:00:00. > :00:08.The plans that could save ?100 million, but see 400 jobs go.
:00:09. > :00:10.Claims that abolishing all six councils in Oxfordshire -
:00:11. > :00:13.and replacing them with just one - will improve public services.
:00:14. > :00:15.The boss trying to help homeless people after finding one
:00:16. > :00:19.of his employees sleeping in a wartime bunker.
:00:20. > :00:35.The campaign to put a fossil of this dinosaur on display in Oxford.
:00:36. > :00:41.It would be the biggest political shake-up of how council services
:00:42. > :00:44.Plans have been unveiled to abolish all six and replace them
:00:45. > :00:46.with a nitary authority, responsible for all services.
:00:47. > :00:49.Supporters claim millions of pounds would be saved every year,
:00:50. > :00:54.Our political editor Peter Henley reports.
:00:55. > :00:58.Coming soon to a letterbox near you - One Oxfordshire...
:00:59. > :01:01.A plan to abolish six councils and replace them with one.
:01:02. > :01:05.At the launch, councillors from three political parties called
:01:06. > :01:09.themselves the turkeys voting for Christmas, but they said
:01:10. > :01:12.they could save ?20 million a year to provide better services
:01:13. > :01:17.The savings come because we are joining services together,
:01:18. > :01:19.so Planning would join with Highways.
:01:20. > :01:22.It would be more integrated and we would make sure
:01:23. > :01:24.the back-office costs like HR, Finance, Collection Services,
:01:25. > :01:31.Customer Services - all under one roof.
:01:32. > :01:34.Labour county councillors back the plan because they say
:01:35. > :01:39.There is a blame culture - "That is not our problem,
:01:40. > :01:43.Or, "That's not our problem, that's the city's."
:01:44. > :01:46.It is difficult for someone vulnerable who is looking for help.
:01:47. > :01:51.They are offering all sorts of guarantees, particularly
:01:52. > :01:54.to Labour-run Oxford City Council, that they won't be taken over
:01:55. > :01:58.But there is a rival plan from the districts,
:01:59. > :02:01.which involves a combined authority with an elected mayor,
:02:02. > :02:04.something the government is looking for to devolve powers
:02:05. > :02:10.The other five councils say they are more in touch
:02:11. > :02:15.Talking to local people and businesses, they all say we need
:02:16. > :02:21.And if we are able to get a devolution deal, we will be able
:02:22. > :02:25.to get money out of government to put towards infrastructure
:02:26. > :02:28.improvements, such as improving roads and rail and other services
:02:29. > :02:35.Both plans are just draft ideas at the moment.
:02:36. > :02:37.The government will hope agreement can be reached between them
:02:38. > :02:44.Peter Henley, BBC South Today, Oxford.
:02:45. > :02:46.Extra police patrols are being carried out in Caversham
:02:47. > :02:49.after reports that two men may have tried to abduct an 11-year-old girl.
:02:50. > :02:52.She was approached by two men near Caversham Primary School
:02:53. > :02:59.A company boss who discovered one of his employees was sleeping rough
:03:00. > :03:02.is encouraging firms to do more to help homeless people.
:03:03. > :03:04.Adrian Smith runs a logistics firm in Newbury.
:03:05. > :03:07.He's meeting his local MP to try to get support for a scheme
:03:08. > :03:09.where companies take on homeless workers and offer guarantees
:03:10. > :03:20.For Joe, this is a trip back to what for three
:03:21. > :03:31.I was just having a wander one day, as you do, and I found this place.
:03:32. > :03:38.It was empty, just a few bricks and that.
:03:39. > :03:40.I think someone lived in here before.
:03:41. > :03:42.They obviously got found out and they tried to bury it.
:03:43. > :03:47.You do what you have to to survive, I suppose.
:03:48. > :03:53.What makes this home of last resort all the more shocking is that
:03:54. > :03:56.for much of the time that Joe was here, he was holding down a job.
