:00:00. > :00:00.early 1990s. That's all from the BBC News at Six. It's goodbye from me.
:00:00. > :00:07.Hello and welcome to South Today On
:00:08. > :00:13.Hello and welcome to South Today from Oxford. In tonight's programme:
:00:14. > :00:17.An extra lorry every 13 seconds Concerns about congestion on the A43
:00:18. > :00:18.and other roads when work to build HS2 begins.
:00:19. > :00:23.Meanwhile construction is underway to create a new rail line bdtween
:00:24. > :00:27.Oxford and London Marylebond. Also tonight: From The Clash to
:00:28. > :00:31.David Bowie. How Aylesbury's Friars Club is bringing its past into the
:00:32. > :00:38.present. And later on: a major commuter route
:00:39. > :00:41.closed during the floods reopens. Temporary repairs have been carried
:00:42. > :00:52.out at Sonning Bridge ` but major improvements are needed.
:00:53. > :00:54.Good evening. Construction work on the controversial high speed rail
:00:55. > :00:57.line through Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire will bring thousands
:00:58. > :01:00.of extra lorries to our reghon every day. Banbury, Aylesbury and
:01:01. > :01:05.Buckingham are being out by HS2 Limited as places which will suffer
:01:06. > :01:10.more jams over several years. Helen Catt has this report.
:01:11. > :01:15.Before this, will come a lot more of this.
:01:16. > :01:18.Thousands of lorries will nded to use the roads of Oxfordshird and
:01:19. > :01:29.Buckinghamshire each day to build vital elements of the HS2 lhne, like
:01:30. > :01:36.bridges and cuttings. According to HS2 Limited estimates
:01:37. > :01:39.an average of one extra lorry will be going along this road evdry 3
:01:40. > :01:43.seconds. A few miles away is the farl which
:01:44. > :01:46.Rachel Halverson's family h`s worked for a century. She'll lose land to
:01:47. > :01:52.construction ` but now worrhes the extra traffic will affect hdr daily
:01:53. > :02:00.life and her shop too. It is school brands. It is my husband getting to
:02:01. > :02:05.this nation. People will not bother coming. It will be one more hurdle.
:02:06. > :02:07.Major jams are also predictdd at Banbury, two junctions of the M 0,
:02:08. > :02:10.Aylesbury and Buckingham. And around Calvert the busidst
:02:11. > :02:16.months will see 3,000 extra lorries and the same number of cars.
:02:17. > :02:19.For people living in rural villages between these routes, the lorries
:02:20. > :02:30.operated by HS2 may not be the biggest problem. They can bd
:02:31. > :02:33.constrained by agreement, btt other traffic cannot. We are concdrned
:02:34. > :02:39.that other traffic will seek to use the roads through our village.
:02:40. > :02:42.HS2 Limited says it will put controls on what vehicles are used
:02:43. > :02:44.and will work with local authorities to minimise disruption.
:02:45. > :02:49.Meanwhile Cherwell District Council intends to petition MPs on the
:02:50. > :02:54.issue. James Abbott is from Modern Railways
:02:55. > :03:00.Magazine. A short time ago H asked him if the disruption reallx would
:03:01. > :03:04.be that bad. This is a major construction project so we lust
:03:05. > :03:07.expect some disruption. It hs going to be done by large building
:03:08. > :03:13.companies who are used to this sort of thing so hopefully it will be
:03:14. > :03:16.kept to a minimum. When the previous high speed rail
:03:17. > :03:21.project was being built how much impact did it have? It was carefully
:03:22. > :03:32.organised to minimise the disruption. A large real yard was
:03:33. > :03:37.built to receive materials. That has now been returned to farmland. The
:03:38. > :03:43.concern here is about lorrids. There will be some lorry traffic. That is
:03:44. > :03:49.unavoidable on a construction project of this size. There is
:03:50. > :03:54.planning going on to minimise the disruption. The difficulty for
:03:55. > :04:02.people affected by HS2 is that they get all of the pain without any of
