06/03/2014 BBC Oxford News

Good evening. The recent flooding is Don't forget, there is

Good evening. The recent flooding is thought to have cost small

businesses more than ?800 mhllion. That's coming from new rese`rch

which claims each business has lost, on average, ?1,500. Here's Charlotte

Stacey. Julian has been running his business

in Oxford for a decade. Thex had to shut for several days earlidr this

year because the road they were on was flooded. When he claimed

compensation he expected to get about ?2000. Instead, he got ?1 8.

Because the small print was somewhere off in the ether, we were

not aware that the policy h`d changed and so we ended up having to

settle the claim, in my opinion unreasonably. E is not alond. Plenty

of businesses are struggling with their insurance. It is complex,

ensuring business. If you h`ve not got right, for the loss of trade,

loss of business, loss of m`terials and equipment, stop, and of course

things like data, then you can find yourself with problems. New figures

show that for businesses in the south`east at risk of floodhng,

nearly a quarter had fewer customers and a drop in demand for products.

The cost of the recent floods has been more than ?5,000 to ne`rly 10%

of those businesses, and 12$ did not have insurance which covered

flooding because the price was too high. It is important that business

understands what it is covered for. There is an onus on the instrance

company to make sure that their customers understand what they are

covered for and to make surd that terms and conditions are in plain

English. Experts say the right insurance is critical for kdeping

businesses going. Julian saxs he feels let down by his experhence but

has found another insurer whth the cover he once. `` he wants.

A former anti`fraud boss for Oxfam has admitted cheating the charity of

nearly ?65,000. Edward McKenzie Green, from Chipping Norton in

Oxfordshire, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey. Hiding his face as he

left court, he admitted makhng payments from Oxfam to fake firms,

between February and Decembdr 2 11. He'll be sentenced in May. The

charity made this statement. For someone to commit fraud and use

that money for their own gahn is clearly unacceptable. The actions of

Edward McKenzie Green brought to light by Oxfam's robust measures and

we make sure that money is not lost through the actions of rogud

employees. We will work to try and recover the money taken.

Five men have been sentenced to a total of more than 22 years in jail

for raiding a family jewelldr's shop in Marlborough. Deacons' was

targeted in September last xear The raid ended in a dramatic high`speed

chase by police near the Grdat Western Hospital. Andrew Pl`nt has

been at Swindon Crown Court. Deacon and Sons jewellers, just a

few minutes Tuesday morning last year. The female staff are browsing

the internet, unprepared for what is about to happen. The women try to

take cover behind the countdr. One of them is dragged away and forced

to open a safe containing dhamond rings downstairs. The men slash up

the glass cabinets, scooping the jewellery inside into banks. Less

than two minutes after it started, they are gone, leaving the women

terrified inside. The gang of five had driven down from Coventry and

waited outside for the shop to open. 33 rules Marcus: Was the first

inside. He was joined by his friends. `` 33`year`old Marcus

Keohane. This was no random raid. The gang had carefully rese`rched

what they were doing and thdy had heard about the diamond rings on

display in the glass cabinets inside. The whole attack lasted a

few minutes and they left whth their rucksacks stuffed with almost

?300,000 worth of expensive jewellery. Waiting outside was Leroy

Green in a getaway car. His erratic fast arriving as they fled the scene

attracted police attention. As they sped along the road towards Oxford,

he crashed a getaway vehicld. The gang abandoned their car and ran.

They try to make their escape. They hid in the hospital grounds. We

quickly contained that. We tse the police helicopter and arrested three

quickly. All of the stolen jewels were found in the car. To d`te the

gang were each jailed for bdtween four and five years. The wolen in

the shop at the time said they are still terrified by what happened six

months after their ordeal. That report from Andrew Plant.

Police in Oxford searching for a woman who went missing from the city

yesterday say they've found a body in Bagley Wood. 28`year`old Joanna

Stannard was last seen leavhng her home in Bullingdon Road. Thd body

has yet to be formally identified, but officers say the death hs not

being treated as suspicious. People living near a waste

incinerator being built in Buckinghamshire say they're facing

even more misery. They clail as building work continues on the plant

near Calvert, road closures and diversions are making their commute

to work longer and more expdnsive. Jeremy Stern has more.

I fully sympathise with these people but unfortunately, we don't give

compensation and we cannot pay compensation. Why not? We h`ve

various rules that we have to work towards and unfortunately,

compensation does not come hnto it. An Oxfordshire charity which

encourages children to be hdalthy is being handed tens of thousands of

pounds after winning a top `ward. HENRY teaches people across the UK

to live healthier lifestyles, in the hope of reducing the number of

overweight or obese children. One of the things that HENRY does hs that

we have a parent course which we run. It is an eight week cotrse for

families of babies and young children to help them develop a

healthy lifestyle habits for the whole family.

That's it from us. We're back in BBC Breakfast tomorrow morning. Here's

Alexis with the weather. Good evening. It will be a cloudy

night with outbreaks of rain through the course of the night. Merely

light and patchy and not amounting to much. There could even bd hill

fog. We are expecting a mild night with the cloud and rain. Lows of

seven or eight Celsius. A mhld start tomorrow. A damp start in a few

places and the rain will be on and off throughout the morning. It will

be an improving picture. Sunny spells will develop through the

afternoon. A light to moder`te south`westerly wind and a hhgh of 13

Celsius. We hold onto the mhld conditions into the weekend. High

pressure builds on. There outlook for London. Temperatures

stay like this. Hello, after the teenage tantrums of

the last couple of months, the weather is going to move into more

sedate middle age will stop maybe tonight is the midlife crisis

because it is still likely -- middle age. Breezy and cloudy for most will

stop but it will not be cold, but wet, particularly across Cumbria.

The railway -- the rain is reluctant to move from Northern Ireland,

Scotland, increasingly wet across Wales