:00:00. > :00:07.Coming up: The cuts it's claimed will lead to more people
:00:08. > :00:09.with dementia being put into full time care.
:00:10. > :00:11.There could be less funding for services
:00:12. > :00:12.like day centres - meaning increased
:00:13. > :00:29.I would have gone under by now and my mother wouldn't have been able to
:00:30. > :00:31.live with us. Also: the crime described
:00:32. > :00:33.as stealing from your friends, family and the community -
:00:34. > :00:36.why a council is determined to catch Tomorrow, we will have some snow may
:00:37. > :00:47.be. Details later. A charity working with people
:00:48. > :00:48.with dementia says proposed funding cuts to day services in Oxfordshire
:00:49. > :00:51.would result in more people being admitted into full-time
:00:52. > :00:53.care or into hospital. Around 10,000 people
:00:54. > :00:58.in Oxfordshire have the condition. The council says most charities that
:00:59. > :01:01.support people in the community manage to operate with no
:01:02. > :01:04.funding at all. 82-year-old Jenny has been
:01:05. > :01:10.using Daybreak Oxford's dementia services twice a week
:01:11. > :01:13.for the past nine months. But a possible cut in funding
:01:14. > :01:21.from the County Council I know that if it wasn't
:01:22. > :01:25.for places like this, There was no way I could still
:01:26. > :01:30.have my mother living with us. It takes too much out of you,
:01:31. > :01:33.it puts too much of a strain on your marriage, too much
:01:34. > :01:36.of a strain on the whole family. I find on the days when she comes
:01:37. > :01:39.here, it's a different story. Oxfordshire County Council currently
:01:40. > :01:41.funds 46 services like this, catering for people with a range
:01:42. > :01:44.of needs at a cost Under new proposals,
:01:45. > :01:47.all charities would have to bid Daybreak Oxford says its services
:01:48. > :01:56.save the NHS and local authorities money by keeping people like Jenny
:01:57. > :02:11.out of care homes and hospitals. People with dementia should have the
:02:12. > :02:13.opportunity to have a good quality of life and have a club where they
:02:14. > :02:16.can enjoy themselves. In terms of mental health beds,
:02:17. > :02:19.since 2002 I think we've lost six out of the eight wards that used
:02:20. > :02:22.to exist in Oxfordshire, there used to be seven day hospitals
:02:23. > :02:25.in Oxfordshire in 2002, there are now none and it doesn't
:02:26. > :02:35.seem as though there are any People with dementia should
:02:36. > :02:43.have the opportunity to have a good quality of life and have a club
:02:44. > :02:46.that they can go to where they can The county council says it proposes
:02:47. > :03:05.to carry on funding its own dementia services which are run
:03:06. > :03:08.by the voluntary sector The Cabinet will decide later this
:03:09. > :03:12.month on the future of daytime The council says there is scope
:03:13. > :03:16.for a change following this Police are investigating a rape
:03:17. > :03:22.in Oxford last night. A woman was threatened at knifepoint
:03:23. > :03:26.on Harcourt Hill and then raped Police are looking for information
:03:27. > :03:31.about a man seen running They're also linking it to a car
:03:32. > :03:36.accident involving a Black VW Golf A 38-year-old man from
:03:37. > :03:42.Oxford has been arrested. Next: The extraordinary decision
:03:43. > :03:44.by a motorist to move an ambulance out of a parking space
:03:45. > :03:47.so he could put his car there. Staff were in the back
:03:48. > :03:49.treating a patient. It's thought the man
:03:50. > :03:52.released the ambulance's handbrake to move it
:03:53. > :03:57.and then drove his car It happened on Pelican Lane
:03:58. > :04:03.in Newbury two weeks ago. Police want to question the man
:04:04. > :04:06.who's described as white, in his 50s, and driving
:04:07. > :04:08.a red Mini Cooper. It was a very reckless
:04:09. > :04:10.act to undertake. Obviously the ambulance
:04:11. > :04:12.could have moved forward, the individual would have had no
:04:13. > :04:15.proper control of that vehicle at the time and anything
:04:16. > :04:17.could have happened. It could have hit a pedestrian,
:04:18. > :04:19.could have hit another vehicle and it could have put
:04:20. > :04:22.the lives of the patient and the crew in the rear
:04:23. > :04:26.of the ambulance at danger. Councils are turning
:04:27. > :04:28.to Investigation Units to tackle West Oxfordshire district council
:04:29. > :04:33.is the latest to give its backing to a team dedicated to curbing abuse
:04:34. > :04:36.of the system - and just around Fraud is estimated to cost
:04:37. > :04:41.the authority more than Last year, by tackling fraud
:04:42. > :04:45.in Oxford, the city council Investigation units like the one
:04:46. > :04:53.in Oxford cover many areas including tenancy fraud,
:04:54. > :04:56.council tax, business rates and the abuse of social housing
:04:57. > :05:00.and the Right To Buy scheme whereby someone buys a council house
:05:01. > :05:05.when not entitled to. With such high demand for affordable
:05:06. > :05:08.housing in the city, In the last financial year,
:05:09. > :05:15.they recovered nearly ?4 million. 21 social housing properties
:05:16. > :05:18.were recovered and 33 Right To Buy On top of that, last year
:05:19. > :05:24.the council secured 15 prosecutions, the most serious offenders can face
:05:25. > :05:27.ten years in prison A couple of years ago,
:05:28. > :05:36.they were investigating Many councils disbanded the fraud
:05:37. > :05:42.investigation services. In Oxford we retained ours
