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It's 5 o'clock I'm Jane Killick the headlines Bev A cheer police were too busy to answer non-emergency number 2 charged after the deaths of pensioners in Buckinghamshire village and electricity generated from a mushroom P B C 3 counties radio but the chip police had to suspend answering calls to its non-emergency number last night because the force was so busy and unexpected spike in 999 calls calls the control room to stop taking calls on one o one for 2 hours Rachel Clendenning from beds police says they had 100 more emergency calls last night compared to the previous Tuesday night there was no one incident and that created a number of different calls there was just this 2 hour period where we received a number of calls regarding the number of quite you know serious incidents that it was just unusual to have it within that within that point. 2 men have been remanded in custody following the death of 2 pensioners in the bucking Shivan age of maids Morton guest lecturer at the University of backing M.P. To fire car died in 20157 months before retired headmistress and more Martin who lived 3 doors away Lee Agnew reports 28 year old churchwarden from only Benfield and 32 year old witch ition Martin Smith from Korbel a charge with the murder of Peter Farka they're also accused of attempting to murder and more Martin the facing other charges of fraud and burglary including that they falsely claimed another man had kidney problems and needed a dialysis machine worth more than $26000.00 pounds. And the parody to reappear it would crown court tomorrow people in Buckinghamshire he use home care services are being reassured by the council following the news that there are serious doubts about the future of allied health care the company is one of the largest providers in the country helping elderly and disabled people in their own homes today Bucks County Councils covenant member for health and wellbeing said contingency plans are being put in place for alternative providers if they're needed you are allied refute the concerns as premature and unwarranted Thames Valley Police say they are treating the death of a man in a spree as unexplained emergency services were called to Walton Street shortly before 4 o'clock this morning a cordon was put up while the investigation took place both sides of claim success in the U.S. Midterm elections after Democrats seized the House of Representatives but Republicans consolidated their grip on the Senate the Democratic majority in the lower chamber will be able to block President Trump's legislative program but control of the Senate ensures he can still make appointments. Scientists in the United States say they've successfully generated electricity from a mushroom The energy was produced using bacteria and tiny wires imprinted on the surface of the fungus has our environment correspondent simple bugs called cyanobacteria have an amazing ability to convert sunlight into electrical current the big problem has been that they don't survive long enough to deliver power however U.S. Researchers realized that mushrooms are fantastic hosts for bacteria so they developed especially that allow them to print the energy bugs on the cap of a white button mushroom when they shine a light on the mushroom tiny graphene wires collected a small amount of electricity not quite a light bulb moment but the researchers believe that the leap from fossil to fungus fuel may not be that far away and the weather showers dying away to leave a mostly clear and dry night for the lower 5 Celsius and get the latest news and sport online at B.B.C. Dot U.K. Slash 3 counties. Tease me till 9 am tomorrow morning it's the J.B.S. From 6 o'clock tomorrow morning it's Andy Collins now it's read that ever only on B.B.C. Counties radio get off and stop politics because the government has announced plans to try to get community groups into empty high street shops it's all part of a drive to try and rejuvenate our town centers our political reporter 30 Bon Senora is in Westminster forests this of their own 21 is the government proposing evening without So yes so what they're proposing here is a matchmaking service if you like so what they want to do is trying to match up with them to units in town centers with community groups who need space but com afford their own premises now this is only a pilot that's being announced today so essentially landlords at the moment are being invited to participate then they will hopefully be matched up with community groups this is only happening in 5 there is an issue. And the government will provide money to do those units up and also at the same time pay for business rates for a period it's part of this drive as you say the government's got really woken up I think to this issue on our high streets the challenges facing our high streets he says that he wants to be imaginative it says in tackling the problem and this is part of their imaginative ideas and it says it wants to create vibrant community hubs where people work live and shop will it work well big question I mean Will any of these things work we know so now the Government's announced business rate relief for small firms in the budget and also wants to boost housing in town centers but the challenges which I report on pretty much every day facing high streets are huge I mean let's just outline some of them crying for example just here in Parliament yesterday we were hearing about a wave of sin sent synthetic drugs hitting high streets across the country and it is true I know people are a little wary of our going to town centers of certain times because they don't feel that safe and there are the problems facing retailers and they are immense So they're at least as big the problems facing retail as they were back when war with swine about 10 years ago if not if not worse we've got wave of retailers that have hit the wall of those considering closing stores and I don't think that's going to change and then of course this more fundamental perhaps change in all RINGBACK of us that a lot of people don't want to go out on the streets anymore they want to shop I think on their on their phone or go to an out of town retail sale where it's easy to park if it's