13/02/2017

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:00:00. > :00:00.Coming up: Thames Water has denied acting recklessly after its sewage

:00:00. > :00:08.systems caused serious problems in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire.

:00:09. > :00:11.And a big setback for a children's farm in Chipping Norton,

:00:12. > :00:22.after thousands of pounds of tools were stolen.

:00:23. > :00:26.First tonight, police say a 10-year-old boy has died

:00:27. > :00:28.from serious head injuries at a shop in Reading.

:00:29. > :00:31.It happened at the Topshop in the Oracle Shopping

:00:32. > :00:35.Police say the incident involved shop furniture.

:00:36. > :00:38.The boy later died at the Royal Berkshire Hospital.

:00:39. > :00:40.Officers say his death is being treated as unexplained,

:00:41. > :00:47.Thames Water has denied acting recklessly after failing

:00:48. > :00:51.to control sewage spills in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire.

:00:52. > :00:53.But the company has admitted breaching a number of environmental

:00:54. > :00:59.Aylesbury Crown Court has heard billions of pounds is now

:01:00. > :01:06.Today we heard more details about how stretches of the Thames

:01:07. > :01:08.in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire came to be so polluted

:01:09. > :01:18.And we heard from the company, Thames Water, that's responsible,

:01:19. > :01:23.on what it's doing to make sure that what happened doesn't happen again.

:01:24. > :01:25.Now, the company breached pollution laws in four sewage

:01:26. > :01:30.treatment works in Aylesbury, in Didcot, in Henley

:01:31. > :01:35.and Little Marlow, and at a pumping station in Littlemore.

:01:36. > :01:37.Thames Water said it accepts responsibility for damage

:01:38. > :01:43.But QC Richard Matthews told the court it was negligence

:01:44. > :01:47.rather than recklessness, and that the company has improved.

:01:48. > :01:53.It's investing ?4 billion in upgrading equipment.

:01:54. > :01:55.There have also been changes to the structure

:01:56. > :01:58.of the company at the top, and the QC argued that Thames Water

:01:59. > :02:07.Judge Sheridan said the company did not live up to that standard,

:02:08. > :02:13.or anywhere near it, in 2013 and 2014.

:02:14. > :02:16.Thames Water is bracing itself for a hefty fine,

:02:17. > :02:19.and the question was raised in court, who would pay for it?

:02:20. > :02:22.Judge Sheridan said that it shouldn't be the customers,

:02:23. > :02:25.and that the company should be punished.

:02:26. > :02:28.Mr Matthews promised that customers wouldn't feel

:02:29. > :02:33.Thames Water will be sentenced on March 24th.

:02:34. > :02:39.A man is in a serious condition in hospital

:02:40. > :02:45.Police were called to Windmill Road in Headington this afternoon.

:02:46. > :02:48.A 27-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.

:02:49. > :02:53.It's believed the suspect and the victim know each other.

:02:54. > :02:56.More than 7,000 BMW workers, including those at the Mini plants

:02:57. > :03:00.in Oxford and Swindon, are threatening industrial

:03:01. > :03:04.action over plans to close the final-salary pension scheme.

:03:05. > :03:06.The car-maker, which made record pre-tax profits of more

:03:07. > :03:12.than ?7.5 billion two years ago, intends to shut two pension schemes.

:03:13. > :03:16.BMW has previously said schemes are "increasingly

:03:17. > :03:22.It's agreed to hold talks with the union later this month.

:03:23. > :03:25.A footballer on loan to Swindon Town has gone on trial charged

:03:26. > :03:31.Rohan Ince is accused of deliberately hitting a bouncer

:03:32. > :03:36.with a bottle near a nightclub in Windsor on Christmas Day in 2015.

:03:37. > :03:42.Next tonight, the owner of a children's farm in Oxfordshire

:03:43. > :03:44.has been expressing his anger after thousands of pounds

:03:45. > :03:46.worth of power tools were stolen last week.

:03:47. > :03:52.The theft at Fairy Tale Farm in Chipping Norton was caught on CCTV.

