:00:07. > :00:17.Welcome to BBC Oxford News. Tonight: a well-cut called for drug
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:00:17. > :00:24.dealers. -- a welcome call. Police say it will dent Swindon's drug
:00:24. > :00:28.trade. The people we have gone after of people who cause misery.
:00:28. > :00:33.Rising from the ashes, the businessman who refused to be
:00:33. > :00:39.beaten by arsonists. As we were standing there watching it burn, we
:00:39. > :00:43.thought there is no way back from Ness. Later in South Today,
:00:43. > :00:53.Tinysaur. Palaeontologists think that this tiny bone could have come
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:00:57. > :01:02.Good evening. It has been described as the biggest drugs bust in
:01:02. > :01:06.Swindon for a decade. More than 120 police officers were involved in
:01:06. > :01:16.rates this morning. 14 people were arrested in a crackdown on the
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:01:18. > :01:23.supplier of heroin and cocaine. A door opens on Swindon's illegal
:01:23. > :01:29.and violent class A drugs trade. This one of 16 suspected dealers
:01:29. > :01:37.targeted by 130 police officers. They have to break in quickly using
:01:37. > :01:43.what they call the Big Red Key. creates a shock but also, they will
:01:43. > :01:49.get rid of evidence, they were flush it, swallow it -- they will
:01:49. > :01:55.flush it, distribute it to other people in the house. For officers
:01:55. > :02:00.find a set of weighing scales, an estimated �6,000 in this bundle,
:02:00. > :02:03.and backs buried in the back garden. It a lot of dealers bury their
:02:03. > :02:07.drugs because then they are not in the house. The operation was
:02:07. > :02:11.launched after a series of stabbings in Swindon are linked to
:02:12. > :02:15.drug dealing. It is known that dealers from London, Reading and
:02:15. > :02:19.Birmingham are now targeting the town. On this estate, neighbours
:02:19. > :02:27.were glad that something is being done. They should make life safer
:02:27. > :02:32.for everyone, less hassle. Syringe is, I have found them in my garden.
:02:32. > :02:41.With three young children, it is a bit worrying. I do not think they
:02:41. > :02:46.get stiff enough penalties. If you do not really stamp down on them,
:02:46. > :02:50.the next one will come along. Officers admit they will only
:02:50. > :02:54.disrupt the drugs trade in for 24 hours. Soon, someone else will be
:02:54. > :02:58.supplying. They say it is worth of the months of surveillance. This
:02:58. > :03:03.case is not just about supply, it is about reducing violence
:03:03. > :03:07.associated with drug supply. It will have a significant impact
:03:08. > :03:13.because the people we have gone after our people who cause misery.
:03:13. > :03:19.14 arrests were made, including one in London and two of inmates
:03:19. > :03:23.already doing time in Bristol prison.
:03:23. > :03:26.There has been an increasing the number of people arrested for
:03:26. > :03:31.drink-driving in Thames Valley. Police carried out a five-day
:03:31. > :03:35.campaign last week arrested 78 motorists. 14 were from Oxfordshire
:03:35. > :03:38.and 28 from Buckinghamshire. Nearly all of those caught were men.
:03:38. > :03:42.Youth offending work in Buckinghamshire is being carried
:03:42. > :03:46.out to a high level of quality according to the latest report by
:03:46. > :03:52.the probation service. Why have to stop reoffending was done well
:03:52. > :03:58.enough 82% of the time -- work to stop reoffending, compared to a
:03:58. > :04:02.national average of 70%. Police have re-arrested a prisoner
:04:02. > :04:07.who failed to return to Spring Hill Prison in Grendon Underwood near
:04:07. > :04:10.Aylesbury. 22-year-old David Gowing has spent a day working as part of
:04:10. > :04:15.his rehabilitation when he went missing. He is serving a seven-year
:04:15. > :04:19.sentence for GBH. Two years ago, it was destroyed in
:04:19. > :04:21.an arson attack and at one point, the owners of a tyre business in
:04:21. > :04:26.Buckinghamshire thought their houses would be repossessed and
:04:26. > :04:29.several staff laid off. Their customers stuck by them and this
:04:30. > :04:34.week the firm in Waddesdon has reopened.
