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A man from Oxford says he and his partner are desperate | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
after an explosion forced them out last month. | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
It's still not known what caused the blast, | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
which caused a three storey block of flats to collapse | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
Ian Francis, who's partially sighted, | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
says he feels let down by the housing group responsible | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
for the flats and claims the repair work is taking too long. | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
For Ian Francis, who's been blind since birth, | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
since last month's explosion here in Osney Mead. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Ian, take me back to last month when the explosion happened. | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
What were you doing and where were you when you heard the news? | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
I heard what I thought was a thunderclap over in Cowley | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
and then the next thing I knew I was getting a telephone call off | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
the Oxford Mail and they asked me if I knew anything about the explosion | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
Obviously I had to say no, so we rushed straight down | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
there and we weren't allowed anywhere near. | :01:04. | :01:04. | |
The thought hit me, what if we had been in there at the time | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
or just walking past when the explosion struck? | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
Earlier this month, police confirmed one man, | :01:11. | :01:11. | |
48-year-old Guido Schuette, died in the blast. | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
You've been away from your home for three-and-a-half, four weeks now. | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
You must be desperate to get back home. | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
The people where we are, the other residents there, | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
But the room that we are in is a small room | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
I've not been able to take my assistance dog there. | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
Trying to find our way round a new area with visual | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
You were supposed to be back at home today but you're not there. | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
Sammy and I returned there yesterday evening to get the flat ready | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
to get rid of all the smelly food from the freezer. | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
Whilst cleaning, I went outside to throw rubbish away | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
and found outside my door there was water everywhere. | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
The drainage wasn't working properly. | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
Also two radiators in the bedroom and in the bathroom, | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
they are not working any more plus there's flickering lights | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
In a statement, A2 Dominion told us: | :02:11. | :02:30. | |
You're saying there are still problems | :02:31. | :02:31. | |
How long will it be then until you get back? | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
How long do you think you will be able to wait for? | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
I want to be back in within the next few days. | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
Sammy and I are desperate to go home. | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
We really want to go home, but with all these things coming up | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
with A2 Dominion and the way that we've been treated | :02:52. | :02:53. | |
by A2 Dominion, I'm losing all faith and respect for the housing | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
association and the people who run it. | :02:58. | :02:59. | |
Ian Francis talking to Adina Campbell. | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
Nearly ?10,000 has been raised for the family | :03:05. | :03:06. | |
of a Buckinghamshire man - who was killed in a car | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
24-year-old Anthony Copperwheat died last Sunday. | :03:10. | :03:11. | |
He was in the country as a seasonal worker. | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
His employers have set up a charity webpage | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
to raise funds to fly his body home. | :03:17. | :03:17. | |
Two days of planned strikes across Oxford bus company routes | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
later this month have been called off. | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
Workers were unhappy about the pay they received | :03:23. | :03:23. | |
This afternoon the Unite union and the bus company have released | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
a joint statement saying they're working towards | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
Police in South Oxfordshire are appealing for witnesses | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
after 15 prize-winning chickens and cockerels were stolen | :03:36. | :03:37. | |
were stolen from outbuildings overnight on Monday. | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
Their owner fears they've been taken for cock fighting. | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
A company developing driverless cars in Oxfordshire says it's already | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
bidding for a share of ?270 million promised by the Chancellor | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
Philip Hammond said he was setting the money aside | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
for different technologies, including autonomous vehicles. | :04:03. | :04:03. | |
Our political reporter Bethan Phillips | :04:04. | :04:04. | |
has been to Culham to find out more. | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
It sounds like something from Tomorrow's World. | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
Letting go of the wheel and letting a computer do the driving. | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
But the future's not as far away as we might think, according | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
to experts in Oxfordshire, and it could help solve some | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
If we can centrally control where the autonomous cars are driving, | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
maybe we can have different cars take different routes | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
and reduce congestion, though if the cars can communicate | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
with each other then perhaps we can have them travelling more closely | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
together on the motorways, maybe even at higher speeds. | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
So because the cars can all communicate with each other, | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
it's much safer and we can look much further ahead than we could do | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
So what is it actually like travelling in a driverless car? | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
So it's essentially answering three questions of where am I? | :04:53. | :05:01. | |
Like a GPS can say I know where I am. | :05:02. | :05:09. | |
For what's around us, we have the laser sensors | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
What to do next is inside the computer. | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
The government is sending clear signals it believes | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
It's now hoped that some of the ?270 million announced | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
in this week's Budget for new technology will find | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
So we're already applying for some of that grant funding. | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
It's very important for a small company like us to get these sorts | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
of grants because it really helps us grow. | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
It helps us to take more risks on projects. | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
And when it comes to trying out driverless cars, | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
Culham Science Centre is the perfect place. | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
It's got a network of roads but is also a fairly | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
There are plans for it to become a major testing site, | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
putting Oxfordshire at the forefront of this technology. | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
Well, it's been great because we've seen the evolution. | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
We started off some time ago with cars just going around closed | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
car parks and just trying to get from A to B. | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
And then we've extended onto the roads and we've used | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
an increasing amount of our road network with roundabouts, | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
crossroads and we've seen the technology evolve. | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
The Oxford-based company behind this car are hoping to triple | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
And with the knowledge and expertise that Oxfordshire has, | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
it's expected the county will remain in the driving seat | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
when it comes to getting this technology out on our roads. | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
Alexis is next with the weekend weather forecast. | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
A murky night to come, and maybe some mist and fog patches | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
in places, and a good deal of cloud, as well. | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
But it will be mild, with temperatures dropping | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
Quite a murky start of the day tomorrow, | :06:53. | :07:00. | |
with hilltop mist and fog first thing, but through the course | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
of the morning we are hopeful that we will see some dry air | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
pushing the cloud away and allowing for some sunshine. | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
And through the course of the day, temperatures will do very nicely | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
with slightly more cloud for northern areas | :07:14. | :07:15. | |
Sunday, we'll have rain at times during the course of the day | :07:16. | :07:25. | |
Monday should be mainly dry with sunny spells. | :07:26. | :07:41. | |
Where the sunshine broke through to the North of Cornwall temperatures | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
rose to 17 degrees under the blue skies. For many of us the cloud | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
didn't break up through the day, keeping temperatures pegged at | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
around about 13 degrees. That was the high today in the London region. | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
Mild over night with the blanket of cloud around. Most places dry. Rain | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
will work into parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland through the | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
early hours | :08:07. | :08:07. |