07/02/2014 BBC Oxford News


07/02/2014

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there, to partake in that moment in what we now know is history. This

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became an iconic image of the 60s, this teenager a symbol of a

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generation. I thought Paul McCartney was the best looking thing I had

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ever seen in my life, and I wanted to marry him. The Beatles thought

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they wouldn't sandbags arrived but there simply

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weren't enough to go round. This is actually be high Street but instead

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it looks like a river. Around a dozen properties are flooded so far

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with more bad weather on the way in the coming days. Nearly 40 children

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from the King Alfred Academy had to be rescued from their schoolbus near

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Faringdon this morning, when it became stuck. The pupils were

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trapped for more than three hours. Oxfordshire currently has six flood

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warnings in place, and dozens of road closures

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are said sewage has been overflowing for decades and usually it is caused

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by flooding. It is unpleasant to look at, smells bad than forces many

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to walk the long way round. I walk my dog regularly along the footpath

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and he is a very small dog with short legs and he cannot walk along

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that any more. All this means more work for Thames water who are

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favour, he also said the business had not suffered any damage.

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New plans to redevelop the area around a disused boat yard at

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Jericho in Oxford have been revealed. Over the last ten years,

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the Castle Mill boat yard has been the scene of protests, and the

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subject of several planning applications. Now developers want to

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open up the area with a new footbridge and a Venetian style

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piazza. Tom Turrell reports. It's been the cause of much

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controversy. This was 2006, but for more than a decade campaigners have

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There are still some issues we need to resolve and detail we need to

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work out, but this is a good opportunity, the best we have had

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for over a decade. The plans must still get the go`ahead before any

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work can start, but if that happens the diggers could be moving in in

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around a year. That's it from us for now. Sarah

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Farmer's coming up with the weather forecast, and news of how much rain

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we can expect. Good night.

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