:00:00. > :00:07.Designed to stop suspects spitting at police
:00:08. > :00:20.Now Thames Valley Police has issued them to all its front line officers.
:00:21. > :00:22.Also, investigating the death of a motorist on a rail crossing.
:00:23. > :00:24.The has been closed for more than 24 hours.
:00:25. > :00:41.And later on - one man and his shed, but its more than just
:00:42. > :00:44.Critics have described them as cruel and degrading,
:00:45. > :00:47.but now so called spit hoods are being handed out to every
:00:48. > :00:48.Thames Valley Police front-line police officer.
:00:49. > :00:50.The device can placed on offenders to prevent
:00:51. > :00:53.them spitting at police and the public or biting them.
:00:54. > :00:54.They've been rejected by some other forces,
:00:55. > :01:07.Here's our home affairs correspondent, Emma Vardy.
:01:08. > :01:10.A third of police forces across the UK have used spit guards.
:01:11. > :01:12.Now for the first time, officers from
:01:13. > :01:14.Hampshire and Thames Valley will all carry them on duty.
:01:15. > :01:16.We've seen instances where officers have had
:01:17. > :01:19.This creates, not only is it a disgusting and vile
:01:20. > :01:21.thing to do, but actually a risk of infection.
:01:22. > :01:24.So, we have looked at the evidence that is available, we had
:01:25. > :01:27.national advice that says that we should look to issue a spit
:01:28. > :01:30.Over the past ten months, officers from the two forces
:01:31. > :01:33.have reported being spat at more than 400 times.
:01:34. > :01:35.Is there a danger putting a hood over someone's head will
:01:36. > :01:39.What we have seen is that officers will understand the situation, will
:01:40. > :01:42.closely monitor the situation, and at the point in which they stop
:01:43. > :01:44.spitting, the spit guard will be removed.
:01:45. > :01:48.I often speak to officers who have had to go through
:01:49. > :01:49.medical processes to make sure that they don't
:01:50. > :02:01.There is disagreement over whether they should be allowed.
:02:02. > :02:02.The Met police had been consulting on
:02:03. > :02:05.whether to introduce spit guards, but a pilot last year was cancelled
:02:06. > :02:08.after London Mayor Sadiq Khan voiced concerns and Kent Police
:02:09. > :02:10.decided against the use after considering the impact on a person
:02:11. > :02:24.Health don't use spit guards, prison service don't use spit guards.
:02:25. > :02:26.Europe and Northern Ireland don't use spit guards.
:02:27. > :02:28.As soon as you start restraining people around the
:02:29. > :02:30.head, accidents happen and people could get seriously injured and
:02:31. > :02:34.Police says suspects will be told why a spit
:02:35. > :02:36.guard is being used and there when their behaviour changes,
:02:37. > :02:45.The railway line where a motorist was killed on a level crossing
:02:46. > :02:46.yesterday is still being examined by investigators.
:02:47. > :02:49.His An intercity train hit a Land Rover near
:02:50. > :02:52.The line between Swindon and Gloucester has been closed
:02:53. > :03:03.With the train and remains of the Land Rover moved away, the
:03:04. > :03:04.meticuluos search for evidence began.
:03:05. > :03:06.Specialist teams for the British Transport Police looking for
:03:07. > :03:08.anything that could it explain why the victim
:03:09. > :03:13.When we arrived on the scene at 3pm yesterday the afternoon, we
:03:14. > :03:14.were dealing with the initial incident itself.
:03:15. > :03:16.Clearly, the light got the better of us.
:03:17. > :03:18.We wanted to make sure that we could recover
:03:19. > :03:22.today when we had natural daylight available to us.
:03:23. > :03:24.Investigators from Network Rail and the Rail
:03:25. > :03:25.Investigations Branch started their own enquiries.
:03:26. > :03:27.Great Western Railway are also offering support and help
:03:28. > :03:31.A 60-year-old farmer has yet to be formally identified.
:03:32. > :03:34.He used to keep animals, cows and sheep in the
:03:35. > :03:37.field, just on the other side of the railway.
:03:38. > :04:02.He would take around was to market and stuff like that.