:04:03. > :04:06.the direct gain. It is a problem. In Kent they were intermediate stations
:04:07. > :04:11.that were served by the high`speed line. There is nothing like that
:04:12. > :04:15.plan for HS2. But he must look at it from the point of view of the entire
:04:16. > :04:21.country. For the cities of the North it is important that their
:04:22. > :04:26.connections to the rest of the country be improved. For thdir
:04:27. > :04:32.country as a whole it is important. Are you saying that the disruption
:04:33. > :04:40.is worth it? It will regenerate the north. It will help our competitive
:04:41. > :04:52.position. France, Germany, Htaly, Spain have high`speed lines. We need
:04:53. > :04:55.that to compete in the 21st`century. Meanwhile, the Transport Secretary
:04:56. > :04:58.has been to see work begin on the new rail line between Oxford and
:04:59. > :05:01.London Marylebone. The ?300 million Evergreen project will conndct
:05:02. > :05:04.Oxford to the capital, via `n upgraded station in Bicester. It's
:05:05. > :05:12.the first rail project of its kind, linking London to a British city, in
:05:13. > :05:16.100 years. Victoria Cook reports. By next summer this will be a fully
:05:17. > :05:33.functioning really lying. Trains will come through at 100 mph. ``
:05:34. > :05:39.fully functioning railway lhne. We are seeing the start of the first
:05:40. > :05:47.new line between London and a British city for 100 years. This
:05:48. > :05:51.will link Oxford and London by rail. Not only this, but the ?130 million
:05:52. > :05:53.investment will see new stations being constructed. This 1940s
:05:54. > :05:58.eyesore in Water Eaton was demolished last year to makd way for
:05:59. > :06:01.the new Oxford Parkway stathon. Currently most commuters who live in
:06:02. > :06:07.Oxford and work in London, tse the First Great Western line vi` Didcot
:06:08. > :06:09.into London Paddington. Frol 20 6 they'll have the option of taking
:06:10. > :06:19.the Chiltern Railways train via Bicester into London Marylebone
:06:20. > :06:22.People living north of Oxford will be able to get on board at Oxford
:06:23. > :06:25.Parkway. Today the Secretarx of State for Transport, Patrick
:06:26. > :06:32.McLoughlin, was on site herd to see the start of work in Bicestdr. It
:06:33. > :06:41.shows that we are investing in a modern railway. Passenger ntmbers
:06:42. > :06:45.have gone from 750 million to 1 5 Ilion passengers per year. That
:06:46. > :06:53.requires a huge light of investment and we are doing that. `` 1.5
:06:54. > :06:56.billion. Although this is good news for
:06:57. > :07:00.commuters, you won't be abld to get to London any faster. Travel time
:07:01. > :07:04.from Oxford to Marylebone whll still be around 55 minutes. The ftll line
:07:05. > :07:06.to Oxford will open in the summer of 2016.
:07:07. > :07:09.Police are hunting two men who held up a bookmakers in Headington this
:07:10. > :07:13.morning with what's believed to have been a gun. It happened at the Stan
:07:14. > :07:16.James shop in Roundway at around 11.30 this morning. The men
:07:17. > :07:18.threatened a member of staff and then left with money in a sports
:07:19. > :07:21.bag. A Conservative peer who worked on
:07:22. > :07:24.code`breaking intelligence `t Bletchley Park during World War Two,
:07:25. > :07:27.has expressed concern over the future of the site. Speaking at a
:07:28. > :07:30.debate in the House of Lords, Baroness Trumpington said she hoped
:07:31. > :07:33.the historic visitor centre wouldn't be turned into a "Disney thdme
:07:34. > :07:37.park." The centre is currently the subject of a dispute between the two
:07:38. > :07:47.charities which manage the site the National Museum of Computing and the
:07:48. > :07:53.Bletchley Park Trust. I hopd that those involved will avoid creating a
:07:54. > :08:04.theme park experience for the visitor. Currently the Hollxwood
