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09/03/2017

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Hello, welcome to South Today. where you are.

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Coming up: Stopping people with mental health problems ending

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We have exclusive access to the teams who try to get

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Also: The growing number of apprentices in the NHS,

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and what it could mean for you as a patient.

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And how a flower pot at Blenheim Palace turned out to be

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BBC South has been given exclusive access to some of the teams trying

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to stop people with mental health problems from being

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Across the South, the number ending up in police cells is down by more

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But there's been an increase in those being taken to casualty

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and mental health units - up by more than 800

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Our Home Affairs Correspondent Peter Cooke reports.

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Side-by-side on the front line - Reading's street triage team links

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up a mental health worker and police officer who attend emergency

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The team advise those in need about finding suitable care,

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and help them avoid being taken into custody or hospital.

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This man called 999 saying he was depressed

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But the thing is, when it goes away, it's still here with me, you know,

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Nobody knows what I'm going through, basically.

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The scheme will soon be operating seven days a week.

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It means that we can do some reviewing in advance

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We get some instant updates on the background of people,

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and it just gives us a sporting chance.

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I am hoping that this is something that is going to be seen

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as a beneficial service across the whole country,

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because it will definitely make a big difference,

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as it has made a difference in this area.

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A team of mental health experts are on-hand

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at the Royal Berkshire Hospital to support them.

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Everyone is now conscious that we need to work as a team.

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Most people's problems cannot be solved by a single service,

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The team operate 24 hours a day to deal with the ever-increasing

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The cost of burying a dead child in Oxford has been abolished

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Parents used to be charged ?340 if they lost a child

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A small number of councils across the country,

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including South Oxfordshire, had already dropped the fees.

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An investigation's started into a major oil spill

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The spill has affected almost two miles of the river.

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Booms have been put in the water near Grazeley to stop

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The number of apprentices at the John Radcliffe Hospital

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in Oxford has doubled in the past year.

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The Health Trust says it's now taking on even more,

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to improve patient care and tackle the long-term problem of recruiting

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17-year-old Olivia has been working at the John Radcliffe Hospital

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She is one of almost 30 apprentices here,

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who have taken the decision to learn while they earn.

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At the beginning it was quite scary because, like,

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Everyone's quite a lot older as well, and not a lot of people

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So, but as they've kind of got to know what I can do, you just,

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like, start to feel part of the team.

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Clinical apprentice numbers here have doubled in the last year,

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and Oxford University Hospitals Trust plans to appoint

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At the moment, we've got about 13 clinical apprentices and 13 business

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And a couple of engineering apprentices.

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But actually we've had a lot more than that actually move

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In yesterday's Budget, the Chancellor Philip Hammond

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pledged an extra ?425 million to the NHS in England

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Money for plans to improve local services.

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But critics say this is just a cloak to disguise forthcoming cuts.

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So, as people continue to fight to for their NHS,

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is the using cheaper apprentices a quick fix to a bigger problem,

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I do actually want to be a nurse when I'm older.

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So I'm going to go down and keep pursuing it.

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So I'm not just going to leave it and just go and do something else.

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Earlier, I spoke to Laura Roberts, who's the Managing Director

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of Health Education England - an independent group which sets out

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to improve the quality of healthcare through better training.

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She told me who's signing up to be an apprentice in the NHS.

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It is a huge variety of people who are signing up at the moment.

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We have school leavers, as you say - people particularly

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We have apprentices in their 30s, 40s and 50s.

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We also, within the NHS, have about, over 70%

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It's not just about school leavers, it's not just about kind

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of traditional manual work, and it isn't just for boys.

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What about the view that there is a danger of using apprentices

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to plug staff shortages, even though they're

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inexperienced and they're essentially cheap labour?

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Oh, I think that has changed quite considerably, really.

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The NHS is really keen to almost set the benchmark

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We produced over 19,000 apprenticeship starts last year,

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and over 90% of those people carried on working in the NHS at the end

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of their apprenticeship, which I think is evidence

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that they both received good quality training and there was a real job

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From a patient's perspective, in terms of clinical apprentices,

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how much responsibility are they given in terms

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Oh, they will be very strictly supervised,

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for those apprentices that work in direct patient care.