old and given all of those challenges and I are it manged challenge is one thing is that perhaps that the government is facing something of an uphill struggle Tony what does Labor say in this what labor talks about this in its conference just a few weeks ago now they've got their own 5 point plan for this sorry things like stopping bank branch closures free bus travel for the under 20 five's they want to review of business or rates as well now the problem for Labor. And those ideas is that they're either going to be very expensive or going to going to be difficult to enforce when you think about that free bus travel or forcing banks to stop closing bank branches even though more and more of us are doing our banking online you know and when will they get the chance to do that this is a problem that's moving very very quickly I think our fundamental questions here I mean we do have a parliamentary inquiry going on here we have a review by the retired US A John Timpson but I think they're grappling with fundamental questions how much to we want to save our streets how big should they pay for we do want to cite them what do we want them to look like and I think so far nobody really his center here in Westminster is come up with any really convincing ideas Tony thank you our political reporter Tony buns in your life from our Westminster studios It's 8 minutes past Father's come back to local stories here in the 3 counties we have. We've covered the issue of suicide in prisons all too often on my program for free but one prison in our patch Woodhill in Milton Keynes is working hard to try to improve conditions that in the 5 years to 2017 Woodhill had the highest suicide rate of inmates in the country but since then only one man has taken his own life report in the club has been given exclusive access to wood Hill prison she spoke to prison officer Dave Herring who explained the procedure for a new image so soon as they arrived they were met by one of our 1st not sense for officers conduct the 1st night tend to interview and ask me how that you know there are there to be no this could potentially be a lot of crisis confusion might be upset not sure what the process is and what's going to happen we also have our pay support workers which are prisoners that are trying to our prison insiders. To support for that process as well make sure that gives them some reassurance that other people who have been through the same process as them all right and what in treatment you may take in defense nights and because of. Problems in the policy the right thing we've. Tragically some men lost their lives and as a result of that. Recommendations from the P.P.R. In their car and we decided to completely streamline dies in custody process with the implementation of the guys in custody but quit that we say here which is central to everything that we do on hair. Using I hope person approaches and all the different agencies that we have. We share information as early as possible and we make sure that all the men are same by all to difficult to support we go ahead mental health saying chaplain say to 1st not sent to stuff to pay support workers and we make sure that for the 1st 3 to 5 days or. In custody we're all sharing information and fully reviewing and making sure that yeah there are safe as possible you've been here a few years visit quite tough on those occasions we've had someone. Get back on track Yeah. If so we are one big you know we're all one big Woodhill family and it is tragic when something like that happens and it's difficult to deal with for the prisoners and for the staff that work but we do our best to support each other to support the prisoners and to carry on and to make sure that as we have done to learn from any mistakes and to keep improving and to make sure that people who are are safe as they possibly can be and and we have done that since 2006 thing the core processor thing we do is in custody but quit you know it's under constant review you should be constantly reviewing our own process to make sure that we're doing things is as well as we can do the amount of information that gets shared in here from the different agencies 100 percent has saved lives here it would have no doubts about. US prison if the Dave herring that our reporter Nick lays I would suspect the girl. Who told her it's a challenging place to go is a very complex prison so we have a wide range of men that stay with us right from Ramond prison is you may be found innocent person is guilty for a couple of weeks right up to men who all then serving long sentences in a high risk category a prisoner so all of the time we then after we are trying our best to look after his range of men who have a walk through that gate comes into fact and we're committed to looking after them so I've got to ask you about the late inspection showed that there was a rise in violence and so Holland said that violent incidents had doubled last year and there was a big rise in self home incidents what's causing that we aren't alone in that is the 1st thing I'd say. And we take it really seriously that there's been any escalation of violence or self Om I think part of the problem is being that we are expecting men to come into our care and adjust and adapt according to our rules where is the reality is that as you well know suicides outside of prison is one of the highest reasons for deaths in young men at the moment and so when that's happening outside they come into our care and it is exactly the same risk facts is sometimes exacerbated because of the hopelessness that they feel about whatever the crime was about what their family or friends will think of them receiving the custody of sentence and also their fear about coming into custody what is prison like who am I going to meet I think that one of things that we hear from men is that they will be most fearful about needing to share a cell with somebody else who they've never full and honestly I understand and we are working on all of those things at the moment in terms of being able to risk reduce both in the in the case of self harm and also in the case of it because you have such proportion of fuel population here have mental health issues and we do when I last looked we measured about 80 