:03:53. > :04:03.It's the early hours of the morning, and a thief is seen on CCTV carrying

:04:04. > :04:10.away loot after breaking into a farm for disabled children.

:04:11. > :04:17.He broke into this building here, he forced the door open, and now,

:04:18. > :04:19.of course, it doesn't even lock properly.

:04:20. > :04:28.He broke in there and he stole all of our power tools.

:04:29. > :04:30.That was angle grinders, drills, saws, circular saws,

:04:31. > :04:32.lots of other attachments and fixtures and fittings.

:04:33. > :04:39.The farm reopened this weekend after its winter break but,

:04:40. > :04:41.because they've lost their tools, work that should have been

:04:42. > :04:45.It's expensive, the tools are expensive and going to be

:04:46. > :04:48.We'll have to replace them over time.

:04:49. > :04:53.It's almost like setting us back to when we first started.

:04:54. > :04:56.We didn't have all these tools, we had to build them up.

:04:57. > :04:58.We do most of the work at Fairytale Farm ourselves.

:04:59. > :05:01.We don't have the funds to bring in lots of contractors.

:05:02. > :05:05.To not have these tools has just made our life really difficult.

:05:06. > :05:08.Rural crime in this area is a massive issue.

:05:09. > :05:13.Latest figures from NFU Mutual show that while it went

:05:14. > :05:15.down in the South East, it actually rose in

:05:16. > :05:20.Until about ten years ago, farms were pretty safe from crime.

:05:21. > :05:22.Unfortunately, they're now pretty much hot targets for thieves

:05:23. > :05:26.because they've got expensive items, like welders and chainsaws,

:05:27. > :05:30.that thieves can pick up and sell on for a profit.

:05:31. > :05:32.Thames Valley Police has started a month-long campaign to crack

:05:33. > :05:39.It's been holding property-marking sessions and online chats

:05:40. > :05:45.Fairytale Farm says the response to the break in has been amazing,

:05:46. > :05:51.with a number of strangers offering to donate tools.

:05:52. > :05:58.It wishes now to move on from what's happened as quickly as possible.

:05:59. > :06:01.More than 1,500 staff and students have moved out of one

:06:02. > :06:05.of the Oxford University buildings because of asbestos.

:06:06. > :06:08.It was discovered at the Tinbergen building on South Parks Road.

:06:09. > :06:13.The site has now been shut while removal work is carried out.

:06:14. > :06:15.This year, it's 50 years since homosexuality became

:06:16. > :06:19.To mark that, and LGBT History Month, all the museums

:06:20. > :06:24.in Oxford have created a special trail to celebrate it.

:06:25. > :06:27.Earlier, I spoke to Beth Asbury and Clara Barker, who are both

:06:28. > :06:33.I went to a lecture in LGBT History Month in February last year

:06:34. > :06:36.by Prof Richard Parkinson, and he called for more explicit

:06:37. > :06:40.rather than implicit representation of LGBT+ people

:06:41. > :06:44.And the project itself, it's called Out In Oxford,

:06:45. > :06:49.How did you go about finding the items?

:06:50. > :06:54.I contacted members of staff and curators from the museums

:06:55. > :06:57.and collections around the university, and encouraged them

:06:58. > :07:00.to suggest items for inclusion, and then I held a workshop in August

:07:01. > :07:05.with volunteers from amongst the LGBTQ+ community and allies

:07:06. > :07:10.were invited to discuss the object and think about which ones they'd

:07:11. > :07:15.The interpretations in the trail booklet are all written

:07:16. > :07:19.by LGBTQ+ people and allies, rather than the curators.

:07:20. > :07:22.It's really introducing accecssibility and multi-vocality

:07:23. > :07:26.into the museum collections, which is a really important

:07:27. > :07:30.And, Clara, you're heavily involved in this and you've written

:07:31. > :07:33.Which ones have captured you the most?

:07:34. > :07:37.There was a lot of different examples of non-binary

:07:38. > :07:43.The blue headress fish was fantastic.

