:00:00. > :00:08.And that is all from us for this evening. Now on BBC One, it
:00:09. > :00:13.Good evening. The Environment Agency will find it impossible to cope with
:00:14. > :00:18.a repeat of this year's flooding if plans to cut hundreds of jobs go
:00:19. > :00:21.ahead ` according the the GMB Union. It says 1,700 jobs are at risk,
:00:22. > :00:26.include lock keepers along the River Thames. The Prime Minister says that
:00:27. > :00:28.no jobs would be lost until flood waters subside ` and the
:00:29. > :00:33.government's pledged an ?130 million to deal with flooding. Charlotte
:00:34. > :00:39.Stacey reports. Running the region's rivers. Lock
:00:40. > :00:43.keepers could go as part of the Environment Agency job cuts. They
:00:44. > :00:53.have more than 100 posts in the West Thames region alone. They are at
:00:54. > :00:56.risk. Government money has been cut. When the water is high, it gets
:00:57. > :01:01.dangerous. Living on a boat just along there, we would be a bit stuck
:01:02. > :01:05.if it was not for him. It seems crazy at this time with all the
:01:06. > :01:15.water. We need all the help we can get. It is important to have them on
:01:16. > :01:18.site to help people. And to make sure everything is running as
:01:19. > :01:21.smoothly as possible. In the last two weeks, the lock keeper here at
:01:22. > :01:25.Abingdon Lock has rescued two people ` a man who fell into the river, and
:01:26. > :01:29.a young boy who slipped into floodwaters and was in danger. The
:01:30. > :01:38.Environment Agency did not want us to speak to him, but the union says
:01:39. > :01:43.quick action like his saves lives. Since 2009, the Environment Agency
:01:44. > :01:50.budget has been cut by 25% in real terms and they have already lost
:01:51. > :01:56.3000 staff. To take another 1700 staff out of the workforce will make
:01:57. > :02:02.it absolutely impossible for them to deal meaningfully with flood crises.
:02:03. > :02:06.The GMB union called for a stop to cuts today. They met with the
:02:07. > :02:10.Environment Agency, which says it is trying to work out what difference
:02:11. > :02:13.?130 million will make ` that is the extra money made available by the
:02:14. > :02:16.Government since the floods this year.
:02:17. > :02:40.The union says it is worried lessons from the flooding have not been
:02:41. > :02:51.learned and that cuts will go forward when floodwaters recede.
:02:52. > :02:56.A woman has died and four children have been seriously injured in a
:02:57. > :02:59.crash on the A41, close to Waddesdon in Buckinghamshire. Three cars were
:03:00. > :03:02.involved in the accident, which happened at around 11am this
:03:03. > :03:05.morning. One of the vehicles, a black Toyota, was carrying seven
:03:06. > :03:07.children. Four of them have been taken to the John Radcliffe
:03:08. > :03:09.Hospital. An undercover police operation into
:03:10. > :03:12.scrap metal thefts has been described as a complete waste of
:03:13. > :03:15.taxpayers' money by the lawyer representing two men who were
:03:16. > :03:18.wrongly convicted. Simon Rogers and Martin Pace have had their names
:03:19. > :03:21.cleared after taking their case to the Court of Appeal. They'd been
:03:22. > :03:24.accused of knowingly buying stolen property from undercover officers in
:03:25. > :03:30.an operation that started two years ago. Tom Turrell has the story. When
:03:31. > :03:33.` nearly two years ago ` a handful of Thames Valley Police officers
:03:34. > :03:36.posed as crooks selling stolen scrap metal to dealers, they thought they
:03:37. > :03:40.had enough evidence to make successful prosecutions against five
:03:41. > :03:44.men working here at T R Rogers Sons in Nuneham Courtenay.
:03:45. > :03:50.But their case ultimately unravelled. Three of the men were
:03:51. > :03:53.found not guilty in the trial that followed, and after going all the
:03:54. > :04:08.way to the Court of Appeal, even the other two have ` this week ` been
:04:09. > :04:11.cleared of any wrongdoing. A total waste of time and taxpayers' money.
:04:12. > :04:15.There was no intelligence saying there were stolen goods at the yard.
:04:16. > :04:19.There were none found at the yard. Was it in the interests of justice
:04:20. > :04:25.to bring the case in the first place? Thames Valley Police have not
:04:26. > :04:29.decided yet whether to appeal this latest decision. What they do say is
:04:30. > :04:32.they are committed to reducing metal theft crime. We'll have to wait to
:04:33. > :04:36.discover if there's to be another twist in this long saga, but for now
:04:37. > :04:39.Thames Valley Police force will surely be left wondering how they
:04:40. > :04:42.got it all so wrong. There's been a sharp rise in the
:04:43. > :04:45.number of abandoned or homeless horses taken in by an animal charity
:04:46. > :04:49.in Oxfordshire. The Blue Cross in Burford says it took in nearly 200
:04:50. > :04:57.horses last year ` that's nearly twice as many as in 2011.
:04:58. > :05:01.Prehistory was brought to life in Oxford today. Life`sized dinosaur
:05:02. > :05:04.puppets walked and roared their way through the newly renovated Museum
:05:05. > :05:07.of Natural History. Adina Campbell watched the action.
:05:08. > :05:10.It's not quite Jurassic Park, but there's a recreation of some of the
:05:11. > :05:14.most successful animals ever to have lived on the Earth, millions of
:05:15. > :05:17.years ago. They come in all shapes and sizes, and there's one just
:05:18. > :05:20.behind me ` welcome to the land of dinosaurs! Make way for big,
:05:21. > :05:24.stomping dinosaur feet. This lifelike puppet has been strutting
:05:25. > :05:32.to an audience of excited and ` in some cases ` terrified children.
:05:33. > :05:37.It's one of the first shows at the museum since it reopened last week.
:05:38. > :05:42.But it's not all about the dinosaurs. Major restoration work
:05:43. > :05:49.has been happening here over the last 14 months, which included
:05:50. > :05:54.scrubbing 8,000 roof tiles. On a sunny day, the light hitting them is
:05:55. > :06:01.really beautiful. The whole building glows. We have had a deep clean. And
:06:02. > :06:03.what better way to show off the museum's make over than with a
:06:04. > :06:10.theatrical dinosaur experience? The company behind this show is from
:06:11. > :06:13.Australia. We have a bit of baby New Zealand dinosaur. He's only seven
:06:14. > :06:21.months old, give or take 100 million years. Real dinosaurs may be a thing
:06:22. > :06:23.of the past, but for today at least, people here got to take a walk on
:06:24. > :06:31.the wild side. Tonight's Question Time is coming
:06:32. > :06:37.from Swindon. The author Jeanette Winterson is on the panel. You can
:06:38. > :06:46.see it after the national weather forecast. Alexis is coming up our
:06:47. > :06:58.regional outlook. From everyone here, goodnight.
:06:59. > :07:01.could be heavy in places with hail and under in the mix. There will be
:07:02. > :07:08.sunshine but that will be limited in the afternoon with highs of eight or
:07:09. > :07:14.nine cells years. Along the south coast, we could have wind gust of 40
:07:15. > :07:21.to 60 mph. `` eight or nine degrees Celsius. Let's take a look at the
:07:22. > :07:26.outlet. Sunny spells and scattered showers and that is also the case on
:07:27. > :07:27.Saturday. We see increasing cloud on Saturday through the latter part of
:07:28. > :07:31.the day and gales are due on Sunday. the outlook. On Sunday, we have grey
:07:32. > :07:42.skies and a bit of drizzle, too Good evening. You may have had the
:07:43. > :07:43.latest from the Met