31/03/2017 South Today - Oxford

Now on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.

The bodies of five members of the same family killed

in a helicopter crash in Snowdonia two days ago have been recovered.

Kevin and Ruth Burke, from Buckinghamshire,

Emma Baugh has spent the day in the village

of Hulcote near Milton Keynes where the couple lived.

A village today deeply saddened that five people from the same family

are all believed to have lost their lives from such

Ruth and Kevin Burke had lived in the area for some time but had

just moved to the dream home they had built.

Their neighbour served on the parish council with Kevin Burke.

Desperately sad to hear about this very tragic accident particularly

of course for the children, very, very sad.

And a terrible shock to the people who live

Kevin Burke had a local building firm and his company were involved

in projects like the expansion of the MK Stadium.

The family set off from Milton Keynes flying to Ireland

It could be quite a tough technical investigation depending on how bad

There is unlikely to be a recorder on this aircraft,

so you then depend on other forms of evidence.

That will be a painstaking examination of the forensics

at the scene and that may take quite some time.

A legal challenge has been launched over plans to downgrade key services

Campaigners and the district council claim the consultation

by Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group

is confusing and flawed and want a High Court judge to review it.

Campaigners have fought on as the Horton General Hospital

The maternity unit has lost specialist consultants

and become midwife-led, with mums-to-be now traveling to the

There are proposals to move other services too.

But now, campaigners are fighting back, this time through the courts.

We have been working on the legal route for quite some time.

The appeal has been sent to a case to be heard in the High Court.

It won't bring back maternity if we win this case.

It will legally force the Clinical Commissioning Group

to go back and start again at the beginning with

their consultation, and this time do it in one.

Mechanic Keith Strangwood leads the campaign group

He, like many others, has his own reasons to save the hospital.

One day, there was no heartbeat, that was it.

My other half, she had to go through normal labour.

But we spent the night with that baby in her arms and it

Changes to services are being made by the Oxfordshire Clinical

Commissiong Group who are tasked with saving a predicted

A consultation into the changes was carried out in June.

But campaigners and councillers have said it was confusing and flawed.

We believe we have got some very strong points to make

in terms of the legalities of the consultation process.

And we believe as local councils we do reflect the views of local

people and hence the action we have taken.

Nobody was available from Oxfordshire Clinical

Commissioning Group to speak to us today, but a spokesperson did say

they have received the letter and will respond appropriately.

For now, campaigners and councillors will be waiting to see if their case

is taken up by the High Court. A decision is expected next month.

Workers at BMW have voted to go on strike over plans to close two

The firm builds more than 200,000 Minis a year in Oxford

where employees have already staged a series of protests.

It says it's always prided itself in providing excellent pensions

and wants to act now to protect future pension provision.

Just a year since they last went to Wembley, 30,000

Oxford fans are heading there again this weekend.

On Sunday, United play Coventry in the final

A crowd of more than 75,000 is expected but some fans

For Oxford United's opponents, Coventry, Sunday will be a first

But Oxford fans know the way to Wembley Way,

it is only 12 months since were there last season.

I am looking forward to it, of course I am, see if we can't do

Hopefully we will put in a better performance than last year.

The competition is traditionally contested by clubs from

While 30,000 Oxford fans are heading to the national

stadium this weekend, some of their most ardent followers

are staying at home, continuing their boycott

of the competition after the Football League trialled

the introduction of under-23 teams from Premier Division

If everyone that wasn't boycotting went, there could be 75,000.

By putting in the Premier League B teams, even though it didn't turn

out to be many of the big clubs that did actually put teams in,

Last year, United, highly excited to be at Wembley,

This time around, with a calmer air around the club,

They have come into a bit of form, they have won the last two games.

They will be back superbly, as we are.

We will go in there to hopefully, hopefully do enough

Oxford United have enjoyed the sweet smell of success in recent years

as the team has blossomed under Michael Appleton.

He wants them in full bloom on Sunday.

Chiltern Railways, who operate trains to Wembley Stadium from

Oxfordshire, are laying on extra services to cope with demand.

Fans are being advised to use Oxford Parkway station.

BBC Radio Oxford will have build-up to the game from 7am with live

coverage of the match at 2.30. That's on 95.2FM.

Also this Sunday, Oxford will be looking to make up for last year's

defeat in the annual university boat race.

Last year Cambridge put a halt to Oxford's

three-year winning streak with a two-and-a-half length win.

Sam Fraser has the weekend weather forecast.

Well, April arrives tomorrow and with it some

As we go through tonight we can expect cloudy skies and showers.

So through the coming hours, cloud builds, we'll see some showers

Many places escaping dry, overnight lows dropping to eight Celsius.

For tomorrow a day of sunshine and showers, some bright spells

but you'll see as we go through the day the showers

becoming more widespread, they're heaving and slow moving too.

Tomorrow, in the best of the brightness, the temperatures

Looking ahead to Sunday and we'll have some high pressure building,

so that's a more settled day, dry with some sunny spells.

Much the same story as we start the new week on Monday.

Coming next, the national weather forecast.

Hello. There the weekend is here and Sunday looks like being the better

day of the two. We're going to start the weekend, a new month, with

sunshine and April showers. Those fade away overnight. Saturday night

could be chilly. It points to a