12/04/2017 South Today - Oxford

Coming up: A million pounds to help patients receive

But there are claims the changes could lead to a reduction in beds

Fewer officers - but more call outs following a merger.

We assess the impact on roads policing in the Thames Valley.

5000 bodies - and a thousand years of history.

The Saxon burial site due to be dug up to make way for HS2.

Patients in Buckinghamshire say changes to some community healthcare

services have been rushed through and could lead

The Trust says it's investing a million pounds to help more people

Adina Campbell has spent the day in Marlow.

This is going to be our new community resource room,

where we hope to have a great facility for patients and carers

to access information, advice and support.

And we have a reading station over here, as well.

This is a new initiative that we have between the libraries

and the mental health trust to support people with

The Trust says it's introducing a number of new services,

including thousands more short-term care packages, so patients can leave

hospital and get care back home - double the number of outpatient

appointments and a new frailty assessment service to help cut down

Campaigners have been protesting over what could be

There are currently eight hospital beds in Thame and 12 in Marlow.

Some people are worried these changes could lead a reduction

of beds in the future, putting patients at risk.

It concerns me hugely that this pilot is being run

in spring and summer, it's not going to be run

during autumn and winter which is when the massive

I don't believe they're telling the truth.

I believe this is a fait accompli without any sort

It is about using the space and the beds flexibly

You have announced a number of measures, one of them

The community hubs concept is using the space we have

and the beds we have in a different way.

We will be able to provide rehabilitation physiotherapy

services on a day basis, perhaps giving fluids or intravenous

antibiotics into a vein from those very beds.

These changes are part of a six month pilot.

They'll be monitored and, if they work well, they could be

rolled out to other parts of the county.

The joint Thames Valley and Hampshire roads policing unit

is dealing with more incidents than when it was formed -

even though the number of officers was cut by 20%.

Between 2013 and 2014, the unit attended more

Two years later, that figure had risen to nearly 49,000.

Here's our home affairs correspondent Peter Cooke.

Five years after Hampshire and Thames Valley's road

policing units merged, their officers are busier than ever.

More than 50 posts were lost when they joined forces in 2012

Those still working are attending around

940 incidents a week - often having to travel

The motorway through to junction turn, the A329,

through to the Hampshire border, it is a huge area

Traffic officers also deal with regular emergency calls,

as well as responding to accidents and reckless drivers.

The Roads Policing Unit is one of a number of

But officers say they're worried about how efficient

There is a real deep sense of frustration that they are not

able to give the service that they want to the public.

They are being spread ever so thinly, just like every

other police officer, probably across the UK

This is a direct consequence to the cuts that we face.

Both forces say they're focused on making sure

they have the resources and specialist capabilities

in the right locations at peak times to meet demand.

But with further cuts feared and more motorists on our roads,

the units are likely to remain stretched.

Plans to add more restaurants and a hotel at the Milton Interchange

near Didcot have been approved by councillors at the Vale

The proposals are for a site behind the existing facilities,

off the A34 including two new restaurants and two

The developers say the impact on traffic will be minimal.

It is so busy, this'll just add to it.

Unless they turn it into a motorway, the A34 is already tremendously busy

At 5pm, you wouldn't want to be here.

Armed Forces veterans can now access to a new NHS mental health service

tailored specifically to their needs.

Nine million pounds will be spent over the next three years,

offering treatment and support for conditions like

Allen Sinclair has been talking to a veteran from Reading.

Matt Stoodley now runs his own business repairing horse boxes.

But for decades he struggled in silence with the psychological

after-effects of serving as an engineer in the Royal Navy

Since leaving the service in the mid-1980s, he'd

been quick to anger, and prone to severe mood swings.

Both he and the people he was closest to were suffering.

It's been known under various different names.

Iraq syndrome, it's now called post-traumatic stress disorder.

Obviously, what went on down in the Falklands

longer I was away from that situation, the more it built up.

Matt lost a number of friends and comrades during the Falklands

conflict, and his own ship, HMS Glasgow, was

Just three years ago, he finally sought help

from the South Central Veterans Service, and with counselling

from experts trained to deal with military

been able to face up to and accept the trauma he'd suffered.

The support Matt and many others received has now been refined

and rebranded as the NHS Transition, Intervention and Liaison service.

This expanded service is open to people before

The biggest step is to actually go forward

Nobody can push you forward to doing it.

Ex-Forces personnel can be referred by their GP,

by charities like Help For Heroes, or can simply contact

A huge burial site dating back to Saxon times

is to be excavated in Stoke Mandeville on the

It's thought that 5000 bodies are buried by the old St Mary's Church.

Archaeologists say it's one of the most important sites

Names that tell the story of a village.

The burial site in Stoke Mandeville dates back to Saxon times.

The remains of thousands of people will soon be exhumed

This site is an absolutely amazing Archaeological site.

and it is pretty much one of the most important sites that

will be dug in the last 50 years, archaeologically.

The excavation is to make way for the hugely controversial HS2

line, which will pass through parts of Buckinghamshire and

Oxfordshire, on its way from London to Birmingham.

HS2 Limited says the route has been carefully planned but local people

When we first heard what was happening,

We have protested, petitioned and done everything we could.

But we realise we have to accept that HS2 is going to happen and that

It's possible some existing families in the village could find out more

Unfortunately, HS2 is going to make it absolutely

And therefore it is going to provide unique information

for the archaeological community about English village life

Last night, residents met HS2 representatives

The dig is due to start later this year and finished in 2019.

A type of shrimp been named after Pink Floyd -

because the scientist in Oxford who discovered it is

Now called Synalpheus pinkfloydi, it snaps its enlarged pink claw

at rapid speed to create one of the loudest sounds in the ocean.

The noise is so intense it can kill small fish.

We had some lovely sunny spells today, with a high

Tomorrow, there will be a lot more cloud and overnight we may see some

light patchy rain with a lot of cloud during the early

In the countryside, temperatures could fall as low as 5 Celsius.

These are temperatures in urban areas.

A good deal of cloud tomorrow, but there will be some brighter,

The chances of some light, rain, but most places tomorrow will be dry

Temperatures will reach a high of 11 to 12 Celsius.

Temperatures not as high as today with the increasing amount of cloud.

Tomorrow night will see outbreaks of mainly light and a patchy rain,

all courtesy of this cold front moving south and eastwards.

There is another weather front behind it, so through the course

of Friday daytime, it is one of the unsettled days

We will see outbreaks of rain at times, not amounting to too much.

There will be the odd moderate to heavy burst.

For most, we will have dry interludes and a good deal of cloud

Looking ahead to the rest of the bank holiday weekend -

Good Friday will see a lot of cloud and some outbreaks of rain,

Saturday, the cloud will break up to allow for some sunny spells,

and Easter Sunday will be mainly dry.

Brighter on Saturday but cloud again on Sunday. Here is Tomasz.

Good evening. The weather in the run-up to

Christmas... Easter! I got ahead of myself there!