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Coming up: The mystery of the body in the woods.

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Why a coroner can't conclude how a woman found on fire

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Also: an Oxford firm takes its driverless car

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technology to the Capital, for the public to test

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And fresh from winning a national prize -

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how children's author Kiran Millwood Hargrave

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The family of a woman whose badly burnt body was found in woodland may

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Gillian Knock died from smoke inhalation near the Stately Home

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of Hughenden Manor in Buckinghamshire last November.

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But the case is far from straightforward.

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At the inquest, a coroner said he was unable to

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establish if she planned to set herself alight.

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This photo was taken last November, a few days

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While she appears to be happy, today's inquest

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in Beaconsfield heard she was going through

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A statement from her partner Andy Martin revealed she'd left

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a note at home saying she couldn't cope and needed some space.

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Later on that day, a dog-walker spotted a fire in land

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Fire crews were called, they discovered the 64-year-old's body.

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A postmortem showed there was soot in Gillian Knock's airways,

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which means she was breathing when the fire started.

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They also found white spirit on her clothing,

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Ms Knock's family and friends said the hearing gave some answers

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The inquest couldn't explain how one of her legs

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Also potential witnesses who were seen in the woods that

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evening have yet to come forward to police.

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Police said there were no broken branches or signs of a person

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being dragged to suggest Ms Knock had been taken

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In his narrative conclusion, the coroner said the evidence didn't

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suggest a third party was involved in Gillian Knock's death.

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But Crispin Butler said he couldn't be sure if

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it was the result of an intentional act or an accidental one.

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Five days of strike action have been announced at the BMW plants

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It's over plans to close the final salary pension scheme.

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The union UNITE says manufacturing of the Mini will be

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"significantly disrupted" during April and May.

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BMW says it has a number of options on the table to help

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employees with any changes, and is open to further talks.

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A group of squatters in Oxford are facing eviction from a third

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location in the city in three months.

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The Open House movement has set up home in a vacant

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Today thet were served with a court order, forcing them to leave.

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They've previously occupied a former car show room

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in Iffley and a disused power station in Osney.

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They say empty properties should be put to use.

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It seems a shame to leave the building empty when there is an

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Until we can build on the green belt, we can extend, until we

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wait for some of the laws to be changed or get everybody together to

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realise that more houses need to be built, then this is going

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The technolgy is being developed in Oxford

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Now, members of the public are being given the opportunity

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to test a driverless vehicle in London.

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Around 100 people will travel in a 'prototype' along

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Meet Harry, an automated driverless pod out and about in north

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Greenwich. Although there are two cyclists in front to warn

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passers-by. If someone came out and jumped

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in front of it, it would stop We don't encourage that

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kind of behaviour, because you obviously cannot beat

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the laws of physics, art at the same time, we have been testing this

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vehicle in Greenwich since November last year, and we haven't

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had any incidents. Moments later, surprise surprise,

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someone did step in front of it. Yes, the pod stopped. Researchers

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here are now trying to gauge the public's reaction to driverless

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vehicles. I use get up and then? Melo yes. The mechanic around here

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so dense that I think technology is has public got as much chance of

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avoiding a knock as anything else. But this is only a prototype and new

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technology can be a bit temperamental. Died. It's died,

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which is strange.? At one point there was a brief fault with the

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There are some teething problems then?

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But we learn from this so that the production

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vehicles will then be of a much higher standard.

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There are grand plans for driverless pods. Melo we could see this

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technology opening up areas of Greenwich and other environments

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like this weapon a future we don't want petrol or diesel vehicles

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running. This trial runs the weeks and passengers could be charged to

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use the pods, A woman from Reading wants

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cinema chains to do more Linda Dean says that many cinemas

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only show a few subtitled She also says has to wait weeks

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for new releases to be screened, and sometimes finds that films that

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were advertised as having One in six people have some

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form of hearing loss. Linda Dean is a film buff,

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but because she is deaf, sometimes the first time she can see

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a new release is when it Not every film is shown

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with subtitles at the cinema, and you can wait for

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weeks if they are. I would like to be relaxed

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about my social life and go spontaneously when I want to go,

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when I feel comfortable, without having to think, I have to go and

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watch it on that day at that time, and if I don't go, I'm going to miss

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it. And I must say, some of that time

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I've actually been to the cinema at Basingstoke or other

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locations and I've been told there is a subtitled showing

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and actually So I've travelled all that way

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for nothing and that is There's no point in me having

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a choice, there is no equality, so I do feel like I am

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discriminated against. Linda is in Newbury

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with her friend Victoria to see what films they

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can watch together. There are just a handful with

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subtitles on this week, out of a No one from this cinema

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company was available for an interview, but a spokeswoman

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did tell us that they follow the industry best practice approach

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to subtitled screening with two performances every week, alongside

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mornings which are subtitled Could these glasses,

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shown here at Sony's headquarters in Basingstoke,

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be the answer? They project subtitles

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onto the lenses, meaning deaf people can watch any film without having

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subtitles appear on the screen. Similar technology is already in use

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in the US and Australia. The UK cinema Association

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is working hard to find different technical

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solutions, and glasses, so-called invisible technology,

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where he subtitles are only visible to the person wearing glasses,

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is an exciting innovation. Until things change, Linda and some

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of the 11 million other people with some form of hearing loss have

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to recreate the experience at home. An awarding-winning Oxford author

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has been inspiring students Kiran Millwood Hargrave won

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the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize last month for her debut

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novel, The Girl of Ink and Stars. The governor kicked his spurs

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into his horse's side and I heard the unmistakable crack of his whip

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on the flank of his stallion. Those pale objects

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were not seeds at all. Extracts from The Girl

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of Ink and Stars. But award-winning novelist

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Kiran Millwood Hargrave's didn't Living in Oxford has just made me

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so much more ambitious. You walk around

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and you see all these places that are so important

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to culture and literature, and it is really the perfect place to have

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ended up, because we did end up It's just a beautiful place to walk

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around and get inspiration from. 11 and 12-year-olds

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at Wheatly Park School took part Studies even showed

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that people who read regularly just do better

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in life across the board. Not only are they more

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emotionally healthy, they also tend to have higher paying jobs,

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have better outcomes across life. If reading really is

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the magic bullet it seems to be, then of course

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we are going to do everything we can, and school is I think

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a really important part of that. A good story is like

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an adventure where they have Kiran's got a busier year planned,

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her second novel is out now, And she's getting married

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in Oxford later this month. Sarah Farmer is next

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with the weather forecast. We've had a glorious day

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with some fine sunny breaks, ? Tonight will be a dry affair with

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quite a bit of cloud overhead, but one to breaks major see this text is

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a little below. Most of them though at seven Celsius. Quite a faced up

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to the day, Edward will have a little more cloud around and we saw

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today. There will be holes in that cloud and some bright and sunny

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intervals, and if you do see that sunshine as debited could nudge up a

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tab above 12 Celsius. Into tomorrow evening, we'll see quite a bit of

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cloud but generally Thursday night into Friday morning is looking to be

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a dry affair, with the odd break and again is respond when we do see is

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clear spells. Was the end of the week, another dry and fine day,

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you'll be an lucky if you catch a shower, but in the most part some

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good sunny spells. Temperatures at 1112 Celsius. Through to the end of

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this week, some fine sunny spells through the day on Saturday, indeed

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on Sunday to, and temperatures are warming up by

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or 15. It is sunny towards the weekend and we could see the low 20s

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by Sunday. Here is Darren with the national weather.

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Hello. The

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