:00:00. > :00:00.Welcome to South Today. for the news where you are.
:00:00. > :00:08.Coming up: Blocked from his own land - the farmer who can't
:00:09. > :00:10.access his crops after Network Rail closed the level crossing.
:00:11. > :00:14.The Reading woman who saw a plea for help and took
:00:15. > :00:31.A farmer from Aylesbury says he's devastated after discovering he's
:00:32. > :00:35.been cut off from 90 acres of his own crops.
:00:36. > :00:40.Network Rail says it has closed a level crossing which runs
:00:41. > :00:42.through Fleet Marston Farm - for safety reasons.
:00:43. > :00:45.The farm's owner says the land brings in more than ?50,000
:00:46. > :00:47.a year and the closure could jeopardise his business.
:00:48. > :00:55.The latest recruits in four generations of farming.
:00:56. > :00:58.For 80 years, the Hunters have sewn, fertilised and harvested this land,
:00:59. > :01:00.with the wheat they grow supporting their business,
:01:01. > :01:06.The 400-acre farm is split by a railway line,
:01:07. > :01:10.For over a century, the tractors and the tracks
:01:11. > :01:17.I got here to the farm, heard a bit of noise,
:01:18. > :01:20.looked across the field and saw what where a pair of gates
:01:21. > :01:25.I seen them cutting the signpost down, cutting the gates off,
:01:26. > :01:36.For the last 150 years, tractors have been using this bridge
:01:37. > :01:43.Until November, when a three tonne weight limit was enforced.
:01:44. > :01:45.Inconvenient, but not a massive problem, because they could still
:01:46. > :01:49.use the level crossing down there, until today.
:01:50. > :01:52.So now, the railway line which once divided this farm has now
:01:53. > :01:59.The family say they were in talks with Network Rail after receiving
:02:00. > :02:01.a letter last week, but this morning's work was
:02:02. > :02:07.They now have no way to harvest the wheat they planted and face
:02:08. > :02:09.losing more than ?50,000, an amount that will threaten
:02:10. > :02:19.Network Rail failed to tell us why they were doing the work,
:02:20. > :02:22.but did say they haven't yet received a complaint from the farm,
:02:23. > :02:31.If this is what they are doing along the line, this
:02:32. > :02:34.story has got to go out, because it is not right,
:02:35. > :02:38.Andy Hunter, ending that report by Matt Gravelling.
:02:39. > :02:41.19 people have been charged following a series of drugs raids
:02:42. > :02:44.A total of 180 officers raided 24 properties on Tuesday.
:02:45. > :02:47.The men and women are accused of drug-related offences,
:02:48. > :03:00.including conspiracy to supply heroin and cocaine.
:03:01. > :03:03.A group of homeless people living in a former car showroom in Oxford
:03:04. > :03:06.have been told they'll need to leave by the end of next month.
:03:07. > :03:09.The former dealership had been empty for months before local residents
:03:10. > :03:12.Wadham College, which owns the site, has been given planning permission
:03:13. > :03:21.Work is due to start at the end of February.
:03:22. > :03:24.Campaigners claim plans for a garden town in Didcot aren't living up
:03:25. > :03:26.to their name because of proposals to build on a park.
:03:27. > :03:29.The plans include building flats and a technology campus
:03:30. > :03:32.South Oxfordshire District Council says the overall plan will mean more
:03:33. > :03:35.green space for Didcot and more money from the government
:03:36. > :03:37.but hundreds of people have already signed a petition
:03:38. > :03:58.This is enjoyed by mums and their children,
:03:59. > :04:01.and we will have the loss of a garden in the middle
:04:02. > :04:05.The amount of new buildings is tiny in comparison
:04:06. > :04:09.The vast majority of existing space will be exactly as it is,
:04:10. > :04:13.New facilities in terms of children play areas and so forth.
:04:14. > :04:16.This week, we have been running a series of reports celebrating
:04:17. > :04:18.the tenth anniversary of the Oxford Children's Hospital.
:04:19. > :04:21.Tonight we get rare access to one of the most highly specialist
:04:22. > :04:25.The Oxford Cranio facial unit is one of only four in the UK -
:04:26. > :04:28.and uses ground breaking techniques to alter a patient's features.
:04:29. > :04:33.Jeremy Stern has this special report.
:04:34. > :04:37.It is the day after the big operation.
:04:38. > :04:40.Hannah are Tom are waiting for news on their
:04:41. > :04:47.She was born with an unusually shaped head and referred
:04:48. > :04:50.to a specialist unit at the Oxford Children's Hospital.
:04:51. > :04:53.Yesterday was possibly the longest seven hours of my life waiting
:04:54. > :05:02.for her to come through the operation.
:05:03. > :05:05.I knew what she was going through and the potential risks
:05:06. > :05:09.The fact that her dad had had something similar,
:05:10. > :05:12.and that was his worst fear, that Lucy would end up
:05:13. > :05:15.Then you wonder what the implications are for her,
:05:16. > :05:20.The children's hospital is one of four in the country
:05:21. > :05:22.with a department for what's called craniofacial treatment.
:05:23. > :05:27.Surgeons move bone and skin to alter a patient's features.
