:00:00. > :00:00.Welcome to South Today. news where you are.
:00:00. > :00:00.Coming up: More than a millhon views online, but will it stop drhvers
:00:07. > :00:08.using their mobile phones at the wheel?
:00:09. > :00:11.Why police chose to upload an unedited version of a cr`sh
:00:12. > :00:16.on the A34 in which a mother and three children were killed.
:00:17. > :00:18.Also: The doctor on trial for sexually abusing young
:00:19. > :00:27.After months of speculation, we discover why coachloads
:00:28. > :00:36.of Chinese tourists keep turning up in Kidlington.
:00:37. > :00:42.More than a million people have now watched a video of the moment
:00:43. > :00:45.a mother and three children were killed on the A34 by a lorry
:00:46. > :00:49.It was posted online by Thames Valley Police to warn
:00:50. > :00:52.motorists of the dangers of using a phone at the whedl.
:00:53. > :00:55.But, with a recent survey stggesting nearly a third of UK drivers text,
:00:56. > :01:00.make calls and use apps while on the road, how much
:01:01. > :01:08.It was a decision that would cost four people their lives.
:01:09. > :01:11.Tomasz Kroker was scrolling through music on his phone.
:01:12. > :01:16.He will now spend ten years in prison.
:01:17. > :01:19.Thames Valley Police have ptblished the full uncensored video
:01:20. > :01:31.in this format, but the famhlies in this format, but the famhlies
:01:32. > :01:34.involved were adamant that they wanted something positive to come
:01:35. > :01:37.out of their darkest days. We need to follow that up with further
:01:38. > :01:42.education, further enforcemdnt to make sure it is known that ht is
:01:43. > :01:46.socially unacceptable. It is as bad as drink-driving. The unedited
:01:47. > :01:51.version of the video has bedn viewed by 1.5 million people. But what
:01:52. > :01:54.motorists make of the footage, and do they think it will be enough to
:01:55. > :01:59.make drivers. Reaching for the phone? I would like to see ` change,
:02:00. > :02:03.but the difficulty is that has not changed the culture. The researchers
:02:04. > :02:07.are saying there is the samd amount of usage and less traffic police. It
:02:08. > :02:14.is horrendous, you don't thhnk that will happen. The College he
:02:15. > :02:19.disappears. I was expecting it would look worse. As a warning, the
:02:20. > :02:22.warning is there, but when xou were actually in the car itself, do you
:02:23. > :02:23.listen to the warnings that you have seen?
:02:24. > :02:26.A recent survey suggested that nearly a third of UK motorists text,
:02:27. > :02:29.make calls and use apps while at the wheel.
:02:30. > :02:32.In 2014, 21 people were killed by drivers distracted
:02:33. > :02:36.by their phone, and 84 people were seriously injured.
:02:37. > :02:39.So why, in the face of such statistics do motorists
:02:40. > :02:53.The reward part of our brain which is fighting with the logical
:02:54. > :02:58.intelligence part, we know that it is dangerous to look at a phone to
:02:59. > :03:01.text, to make a call while we are driving, but that reward part that
:03:02. > :03:06.wants to give you that lovely feeling is going just quickly look,
:03:07. > :03:11.it will take three seconds. But that could be a matter of life or death.
:03:12. > :03:14.We are programmed now to be on call all the time.
:03:15. > :03:17.Police say they will crack down on motorists using their phone
:03:18. > :03:23.at the wheel, in the hope of preventing another tragedy.
:03:24. > :03:25.A former doctor has gone on trial accused of sexuallx
:03:26. > :03:30.Michael Salmon allegedly attacked the patients,
:03:31. > :03:33.during the 1970s and 1980s when he worked at Stoke Mandeville.
:03:34. > :03:35.The 81-year-old denies all the charges.
:03:36. > :03:38.Jeremy Stern was at Reading Crown Court.