:08:05. > :08:11.films that are being made their little resemblance to the Bletchley
:08:12. > :08:14.I recall. An Oxford company has developed a
:08:15. > :08:18.new system that lets companhes find out how safe their vehicles are just
:08:19. > :08:21.by rolling over a special p`d. Wheel Right is based in Begbroke. They say
:08:22. > :08:24.they've designed the world's first machine that weighs trucks `nd
:08:25. > :08:28.checks tyre pressure and temperature. Every year hundreds of
:08:29. > :08:35.accidents on our roads are caused by drivers not keeping an eye on the
:08:36. > :08:39.condition of their tyres. Now it may not be as famous as the
:08:40. > :08:42.Cavern Club in Liverpool but it helped launch the careers of some of
:08:43. > :08:45.rock music's most iconic st`rs. The Friars Club in Aylesbury is
:08:46. > :08:49.45`year`old ` and to commemorate, some of its famous memorabilia is
:08:50. > :08:55.going on display for the public to enjoy. Peter Cooke went to have a
:08:56. > :09:00.look. Rock music is not necessarily my
:09:01. > :09:08.first choice, but for thous`nds of fans it was a firm favouritd. The
:09:09. > :09:13.man behind this exhibition hs here. We have been trying to put on this
:09:14. > :09:21.exhibition for 20 years. We started the club in 1969. We are sthll going
:09:22. > :09:30.strong. We were heavily involved with people like David Bowid,
:09:31. > :09:39.Genesis, Lou Reed. It is all here for people to see. You have some
:09:40. > :09:48.great items on display. We have Mike Rutherford's twin necked guhtar We
:09:49. > :10:06.got a text from the David Bowie We are very excited about that. We have
:10:07. > :10:15.Pink Floyd's junket. `` drul kit. Tell me why this bit of cloth means
:10:16. > :10:22.so much? It was from the David Bowie Gate in July 1972. We were right at
:10:23. > :10:29.the front of the stage. Tow`rds the end of the gate David Bowie was
:10:30. > :10:34.doing an encore, he took his shirt off, and threw it out. I cale away
:10:35. > :10:42.with it and I have had it for 4 years.
:10:43. > :10:47.This venue gave us the opportunity to see groups that we would not have
:10:48. > :11:01.had the opportunity to see. If you want to see some of this am`zing
:11:02. > :11:04.exhibition it is on until Jtly. Tomorrow night the Ashmolean museum
:11:05. > :11:07.will be joining Oxford Brookes university its 150th anniversary
:11:08. > :11:10.with an event called Wisdom, Wonders and Widgets. This robot ` c`lled
:11:11. > :11:13.Artie ` will be one of the attractions on display. He will be
:11:14. > :11:17.showing off his singing abilities, thespian skills ` and even guessing
:11:18. > :11:20.people's ages. Although he tried to guess mine this week when hd visited
:11:21. > :11:36.BBC Radio Oxford and wasn't quite on the money. You are a 32`year`old
:11:37. > :11:49.man. Look into my eyes. You are `
:11:50. > :11:54.32`year`old man. Your face hs happy. At least he was right about my face.
:11:55. > :11:57.And we'll have more with Artie in our programme tomorrow evenhng.
:11:58. > :12:01.That's all from me for the loment. I'll have the headlines at 8pm and a
:12:02. > :12:13.full bulletin at 10.25. Now more of today's stories with Sally Taylor.
:12:14. > :12:16.getting better themselves. Still to come: Drama on the ice brings the
:12:17. > :12:23.Bisons their first silverware in 14 years. A new system for dealing with
:12:24. > :12:26.bullying and abuse cases in the Armed Forces has been descrhbed as a
:12:27. > :12:28.whitewash by the campaign group Liberty. It helped represent the
:12:29. > :12:31.family of Bournemouth soldidr Anne`Marie Ellement who comlitted
:12:32. > :12:36.suicide at Bulford Barracks after bullying and the mental imp`ct of an
:12:37. > :12:39.alleged rape. However, the Linistry of Defence says under the ndw
:12:40. > :12:48.ombudsman system complaints will be handled fairly and effectivdly.
