:00:12. > :00:20.Welcome to the programme. Were Oxfordshire is confident its
:00:20. > :00:23.recycling more rubbish than anywhere else in the country.
:00:23. > :00:29.Plans for a �40 million shopping centre revamp are submitted amid
:00:29. > :00:39.claims local businesses will suffer. Determined to maintain rowing
:00:39. > :00:43.
:00:44. > :00:47.success, the path Olympians hoping Oxfordshire hopes to be named the
:00:47. > :00:49.top place in Britain for recycling household waste. Its waste
:00:49. > :00:54.partnership claims the average recycling and composting rate will
:00:54. > :00:57.exceed that which any other English COUNTY has ever reached before.
:00:57. > :01:00.Three of Oxfordshire's district councils are predicted to make the
:01:00. > :01:05.top five, when the league tables for recycling are published later
:01:05. > :01:08.this year. It's good news for the county's finances, with more than
:01:08. > :01:15.three million pounds saved in landfill tax. Nikki Mitchell
:01:15. > :01:19.reports. It is not a pleasant job but this
:01:19. > :01:26.is how people who dispose of our waste find out if we are putting
:01:26. > :01:34.the right things in the right bins. Even here, many of us get it wrong.
:01:34. > :01:40.A third to a quarter of the waste bins a recycling, a food waste,
:01:41. > :01:44.plastic so we would encourage residents to do more. Three of all
:01:44. > :01:51.such as councils are expected to make the top five in the recycling
:01:51. > :02:01.league table. Vale and South Oxfordshire are expected to top the
:02:01. > :02:15.
:02:15. > :02:19.Cities usually have a lower recycling rate than rural areas but
:02:19. > :02:24.Oxfordshire acknowledges it could do better. It is trying cash for
:02:24. > :02:30.trash, there are prizes to be one for recycling in Barton. I will
:02:30. > :02:35.tell Dad which thing goes in which been. We put us out on the correct
:02:35. > :02:40.date anyway because you get in trouble if you don't. People should
:02:40. > :02:46.not need to be bribed. Battery recycling is being rolled out,
:02:46. > :02:50.every piece of rubbish there can be recycled helps push the average up.
:02:50. > :02:56.Provision the box that it could be recite think over 60%, this is
:02:56. > :03:04.fantastic news for us, better than expected. We had a target of 55% of
:03:04. > :03:09.household waste by Twenty20, we are smashing the target. The website
:03:09. > :03:14.says the provisional 60% recycling rate average is very impressive.
:03:14. > :03:17.The rates are no English county has yet reached.
:03:17. > :03:21.Meanwhile there's been a setback to recycling plans in Aylesbury. The
:03:21. > :03:24.delivery of new bins to some residents has been delayed. The
:03:24. > :03:28.council says homes affected are mostly in rural areas, where access
:03:28. > :03:32.roads are too narrow for the delivery lorries to get through.
:03:32. > :03:37.The council is now hoping all bins will be in place in time for a new
:03:37. > :03:39.collection service to start in September.
:03:39. > :03:43.The bodies of three soldiers killed in Afghanistan have been
:03:43. > :03:46.repatriated through RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire. Lieutenant
:03:46. > :03:50.Andrew Robert Chesterman, of 3rd Battalion The Rifles, was shot on
:03:50. > :03:53.August the 9th. Lance Corporal Matthew Smith, from the Royal
:03:53. > :04:00.Engineers, died the following day - and Guardsman Jamie Shadrake, of
:04:00. > :04:03.the Grenadier Guards, was killed on Friday.
:04:03. > :04:07.Police are appealing for help in tracing a teenager who's gone
:04:07. > :04:12.missing from his home in Oxford. Abu Bakkar, who's 15 and lives in
:04:12. > :04:16.Barton, was last seen over a week ago. He was reported missing to the
:04:16. > :04:20.police on Wednesday. When he was last seen he was wearing a short
:04:20. > :04:24.sleeved blue and white shirt, jeans, and carrying a black rucksack.
:04:24. > :04:27.Anyone who's seen him is asked to contact the police.
:04:27. > :04:29.Campaigners in Milton Keynes say plans for a multi-million pound
:04:29. > :04:34.redevelopment of the town's main shopping centre will spell disaster
:04:34. > :04:39.for local traders. Today shopping centre managers submitted their
:04:39. > :04:42.proposals to the council. But, as the project would mean moving the
:04:42. > :04:50.market and closing one of the main bridges in the centre, it's proving
:04:50. > :04:54.controversial. Jo Black has more. Prime mark has been trying to
:04:54. > :04:59.establish itself in the town for years and if the plans get the go-
:04:59. > :05:04.ahead, it could be basting 90,000 square feet of this new retail
:05:04. > :05:11.space. That would mean a shop smaller than the current John Lewis
:05:11. > :05:15.store. We are concerned if we do not involve the station -- centre
:05:15. > :05:22.then customers will not return and it will become a secondary shopping
:05:22. > :05:27.destination. We have to be able to make it as modern and functional
:05:27. > :05:31.and pleasing for shoppers as it can so they come back again and again.