:07:44. > :07:47.This is sequentially hermaphroditic, which means it changes from male

:07:48. > :07:53.It means that we're thinking about the world in a slightly

:07:54. > :07:56.different way than maybe we're used to when we're talking about humans.

:07:57. > :08:01.Was there anything like this at all when you were growing up?

:08:02. > :08:08.I'm a scientist as well, and I've met very, very few out LGBT

:08:09. > :08:10.scientists until the last couple of years.

:08:11. > :08:14.So I think this is a really important step, that we just need

:08:15. > :08:16.more visibility and to know that we're not so different.

:08:17. > :08:20.And, Beth, what's the feedback been like from people who've been

:08:21. > :08:23.to the launch party and people who are hoping to visit this trail?

:08:24. > :08:28.We had about 450 people at the launch party on Saturday,

:08:29. > :08:31.and we've got a series of other events throughout LGBT

:08:32. > :08:36.History Month, February, in the Pitt Rivers Museum over

:08:37. > :08:42.And everyone had fantastic big smiles on their faces on Saturday

:08:43. > :08:45.and had a really good time, I think, so I'm hoping this will be

:08:46. > :08:48.the start of something really, really positive in the future

:08:49. > :08:54.Beth, Clara, thank you so much for coming in to see us.

:08:55. > :09:00.We're back in BBC Breakfast tomorrow morning.

:09:01. > :09:06.Let's take a look at the weather for the week ahead.

:09:07. > :09:08.This week is certainly a lot milder than it was last

:09:09. > :09:10.week, with temperatures in low single figures.

:09:11. > :09:12.This week we're looking at double figures.

:09:13. > :09:15.Cloudy at times, one or two bright spells,

:09:16. > :09:17.with the chance of some patchy light rain.

:09:18. > :09:19.And overnight tonight it will stay mainly dry.

:09:20. > :09:22.Where we have the clearing skies, the risk of frost in the countryside

:09:23. > :09:25.Temperatures there could drop to around freezing.

:09:26. > :09:26.So, a chilly start to the day tomorrow.

:09:27. > :09:30.A lot of cloud around tomorrow, perhaps some mist and fog in places.

:09:31. > :09:32.The cloud will thicken through the morning, and we'll see

:09:33. > :09:35.But there will be some bright and sunny spells,

:09:36. > :09:37.more likely the further north and east you are.

:09:38. > :09:40.Temperatures tomorrow reaching a high of 8-9 C with the light

:09:41. > :09:46.Slowly but surely, that wind direction is going to change

:09:47. > :09:50.So tomorrow night, the chance of an odd shower.

:09:51. > :09:53.Mist and fog patches are also a possibility during the early hours

:09:54. > :09:54.of Wednesday morning, with temperatures falling

:09:55. > :10:01.Quite a mild start to the day on Wednesday, a good deal

:10:02. > :10:03.of cloud throughout the day, producing the odd spot of light

:10:04. > :10:09.Once again, the chance of one or two bright spells,

:10:10. > :10:14.And you can see the start of the change in the wind direction

:10:15. > :10:18.to a more southerly airflow, with a high of 10-11 C.

:10:19. > :10:21.And a further wind change direction on Thursday,

:10:22. > :10:23.coming in from the south-west, drawing that milder

:10:24. > :10:28.So it should stay settled on Thursday.

:10:29. > :10:32.The chance of the odd spot of rain, but it should be mainly dry.

:10:33. > :10:35.A fair amount of cloud as well once again.

:10:36. > :10:38.And a similar scenario on Friday - quite a cloudy scene.

:10:39. > :10:41.The old spot of rain here and there, temperatures reaching

:10:42. > :10:46.So this week, temperatures are up into double figures.

:10:47. > :10:49.As we head towards the weekend, it will be mild by day,

:10:50. > :10:52.mainly dry with some quite chilly nights.

:10:53. > :11:01.The chance of frost each morning with some mist and fog patches.

:11:02. > :11:07.at the weekend it will be mild. Largely dry, perhaps a wind -- windy