Floods delay new Oxford library building

Floods delay new Oxford library building: Oxford University has postponed plans for a £29m extension to the world famous Bodleian Library on the banks of the Thames while the impact of this week’s severe flooding is assessed.
A presentation to Oxford city council’s planning committee was deferred this week at the university’s request, but the university authorities remain confident the proposed repository, which will hold nearly 8m books, will withstand flooding even on the scale seen in recent days when hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes.