:00:00. > :00:00.Welcome to South Today. for the news where you are.
:00:00. > :00:07.Coming up: Forensics officers spend a second day digging at the house
:00:08. > :00:09.where convicted killer Christopher Halliwell
:00:10. > :00:16.Also: The self-employed midwives told they can't deliver
:00:17. > :00:18.babies because they don't have suitable insurance.
:00:19. > :00:22.And, photos revealing the real Downton Abbey are unearthed,
:00:23. > :00:34.showing life at Highclere Castle around the time the drama was set.
:00:35. > :00:38.Police have spent a second day searching a former home of convicted
:00:39. > :00:42.Officers have been digging at the back of two terraced
:00:43. > :00:49.Police searches have continued on Broad Street throughout the day.
:00:50. > :00:52.As specialist officers combed garages and gardens,
:00:53. > :00:54.the sound of concrete drilling echoed down the alley.
:00:55. > :00:59.Neighbours say they found all the activity quite surreal.
:01:00. > :01:02.As a community, we feel quite freaked out
:01:03. > :01:10.It a bit too close for comfort, isn't it?
:01:11. > :01:13.Yeah, it is, really, but there's not much we can do
:01:14. > :01:20.Christopher Halliwell was convicted last September of his second
:01:21. > :01:29.A taxi driver in Swindon, he killed Sian O'Callaghan in 2011.
:01:30. > :01:32.But Becky Godden disappeared in 2003,
:01:33. > :01:35.and Halliwell was found guilty of her murder too.
:01:36. > :01:38.Police have kept the family informed, and for Becky's dad John,
:01:39. > :01:49.I'm really upset, I'm really upset with it all.
:01:50. > :02:03.You know what I mean, it all should have been done six years ago.
:02:04. > :02:07.With eight years separating the two killings, many people believe that
:02:08. > :02:13.Former Wiltshire police detective Steve Fulcher was in charge
:02:14. > :02:16.Wiltshire police haven't officially linked any other
:02:17. > :02:19.crimes to Halliwell, but they have appealed to him
:02:20. > :02:26.The families of two Buckinghamshire men killed in a head-on car crash
:02:27. > :02:28.in 2014 have listened as a misconduct hearing
:02:29. > :02:31.was presented with evidence against three Thames Valley police officers.
:02:32. > :02:36.It's alleged they left the scene of an earlier accident
:02:37. > :02:39.without taking sufficient measures to warn other drivers
:02:40. > :02:46.At the heart of this misconduct hearing is an accident on a rural
:02:47. > :02:48.stretch of road that cost two men's lives.
:02:49. > :02:50.It is not possible to say whether that accident would have
:02:51. > :02:52.been avoided had three Thames Valley Police
:02:53. > :02:59.The question for the panel and legal experts meeting here in Newbury
:03:00. > :03:07.Did they fail in their duty to protect members of the public?
:03:08. > :03:10.It was in March 2014 at five in the morning when PCs David Stamp,
:03:11. > :03:13.Hugh Flanagan and Caroline Irwin, all on duty at Amersham police
:03:14. > :03:16.station, were called to attend a road accident on the A413
:03:17. > :03:21.between Wendover and Great Missenden.
:03:22. > :03:25.A car had skidded in the road and run into a ditch.
:03:26. > :03:29.The officers left the scene after 20 minutes but half an hour later,
:03:30. > :03:34.two more cars collided head-on on the same stretch.
:03:35. > :03:37.Both drivers, 64-year-old Malcolm Tindall from Aylesbury
:03:38. > :03:41.and Carl Bird, who was 29 and from High Wycombe, were killed.
:03:42. > :03:44.There is disagreement over whether there was ice on the road.
:03:45. > :03:47.Both men's families were here today for the start of the hearing.
:03:48. > :03:49.They have each called for an independent investigation
:03:50. > :03:54.as to why police left the scene of the earlier accident
:03:55. > :03:58.without taking sufficient measures to warn other drivers
:03:59. > :04:03.The Independent Police Complaints Commission has
:04:04. > :04:12.This misconduct hearing is expected to last until the end of next week.
:04:13. > :04:15.Independent midwives in Oxfordshire are claiming new rules that stop
:04:16. > :04:16.them practising are unfair and are removing
:04:17. > :04:22.The Nursing and Midwifery council has ruled that self-employed
:04:23. > :04:24.midwives don't have sufficient insurance cover, and therefore
:04:25. > :04:31.Katharine Da Costa has been to meet some of those affected.
:04:32. > :04:33.After a traumatic birth with her first child,
:04:34. > :04:36.Camila Preece from Crowmarsh Gifford employed Liz, an independent
:04:37. > :04:39.midwife, to support her throughout her pregnancy and home birth
:04:40. > :04:46.When I was having my son, I actually went through three different shifts
:04:47. > :04:50.When I had the independent midwives, they were with me throughout labour,
:04:51. > :04:53.came to the hospital when I had to transfer,
:04:54. > :04:55.and it is that level of care that the NHS isn't able
:04:56. > :04:59.to provide and that makes all the difference.
:05:00. > :05:04.Since 2014, all health professionals must have indemnity insurance
:05:05. > :05:07.in case of compensation claims if something goes wrong.
