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Welcome to South Today. for the news where you are.

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Coming up: improving the future of UK defence.

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A team of engineers in Oxford and the Defence Secretary discuss

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the impact of unmanned space warfare and drones.

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And road users have their say over the safety of one

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Unmanned warfare should be the future of UK defence - that's

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according to the Defence Secretary, Sir Michael Fallon, who's been

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speaking at an engineering conference in Oxford.

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It's as space warfare and drones are being developed by scientists

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The technology is part of a new Ministry of Defence

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strategy, which will also involve astronaut Tim Peake.

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Our Political Editor Peter Henley has more.

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It flies at 45 miles an hour, and weighs less

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Skeeter is the next generation of military drone.

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Developed by animal dynamics, a spin off company from

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Oxford Universities Zoology department, it uses two pairs

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It has interesting upshot is, it has natural suspension, it can tolerate

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high wind and goes to the heart of what we are about, looking at how

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you can derive higher performance and high efficiency by studying

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The Defence Secretary said the Armed Forces are

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increasingly at the cutting edge of technology.

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I want to make it easier for small high-tech companies to

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come to defence, to bring their ideas

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and products and see whether

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they can be used by the Armed Forces.

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It has been too slow in the past, too bureaucratic, difficulties

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Formula 1 motor racing is another area in which British

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research leads the world - and the Ministry of Defence

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announced a dragons den style panel of experts to help advise

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The chief Executive of Woking based Maclaren Ron Dennis

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Our voices will be strong but and hopefully people will listen and

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this is the minister pushed on me to be disruptive.

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Also pushing the frontiers of military kit,

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spaceman Tim Peake - an army Major - will join the panel.

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From the time of the Spitfire on, Britain has stepped up its

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technology in the face of a hostile threat.

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Now the Ministry of Defence is warning that to be

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If we can develop these weapons, others can too.

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A man's died after he became trapped in a shed which

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It happened in Badgemore yesterday evening.

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Police are treating the death as unexplained.

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A 39-year-old woman was also seriously injured.

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A man's appeared in court charged with murdering a man in Oxford,

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who was injured in a stabbing more than ten years ago.

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Samuel Marriot-Gray died nine years after being stabbed at a party

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Charges have now been brought after the case was sent

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47-year-old Leonard Morrison, who used to live on Bath Street

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in Oxford, has been remanded in custody.

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He's due to appear at Oxford Crown Court on Thursday.

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Next tonight, the A34 isn't fit for purpose and needs to be urgently

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upgraded to a motorway - that's according to some people

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who've been taking part in a special BBC South debate.

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This morning's event was broadcast simultaneously across our region,

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It brought together safety and transport

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The A34 is a major road, running north to south

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through the region, linking to other key routes.

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A BBC study has shown that, despite its poor reputation,

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the number of accidents is broadly in line with other

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The A34 today, and who would want to be this stranded motorist

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or the patrolman coming to the rescue, just

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There is no room for driver error, which unfortunately leads to so many

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incidents in that short stretch of road.

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Hello, and welcome to this special programme.

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This morning, BBC local radio stations along the route brought

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together those shaping the debate about the A34.

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Statistically, a comparatively safe road, high profile

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accidents like this one, where a lorry driver

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using his phone killed four members of the same family,

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It has been shown that mixing fast traffic

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with slow-moving traffic is

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There is a role for technology in this and we will await

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the results of Highways England's safety review of the road to see

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whether there is a role for average speed cameras,

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Even as the broadcast got underway, came news of a four-vehicle crash.

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Well, the road is now flowing freely once more and this morning's

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accident was what police describe as a minor shunt with

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But within minutes, traffic was trailing back for several miles

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It is already at overcapacity and traffic levels, car and lorry,

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With demand, you have new systems with people now buying online,

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the van market has really grown in volume.

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For road users and the families of those who have died here,

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People living in a village in Buckinghamshire say 'everything

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is converging' on their quiet part of the countryside.

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Network Rail and HS2 staff will meet people living in Charndon,

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later this week, to discuss plans for a new maintenance depot.

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Charndon, a quiet village on the Buckinghamshire

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Come the next two years it will change something

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And it will become a village which I do not think people

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Residents have been fighting ther nearby HS2 route

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so long the signs have faded, now the East West trainline

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plus a planned Expressway between Oxford and Cambridge

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It seems as if everything is converging on this, what was, a very

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want to build a maintenance depot - right next to a childrens'

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playground, bus stops and a war memorial.

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It would be used for five years during the construction

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But an HS2 maintenace depot already has approval in Calvert -

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Why can't it be sited where there are compounds served

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Both companies will meet residents in Charndon this week.

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A dog in Bicester has been propelled to fame after being described

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Buffy's grin has attracted global attention -

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The Jack Russell even has her own Facebook page.

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I posted a picture on a daytime

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programme and somebody contacted me from the press office and they were

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smitten with a photograph with the big smiley face.

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There is more pictures of Buffy than me and my brother.

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She has been in the Daily Mail online, the Mirror online and the

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She is very laid back, she is 14 this year so she is a

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Absolutely loves her and the family adore her.

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Sir Roger Bannister has been made a Companion of Honour

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The 87-year-old, who lives in Oxford, made history

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by being the first person to run a mile in under four minutes.

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He went on to be a successful neurologist.

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He was knighted in 1975 for services to sport.

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We're back in BBC Breakfast tomorrow morning.

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Alexis Green has a full weather forecast next.

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They have been on the heavy side, and longer spells of

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The showers will ease overnight tonight and it will turn

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There may even be a frost in the countryside.

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Even the risk of ice on untreated surfaces.

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With temperatures falling to around two or three degrees.

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A chilly start to the day tomorrow, very like today, we'll have lots of

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sunshine first thing but it won't stay that way.

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Cloud will increase from the South during the morning,

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and we will see some outbreaks of mainly

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odd moderate to heavy burst through the afternoon.

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And temperatures tomorrow will reach a high of seven

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There will be a breeze coming in from the

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Through the course of tomorrow night, the winds turn quite

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But on Thursday, it's mainly dry day.

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A ridge of high pressure stays with us.

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We will see the winds coming in from the south-west, staying dry

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through daylight hours, the odd isolated shower is a possibility.

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The next weather system is expected to arrive

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But the winds will start to pick up through the course of Friday

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As we head through this week, we are expecting a fair

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amount of cloud each day, although Thursday's the

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We will see some sunny spells and it should stay

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As we look ahead to the rest of the week, some sunny

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spells first thing tomorrow, cloud increasing through the morning.

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There will be a breeze from the south-west

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and rain will spread to

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Northern parts seeing hardly any rain during the course of the day.

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is the nicest day of the next view, otherwise chilly and unsettled.

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Good evening. We are about to head into March, the days are getting

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longer, but are they getting any warmer? Not really. We will get

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there in the end, but we will have to be patient, not very springlike

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at the moment. Some showers scattered around across England and

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Wales will tend to diminish in number, a few left behind, wintry

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showers across the north of Scotland, snow at low-level is, ice

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as well as temperatures fall close to freezing. A cold night with a

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touch of frost in a number of places. Plenty of sunshine across

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southern areas first of all, but it will not last, rain spilling from

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the south, the best brightness and eventually further north across the

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UK. Mostly fine

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