:05:43. > :05:45.and the fact that we are likely to recover ?4 million suggests
:05:46. > :05:50.it was the right decision. It is important that fraud
:05:51. > :05:52.is tackled and people Local authorities are working harder
:05:53. > :06:02.than ever to make sure every pound West Oxfordshire and Cotswold
:06:03. > :06:05.district councils are following in Oxford's footsteps by backing plans
:06:06. > :06:07.for their own investigation unit. The more fraud that is identified,
:06:08. > :06:12.that is money that isn't being taken out of the system,
:06:13. > :06:22.as it were. It will help protect front
:06:23. > :06:25.line services and reduce It is estimated by 2020,
:06:26. > :06:32.councils will not receive Experts say a failure to detect
:06:33. > :06:37.fraud will result in the loss A new centre using state simulators
:06:38. > :06:44.to train nurses and midwives The NHS is struggling to recruit
:06:45. > :06:48.enough staff to care Part of the problem is finding
:06:49. > :06:53.enough hospital placements for trainees, so could technology be
:06:54. > :07:10.part of the answer? I will have a quick feel of your
:07:11. > :07:13.tummy. The bump may feel real enough, the patient is most
:07:14. > :07:20.definitely isn't that this is no dummy. She gives birth just like a
:07:21. > :07:25.real mum, so realistic it is not tea-time viewing. Vital for the
:07:26. > :07:34.students who are training. We are able to come in and practice for our
:07:35. > :07:38.exams are a couple of months ago. It has been valuable to have this for
:07:39. > :07:45.us and the rest of the students within the University. My name is
:07:46. > :07:51.Claire and I am one of the nurses here. They come in all shapes and
:07:52. > :07:56.sizes and just like a flight similar -- simulator, forced trainees to
:07:57. > :08:00.make life and dentists decisions. Students can rehearse their skills,
:08:01. > :08:05.learning a safe environment and it is safe but equally Bury safer
:08:06. > :08:11.patients. Midwife numbers here average than 10% but live births are
:08:12. > :08:21.our path as much again. The biggest problem is finding hospitals with
:08:22. > :08:26.the budget to write clinical areas for the trainees. We can do a lot of
:08:27. > :08:35.our training in a simulation area and relieved that pressure on the
:08:36. > :08:37.practice. Practising on real-life patience isn't going away any time
:08:38. > :08:40.soon. Two poems written by an 11-year-old
:08:41. > :08:43.George Michael have been unearthed by an old school friend in West
:08:44. > :08:45.Oxfordshire. Penny Ling, who now
:08:46. > :08:47.lives in Longcot, discovered them in her old primary
:08:48. > :08:49.school year book. They were written by the singer
:08:50. > :08:52.and songwriter when he attended Roe Green Junior School in North
:08:53. > :08:53.London. As well as writing poems, George
:08:54. > :08:57.was just one of the friendship We all would sing pop
:08:58. > :09:03.songs and we were both He didn't stand out,
:09:04. > :09:13.if he wasn't a show off. Alexis has the forecast -
:09:14. > :09:36.and the likelihood of snow. Good evening. It would be a cold
:09:37. > :09:39.night to come because of the strong north-westerly wind which will take
:09:40. > :09:47.the edge off temperatures. In sheltered spots, it may be a frost
:09:48. > :09:52.tomorrow morning. These are temperatures in towns and cities but
:09:53. > :09:57.feeling colder in the countryside. A dry and bright start tomorrow. The
:09:58. > :10:05.Met office have issued a snow warning. Stay tuned for the latest
:10:06. > :10:08.on the situation. Temperatures will rise slightly during the morning
:10:09. > :10:13.with the milder air but then the cold air will set in from the north
:10:14. > :10:17.turning the rain to snow in some places. A little uncertainty of
:10:18. > :10:25.whether rain will fall. Temperatures will struggle to rise to above four
:10:26. > :10:31.Celsius. We could have three centimetres of snow in some places.
:10:32. > :10:37.That yellow snow warning stays in force through the day tomorrow and
:10:38. > :10:40.evening. The snow clears away and we could have some snow showers. The
:10:41. > :10:46.main feature is the key northerly wind. The risk of ice on Friday
:10:47. > :10:51.morning which could cause tricky driving conditions. The risk of
:10:52. > :10:57.snowfall tomorrow. Temperatures will struggle to rise. We could have a
:10:58. > :11:02.dusting and places. potentially leading us into a chilly
:11:03. > :11:03.start to the weekend. Time for the national weather prospects if you
:11:04. > :11:12.are on the move. Good evening, a lot going on with
:11:13. > :11:15.the weather in the next few days, numerous weather warnings in for so
:11:16. > :11:19.buried in mind if you have travel plans. Lots of isobars on the chart
:11:20. > :11:22.overnight which means it will be windy for all. The strongest winds
:11:23. > :11:25.in Scotland, lots of wintry showers with snow getting down to
:11:26. > :11:29.increasingly low levels and some wintry showers in Northern Ireland
:11:30. > :11:32.and northern England. A cold night for Northern England, particularly
:11:33. > :11:37.in more rural spots, frosty and I see for some and some of the snow
:11:38. > :11:40.really blowing around over higher ground in Scotland. Strong wind and
:11:41. > :11:43.further snow to take us into tomorrow. It may well make for some
:11:44. > :11:48.tricky travelling conditions. The forecast for tomorrow in the
:11:49. > :11:49.southern half of the UK's quite tricky. We have got mild air