:04:03. > :04:06.The key question, of course, is why the victim was still on the track
:04:07. > :04:13.We used to have animals cross there as
:04:14. > :04:15.We know what it's like to
:04:16. > :04:21.And I have been there when he has crossed.
:04:22. > :04:23.I've chatted to him before he has
:04:24. > :04:26.It's a normal everyday thing, really.
:04:27. > :04:28.In 2014, a motorcyclist was killed on the
:04:29. > :04:29.crossing and there have been two
:04:30. > :04:32.Now, after yesterday's tragedy, there are calls
:04:33. > :04:34.for the crossing to be closed to all
:04:35. > :04:37.I just feel it's a rather dangerous crossing.
:04:38. > :04:41.You can only see the trains for 100 metres.
:04:42. > :04:44.By the time the whistle has gone, or their horn, they are upon you.
:04:45. > :04:47.With the line closed today, replacement buses were laid
:04:48. > :04:48.on for passengers between Gloucester and Swindon.
:04:49. > :04:50.Disruption for many, but necessary for officers to find
:04:51. > :05:05.out why someone lost their life here.
:05:06. > :05:08.Acres of land near Thame have been damaged by illegal
:05:09. > :05:10.hare and deer coursers - according to the National
:05:11. > :05:14.It's believed as many as 50 people were involved in one incident
:05:15. > :05:18.Police are investigating and say its work of criminal gangs.
:05:19. > :05:21.Up to ten landowners have been affected in a five mile radius
:05:22. > :05:24.and a vehicle has been left abandoned in one field
:05:25. > :05:30.The Princess Royal has been in South Oxfordshire,
:05:31. > :05:32.officially unveiling new technology to assist biomedical research.
:05:33. > :05:34.Princess Anne spent the day at the diamond light source
:05:35. > :05:36.facility in harwell, meeting scientists and marking ten
:05:37. > :05:38.years since the site was officially opened.
:05:39. > :05:40.Diamond has supported 10,000 scientists in that time,
:05:41. > :05:41.with research ranging from antibiotics to
:05:42. > :05:46.It's ten years since the Queen opened the Diamond Light Source
:05:47. > :05:48.and today her daughter, Princess Anne, has been back
:05:49. > :05:51.A decade of discoveries using light beams.
:05:52. > :05:54.These big machines like the one behind me have billions of electrons
:05:55. > :05:57.whizzing through and as they go through these giant magnets that you
:05:58. > :05:59.can see, the red and yellow and green, bending magnet here,
:06:00. > :06:01.the selector is controlled, pushed in different directions.
:06:02. > :06:03.And as that happens, light is omitted.
:06:04. > :06:04.The control of that light has enabled
:06:05. > :06:06.the scientists here at the Diamond Light Source
:06:07. > :06:09.over the last ten years to do some pretty amazing things.
:06:10. > :06:11.Some of them, on this machine - I-11.
:06:12. > :06:14.Here we are doing experiments that last a very long time.
:06:15. > :06:16.I mean, a classic example is your mobile
:06:17. > :06:19.Because when you use it everyday, you don't want a 24-hour
:06:20. > :06:24.You want a battery that lasts a very, very long time.
:06:25. > :06:28.We are trying to make new materials and look at
:06:29. > :06:30.new materials that last these periods of time.
:06:31. > :06:31.Other beams map the structure of viruses.
:06:32. > :06:35.If you know the structure of the molecule you are
:06:36. > :06:38.trying to target, you can design new drugs to fit
:06:39. > :06:41.Having the structure is very useful for drug discovery.
:06:42. > :06:44.We have plans, we have the technology that could
:06:45. > :06:49.Ten times brighter means you find new drugs ten times faster.
:06:50. > :06:51.You can look at the structure, the materials
:06:52. > :06:52.for tomorrow ten times more effectively.
:06:53. > :06:54.So, you know, those materials that go into your cell
:06:55. > :06:57.phone, that go into jet air craft, going into cleaner technology, all
:06:58. > :07:00.of those will be based on research that is done here at Diamond.
:07:01. > :07:03.These plaques mark the synchrotron's 28th beam opening the way for new,
:07:04. > :07:44.More than 3,000 items of Alice in Wonderland memorabilia
:07:45. > :07:47.The collection, amassed over 25 years, sold for ?70,000.
:07:48. > :07:49.It includes books, statues, tea cups and photographs.
:07:50. > :07:51.It's thought to be the largest collection dedicated
:07:52. > :07:53.to Lewis Carroll's character in the world.
:07:54. > :07:59.There is Alice herself, the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit and many
:08:00. > :08:00.other familiar characters from Lewis Carroll's
:08:01. > :08:05.They have been popular for a century and a half and they are all here.
:08:06. > :08:07.From Tweedledum and Tweedledee on a brass platter, to
:08:08. > :08:10.Part of a huge and frankly rather bizarre collection.
:08:11. > :08:12.There are any number of books, of course.
:08:13. > :08:14.There are Mad Hatter teapots and hundreds of china ornaments.
:08:15. > :08:17.There are advertising boards, that's the Walrus and the Carpenter.
:08:18. > :08:19.There are Alice dolls, board games, tea trays and a
:08:20. > :08:21.translation of Alice in Wonderland into Swahili.
:08:22. > :08:22.One of the earliest of his signatures...
:08:23. > :08:25.The collection was built up by Greta and her late
:08:26. > :08:26.husband Thomas, an antiquarian book dealer.
:08:27. > :08:29.The Mad Hatter, here's one of my favourites.
:08:30. > :08:32.And he has stood behind our bar in the games room in the
:08:33. > :08:54.At the auction, the collection fetched
:08:55. > :08:58.Oxford was a fitting place for the sale, because this is
:08:59. > :09:02.When Charles Dodgson a University don took a colleague and his three
:09:03. > :09:13.daughters up the river and told them a story.
:09:14. > :09:18.They had a picnic on the bank up there and, yes, you could
:09:19. > :09:21.argue that was the most important picnic in the history of
:09:22. > :09:24.You know, without that occasion, it's unlikely that the
:09:25. > :09:27.Sir John Tenniel was the story's first illustrator.
:09:28. > :09:29.Lewis Carroll was Charles Dodgson's pen name.
:09:30. > :09:47.The weather forecast is coming up next, with Alexis.
:09:48. > :09:50.There will be a good deal cloud here overnight.
:09:51. > :09:53.It should stay mainly dry, but where we do have a view clear
:09:54. > :09:55.spells, the chance of a frost in the countryside.
:09:56. > :09:57.Temperatures there may fall to freezing or just below.
:09:58. > :09:59.And already, we are seeing temperatures
:10:00. > :10:02.And the winds will be fairly light from the
:10:03. > :10:04.north-east, a mainly dry start to the day tomorrow,
:10:05. > :10:08.but we will see one or two showers and it could be on the wintry side
:10:09. > :10:10.during the course of the day, particularly during the latter
:10:11. > :10:12.part of the afternoon and into the evening.
:10:13. > :10:15.With that increasing east to northeasterly wind making it
:10:16. > :10:18.A high of just one or two Celsius, but feeling
:10:19. > :10:20.more like freezing or just below freezing, given the wind-chill.
:10:21. > :10:23.Through the course of tomorrow into Friday, we are expecting
:10:24. > :10:26.there to be a fair amount of cloud, wintry showers can't be ruled out
:10:27. > :10:29.and we are still having this brisk, called north-easterly wind,
:10:30. > :10:31.but becoming a more easterly wind through the course
:10:32. > :10:33.of Friday daytime. With the odd wintry shower.
:10:34. > :10:35.Wintry showers can't be ruled out over the next
:10:36. > :10:39.Looking ahead to the rest of the week, a loss of
:10:40. > :10:42.Temperatures will struggle to rise by day,
:10:43. > :10:43.with that brisk east to north-easterly wind.
:10:44. > :10:46.Highs of just two or three Celsius, but feeling
:10:47. > :11:03.colder than that with the wind-chill.
:11:04. > :11:08.cloudy and Ben Rich will take you through the bigger picture.
:11:09. > :11:14.Good evening. Over the next few days I suspect it's going to feel like we
:11:15. > :11:20.have been plunged into the deep freeze. Cold weather on the way and
:11:21. > :11:24.not necessarily crisp cold weather, with blue skies. A lot of cloud,
:11:25. > :11:29.there was some sunshine today across parts of west Wales, for instance.
:11:30. > :11:30.That lifted temperatures up to 11. But further east as you