12/09/2014 BBC Oxford News

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Britain's biggest cycle racd has powered through our reghon.

Some of the sport's best known names are taking part in the

Tour of Britain, among them the reigning champion,

It's the first time that Oxfordshire has been on the route.

Tens of thousands of pounds has been spent locally to host the r`ce in

the hope it will bring signhficant economic benefits to the arda.

But the speed didn't stop thousands of people

across our region lining thd streets of Oxfordshire and Buckingh`mshire.

On first impressions, local businesses were benefiting too.

This morning, since the guys have come in, it's just gone madness

Yeah, we're a lot busier. That's good.

Hopefully everybody else is getting the same in their trades.

Having the Tour of Britain coming through your town is fantastic.

I think, from a business perspective, having a bike shop

COMMENTATOR: Fair play, he's doing the ride of his life

to stay with those superb thme triallists.

Councils have contributed thousands of pounds to promote

And, with it, hoping to boost tourist attractions

The Tour of Britain is a grdat opportunity to

put Buckinghamshire on the lap and showcase our beautiful county.

The fact that it is coming through on Friday, the economic

There's lots of activities planned for the

weekend to entice visitors to stay and to bring the residents out.

But a rolling roadblock brotght travel disruption to thousands

of motorists. For many it was worth it.

There's not many people get to see the bikes go past and it is

We've never had anything like this come through the town beford.

It was a good thing to come and watch.

This racing car threw this bag out of the window.

The Tour winds up in London on Sunday and many here will bd hoping

Two men in their 20s have been charged after

The 22`year`old man was stabbed in the stomach

The men are charged with catsing grievous bodily harm with intent

Both men appeared at Banburx Magistrates' Court this morning

Two homeless men have been jailed for a total of six years

Daniel Brice and Patrick Allen attacking a man

They punched and kicked him before stealing money and his bank card.

Organisers of one of the biggest agricultural shows in

our region are hoping to sed visitor numbers go back up,

The Thame Show was cancelled two years ago and last year a shift

from the regular date damagdd visitor numbers.

Now organisers have made a plea to local schools to allow children to

attend during class time, to support the event.

Drawing in the crowds had ndver been a problem for the Thamd Show,

But now preparations are well under way for a return to the traditional

After a campaign by organisdrs, a return of another tradition `

They should appreciate what is going on in our town and who's dohng it

and what the farmers are dohng. We really do.

It is great for the children to come to a show like this and see what

happens in the countryside, agriculture,

At the end of the day, the children are the future of the show `nd we

Children will only be allowdd the day off school if their parents

For those wanting to go in, though, schools will be open.

What the local authority saxs though, if schools are going to give

children a day off for anything it should be for something

I have children and I think they should educate themselves even

It depends what they do at the Thame Show.

If they are just eating ice cream it's probably not much use

It's quite informative, I don't see why it wouldn't do them some

The Oxfordshire County and Thame Show will take place next Thursday.

It's hoped the support by local schools and a return to

the traditional September d`te will see lots of people coming along

A Roman settlement and Iron Age remains have been unearthed

at the site of a planned housing development

The discoveries have been m`de the same team that found thd remains

of Richard III under a car park Sinead Carroll reports.

Uncovering the past and preparing for the futurd.

48 homes will soon be built here in Aston Clinton near Aylesbury

but, before the diggers could begin, the archaeologists moved in.

We have actually got a Roman track way.

Its course was unclear throtgh the county and it looks as

We've got it coming through the site which is the first time

These are the same archaeologists who discovered the remains of

King Richard III under a Leicester car park.

Two skeletons were found in Buckinghamshire, not roy`l

Today, the site was open to the public.

It is just completely amazing, out of this world.

They used flint for their old houses and to eat

I saw a bone. It was down there by those big holes.

The artefacts found here will be displayed locally too.

So even when houses are built here, people can still learn what lies

Milton Keynes is preparing htself for the Rugby World Cup next year.

Stadium MK, home to the MK Dons football team,

will host three internation`l matches during the tournament.

Tickets went on sale today, a year ahead of the opening ceremony.

Firstly I want to make sure everybody gets a ticket, register

for a ticket. The real legacy will be about young people and sport It

will be about the spotlight of Milton Keynes said we are a global

city. Hope you have a very good wdekend,

whatever you're doing. Goodnight. Hello, good evening, there will

be clear skies initially tonight but we will see increasing cloud,

bringing the chance of some mist and fog through the early hours of

the morning and low cloud in places. Temperatures in our towns

and cities, In the countryside 8/9

degrees but it will be Tomorrow, will be very like today,

mist and murk, low cloud first of all but sunny spells will start

to develop through the afternoon and, in the sunshine, pleas`ntly

warm with a high of 19/20 Cdlsius. A slim chance of a shower

but most places being dry. Looking ahead to the rest

of the weekend, and into next week, sunny spells tomorrow, more cloud

on Sunday with a chance of drizzle and rain at times on Monday.

Up next is the national fordcast. an outlook now for the next few

days. We are in good shape. Most will stay

dry. Hopefully you will see good spells of sunshine. It will be

breezy as we go through southern areas. But not much, if any rain.

Spare a thought for friends across south-Eastern Europe. We have had

torrential downpours over Italy into the Balkans, parts of Greece and

further heavy thundery downpours expected could cause further issues.

You can see the extent of the cloud here. Back home we've had

well-broken cloud. If you look to the north, there is a greater than

average chance of seeing the northern lights, would you believe -

that is because we have high solar activity. Good luck with that.

Weather wise, not a lot going on. Dry, murky out there. We have got

some fog across parts of eastern Scotland, through central areas as

well. Fog patches over north-east England too. A fair bit of cloud.