:12:49. > :12:50.Heavy machinery rolled into the little Hampshire village of
:12:51. > :12:54.Hambledon today to start reloving thousands of soggy sandbags. With
:12:55. > :12:57.124 homes flooded in the winter storms, it was among the worst hit
:12:58. > :13:00.communities in the south. The cost of ten long weeks of pumping,
:13:01. > :13:07.defending homes and road closures is thought to have added up to a
:13:08. > :13:17.whopping ?4million pounds. Chrissy Sturt reports. It is a serious
:13:18. > :13:21.clean`up job. Dozens of workmen moved into the picture postcard
:13:22. > :13:24.village today to start the clearance. We have deployed 70, 00
:13:25. > :13:29.sandbags in the past few months and sandbags in the past few months and
:13:30. > :13:36.put simply, we want them back. We want to take them away for
:13:37. > :13:42.recycling. This woman had mdters of pipework and six pumps moving water
:13:43. > :13:47.from her house. There is a lassive clean`up going on now, the removal
:13:48. > :13:54.of thousands of sandbags, trying to put their homes back togethdr,
:13:55. > :13:58.carpets and furniture being removed. This is just one of the homds where
:13:59. > :14:03.the dehumidifiers are still working hard. They had sewage water coming
:14:04. > :14:08.in here and it has very badly affected the house. They had to take
:14:09. > :14:13.up carpets in several of thd rooms. This houses thousands of ye`rs old
:14:14. > :14:20.meaning they will have to ptt plaster on these walls, the bill is
:14:21. > :14:29.likely to cost ?10,000. There is a ?3 million pipe required. Btt areas
:14:30. > :14:37.do not qualify for flood defence money. After eight trip to
:14:38. > :14:41.Westminster they are still positive. We cannot have half the pipd, it has
:14:42. > :14:46.got to be all pipe running through the length of the village. H remain
:14:47. > :14:52.confident that later this ydar the bulldozers will move in and start
:14:53. > :14:56.doing the work. Despite the efforts to return to normal here and there
:14:57. > :14:59.are still several road clostres in place and there has been water in
:15:00. > :15:04.the streets for so long that there is no algae growing all the way down
:15:05. > :15:06.the sides of the pavements. After months of traffic chaos and long
:15:07. > :15:10.queues through Reading, a m`jor commuter route over the Rivdr Thames
:15:11. > :15:12.has reopened this afternoon. It follows temporary repairs to the
:15:13. > :15:16.flood damaged road at Sonning Bridge. The council needs to carry
:15:17. > :15:18.out work, but has come under intense criticism from drivers and
:15:19. > :15:31.politicians for not acting puickly enough. Nikki Mitchell reports.
:15:32. > :15:34.Emergency repairs began this morning saw one carriageway at least could
:15:35. > :15:39.be reopened with temporary traffic lights. It is better late than never
:15:40. > :15:45.for this president who is isolated from her friends and family across
:15:46. > :15:50.the river. She says complaints fell on deaf ears. I got the highways, it
:15:51. > :15:55.is nothing to do with fuzz was the attitude I got. You can unddrstand
:15:56. > :15:59.why we are frustrated, they just did not seem to care. Hopefully after
:16:00. > :16:05.this weekend I shall be abld to get out easier. There has been huge
:16:06. > :16:11.political pressure to get this busy commuter route open again. LPs have
:16:12. > :16:16.been inundated by complaints from commuting constituents, frol
:16:17. > :16:19.businesses and residents. They, in turn, have been urging Oxfordshire
:16:20. > :16:25.County Council to react mord quickly. By the floodwaters have
:16:26. > :16:30.dropped engineers have concdded a temporary fixes adequate for now.
:16:31. > :16:34.There are hopes the governmdnt will pay for more permanent repahrs so
:16:35. > :16:40.the route will have to be closed again soon. We need to sit down and
:16:41. > :16:44.work out the proper plan for when the road could have permanent
:16:45. > :16:50.repairs to load normal servhce to resume. We have to balance when the
:16:51. > :16:56.best time for that is, do wd wait for school holidays or crack on with
:16:57. > :17:00.that now? The long`term mord expensive plan is to raise the road
:17:01. > :17:12.significantly saw it does not get involved with floodwater ag`in.
:17:13. > :17:18.Residents on the Isle of Wight are fighting plans for new houshng. A
:17:19. > :17:22.developer tried for a second time for a new application with fewer
:17:23. > :17:27.properties on the original site which was rejected. Our reporter has
:17:28. > :17:32.more. The Isle of Wight Council wants to build more homes in places
:17:33. > :17:39.that already have good facilities like a post office and school.
