12/05/2017 South Today - Oxford

An inquest jury has concluded that a string of failures contributed

to the death of a prisoner at Woodhill Prison in Milton Keynes.

45-year-old Michael Cameron was found hanging in his cell days

after arriving at the jail - he's one of 18 prisoners that have

taken their own lives in the past 4 years.

The prison says changes have already been made and nobody has

Kate Bradbrook has been at the inquest.

Michael Cameron had been charged with serious offences

He was dependent on alcohol and known to take drugs.

The inquest heard while in police custody he put

He was assessed as being at very high risk of self-harm.

When he was transferred to Woodhill Prison,

He was given a three-minute mental-health screening but never

referred for an urgent mental health review.

I think a mental health assessment should have been done for him

and if he had seen the doctor when he was there, he never saw

a doctor, I think Michael would still be with us today.

The jury was told while at Woodhill Prison razor blades were found

in his cell and handed to staff by his cell-mate.

Prescription medication was not always given because staff

were concerned he was under the influence of drugs.

On the day he was found hanged, his cell-mate

The inquest heard on that day Michael Cameron should have been

observed by staff every 30 minutes but he was found hanging 36

He died at Milton Keynes Hospital two days after being found

in his cell having suffered severe brain damage.

Today, the jury found there was a failure to carry out

adequate procedures and reviews and each of these failures

These conclusions are the same, Michael is the 14th self-inflicted

death between 2013 and 2016, it is dispiriting to ask the same

questions of off in the same witnesses and have the same answers.

It was the conclusion Michael's mother had been hoping

for but she says nothing will bring him back.

Following the national cyber security attack

affecting parts of the NHS, BBC South understands the health

trusts in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Swindon

In many parts of the country computer systems have been shut down

and contingency plans have been activated.

In some instances hackers have been demanding money to unlock systems.

Here, our health trusts have said they are "on alert"

New figures suggest more than 2-hundred cyclists have been

caught riding their bikes in parts of Oxford city centre

which are restricted to pedestrians in little more than a year.

Under the council's public spaces protection orders,

restrictions are in place in daylight hours on Queen Street

Campaigners say the rules arent clear enough,

Oxford is known for its high number of cyclists.

But here in this part of the city centre it is a pedestrian-only zone

during the day between 10 and 6, or should be.

We have only been here for a few minutes but already dozens

of cyclists are ignoring this ban like this one right here.

Campaigners say the signage isn't clear and it is too high.

They are not in the right place for where a cyclist

Especially with a lot of people on foot they are trying

to quite rightly make sure they don't interact with.

So the signs are not in the right place to make an effective message.

More than 230 cyclists have been caught breaching the rules according

And it says this type of offence is much more of a problem compared

to other behaviour they class as a nuisance like

Do you know you are not supposed to ride your bike along here?

Are you aware you're not allowed to ride your bike in this area?

I guess I was aware there were not that many bikes going down here.

Are you aware you are not allowed to ride your bike on here?

I'm never quite sure about this street when I am allowed.

Anyone caught flouting the ban is initially given a warning.

But repeat offenders can then be given a fixed penalty notice.

Are you aware you are not allowed to ride your bike along here?

New recommendations at Oxford City Council include

targeting groups like students who might be unaware of the rules

But it's clear some people just aren't bothered.

Are you aware you're not supposed to ride your bike on this road?

Are you aware you are breaking the rule?

As long as I don't run anyone over at this speed.

A week of action to target Rogue Traders has been carried out

Officers have been using Number Plate recognition cameras

to pull over vans and small trucks that are suspected of

More than a hundred vehicles were stopped.

Two drivers were found to have no licences and at least four

One unlicensed scrap metal dealer was stopped and will be formally

We target rogue traders which the community like.

We are looking for defective unroadworthy vehicles which is good

Every now and then we'll get someone who is wanted as well

Long delays are expected on the roads this weekend as part

of the M4 in West Berkshire will be fully closed.

There'll be no access to the motorway between junctions 12

The road was closed at 9 o'clock tonight and won't re-open

Alternative routes are expected to be extremely busy.

The weekend weather is coming up with Alexis, but that's it from us.

Hello and a very good evening to you. We have had some very heavy

downpours today but they have eased the way now, but there are one or

two night showers to be had through the course of the night. We will

have one or two holes in the cloud as well and looks like we will see a

mild night through the night, ten or 11 degrees the load. One pieces of

wet weather around through dawn, generally a bright start of the day.

We hope we will have sunny intervals and one or two showers could crop up

but in the sunshine temperatures pleasantly warm eyes of 17 or 18

degrees. There is rain overnight Saturday to Sunday, Sunday at self

shaping up to be another fine and bright day with some sunny spells

and scattered showers. Rain A bit of a mixed bag earlier on

today, some of us were cloudy with rain. This is the view from one of

our weather watchers in Cornwall. But in the Highlands of Scotland, it

was completely different, find, sunny and warm. The satellite and

radar picture shows the variety of weather we have had. It brightened

up into the afternoon, early