:04:34. > :04:40.Hopes and dreams gone up in smoke. All that this business had worked
:04:40. > :04:44.for over years disappeared one April might two years ago. It has
:04:44. > :04:50.been hard. It has been five years of hard work to build the business
:04:50. > :04:54.back there. To see it gone in minutes, it hard work. The fire had
:04:54. > :04:57.been started deliberately. It forced the 90 people to be
:04:57. > :05:02.evacuated from their homes in the middle of the night as gas bottles
:05:02. > :05:07.exploded. This was the first of several arson is around Waddesdon
:05:07. > :05:10.at the time for which no one has ever been convicted. It left his
:05:10. > :05:18.business facing financial ruin. we were standing there watching it
:05:18. > :05:23.burn, we thought, there is absolutely no way back from this.
:05:23. > :05:27.Seven people resting on our shoulders for employment. That is
:05:28. > :05:34.what hit me the hardest. Would we have to tell the lads, Surrey,
:05:34. > :05:38.there is no job for you. -- Surrey. They started from scratch in a
:05:38. > :05:43.temporary unit found for them by the local aperitif. That has now
:05:43. > :05:52.become permanent and has helped to secured every one's jobs -- found
:05:52. > :06:00.for them by the local authority. has worked. Everyone has been kept
:06:00. > :06:03.on. Team work, I suppose. Customers rallied round and are now the
:06:03. > :06:11.retail and commercial arms of the business will operate out of
:06:11. > :06:18.separate premises. The old workshop is set to reopen, 800 days after
:06:18. > :06:22.the fire. It is a joy to work on the new premises. Immense relief.
:06:22. > :06:27.We are up and running and will be able to offer the same service as
:06:27. > :06:31.we used do. Even in austere times, this business says that it goes to
:06:31. > :06:38.prove that if you look after your customers, your customers will look
:06:38. > :06:43.after your business. If a woman and her two children
:06:43. > :06:50.have had a lucky escape after being in a rose -- road accident. The
:06:50. > :06:59.accident happened on the higher non-. Fire crews freed the driver.
:06:59. > :07:07.-- on the A4260 Banbury Road. County council's planning to charge
:07:07. > :07:12.for taking children to school has been put on hold. The councils are
:07:12. > :07:18.going to take more time to listen to parents. We have no ability to
:07:18. > :07:23.make savings other than this. Having made savings all over the
:07:23. > :07:33.ploughs within the education budget, I now have do say to parents, why
:07:33. > :07:38.am sorry but I have got to do something like this. Swindon Robins
:07:38. > :07:43.are speedway fans have been asked to support Leigh Adams at this week.
:07:43. > :07:46.He suffered horrendous injuries after a motorbike crash in
:07:46. > :07:50.Australia last week. Proceeds from the event on Thursday will go
:07:50. > :07:55.towards helping him and his family. And Animal Centre in Oxfordshire
:07:55. > :08:00.has been forced to partly close its doors after an outbreak of illness.
:08:00. > :08:07.Two horses at Burford Animal Centre are worried that the -- vets are
:08:07. > :08:10.worried that they may spread the disease to other animals.
:08:10. > :08:17.Vets were worried that the horse had caught up Streptococcus
:08:18. > :08:22.zooepidemicus. He is fine but the equine centre remains closed.
:08:22. > :08:27.have not been rehome in horses recently. If we cannot get horses
:08:27. > :08:32.out into new homes, we cannot take more in. The knock-on effect is
:08:32. > :08:36.huge. The illness affects the breeding of horses and a that
:08:36. > :08:41.animals like breeding -- guinea pigs. It does not make humans bill
:08:41. > :08:46.but they can spread it. We closed everything down to prevent cross-
:08:46. > :08:52.infection. That was temporary and there was no cross-infection.
:08:53. > :08:58.two sit courses are now getting better. Staff are hoping the centre
:08:58. > :09:02.will reopen soon. -- two is sick courses.
:09:02. > :09:07.Imagine getting a year at supply of chocolate, All in one go and for
:09:07. > :09:11.free. That is exactly what happened to pupils at Matthew Arnold School.
:09:11. > :09:14.They have been presented with the fair trade bars for saving the most
:09:14. > :09:20.energy during an environmental competition. The children managed
:09:20. > :09:25.to shave 67% off their electricity bill by turning off unused
:09:25. > :09:29.appliances. Nine schools took part in the Eco friendly Switch Off Day.
:09:29. > :09:35.I think they did really well to save so much energy, it goes to
:09:35. > :09:41.show how much energy can be saved and also how much is wasted.
:09:41. > :09:44.Because of global warming, it is really did to save energy. It felt
:09:44. > :09:50.really nice to know that we were the top school in Oxfordshire for