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So they would be ones who say are working

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in rehabilitation or on the wards, and there will always be registered

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But apprentices are about way more than just the direct patient care.

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We have them in all fields - in admin, in finance,

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We have them in gardening, plumbing, electricians.

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A marble flower pot used in the grounds of Blenheim Palace

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has turned out to be a Roman stone coffin, dating back

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The container was discovered by chance when an antiques expert

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visited the stately home in west Oxfordshire.

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Could this be the most expensive flower pot in the country?

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For many years, it was tucked away in the grounds of Blenheim Palace.

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But an expert spotted its historic significance.

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It's always a lovely surprise to find something like that.

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And in a place this size, we have so many beautiful artefacts,

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and it's always surprising to find something you didn't know was

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Something you've seen every day that you didn't realise what it was.

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It is one of the many treasures of Blenheim Palace.

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It was brought here in the early 1800s.

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You know, why would we want to part with it?

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Visitors to Blenheim can see the sacrophogas, but it's not kept

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It's inside, given the respect it deserves.

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A Harry Potter-inspired sports tournament is taking place

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this weekend, involving a team from Oxford.

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Quidditch is one of the fastest growing

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In the books, it takes place in the air.

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Broomsticks are still involved, even though

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From the pages of Harry Potter to the fields

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of Oxfords University Parks, Quidditch is fast becoming the most

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progressive competitive sport around the world.

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So, it was made about 11 or 12 years ago now in America.

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But it was some people who had read the books and went,

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So they made it, and then obviously being on the ground you have

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to change some rules, but there are things that

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It's both genders playing it, there are the same number

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of people on the pitch, the same sort of aims.

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Each team consists of seven players - a keeper, three chasers,

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And I like it because it involves less running than a chaser.

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I'm a chaser, and I play with the quaffle, and my role

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is to throw the quaffle into the hoop.

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We come out 18 minutes into the game, and the job for us

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The snitch is worth 30 points, and when we catch

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This weekend will see the annual Quidditch Cup,

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with over 30 teams from around the UK taking part.

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The team from Oxford University Quidditch Club,

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the Oxford Quidlings, will be battling with clubs

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from Reading and Southampton for the top prize.

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Sarah Farmer has the weather forecast for tonight

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During the first part of tonight there may be a few clear spells,

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which will allow temperatures to fall away in the usual cold

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But during the second part of the night we will see increasing

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cloud, allowing temperatures to rise to around six or seven Celsius.

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So, these are temperatures by dawn tomorrow.

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There will be a dry start to the day tomorrow.

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Cloud will thicken even further, and we may have the odd spot

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of light rain or drizzle here and there.

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One or two brighter spells, but also the risk of mist and fog

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patches developing during the course of the day, particularly

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Temperatures tomorrow will reach a high of 10-12dC.

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Tomorrow night, there will be one or two clear spells.

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But during the course of Saturday, there will be a good deal of cloud.

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It should stay mainly dry during daylight hours.

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There will be some brightness here and there, particularly

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during the afternoon on Saturday, and we will see the cloud break up,

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although the winds once again will be fairly light.

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And in general, Saturday is quite a cloudy day,

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although it should, as I said, be mainly dry during daylight hours.

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And through Sunday, well, that is where we are likely

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Mainly light and patchy, the odd moderate burst

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Still a lot of uncertainty about the rain band

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day. On Sunday, cloudier, maybe spots of rain.

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Good evening, in the spring sunshine we saw temperatures as high as 17.5

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Celsius. Not as warm or Sonning on Friday. Still a lot of dry, settled

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weather in the forecast for the next few days. This was the sunset

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captured by one of our Weather Watchers. Clear skies there. We have

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had increasing amounts of cloud moving in from the West. Through the

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remainder of tonight we will continue to see that cloud across

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the south-west of England, the Channel Isles, weaving in across

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Wales, Northern Ireland and western Scotland. Bringing with it some

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outbreaks of drizzly rain, particularly around the coast and

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the hills. Further east, clear skies and the coldest temperatures. We are

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likely to see frost across eastern parts of Scotland by Friday morning.

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The west of Scotland will see the cloud moving in, bringing spots of

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light, drizzly rain. A similar picture for Northern Ireland. Fairly

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cloudy and

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