07/02/2014

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:00:25. > :00:34.there, to partake in that moment in what we now know is history. This

:00:35. > :00:41.became an iconic image of the 60s, this teenager a symbol of a

:00:42. > :00:45.generation. I thought Paul McCartney was the best looking thing I had

:00:46. > :00:48.ever seen in my life, and I wanted to marry him. The Beatles thought

:00:49. > :02:10.they wouldn't sandbags arrived but there simply

:02:11. > :02:17.weren't enough to go round. This is actually be high Street but instead

:02:18. > :02:20.it looks like a river. Around a dozen properties are flooded so far

:02:21. > :02:24.with more bad weather on the way in the coming days. Nearly 40 children

:02:25. > :02:27.from the King Alfred Academy had to be rescued from their schoolbus near

:02:28. > :02:30.Faringdon this morning, when it became stuck. The pupils were

:02:31. > :02:33.trapped for more than three hours. Oxfordshire currently has six flood

:02:34. > :03:52.warnings in place, and dozens of road closures

:03:53. > :03:57.are said sewage has been overflowing for decades and usually it is caused

:03:58. > :04:05.by flooding. It is unpleasant to look at, smells bad than forces many

:04:06. > :04:09.to walk the long way round. I walk my dog regularly along the footpath

:04:10. > :04:16.and he is a very small dog with short legs and he cannot walk along

:04:17. > :05:37.that any more. All this means more work for Thames water who are

:05:38. > :05:41.favour, he also said the business had not suffered any damage.

:05:42. > :05:44.New plans to redevelop the area around a disused boat yard at

:05:45. > :05:48.Jericho in Oxford have been revealed. Over the last ten years,

:05:49. > :05:50.the Castle Mill boat yard has been the scene of protests, and the

:05:51. > :05:54.subject of several planning applications. Now developers want to

:05:55. > :05:56.open up the area with a new footbridge and a Venetian style

:05:57. > :05:59.piazza. Tom Turrell reports. It's been the cause of much

:06:00. > :07:21.controversy. This was 2006, but for more than a decade campaigners have

:07:22. > :07:25.There are still some issues we need to resolve and detail we need to

:07:26. > :07:27.work out, but this is a good opportunity, the best we have had

:07:28. > :07:31.for over a decade. The plans must still get the go`ahead before any

:07:32. > :07:34.work can start, but if that happens the diggers could be moving in in

:07:35. > :07:38.around a year. That's it from us for now. Sarah

:07:39. > :07:41.Farmer's coming up with the weather forecast, and news of how much rain

:07:42. > :07:44.we can expect. Good night.