percent so 80 percent of our 600 men will have some level of mental health needs right up to the most serious where we have very very ill individuals who have been brought into custody and then we need to get them that assessment and get them out to secure hospitals in some cases and one of the things that we've been doing with that team is upscaling ourselves you know what I knew about mental health before I started working it would tell was far less than I do now so actually starting that line of is it OK to do it or you know we've taken that quip and said you know all the questions if you don't know something all scouts. So we've sort of spirit of. What we then we've encouraged. A whole range of training from professional mental health clinicians coming in to talk to us about behavior about manifestation right up to people's own stories also we've used to help us understand what it feels like to be in custody with some of those things. Coming through. Is seen by. The governor. To. Use weather headlines and come back with the effect. From 6 tonight we're talking family life stories and in the studio joining. Matt and Major around. 3 Counties radio. Only and. From before junction 20. All the way to 23 and. Full recovery work. Accident the M one. With. From junction. Closed accident taking almost an hour to get through. Southbound between the. Results. From the brownstone. Write. Down. 3 counties. Thank you more from Emma in the next 50 minutes motorways main routes in town centers your travel story that's the trouble story that's important please stay safe and stay legal but when you share travel news with us it does make a really big difference your news headlines this Wednesday often in a place have had to suspend all calls to its non-emergency number last night because the force was so busy and unexpected spike in 9000 calls calls the control room to stop taking calls on $11.00 for 2 hours in the unused 2 minute interment in custody following the death of 2 pensioners in the village of maids Malton 28 year old Ben field from owning and 32 year old Martin Smith from Cornwall are charged with the murder of Peter Falk OD and defendant mother of more Martin and people who use care home services are being reassured by the Council for the news that there are serious doubts about the future of allied health care the company is one of the largest providers in the country helping elderly and disabled people in their own homes your 3 counties where you saw most the client is clear and dry tonight B.B.C. 3 Counties radio. 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Terry these fines not simply cuts it's sounds like a money setting exercise now like all public services were under pressure to keep costs down but this is a cost cutting exercise. Abundant technologies and ways of working can help us provide a similar or even better service was also saving money right so it's not a money saving exercise but how much money would you save. Up a consultation. On what you go up the consultation and when you have. Everybody. You. Counsel that would evaluate if there is an opportunity to be more efficient OK that's just some of these ideas. Just explain how these the rapid response vehicles could work well we have because our engine sweep a lattice and B. Host pipes and lots of water that's not always needed at the event but our park is going to let me give an example if you try to get a charge out of a lift for example you don't need a lot as part of water and also. Quicker because the traffic in Africa move quicker through traffic because the smaller This is not you know I guess. And we see as an opportunity for us to modernize Yes we still have a very big bus. Flashing lights. And pipes etc that we need to provide those sorts of incidents but there are instances where you don't think back and that's when we could deploy more efficient voice OK but I don't think you'll have the time. The resource of funding Mr Tracy could select which of his sons would send out surely you send out a fire engine with all the tools available and then the firefighters can decide what to do with their time not the council and we don't get a quick clarification if you think complicated of granny who got to so about once to get him going and so the party and the people of course Center will be able to evaluate whether or not we need to send a big regularly or whether we can find a rapid response that will get there quicker and be more effective What difference . Does this mean that 50 people 50 firefighters will lose their jobs no it does not yeah we can expect to make any dances this time some people go out with my child. That happens all the time if I was just trying to enormously Iraq food and that's going to continue we know that would be something occur responding with doing that you're trying to increase by at the moment I have a quote to back starting up when you say change Terry if you've got a fully trained very experienced firefighter What would you ask him or her to do next if you want to change the job. So I asked on the question you said they might change their roles. Because they're doing other busy things the firefighter not only doing what's right what you think firefighters are which are putting out fires there are a lot of other things as well carrying it thank Thankfully these dice fire functors doesn't spend all that time fighting fires we don't we have very few fires thank goodness but we have these in emergency service that is able to respond to a very broad spectrum of interests there are blooming amazing to see the people that's a fantastic way to firefighters we have an opportunity and we prize a regular quite quickly but every incident different and therefore it needs to be evaluated immediately by by our team and they will evaluate it maybe and see what resources need to go that far far too just like to fight fires across laws but I say you still thank goodness because of all the protection work that we do another 30 stone and people to people put in smoke detectors and businesses put in their own systems into 2 were down about 5 so the sorts of things go on and that's why the number of fires going down drastically that climbing a bit now but certainly tell the last 10 or 15 years the number