:17:40. > :17:45.Here, one landowner applied to build 89 houses on his land, expanding the
:17:46. > :17:50.village by over 50%. That plan was rejected so he has applied `gain for
:17:51. > :17:56.40 homes on the same site. He quickly launched an appeal for a
:17:57. > :18:05.smaller number of homes on the same site. I think we should contribute
:18:06. > :18:10.along with everyone else, if there is a identified local need the
:18:11. > :18:14.majority of the residents hdre think five or ten houses would be ample
:18:15. > :18:18.over the next five years, it needs to be organic and sustainable,
:18:19. > :18:24.neither of which comes with this planning application. Like lacro the
:18:25. > :18:30.council admit houses have to be built but location is critical. We
:18:31. > :18:35.need appropriate development in the right places with the right
:18:36. > :18:39.infrastructure. If the proposed developments do not meet thhs
:18:40. > :18:43.criteria they should not go ahead. The landowner would not spe`k to us,
:18:44. > :18:53.it is now going to the council to decide whether his visions for the
:18:54. > :19:00.future or this field become reality. The decision to approve a 175 acre
:19:01. > :19:08.solar farm has faced the judicial review. The solar farm in m`pper
:19:09. > :19:12.turn was agreed by the local council in November but local residdnts will
:19:13. > :19:24.appeal the decision at a medting in May. Now on to sport. This lan knows
:19:25. > :19:33.how to live the high life! Ht has been a busy week, let's just say
:19:34. > :19:36.that. We will start on the hce. 14 years without a trophy, last night
:19:37. > :19:39.Basingstoke Bison ended thehr drought, by lifting ice hockey's
:19:40. > :19:42.English Premier League Cup. They did it on a dramatic night at Planet Ice
:19:43. > :19:50.in Basingstoke. Tony Husband watched the action unfold. The waithng was
:19:51. > :19:59.finally over. Beating/bisons have some silverware. It seemed destined
:20:00. > :20:06.to have an exciting night. The aggregate score became 5`1 `nd it
:20:07. > :20:11.seemed like this should be ` victory parade from the start. As the night
:20:12. > :20:23.went on that aggregate lead fell away. Their opponents had the 4`2
:20:24. > :20:31.lead on the night. This goal restored the 2`goal aggregate lead
:20:32. > :20:38.which was enough. We just ndeded that last goal and we got it, the
:20:39. > :20:46.places rocking. I would not be any rebels tonight, absolutely
:20:47. > :20:54.brilliant. The fans deserved it tonight, we did it the right way.
:20:55. > :21:03.More than 14,000 fans packed into planet ice. Let's hope it is not
:21:04. > :21:06.another On to football, and Bournemouth moved into the top half
:21:07. > :21:09.of the Championship table, with their third straight win. 40 news
:21:10. > :21:12.before another trophy. The success at Blackburn was also their third
:21:13. > :21:15.clean sheet in a row. The Cherries came closest to breaking thd
:21:16. > :21:18.deadlock in the first half, when defender Steve Cook's header struck
:21:19. > :21:21.the upright. But midway through the second period, top scorer Ldwis
:21:22. > :21:24.Grabban beat former England keeper Paul Robinson, for his fiftdenth
:21:25. > :21:28.goal of the season. That lifted the Cherries up to twelfth ` 10 points
:21:29. > :21:31.short of the play off posithons And Reading's young stars celebrated a
:21:32. > :21:34.huge result at the Madejski Stadium, as they knocked mighty Liverpool out
:21:35. > :21:38.of the FA Youth Cup. The Roxals Under 18s found themselves 4`2 down
:21:39. > :21:43.in extra time. But in the l`st seconds, George McLennan levelled at
:21:44. > :21:46.4`4 to send the game to pen`lties. And after Liverpool had missed,
:21:47. > :21:49.Reading's Taylor Crossdale held his nerve, as the Royals reached the
:21:50. > :21:55.youth cup semi`finals for the first time in the club's history. They'll
:21:56. > :21:58.meet either Fulham or Huddersfield. Congratulations to them. Grdat
:21:59. > :22:02.commentary! Gosport Borough's Wembley date is now just ovdr a week
:22:03. > :22:04.away. As part of the build`tp, managers and players from both
:22:05. > :22:08.Borough, and opponents Cambridge, got a first glimpse of the FA
:22:09. > :22:14.Trophy, as they took a tour down the Thames to publicise the Fin`l. Lewis
:22:15. > :22:18.Coombes joined them. Cruising along the Thames in the London sunshine,
:22:19. > :22:25.Gosport Borough already feel like they have one. Players have been
:22:26. > :22:31.left pinching themselves. The prospect of policing the falous
:22:32. > :22:36.Wembley graphs. The prospect of Wembley does not happen to lany
:22:37. > :22:44.footballers at the top level for as it is incredible to get that chance.
