:00:00. > :00:07.Coming up: A million pounds to help patients receive
:00:08. > :00:11.But there are claims the changes could lead to a reduction in beds
:00:12. > :00:15.Fewer officers - but more call outs following a merger.
:00:16. > :00:21.We assess the impact on roads policing in the Thames Valley.
:00:22. > :00:24.5000 bodies - and a thousand years of history.
:00:25. > :00:34.The Saxon burial site due to be dug up to make way for HS2.
:00:35. > :00:38.Patients in Buckinghamshire say changes to some community healthcare
:00:39. > :00:40.services have been rushed through and could lead
:00:41. > :00:45.The Trust says it's investing a million pounds to help more people
:00:46. > :00:51.Adina Campbell has spent the day in Marlow.
:00:52. > :00:54.This is going to be our new community resource room,
:00:55. > :00:57.where we hope to have a great facility for patients and carers
:00:58. > :00:59.to access information, advice and support.
:01:00. > :01:02.And we have a reading station over here, as well.
:01:03. > :01:08.This is a new initiative that we have between the libraries
:01:09. > :01:11.and the mental health trust to support people with
:01:12. > :01:16.The Trust says it's introducing a number of new services,
:01:17. > :01:20.including thousands more short-term care packages, so patients can leave
:01:21. > :01:25.hospital and get care back home - double the number of outpatient
:01:26. > :01:32.appointments and a new frailty assessment service to help cut down
:01:33. > :01:38.Campaigners have been protesting over what could be
:01:39. > :01:45.There are currently eight hospital beds in Thame and 12 in Marlow.
:01:46. > :01:48.Some people are worried these changes could lead a reduction
:01:49. > :01:52.of beds in the future, putting patients at risk.
:01:53. > :01:55.It concerns me hugely that this pilot is being run
:01:56. > :01:59.in spring and summer, it's not going to be run
:02:00. > :02:02.during autumn and winter which is when the massive
:02:03. > :02:08.I don't believe they're telling the truth.
:02:09. > :02:11.I believe this is a fait accompli without any sort
:02:12. > :02:23.It is about using the space and the beds flexibly
:02:24. > :02:28.You have announced a number of measures, one of them
:02:29. > :02:36.The community hubs concept is using the space we have
:02:37. > :02:38.and the beds we have in a different way.
:02:39. > :02:42.We will be able to provide rehabilitation physiotherapy
:02:43. > :02:46.services on a day basis, perhaps giving fluids or intravenous
:02:47. > :02:51.antibiotics into a vein from those very beds.
:02:52. > :02:55.These changes are part of a six month pilot.
:02:56. > :02:58.They'll be monitored and, if they work well, they could be
:02:59. > :03:05.rolled out to other parts of the county.
:03:06. > :03:07.The joint Thames Valley and Hampshire roads policing unit
:03:08. > :03:10.is dealing with more incidents than when it was formed -
:03:11. > :03:16.even though the number of officers was cut by 20%.
:03:17. > :03:18.Between 2013 and 2014, the unit attended more
:03:19. > :03:22.Two years later, that figure had risen to nearly 49,000.
:03:23. > :03:25.Here's our home affairs correspondent Peter Cooke.
:03:26. > :03:27.Five years after Hampshire and Thames Valley's road
:03:28. > :03:31.policing units merged, their officers are busier than ever.
:03:32. > :03:35.More than 50 posts were lost when they joined forces in 2012
:03:36. > :03:41.Those still working are attending around
:03:42. > :03:43.940 incidents a week - often having to travel
:03:44. > :03:54.The motorway through to junction turn, the A329,
:03:55. > :04:04.through to the Hampshire border, it is a huge area
:04:05. > :04:11.Traffic officers also deal with regular emergency calls,
:04:12. > :04:15.as well as responding to accidents and reckless drivers.
:04:16. > :04:17.The Roads Policing Unit is one of a number of
:04:18. > :04:21.But officers say they're worried about how efficient
:04:22. > :04:26.There is a real deep sense of frustration that they are not
:04:27. > :04:29.able to give the service that they want to the public.
:04:30. > :04:32.They are being spread ever so thinly, just like every
:04:33. > :04:34.other police officer, probably across the UK
:04:35. > :04:40.This is a direct consequence to the cuts that we face.
:04:41. > :04:42.Both forces say they're focused on making sure
:04:43. > :04:45.they have the resources and specialist capabilities
:04:46. > :04:49.in the right locations at peak times to meet demand.
:04:50. > :04:52.But with further cuts feared and more motorists on our roads,
:04:53. > :04:58.the units are likely to remain stretched.
:04:59. > :05:01.Plans to add more restaurants and a hotel at the Milton Interchange
:05:02. > :05:04.near Didcot have been approved by councillors at the Vale
:05:05. > :05:11.The proposals are for a site behind the existing facilities,
:05:12. > :05:14.off the A34 including two new restaurants and two
:05:15. > :05:17.The developers say the impact on traffic will be minimal.
:05:18. > :05:20.It is so busy, this'll just add to it.
:05:21. > :05:25.Unless they turn it into a motorway, the A34 is already tremendously busy
:05:26. > :05:33.At 5pm, you wouldn't want to be here.
:05:34. > :05:36.Armed Forces veterans can now access to a new NHS mental health service
:05:37. > :05:39.tailored specifically to their needs.
:05:40. > :05:42.Nine million pounds will be spent over the next three years,
:05:43. > :05:44.offering treatment and support for conditions like
:05:45. > :05:50.Allen Sinclair has been talking to a veteran from Reading.