:03:39. > :03:41.Michael Salmon was a well-rdspected consultant paediatrician.
:03:42. > :03:44.It's alleged he used this position of power to take
:03:45. > :03:54.Complaints from 18 women and one man are being heard
:03:55. > :04:00.It's alleged that Mr Salmon attacked a girl who would have been
:04:01. > :04:06.He tied her down on a couch, raped her and then told her
:04:07. > :04:12.Other girls said that they were separated from their parents.
:04:13. > :04:15.He'd ask them to take their clothes off and then he touched
:04:16. > :04:22.There are 25 allegations of indecent assault and one rape charge.
:04:23. > :04:25.All of the offences allegedly happened in the 1970s and '80s,
:04:26. > :04:29.when Mr Salmon worked at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital
:04:30. > :04:36.The jury was told about previous court cases
:04:37. > :04:42.In 1991, he admitted three charges of indecent assault.
:04:43. > :04:46.11 further convictions followed last year.
:04:47. > :04:48.The court heard that some of these girls didn't realise
:04:49. > :04:53.They didn't know that what happened was wrong.
:04:54. > :04:56.One parent said that back then doctors were treated like gods.
:04:57. > :05:05.Michael Salmon denies all of the charges.
:05:06. > :05:07.Workers at BMW's Mini plants in Oxford and Swindon
:05:08. > :05:12.The union Unite is unhappy over plans by the car maker
:05:13. > :05:15.to close the firm's final salary pension scheme.
:05:16. > :05:18.Unite says BMW made ?5.7 billion in profits last year, and p`id
:05:19. > :05:24.The firm has previously said it has "significant pension fund
:05:25. > :05:27.shortfalls" and the schemes are "increasingly unsustain`ble
:05:28. > :05:35.Rents are due to be waived for children's
:05:36. > :05:37.centres which are under threat in Oxfordshire.
:05:38. > :05:40.Funding cuts mean more than half of the centres will close,
:05:41. > :05:44.unless they're taken over by community groups or charhties.
:05:45. > :05:47.Building rents have been described as a "stumbling block" for those
:05:48. > :05:52.Oxfordshire County Council has approved a motion that will see
:05:53. > :05:56.rents waived rather than have centres close.
:05:57. > :05:58.New figures show that more scientific studies
:05:59. > :06:02.are being conducted in Oxford than ever before.
:06:03. > :06:04.There are now nearly 1,800 being carried out by the NHS trust -
:06:05. > :06:08.an increase of more than 1,000 in the last eight years.
:06:09. > :06:12.They include work into cancdr, vaccines and Parkinson's Disease.
:06:13. > :06:22.Welcome to the small room doing big things.
:06:23. > :06:25.This is the home of OxQuip, a new research study hoping
:06:26. > :06:27.to measure the different st`ges of Parkinson's disease.
:06:28. > :06:33.Jim is one of their first volunteers.
:06:34. > :06:35.The initial news of being dhagnosed with Parkinson's is...
:06:36. > :06:42.And you never entirely get used to it.
:06:43. > :06:46.Getting involved in trials gives you hope.
:06:47. > :06:49.OxQuip is one of more than 1,700 research studies
:06:50. > :07:01.Among the research areas ard cancer, vaccines and Parkinson's.
:07:02. > :07:06.Some are about how we take tp proven advances more quicklx,
:07:07. > :07:10.and that's another field of enquiry, but a lot of it is about discovery
:07:11. > :07:12.in the laboratory which is then translated out into proving
:07:13. > :07:15.things work in humans, first in very small numbers,
:07:16. > :07:18.and then in much larger-scale studies.
:07:19. > :07:24.We want to say we'll offer these possibly as a test,
:07:25. > :07:28.so we can measure what the symptoms look like and what they mean
:07:29. > :07:31.at the end of the day, and possibly at the end
:07:32. > :07:34.of the horizon, what we're hoping to do is choose which patients go
:07:35. > :07:36.into clinical trials, which at the moment
:07:37. > :07:39.The technology coming forward in neurology
:07:40. > :07:46.It just really gives you hope that we're going to get towards ` cure.
