06/02/2014 BBC Oxford News

today, the coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death ` saying

quickly to tackle suspected child sexual abuse. The reform comes in

the wake of Operation Bullfinch ` which saw seven men jailed last year

for grooming vulnerable young girls in Oxford. It was the idea of the

Oxford West and Abingdon MP Nicola Blackwood, who told me she hopes

that children at risk will better protected.

The government's new sexual risk orders are going to make a

significant difference to case was not brought to trial until

there had been eight years of abuse. Talking to police in Oxford and

elsewhere, they felt that they lacked the tools to be able to

intervene early enough will stop that they had this tool in place, as

well as additional knowledge about sexual abuse and different forms of

disruption disruption for grooming, they would

have been able to act earlier. Very heavy rain is

Rain will come in less frequent but heavier events. That is the current

academic thinking. The Victorians built their railway embankments with

whatever material was nearby. In southern England, that largely means

clay, which cracks in dry summers and turns to mud in weather like

today's. And this study is looking at how well those clay embankments

can stand up to a changing climate. been relaying the railway here. Can

this ballast be made more robust? They are studying the engineering

that underpins it. We need to make sure we use the money where it is

really needed and seeing where we can get away with vegetation

management, for example. It is very much about making our infrastructure

robust, resilient and fit future. It is an investment we

cannot afford not to homes back into use. Lots of you got

in touch after the report with your own housing problems. Several

tenants ` living in what they believe are poor conditions ` want

Reading Borough Council to force their landlord to make improvements.

The council inspected the flats before guaranteeing their deposits.

Nikki Mitchell has been to see them. All the mould you can see by the

toilet and sink, I clean it four times a week and it just keeps

coming back possible priority. They and over

4000 others. I worried as the council about the quality of

privately rented flats? The council say the work with landlords.

Interestingly, the lead on housing in reading told me that

under the deposit guarantee scheme these landlords are

is awed having qualifying before the opening ceremony at nevertheless,

the South has five competitors at the game, let's look at them now.

First up is one you've probably heard of ` Chemmy Alcott. She's an

alpine skier, originally from Hove but

with the video of it becoming an internet sensation. Andrew Musgrave

is originally from Poole in Dorset, but with his event of cross country

skiing, he's now based in Norway for his training. It paid off because

last month he won the sprint event at the Norweigan National

Championships ` outsprinting previous World cup winners. It's

something he's obviously hoping to replicate in Sochi. His first event

is on Sunday. And finally Craig Pickering. He's based in Milton

Keynes and has been selected as part of the GB team for

through to the Premier League cup final. The bisons went through 11`9

on aggregate despite losing last night. The opening ceremony is four

o'clock tomorrow morning our time. It is the most expensive Olympics

ever, it is going to be amazing. shots, that is really what sets them

apart. We have got five rooms here, the first to have stars of stage and

screen, Roger Ruark, John Gilbert, this is my personal favourite, Dirk

Bogarde, he is so relaxed and happy. This is the sort of thing he

was brilliant was brilliant at, just capturing

these moments where you get the sense of the person. This room is

it will be warm, dry and sunny with blue skies. We actually have a day

of sunshine tomorrow. Shaun Roster took this photo of Southsea Pier

surrounded by rough seas and stormy skies. George Smith took this photo

from Bury Hill in West Sussex looking towards Amberley and the

flood water. And Sue Pratt captured the flooding outside the Winchester

School of Art. Thanks for that. The Met office weather warnings stay

with us tonight, tomorrow and into Saturday. We will

the early hours of Saturday morning but they will increase in strength.

Gusts along the south coast of 60 to 70 mph. You can see the strength of

the wind wrapping around the area of low pressure. An amber weather

warning in force. That is