:05:51. > :05:53.Matt Stoodley now runs his own business repairing horse boxes.
:05:54. > :05:56.But for decades he struggled in silence with the psychological
:05:57. > :06:00.after-effects of serving as an engineer in the Royal Navy
:06:01. > :06:05.Since leaving the service in the mid-1980s, he'd
:06:06. > :06:10.been quick to anger, and prone to severe mood swings.
:06:11. > :06:14.Both he and the people he was closest to were suffering.
:06:15. > :06:16.It's been known under various different names.
:06:17. > :06:19.Iraq syndrome, it's now called post-traumatic stress disorder.
:06:20. > :06:21.Obviously, what went on down in the Falklands
:06:22. > :06:27.longer I was away from that situation, the more it built up.
:06:28. > :06:30.Matt lost a number of friends and comrades during the Falklands
:06:31. > :06:35.conflict, and his own ship, HMS Glasgow, was
:06:36. > :06:44.Just three years ago, he finally sought help
:06:45. > :06:46.from the South Central Veterans Service, and with counselling
:06:47. > :06:48.from experts trained to deal with military
:06:49. > :06:52.been able to face up to and accept the trauma he'd suffered.
:06:53. > :06:56.The support Matt and many others received has now been refined
:06:57. > :07:02.and rebranded as the NHS Transition, Intervention and Liaison service.
:07:03. > :07:04.This expanded service is open to people before
:07:05. > :07:08.The biggest step is to actually go forward
:07:09. > :07:15.Nobody can push you forward to doing it.
:07:16. > :07:20.Ex-Forces personnel can be referred by their GP,
:07:21. > :07:24.by charities like Help For Heroes, or can simply contact
:07:25. > :07:32.A huge burial site dating back to Saxon times
:07:33. > :07:35.is to be excavated in Stoke Mandeville on the
:07:36. > :07:40.It's thought that 5000 bodies are buried by the old St Mary's Church.
:07:41. > :07:43.Archaeologists say it's one of the most important sites
:07:44. > :07:50.Names that tell the story of a village.
:07:51. > :07:55.The burial site in Stoke Mandeville dates back to Saxon times.
:07:56. > :07:58.The remains of thousands of people will soon be exhumed
:07:59. > :08:05.This site is an absolutely amazing Archaeological site.
:08:06. > :08:16.and it is pretty much one of the most important sites that
:08:17. > :08:18.will be dug in the last 50 years, archaeologically.
:08:19. > :08:21.The excavation is to make way for the hugely controversial HS2
:08:22. > :08:23.line, which will pass through parts of Buckinghamshire and
:08:24. > :08:28.Oxfordshire, on its way from London to Birmingham.
:08:29. > :08:32.HS2 Limited says the route has been carefully planned but local people
:08:33. > :08:36.When we first heard what was happening,
:08:37. > :08:42.We have protested, petitioned and done everything we could.
:08:43. > :08:46.But we realise we have to accept that HS2 is going to happen and that
:08:47. > :08:53.It's possible some existing families in the village could find out more
:08:54. > :09:00.Unfortunately, HS2 is going to make it absolutely
:09:01. > :09:07.And therefore it is going to provide unique information
:09:08. > :09:11.for the archaeological community about English village life
:09:12. > :09:16.Last night, residents met HS2 representatives
:09:17. > :09:27.The dig is due to start later this year and finished in 2019.
:09:28. > :09:30.A type of shrimp been named after Pink Floyd -
:09:31. > :09:32.because the scientist in Oxford who discovered it is
:09:33. > :09:37.Now called Synalpheus pinkfloydi, it snaps its enlarged pink claw
:09:38. > :09:41.at rapid speed to create one of the loudest sounds in the ocean.
:09:42. > :09:44.The noise is so intense it can kill small fish.
:09:45. > :09:51.We had some lovely sunny spells today, with a high
:09:52. > :09:55.Tomorrow, there will be a lot more cloud and overnight we may see some
:09:56. > :09:58.light patchy rain with a lot of cloud during the early
:09:59. > :10:02.In the countryside, temperatures could fall as low as 5 Celsius.
:10:03. > :10:04.These are temperatures in urban areas.
:10:05. > :10:09.A good deal of cloud tomorrow, but there will be some brighter,
:10:10. > :10:14.The chances of some light, rain, but most places tomorrow will be dry
:10:15. > :10:19.Temperatures will reach a high of 11 to 12 Celsius.
:10:20. > :10:23.Temperatures not as high as today with the increasing amount of cloud.
:10:24. > :10:27.Tomorrow night will see outbreaks of mainly light and a patchy rain,
:10:28. > :10:30.all courtesy of this cold front moving south and eastwards.
:10:31. > :10:35.There is another weather front behind it, so through the course
:10:36. > :10:37.of Friday daytime, it is one of the unsettled days
:10:38. > :10:42.We will see outbreaks of rain at times, not amounting to too much.
:10:43. > :10:46.There will be the odd moderate to heavy burst.
:10:47. > :10:49.For most, we will have dry interludes and a good deal of cloud
:10:50. > :10:54.Looking ahead to the rest of the bank holiday weekend -
:10:55. > :10:57.Good Friday will see a lot of cloud and some outbreaks of rain,
:10:58. > :11:00.Saturday, the cloud will break up to allow for some sunny spells,
:11:01. > :11:02.and Easter Sunday will be mainly dry.
:11:03. > :11:11.Brighter on Saturday but cloud again on Sunday. Here is Tomasz.
:11:12. > :11:16.Good evening. The weather in the run-up to
:11:17. > :11:19.Christmas... Easter! I got ahead of myself there!