:05:32. > :05:38.If this is approved, the market would have to move. The layout
:05:38. > :05:44.would have to change. At this bridge, it would have to go. Making
:05:44. > :05:48.way for a pedestrianised area. do not need to ripped out
:05:48. > :05:53.infrastructure for a shock. In 15 years or five years, if they do
:05:53. > :05:57.this Prime Mark could move out of Milton Keynes and his somewhere
:05:57. > :06:02.else or it may not be here. The damage will be permanent and the
:06:02. > :06:05.damage will be done. The plans have been submitted to the borough
:06:05. > :06:08.council and the decision looks likely in the next six weeks.
:06:08. > :06:12.Charges for long-stay parking at two of Oxford's park and ride sites
:06:12. > :06:15.could be introduced, under new proposals. The county council wants
:06:15. > :06:20.motorists to pay if they leave their cars for more than eleven
:06:20. > :06:23.hours, at the two sites it controls - Thornhill and Water Eaton. It
:06:23. > :06:26.says the move is aimed at protecting the park and ride sites
:06:26. > :06:33.for daily travel into Oxford, rather than travel to airports. It
:06:33. > :06:35.expects to make about ?150,000 a year from the changes.
:06:35. > :06:39.Work to improve security at Aylesbury Young Offenders
:06:39. > :06:42.Institution has been given the go- ahead. A new gatehouse will be
:06:42. > :06:44.built at the prison, after planning permission was granted by local
:06:44. > :06:48.councillors. The upgrade will also involve demolishing the perimeter
:06:48. > :06:54.fence and building a new replacement wall. New security
:06:54. > :06:57.grills will also be installed. A memorial service has been held to
:06:57. > :07:01.mark the 70th anniversary of a wartime air collision over Chipping
:07:02. > :07:07.Norton. All eight aircrew died in the crash, which happened on this
:07:07. > :07:11.day in 1942. Despite wreckage being strewn throughout the town, no-one
:07:11. > :07:21.on the ground was killed. Sinead Carroll has been to speak to people
:07:21. > :07:27.
:07:27. > :07:32.who saw the accident - who told her We were woken up with this awful
:07:32. > :07:40.noise, we didn't know at the time what it was. And when we lifted up
:07:40. > :07:43.the blackouts we could just see all these flames in Church Street.
:07:43. > :07:46.year-old Joan Willers' still has vivid memories of the early hours
:07:46. > :07:49.of August 21st 1942 when two planes collided above the skies of
:07:49. > :07:54.Chipping Norton. We could see this plane going round and round and
:07:54. > :07:57.then all of a sudden it crashed down here. And of course it was all
:07:57. > :08:00.mayhem, and nobody was allowed down the street and all sorts of things.
:08:00. > :08:04.This is what people would have seen circling, in flames above the
:08:04. > :08:07.Chipping Norton skies, the Vickers Wellington bomber. It's thought it
:08:07. > :08:09.was painted black on its underside- to make it harder for enemies to
:08:09. > :08:12.spot. Tragically during the blackout alley craft- like the
:08:12. > :08:14.Airspeed Oxford Trainer couldn't see it either. After the service
:08:14. > :08:20.the congregation moved up Church Street to the memorial plaque on
:08:20. > :08:26.the very spot where the bomber came down after the collision scattering
:08:26. > :08:29.remnants across Church Street and Chipping Norton. The service
:08:29. > :08:34.remembered the 34 other unidentified air crew who died
:08:34. > :08:41.during training near Chipping Norton during World War II. There
:08:41. > :08:44.was no radar, it was human error in the dark, young chaps and they will
:08:44. > :08:54.probably concentrating on what they were doing and did not see each
:08:54. > :08:58.
:08:58. > :09:01.other. The RAF's Latin motto, engraved on the memorial plaque is
:09:01. > :09:03.a fitting tribute to those who died in action 'through struggle to the
:09:03. > :09:06.stars'. All four of four of our teams are
:09:06. > :09:09.in action this evening. In League One, the MK Dons match at
:09:09. > :09:12.Bournemouth is live on BBC Three Counties radio. BBC Wiltshire
:09:12. > :09:15.brings you commentary on Swindon against Crawley. In League Two,
:09:15. > :09:21.Oxford United aim to continue their good start to the season. They're
:09:21. > :09:26.playing Southend - BBC Radio Oxford brings you that game on 95.2FM.
:09:26. > :09:28.Wycombe are in action against Gillingham.
:09:28. > :09:37.The Milton Keynes Olympian Greg Rutherford is getting a hero's
:09:37. > :09:44.welcome home this evening. Hundreds turned out to greet him as he