposition and we will be clear that here in Wales when that referendum comes we will not be neutral on the matter we will be trying to persuade people in Wales to vote to remain because from a Welsh perspective with everything we know as a government that is the right answer for Wales British Airways pilots have called off a strike planned for September the 27th members of the balcony Union say a period of reflection is needed a 48 hour walk out earlier this month that to widespread destruction and the cancellation of nearly 2000 flights the former rugby player Gareth Thomas says a tabloid newspaper contacted his parents about his h.i.v. Diagnosis before he'd had a chance to discuss it with them the former Wales and British and Irish Lions captain revealed he was living with the virus at the weekend the U.K.'s 1st successful harvest of homegrown baked beans is underway scientists at work University of spend the last 7 years developing a been tolerant to our climate The B.B.C.'s David Gregory Kumar has more baked beans may well be a firm family favorite in this country but I'll bet beans are not as British as you might think the beans themselves are actually grown in North America China and Ethiopia it's long been considered impossible to grow hurricane beings on a commercial scale in the u.k. As we lack the sunshine However a team of scientists from the University of worry could spent 7 years creating being varieties the can withstand even thrive in British weather and the weather any rain in the north should clear to leave most places dry tonight overnight lows of around 10 degrees to. The moment.