21/08/2012 BBC Oxford News

Welcome to the programme. Were Oxfordshire is confident its

recycling more rubbish than anywhere else in the country.

Plans for a �40 million shopping centre revamp are submitted amid

claims local businesses will suffer. Determined to maintain rowing

success, the path Olympians hoping Oxfordshire hopes to be named the

top place in Britain for recycling household waste. Its waste

partnership claims the average recycling and composting rate will

exceed that which any other English COUNTY has ever reached before.

Three of Oxfordshire's district councils are predicted to make the

top five, when the league tables for recycling are published later

this year. It's good news for the county's finances, with more than

three million pounds saved in landfill tax. Nikki Mitchell

reports. It is not a pleasant job but this

is how people who dispose of our waste find out if we are putting

the right things in the right bins. Even here, many of us get it wrong.

A third to a quarter of the waste bins a recycling, a food waste,

plastic so we would encourage residents to do more. Three of all

such as councils are expected to make the top five in the recycling

league table. Vale and South Oxfordshire are expected to top the

Cities usually have a lower recycling rate than rural areas but

Oxfordshire acknowledges it could do better. It is trying cash for

trash, there are prizes to be one for recycling in Barton. I will

tell Dad which thing goes in which been. We put us out on the correct

date anyway because you get in trouble if you don't. People should

not need to be bribed. Battery recycling is being rolled out,

every piece of rubbish there can be recycled helps push the average up.

Provision the box that it could be recite think over 60%, this is

fantastic news for us, better than expected. We had a target of 55% of

household waste by Twenty20, we are smashing the target. The website

says the provisional 60% recycling rate average is very impressive.

The rates are no English county has yet reached.

Meanwhile there's been a setback to recycling plans in Aylesbury. The

delivery of new bins to some residents has been delayed. The

council says homes affected are mostly in rural areas, where access

roads are too narrow for the delivery lorries to get through.

The council is now hoping all bins will be in place in time for a new

collection service to start in September.

The bodies of three soldiers killed in Afghanistan have been

repatriated through RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire. Lieutenant

Andrew Robert Chesterman, of 3rd Battalion The Rifles, was shot on

August the 9th. Lance Corporal Matthew Smith, from the Royal

Engineers, died the following day - and Guardsman Jamie Shadrake, of

the Grenadier Guards, was killed on Friday.

Police are appealing for help in tracing a teenager who's gone

missing from his home in Oxford. Abu Bakkar, who's 15 and lives in

Barton, was last seen over a week ago. He was reported missing to the

police on Wednesday. When he was last seen he was wearing a short

sleeved blue and white shirt, jeans, and carrying a black rucksack.

Anyone who's seen him is asked to contact the police.

Campaigners in Milton Keynes say plans for a multi-million pound

redevelopment of the town's main shopping centre will spell disaster

for local traders. Today shopping centre managers submitted their

proposals to the council. But, as the project would mean moving the

market and closing one of the main bridges in the centre, it's proving

controversial. Jo Black has more. Prime mark has been trying to

establish itself in the town for years and if the plans get the go-

ahead, it could be basting 90,000 square feet of this new retail

space. That would mean a shop smaller than the current John Lewis

store. We are concerned if we do not involve the station -- centre

then customers will not return and it will become a secondary shopping

destination. We have to be able to make it as modern and functional

and pleasing for shoppers as it can so they come back again and again.

If this is approved, the market would have to move. The layout

would have to change. At this bridge, it would have to go. Making

way for a pedestrianised area. do not need to ripped out

infrastructure for a shock. In 15 years or five years, if they do

this Prime Mark could move out of Milton Keynes and his somewhere

else or it may not be here. The damage will be permanent and the

damage will be done. The plans have been submitted to the borough

council and the decision looks likely in the next six weeks.

Charges for long-stay parking at two of Oxford's park and ride sites

could be introduced, under new proposals. The county council wants

motorists to pay if they leave their cars for more than eleven

hours, at the two sites it controls - Thornhill and Water Eaton. It

says the move is aimed at protecting the park and ride sites

for daily travel into Oxford, rather than travel to airports. It

expects to make about ?150,000 a year from the changes.

Work to improve security at Aylesbury Young Offenders

Institution has been given the go- ahead. A new gatehouse will be

built at the prison, after planning permission was granted by local

councillors. The upgrade will also involve demolishing the perimeter

fence and building a new replacement wall. New security

grills will also be installed. A memorial service has been held to

mark the 70th anniversary of a wartime air collision over Chipping

Norton. All eight aircrew died in the crash, which happened on this

day in 1942. Despite wreckage being strewn throughout the town, no-one

on the ground was killed. Sinead Carroll has been to speak to people

who saw the accident - who told her We were woken up with this awful

noise, we didn't know at the time what it was. And when we lifted up

the blackouts we could just see all these flames in Church Street.

year-old Joan Willers' still has vivid memories of the early hours

of August 21st 1942 when two planes collided above the skies of

Chipping Norton. We could see this plane going round and round and

then all of a sudden it crashed down here. And of course it was all

mayhem, and nobody was allowed down the street and all sorts of things.

This is what people would have seen circling, in flames above the

Chipping Norton skies, the Vickers Wellington bomber. It's thought it

was painted black on its underside- to make it harder for enemies to

spot. Tragically during the blackout alley craft- like the

Airspeed Oxford Trainer couldn't see it either. After the service

the congregation moved up Church Street to the memorial plaque on

the very spot where the bomber came down after the collision scattering

remnants across Church Street and Chipping Norton. The service

remembered the 34 other unidentified air crew who died

during training near Chipping Norton during World War II. There

was no radar, it was human error in the dark, young chaps and they will

probably concentrating on what they were doing and did not see each

other. The RAF's Latin motto, engraved on the memorial plaque is

a fitting tribute to those who died in action 'through struggle to the

stars'. All four of four of our teams are

in action this evening. In League One, the MK Dons match at

Bournemouth is live on BBC Three Counties radio. BBC Wiltshire

brings you commentary on Swindon against Crawley. In League Two,

Oxford United aim to continue their good start to the season. They're

playing Southend - BBC Radio Oxford brings you that game on 95.2FM.

Wycombe are in action against Gillingham.

The Milton Keynes Olympian Greg Rutherford is getting a hero's

welcome home this evening. Hundreds turned out to greet him as he