:22:45. > :22:48.Being from the league above, Cambridge are undoubtedly
:22:49. > :22:54.favourites. What an enormous task it will be to play Cambridge btt I have
:22:55. > :23:02.labelled it the David versus Goliath game and we all know that D`vid can
:23:03. > :23:10.Goliath. Bike macro they ard no hoping to become the lowest ranked
:23:11. > :23:18.team to win it in 20 years. I have done a best man speech and H did all
:23:19. > :23:23.right. The gaffer is the motivator in the team, a few of us will see
:23:24. > :23:32.our things and we will let our football do the talking. It is the
:23:33. > :23:37.biggest game in Gosport's hhstory. It will put us on the footb`ll match
:23:38. > :23:43.nationally. I am very proud of the town. Sport will be hoping the
:23:44. > :23:51.sunshine is on them again come the final. Lots more about that next
:23:52. > :23:58.week, that is the week on Stnday. I will be at Wembley for that one
:23:59. > :24:01.Talking of commentary, that guy from the reading youth team was
:24:02. > :24:07.fabulous. Sometimes passion just comes out. Sometimes you have to let
:24:08. > :24:13.the passion just go. It is fantastic. Now onto the weather It
:24:14. > :24:20.has been glorious today, ond of the warmest days of the week? Wd peeked
:24:21. > :24:27.at 17 today in some parts of the region. Basking. And what a
:24:28. > :24:30.beautiful selection of photographs again today. A glorious scene from
:24:31. > :24:34.Andy Lyons as the sun rose hn Swanage this morning. Hazy skies as
:24:35. > :24:37.the mist cleared over Didcot. Thank you to Becca Collacott for that one.
:24:38. > :24:45.And this photo really captures the springtime feel ` it was taken by Ed
:24:46. > :24:49.Inman at Poole Park. Not all of buyers seeing that beautiful
:24:50. > :24:54.sunshine today. Some of us were stuck with fog for much of the day.
:24:55. > :25:02.That is rolling back in know and we are seeing delays already on the
:25:03. > :25:07.services over to the island. Stay tuned to your local BBC Radho
:25:08. > :25:13.station for travel updates. Tonight the fog will roll in across much of
:25:14. > :25:18.the region. We are expecting some quite dense patches once ag`in. Not
:25:19. > :25:23.everybody seeing the really thick stuff but where we do see it this
:25:24. > :25:27.ability could be reduced to 100 metres or less. Through the morning
:25:28. > :25:35.rush hour we do have a yellow weather warning in place once again.
:25:36. > :25:39.That is valid until 11pm. Bx then most of ours will start to see an
:25:40. > :25:46.improving picture. There will be brighter skies and sunny spdlls into
:25:47. > :25:50.the afternoon. Coastal areas and the Isle of White could see somd of that
:25:51. > :25:55.fog lingering through the d`y tomorrow but elsewhere we are hoping
:25:56. > :26:00.much of it will lift away. Overnight tonight we will gradually CBeebies
:26:01. > :26:06.pick`up. On Friday night th`t will happen and we will see less in the
:26:07. > :26:12.way of fog. Generally cloudx with six or seven Celsius the ovdrnight
:26:13. > :26:17.close. For the weekend we h`ve this area of high pressure so thhngs are
:26:18. > :26:22.staying settled once again. We will see a little more cloud arotnd,
:26:23. > :26:27.breezy as well but generallx some good brightness on both days and we
:26:28. > :26:32.will see some sunny spells `t some point with more in the week of
:26:33. > :26:40.sunshine into Sunday. Gener`lly a dry weekend with warm sunny spells
:26:41. > :26:50.and a little breezy. Brightdning up later and staying settled through
:26:51. > :26:54.the weekend. Just to let yot know about something they are dohng
:26:55. > :26:57.tomorrow. A couple of weeks ago we reported from the scene of the
:26:58. > :27:03.biggest railway landslip in living memory. Creus there have bedn
:27:04. > :27:07.working around the clock to get things back online and tomorrow we
:27:08. > :27:12.will be back in Botley to sde how they are getting on and show you the
:27:13. > :27:14.impressive results. Thank you for watching. Goodbye. Good night.