:07:47. > :07:49.And I look forward to the d`y really quite optimistically that I can say
:07:50. > :08:04.It's now been revealed why hoards of Chinese tourists have
:08:05. > :08:06.been visiting a village on the outskirts of Oxford.
:08:07. > :08:08.Earlier this year, coach lo`ds of visitors were seen
:08:09. > :08:12.There had been speculation it was either a mistake in ` guide
:08:13. > :08:15.book, or because of Oxfordshire s connection to Inspector Morse.
:08:16. > :08:17.Now it seems they've been in search of search of authenticity,
:08:18. > :08:24.Caught on camera - some of the photos posted on social
:08:25. > :08:28.media in the North Oxfordshhre village of Kidlington.
:08:29. > :08:30.But locals were baffled by the sudden influx of Chinese
:08:31. > :08:33.tourists who wanted to be c`ptured on camera in front of houses,
:08:34. > :08:41.Kidlington is thought to be one of England's biggest villagds,
:08:42. > :08:44.home to Thames Valley Policd and Oxfordshire Fire
:08:45. > :08:53.It also has its own airport, which opened in 2007.
:08:54. > :08:55.The London Oxford Airport is described as one
:08:56. > :08:57.of fastest-growing aviation businesses in the UK.
:08:58. > :09:03.And Bicester Village shopping centre is only ten minutes away by car
:09:04. > :09:05.So why has Kidlington becomd such a tourist magnet?
:09:06. > :09:08.The answer lies in this translation sheet by a Chinese tour guide.
:09:09. > :09:12.According to these bits of paper, Kidlingon is seen as a beautiful
:09:13. > :09:16.English village and offers the true sense of the UK -
:09:17. > :09:43.Good evening. Today was a contrast in terms of temperatures, and
:09:44. > :09:47.tomorrow could be cooler. Overnight night we could have a frost.
:09:48. > :09:50.Initially there will be somd cloud, which will disappear through the
:09:51. > :09:54.early hours of the morning, and temperatures will drop to three or
:09:55. > :09:58.four Celsius with light northerly winds, but possibly down to two or
:09:59. > :10:03.three Celsius in the countrxside, bringing the risk of a frost fair.
:10:04. > :10:07.Tomorrow morning will see a chilly start, but there will be lots of
:10:08. > :10:12.sunshine, barely a cloud in the sky. High cloud into the afternoon, but
:10:13. > :10:17.temperatures will only reach nine or 10 Celsius. Today we had a high of
:10:18. > :10:23.12 Celsius, so tomorrow will be a degree or so cooler. A frost is also
:10:24. > :10:27.possible through Thursday morning. High pressure starts to pull away,
:10:28. > :10:30.low pressure takes charge over Scotland, and with it we will see
:10:31. > :10:35.whether France moving in from the Atlantic. This cold front is
:10:36. > :10:41.expected to arrive later on Thursday and overnight into Friday morning.
:10:42. > :10:44.Thursday starts on a fresh note We will see cold temperatures first
:10:45. > :10:48.thing and a widespread frost in places, particularly in the
:10:49. > :10:51.countryside. Wright expelled through the morning, but clouding over
:10:52. > :10:57.courtesy of this weather front into the evening. That cold front may
:10:58. > :11:01.produce one or two spots of rain here and there. A lovely, stnny day
:11:02. > :11:11.tomorrow, but more cloud on Thursday.
:11:12. > :11:13.before turning unsettled. Good You know what, in
:11:14. > :11:19.evening. the last few days, much more following the calendar. A warm
:11:20. > :11:23.end to October, 1st November, abrupt change to the weather. In fact over
:11:24. > :11:26.the next few days, we will be getting colder air all the way from