:03:57. > :04:00.It certainly came as a shock to his boss, but it was also
:04:01. > :04:02.a discovery that the man who runs this multi-million pound business
:04:03. > :04:07.He would turn up for work on time, I always thought he was a little bit
:04:08. > :04:09.scruffy, but nothing, you know, he was working
:04:10. > :04:18.And then upset, really, I guess was the underlying emotion.
:04:19. > :04:26.Joe's tent is still pitched inside the bunker but he is now
:04:27. > :04:29.in a hotel paid for by his boss, while he sorts out the deposit
:04:30. > :04:35.He jokes that the pillbox here is just a short distance
:04:36. > :04:41."I've never liked a long commute," he says, but make no mistake,
:04:42. > :04:43.that gallows humour was putting the bravest of faces
:04:44. > :04:47.on what undoubtedly was a squalid existence.
:04:48. > :04:50.Many of the 30 or so people getting breakfast from this
:04:51. > :04:53.charity in the town could tell similar stories.
:04:54. > :04:57.The man who helped Joe out says nobody should think themselves
:04:58. > :05:00.immune and he is urging other bosses to do their part.
:05:01. > :05:02.My stomach isn't strong enough to step over these
:05:03. > :05:06.I am no Boy Scout, but in my early years, when I was 16, 17,
:05:07. > :05:14.I spent a good few months sleeping on people's floors and sofas
:05:15. > :05:17.because I fell out with my parents because I knew everything
:05:18. > :05:26.He is neither a pariah nor someone to be pitied.
:05:27. > :05:29.His boss would say he's just a person making
:05:30. > :05:34.Joe Campbell, BBC South East Today, Newbury.
:05:35. > :05:36.Scientists in Oxfordshire hope a new ?50 million
:05:37. > :05:38.project will change the way energy is produced.
:05:39. > :05:41.The team, based at Culham Science Centre, are putting the final
:05:42. > :05:46.When finished, it will explore ways in which we can make
:05:47. > :05:55.Whether you are sending an e-mail, charging your phone or just watching
:05:56. > :06:00.the news, electricity powers almost every aspect of our lives.
:06:01. > :06:05.Depleting levels of coal, oil and gas mean we need to find
:06:06. > :06:09.And the answer to this global problem is being addressed right
:06:10. > :06:15.We all know about climate change, about the need to find ways
:06:16. > :06:19.of powering our world which do not produce CO2, carbon.
:06:20. > :06:21.Fusion offers the potential to be that perfect,
:06:22. > :06:28.It is low land use, has effectively limitless resources and is very
:06:29. > :06:36.When you fuse hydrogen atoms together, they give out heat.
:06:37. > :06:39.This heat is then used to turn water to steam,
:06:40. > :06:46.It is a topic that has been researched here for decades.
:06:47. > :06:51.Inside this complex machinery, scientists are trying to make energy
:06:52. > :06:58.They now hope their latest project can help give an answer
:06:59. > :07:06.Regular viewers of BBC South Today may remember in 2013
:07:07. > :07:13.when our reporter went round the fusion experiment.
:07:14. > :07:15.Well, fast forward four years and I am here on top
:07:16. > :07:27.It is a third of the size, and more importantly, it is cheaper,
:07:28. > :07:30.It is hoped this experiment might make fusion technology more
:07:31. > :07:43.As we saw with the recent Hinkley Point fission power station,
:07:44. > :07:46.at ?20 billion, that takes a lot to get off the ground.
:07:47. > :07:48.If we can reduce the cost of fusion power plants,
:07:49. > :07:51.it gives more chance to get these up and running and sited in cities
:07:52. > :07:56.Testing will begin in autumn, when the inside of this machine
:07:57. > :07:58.will become hotter than the sun, and the team hope the findings
:07:59. > :08:01.will help to shine new light on their search for
:08:02. > :08:07.A museum in Oxford's secured ?90,000 to help display the fossil
:08:08. > :08:10.The long-necked plesiosaur roamed the oceans 165 million years ago.
:08:11. > :08:13.The Museum of Natural History still needs another ?20,000 before
:08:14. > :08:15.visitors will have a chance to see it.
:08:16. > :08:22.This monster of the deep could soon be on show in Oxford.