:05:28. > :05:29.There are many examples where I've been doing things
:05:30. > :05:34.A lot of conditions where you are having
:05:35. > :05:38.to think on your feet, almost design new
:05:39. > :05:44.About 100 operations take place every year,
:05:45. > :05:56.Brianne was born with a unique mix of disorders.
:05:57. > :05:59.If someone else had it the same as Brianne then we could compare
:06:00. > :06:03.But because no one else has got that missing genome,
:06:04. > :06:06.they don't know what it is, so, future-wise, we don't
:06:07. > :06:09.We don't know if she's going to develop normally,
:06:10. > :06:12.or if it will affect any aspect of her life, which is quite
:06:13. > :06:24.Brianne's been through several operations.
:06:25. > :06:28.Psychologists, genetisists and speech therarapists
:06:29. > :06:36.Her forehead has been rebuilt, and surgeons are hoping
:06:37. > :06:38.to bring her eyes closer together when she's older.
:06:39. > :06:45.Back on the ward, there's good news about Lucy.
:06:46. > :06:48.We took the bottom two centimetres of the bone of the front,
:06:49. > :06:53.What is really wonderful is going and seeing the family
:06:54. > :06:56.afterwards and seeing the parents and telling them that everything
:06:57. > :07:03.Watching the emotion change in their face to absolute relief.
:07:04. > :07:06.We have just been blown away by the care they have given us.
:07:07. > :07:09.We are so indebted to them that we got her back
:07:10. > :07:11.yesterday, and she is doing so wonderfully well.
:07:12. > :07:13.Mr Johnson has just done an absolutely amazing job.
:07:14. > :07:17.We couldn't have hoped for better, and she couldn't have
:07:18. > :07:33.Like many other children, the treatment Kirsty's getting
:07:34. > :07:36.in Oxford is setting her up for a happy and healthy life.
:07:37. > :07:39.Now, here is a tale to restore your faith in human nature.
:07:40. > :07:42.It starts with a letter taped to an empty bike rack
:07:43. > :07:45.The letter was addressed to the thief who had
:07:46. > :07:48.stolen a brand new bike, belonging to someone who had
:07:49. > :07:52.A passer-by saw the note, and decided to do something
:07:53. > :08:04.Flapping from an empty bike rack, this letter caught
:08:05. > :08:06.Rachel's eye as she was walking along Reading's
:08:07. > :08:09."Dear bike thief, have you ever thought that you make
:08:10. > :08:14.You might have seen that the bike is new and will be
:08:15. > :08:18.Letting you know that I could only afford that bike after one year
:08:19. > :08:22.I was saving and dreaming of having a new bike one day.
:08:23. > :08:26.Well, it's a pretty forlorn looking note, as you can see.
:08:27. > :08:29.Everything I read just make me feel sad for the person, really.
:08:30. > :08:37.It was signed, "From Alex", who added that he or she would wait
:08:38. > :08:41.by the bike rack at 6pm each evening this week in the hope that
:08:42. > :08:49.I've lived here for coming on 17 years now and, actually,
:08:50. > :08:52.And that's what motivated me to do something.
:08:53. > :08:55.Within half an hour, Rachel had set up an online appeal
:08:56. > :09:00.aiming to collect enough money to buy a replacement bike,
:09:01. > :09:02.aiming to collect enough money to buy a replacement bike.
:09:03. > :09:05.24 hours later, the total had already reached over ?700.
:09:06. > :09:08.I've got no idea but Alex says that they will be here at 6pm.
:09:09. > :09:12.I don't know if Alex is male or female, even because it is a name
:09:13. > :09:16.But I will be here at 6pm, hopefully, to give Alex
:09:17. > :09:32.Alex, understandably wary at first, was deeply moved to know
:09:33. > :09:46.It's given back my faith in humanity.
:09:47. > :09:50.We are back in BBC Breakfast tomorrow morning,
:09:51. > :09:55.Next up, it is the weather with Alexis Green.
:09:56. > :10:02.We had a frosty start this morning. Tomorrow will be similar. The wins
:10:03. > :10:04.will stay brisk. Coming in from the south-east or the South.
:10:05. > :10:10.Temperatures tonight in towns and cities will fall below freezing.
:10:11. > :10:14.Minus five degrees in the countryside. We might have some mist
:10:15. > :10:19.and fog patches first thing tomorrow morning. Tomorrow, some bright
:10:20. > :10:23.spells during the morning. Cloud thickening in the afternoon. Patchy
:10:24. > :10:24.outbreaks of range of the afternoon and into the evening. The Wynnstay
:10:25. > :10:47.impressed from the South. Temperatures
:10:48. > :10:49.tomorrow higher than today. Four or 5 degrees. Today, it was just above
:10:50. > :10:51.freezing. Milder conditions tomorrow. Milder still for the
:10:52. > :10:53.weekend. Saturday, brisk south-westerly wind and some
:10:54. > :10:55.showers. Merging to form a longer spells of rain. Possibly the odd
:10:56. > :10:58.rumble of thunder on Saturday during daylight hours. On Sunday, the
:10:59. > :11:00.chance we could have a period of rain. Tomorrow starts on a dry note
:11:01. > :11:03.with some bright spells during the course of the morning. Patchy
:11:04. > :11:04.weekend. It's swings and roundabouts, higher temperatures but
:11:05. > :11:15.some rain as well. Good evening. It's been dry so far
:11:16. > :11:16.this January but as it draws to a close it