01/11/2016 South Today - Oxford

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Coming up: More than a millhon views online, but will it stop drhvers

using their mobile phones at the wheel?

Why police chose to upload an unedited version of a cr`sh

on the A34 in which a mother and three children were killed.

Also: The doctor on trial for sexually abusing young

After months of speculation, we discover why coachloads

of Chinese tourists keep turning up in Kidlington.

More than a million people have now watched a video of the moment

a mother and three children were killed on the A34 by a lorry

It was posted online by Thames Valley Police to warn

motorists of the dangers of using a phone at the whedl.

But, with a recent survey stggesting nearly a third of UK drivers text,

make calls and use apps while on the road, how much

It was a decision that would cost four people their lives.

Tomasz Kroker was scrolling through music on his phone.

He will now spend ten years in prison.

Thames Valley Police have ptblished the full uncensored video

in this format, but the famhlies in this format, but the famhlies

involved were adamant that they wanted something positive to come

out of their darkest days. We need to follow that up with further

education, further enforcemdnt to make sure it is known that ht is

socially unacceptable. It is as bad as drink-driving. The unedited

version of the video has bedn viewed by 1.5 million people. But what

motorists make of the footage, and do they think it will be enough to

make drivers. Reaching for the phone? I would like to see ` change,

but the difficulty is that has not changed the culture. The researchers

are saying there is the samd amount of usage and less traffic police. It

is horrendous, you don't thhnk that will happen. The College he

disappears. I was expecting it would look worse. As a warning, the

warning is there, but when xou were actually in the car itself, do you

listen to the warnings that you have seen?

A recent survey suggested that nearly a third of UK motorists text,

make calls and use apps while at the wheel.

In 2014, 21 people were killed by drivers distracted

by their phone, and 84 people were seriously injured.

So why, in the face of such statistics do motorists

The reward part of our brain which is fighting with the logical

intelligence part, we know that it is dangerous to look at a phone to

text, to make a call while we are driving, but that reward part that

wants to give you that lovely feeling is going just quickly look,

it will take three seconds. But that could be a matter of life or death.

We are programmed now to be on call all the time.

Police say they will crack down on motorists using their phone

at the wheel, in the hope of preventing another tragedy.

A former doctor has gone on trial accused of sexuallx

Michael Salmon allegedly attacked the patients,

during the 1970s and 1980s when he worked at Stoke Mandeville.

The 81-year-old denies all the charges.

Jeremy Stern was at Reading Crown Court.

Michael Salmon was a well-rdspected consultant paediatrician.

It's alleged he used this position of power to take

Complaints from 18 women and one man are being heard

It's alleged that Mr Salmon attacked a girl who would have been

He tied her down on a couch, raped her and then told her

Other girls said that they were separated from their parents.

He'd ask them to take their clothes off and then he touched

There are 25 allegations of indecent assault and one rape charge.

All of the offences allegedly happened in the 1970s and '80s,

when Mr Salmon worked at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital

The jury was told about previous court cases

In 1991, he admitted three charges of indecent assault.

11 further convictions followed last year.

The court heard that some of these girls didn't realise

They didn't know that what happened was wrong.

One parent said that back then doctors were treated like gods.

Michael Salmon denies all of the charges.

Workers at BMW's Mini plants in Oxford and Swindon

The union Unite is unhappy over plans by the car maker

to close the firm's final salary pension scheme.

Unite says BMW made ?5.7 billion in profits last year, and p`id

The firm has previously said it has "significant pension fund

shortfalls" and the schemes are "increasingly unsustain`ble

Rents are due to be waived for children's

centres which are under threat in Oxfordshire.

Funding cuts mean more than half of the centres will close,

unless they're taken over by community groups or charhties.

Building rents have been described as a "stumbling block" for those

Oxfordshire County Council has approved a motion that will see

rents waived rather than have centres close.

New figures show that more scientific studies

are being conducted in Oxford than ever before.

There are now nearly 1,800 being carried out by the NHS trust -

an increase of more than 1,000 in the last eight years.

They include work into cancdr, vaccines and Parkinson's Disease.

Welcome to the small room doing big things.

This is the home of OxQuip, a new research study hoping

to measure the different st`ges of Parkinson's disease.

Jim is one of their first volunteers.

The initial news of being dhagnosed with Parkinson's is...

And you never entirely get used to it.

Getting involved in trials gives you hope.

OxQuip is one of more than 1,700 research studies

Among the research areas ard cancer, vaccines and Parkinson's.

Some are about how we take tp proven advances more quicklx,

and that's another field of enquiry, but a lot of it is about discovery

in the laboratory which is then translated out into proving

things work in humans, first in very small numbers,

and then in much larger-scale studies.

We want to say we'll offer these possibly as a test,

so we can measure what the symptoms look like and what they mean

at the end of the day, and possibly at the end

of the horizon, what we're hoping to do is choose which patients go

into clinical trials, which at the moment

The technology coming forward in neurology

It just really gives you hope that we're going to get towards ` cure.

And I look forward to the d`y really quite optimistically that I can say

It's now been revealed why hoards of Chinese tourists have

been visiting a village on the outskirts of Oxford.

Earlier this year, coach lo`ds of visitors were seen

There had been speculation it was either a mistake in ` guide

book, or because of Oxfordshire s connection to Inspector Morse.

Now it seems they've been in search of search of authenticity,

Caught on camera - some of the photos posted on social

media in the North Oxfordshhre village of Kidlington.

But locals were baffled by the sudden influx of Chinese

tourists who wanted to be c`ptured on camera in front of houses,

Kidlington is thought to be one of England's biggest villagds,

home to Thames Valley Policd and Oxfordshire Fire

It also has its own airport, which opened in 2007.

The London Oxford Airport is described as one

of fastest-growing aviation businesses in the UK.

And Bicester Village shopping centre is only ten minutes away by car

So why has Kidlington becomd such a tourist magnet?

The answer lies in this translation sheet by a Chinese tour guide.

According to these bits of paper, Kidlingon is seen as a beautiful

English village and offers the true sense of the UK -

Good evening. Today was a contrast in terms of temperatures, and

tomorrow could be cooler. Overnight night we could have a frost.

Initially there will be somd cloud, which will disappear through the

early hours of the morning, and temperatures will drop to three or

four Celsius with light northerly winds, but possibly down to two or

three Celsius in the countrxside, bringing the risk of a frost fair.

Tomorrow morning will see a chilly start, but there will be lots of

sunshine, barely a cloud in the sky. High cloud into the afternoon, but

temperatures will only reach nine or 10 Celsius. Today we had a high of

12 Celsius, so tomorrow will be a degree or so cooler. A frost is also

possible through Thursday morning. High pressure starts to pull away,

low pressure takes charge over Scotland, and with it we will see

whether France moving in from the Atlantic. This cold front is

expected to arrive later on Thursday and overnight into Friday morning.

Thursday starts on a fresh note We will see cold temperatures first

thing and a widespread frost in places, particularly in the

countryside. Wright expelled through the morning, but clouding over

courtesy of this weather front into the evening. That cold front may

produce one or two spots of rain here and there. A lovely, stnny day

tomorrow, but more cloud on Thursday.

before turning unsettled. Good You know what, in

evening. the last few days, much more following the calendar. A warm

end to October, 1st November, abrupt change to the weather. In fact over

the next few days, we will be getting colder air all the way from