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