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A man from Oxford says he and his partner are desperate

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after an explosion forced them out last month.

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It's still not known what caused the blast,

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which caused a three storey block of flats to collapse

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Ian Francis, who's partially sighted,

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says he feels let down by the housing group responsible

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for the flats and claims the repair work is taking too long.

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For Ian Francis, who's been blind since birth,

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since last month's explosion here in Osney Mead.

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Ian, take me back to last month when the explosion happened.

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What were you doing and where were you when you heard the news?

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I heard what I thought was a thunderclap over in Cowley

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and then the next thing I knew I was getting a telephone call off

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the Oxford Mail and they asked me if I knew anything about the explosion

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Obviously I had to say no, so we rushed straight down

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there and we weren't allowed anywhere near.

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The thought hit me, what if we had been in there at the time

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or just walking past when the explosion struck?

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Earlier this month, police confirmed one man,

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48-year-old Guido Schuette, died in the blast.

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You've been away from your home for three-and-a-half, four weeks now.

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You must be desperate to get back home.

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The people where we are, the other residents there,

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But the room that we are in is a small room

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I've not been able to take my assistance dog there.

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Trying to find our way round a new area with visual

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You were supposed to be back at home today but you're not there.

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Sammy and I returned there yesterday evening to get the flat ready

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to get rid of all the smelly food from the freezer.

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Whilst cleaning, I went outside to throw rubbish away

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and found outside my door there was water everywhere.

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The drainage wasn't working properly.

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Also two radiators in the bedroom and in the bathroom,

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they are not working any more plus there's flickering lights

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In a statement, A2 Dominion told us:

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You're saying there are still problems

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How long will it be then until you get back?

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How long do you think you will be able to wait for?

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I want to be back in within the next few days.

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Sammy and I are desperate to go home.

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We really want to go home, but with all these things coming up

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with A2 Dominion and the way that we've been treated

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by A2 Dominion, I'm losing all faith and respect for the housing

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association and the people who run it.

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Ian Francis talking to Adina Campbell.

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Nearly ?10,000 has been raised for the family

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of a Buckinghamshire man - who was killed in a car

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24-year-old Anthony Copperwheat died last Sunday.

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He was in the country as a seasonal worker.

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His employers have set up a charity webpage

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to raise funds to fly his body home.

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Two days of planned strikes across Oxford bus company routes

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later this month have been called off.

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Workers were unhappy about the pay they received

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This afternoon the Unite union and the bus company have released

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a joint statement saying they're working towards

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Police in South Oxfordshire are appealing for witnesses

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after 15 prize-winning chickens and cockerels were stolen

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were stolen from outbuildings overnight on Monday.

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Their owner fears they've been taken for cock fighting.

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A company developing driverless cars in Oxfordshire says it's already

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bidding for a share of ?270 million promised by the Chancellor

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Philip Hammond said he was setting the money aside

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for different technologies, including autonomous vehicles.

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Our political reporter Bethan Phillips

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has been to Culham to find out more.

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It sounds like something from Tomorrow's World.

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Letting go of the wheel and letting a computer do the driving.

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But the future's not as far away as we might think, according

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to experts in Oxfordshire, and it could help solve some

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If we can centrally control where the autonomous cars are driving,

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maybe we can have different cars take different routes

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and reduce congestion, though if the cars can communicate

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with each other then perhaps we can have them travelling more closely

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together on the motorways, maybe even at higher speeds.

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So because the cars can all communicate with each other,

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it's much safer and we can look much further ahead than we could do

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So what is it actually like travelling in a driverless car?

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So it's essentially answering three questions of where am I?

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Like a GPS can say I know where I am.

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For what's around us, we have the laser sensors

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What to do next is inside the computer.

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The government is sending clear signals it believes

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It's now hoped that some of the ?270 million announced

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in this week's Budget for new technology will find

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So we're already applying for some of that grant funding.

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It's very important for a small company like us to get these sorts

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of grants because it really helps us grow.

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It helps us to take more risks on projects.

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And when it comes to trying out driverless cars,

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Culham Science Centre is the perfect place.

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It's got a network of roads but is also a fairly

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There are plans for it to become a major testing site,

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putting Oxfordshire at the forefront of this technology.

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Well, it's been great because we've seen the evolution.

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We started off some time ago with cars just going around closed

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car parks and just trying to get from A to B.

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And then we've extended onto the roads and we've used

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an increasing amount of our road network with roundabouts,

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crossroads and we've seen the technology evolve.

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The Oxford-based company behind this car are hoping to triple

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And with the knowledge and expertise that Oxfordshire has,

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it's expected the county will remain in the driving seat

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when it comes to getting this technology out on our roads.

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Alexis is next with the weekend weather forecast.

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A murky night to come, and maybe some mist and fog patches

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in places, and a good deal of cloud, as well.

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But it will be mild, with temperatures dropping

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Quite a murky start of the day tomorrow,

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with hilltop mist and fog first thing, but through the course

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of the morning we are hopeful that we will see some dry air

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pushing the cloud away and allowing for some sunshine.

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And through the course of the day, temperatures will do very nicely

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with slightly more cloud for northern areas

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Sunday, we'll have rain at times during the course of the day

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Monday should be mainly dry with sunny spells.

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Where the sunshine broke through to the North of Cornwall temperatures

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rose to 17 degrees under the blue skies. For many of us the cloud

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didn't break up through the day, keeping temperatures pegged at

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around about 13 degrees. That was the high today in the London region.

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Mild over night with the blanket of cloud around. Most places dry. Rain

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will work into parts of Northern Ireland and Scotland through the

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early hours

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