:08:23. > :08:27.They belong to a group called plesiosaurs...
:08:28. > :08:32.Seen here in this reconstruction, it weighed more than 600lbs and fed
:08:33. > :08:41.on marine animals such as fish and shellfish.
:08:42. > :08:43.Behind closed doors, Juliet has the painstaking task
:08:44. > :08:45.of scraping away clay, millimetre by millimetre, in order
:08:46. > :08:49.For me, to just scrape off that clay matrix and reveal the bones
:08:50. > :08:51.after 165 million years is quite extraordinary, like opening
:08:52. > :08:54.Christmas presents, revealing a little bit more and a bit more.
:08:55. > :09:02.Archaeologists discovered the 165 million-year-old
:09:03. > :09:06.reptile bones at a quarry in Cambridgeshire in 2014.
:09:07. > :09:10.Now, museum bosses want to display the bones next to another plesiosaur
:09:11. > :09:20.It was a really unusual-looking animal.
:09:21. > :09:23.It had a neck of 2.5 metres long and a body of five metres long,
:09:24. > :09:25.with four large wing-shaped flippers and a short, stubby tail.
:09:26. > :09:30.We don't have anything like that today.
:09:31. > :09:33.For now, this Jurassic giant lies in waiting before the time
:09:34. > :09:44.Alexis is coming up with the weather forecast for tonight
:09:45. > :09:49.Very like last night we will have a widespread frost.
:09:50. > :09:52.It will be very chilly overnight tonight with the chance also of some
:09:53. > :09:54.freezing fog patches, and the fog will develop
:09:55. > :09:57.during the early hours of the morning and may linger
:09:58. > :10:00.Temperatures will fall away to around minus two Celsius
:10:01. > :10:03.in our towns and cities but perhaps minus four Celsius or minus five
:10:04. > :10:07.A lot of sunshine to start the day tomorrow, a little more cloud
:10:08. > :10:09.will arrive from Northern areas in the afternoon.
:10:10. > :10:11.Otherwise, another glorious day, a lot more sunshine than originally
:10:12. > :10:13.thought, with temperatures tomorrow reaching a high of
:10:14. > :10:16.It will feel cold despite the sunny spells.
:10:17. > :10:19.Through the course of tomorrow night we will have another widespread
:10:20. > :10:21.frost, slightly more cloud expected on Saturday, particularly
:10:22. > :10:23.for Western parts of the region, but a weather front moving
:10:24. > :10:27.in from the West and we may have the odd spot of rain
:10:28. > :10:29.by the evening but most places will stay dry.
:10:30. > :10:32.Saturday is a frosty and cold start, a cold feeling day with sunny
:10:33. > :10:36.As we look ahead to the rest of the weekend, Sunday will have
:10:37. > :10:39.very similar conditions to Saturday, although there will be slightly more
:10:40. > :10:41.cloud about and temperatures will really struggle with a high
:10:42. > :11:03.looks as though we can, a bit more cloud on Sunday. Now the national
:11:04. > :11:13.picture. Good evening, it will gradually get
:11:14. > :11:16.colder in the UK in the next few days, something we don't have to
:11:17. > :11:19.worry about in Australia at this time of year. Of course it's the
:11:20. > :11:22.Australian tennis open at the moment and there's a big storm moving
:11:23. > :11:28.through Melbourne at the moment. Hopefully it will have cleared
:11:29. > :11:33.through by the time of Andy Murray's match. We have high withers and
:11:34. > :11:36.light winds and some interesting contrasts despite things being very
:11:37. > :11:39.slow moving, with the sunshine to the south of the weather zone but
:11:40. > :11:43.stuck underneath the weather zone, it's been another miserably grey
:11:44. > :11:47.day. No doubt quite dreary with some patches of drizzle. This is how it
:11:48. > :11:51.looked in Staffordshire, under the weather front. In the sunshine,
:11:52. > :11:55.despite the Frosty start, a sparkling day and a fantastic sunset
:11:56. > :11:59.here in the Isle of Wight. Some areas, in parts of Northern Ireland
:12:00. > :12:00.that haven't seen much sunshine