:05:08. > :05:10.In January, the Nursing and Midwifery Council ruled that
:05:11. > :05:12.around 80 independent midwives like Liz didn't have
:05:13. > :05:16.sufficient levels of cover and would no longer be able
:05:17. > :05:21.Liz says it's destroyed her career and has de-registered
:05:22. > :05:23.as a midwife so she can continue to support her remaining
:05:24. > :05:31.For me, my moral wish to continue to attend my clients' births trumped
:05:32. > :05:43.Campaigners plan to fight the ruling and say women's
:05:44. > :06:04.Gemma Kingsbury from Oxford is preparing for a home birth
:06:05. > :06:09.She'd employed Liz to care for her, but is now planning
:06:10. > :06:15.For me, the risks of being forced to go into hospital and being
:06:16. > :06:18.in the hospital setting, with the lights and different people
:06:19. > :06:21.and having medicalised practices imposed on me is more of a risk
:06:22. > :06:33.Like many women, Gemma feels there's too much red tape around what should
:06:34. > :06:40.The NMC says its priority is the safety of women
:06:41. > :06:50.Ambitious plans to save almost ?480 million by redesigning health
:06:51. > :06:53.services in our region have been rejected by councillors
:06:54. > :06:57.The NHS plans have already been controversial with people in Banbury
:06:58. > :06:59.protesting against any downgrading of the Horton hospital.
:07:00. > :07:01.The clinical commissioning group has also been criticised for the way
:07:02. > :07:03.it's consulted the public over its proposals that
:07:04. > :07:10.would affect Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and West Berkshire.
:07:11. > :07:11.Some people said it wasn't transparent.
:07:12. > :07:14.I think the biggest reason is because they have
:07:15. > :07:17.cut the consultation in two, and there is
:07:18. > :07:22.I don't believe, and nor did the rest of the Cabinet,
:07:23. > :07:26.that you can have two separate consultations
:07:27. > :07:32.because what is decided in phase one impacts on phase two.
:07:33. > :07:34.An album of photographs revealing the real Downton Abbey
:07:35. > :07:40.It shows life at Highclere Castle in Berkshire more than 120 years
:07:41. > :07:42.ago, around the time drama was first set.
:07:43. > :07:45.It was found during a house clearance in Dorset,
:07:46. > :08:03.A special delivery to one of the UK's most special houses.
:08:04. > :08:09.An album that provides a window into the real life Downton
:08:10. > :08:13.is returning home after more than a century.
:08:14. > :08:16.It is like a jigsaw puzzle, and you are trying to piecemeal
:08:17. > :08:20.things back together again, figure out who was here, the names,
:08:21. > :08:23.and if you weren't quite sure of something, or where something
:08:24. > :08:26.belonged, the piano, which you can see in a photograph here,
:08:27. > :08:32.The 1895 album of 44 photographs was found in a normal house
:08:33. > :08:38.The reason why it was there is not known.
:08:39. > :08:42.It was set to go under the hammer with a ?500 price tag, but,
:08:43. > :08:44.despite huge interest from around the world, it has been sold
:08:45. > :08:55.As the ITV series follows the Earl of Grantham and his family,
:08:56. > :08:59.this album features a snapshot of the life of the fifth earl
:09:00. > :09:01.of Caernarfon, George Herbert, and his wife the Countess Almina.
:09:02. > :09:04.They famously bankrolled Howard Carter's discovery
:09:05. > :09:09.of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the 1920s.
:09:10. > :09:12.It also marked a visit of Prince Edward, who later became Edward VII.
:09:13. > :09:15.But it is not just the aristocracy featured here.
:09:16. > :09:20.In 1895, Highclere would have very much been a working house,
:09:21. > :09:23.and there would have been about 60 members of staff here.
:09:24. > :09:26.Interestingly, this album also shows what life would have
:09:27. > :09:37.I think that is what makes these houses live.
:09:38. > :09:42.Louis and George and everyone here are my family still,
:09:43. > :09:47.The photographs could be on display when the house
:09:48. > :09:52.Far from a work of fiction, this piece of history is now
:09:53. > :10:11.Good evening. Overnight tonight we are looking at a fair amount of
:10:12. > :10:16.cloud with outbreaks of light and patchy rain. Temperatures dropping
:10:17. > :10:19.to eight Celsius, and the breeze will increase during the early hours
:10:20. > :10:23.of the morning, keeping the fog and eight. Some outbreaks of rain
:10:24. > :10:27.tomorrow, some brightness to be had, a fair amount of cloud during the
:10:28. > :10:33.day, and temperatures will reach 11-12 C. The rain could be heavy at
:10:34. > :10:37.times. All eyes are looking ahead to Thursday, storm Doris is on its way.
:10:38. > :10:41.We will have heavy rain during the morning, clearing to stronger winds
:10:42. > :10:44.through the afternoon, and the Met office has issued a wind warning
:10:45. > :10:51.through parts of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire during the course of
:10:52. > :10:57.the evening. The Windsor will ease through the evening. Do the rest of
:10:58. > :11:01.the week, a lot of cloud tomorrow. A Met Office wind warning is in force
:11:02. > :11:03.on Thursday through the region, with rain in the morning. The odd shower
:11:04. > :11:05.on Friday, the day, particularly up towards the
:11:06. > :11:08.evening rush hour. It calms down on the Outlook toward the end of the
:11:09. > :11:10.week and then milder again from the wheel them. More on storm Doris now
:11:11. > :11:12.with Matt Taylor.