15/06/2011 BBC Oxford News

Welcome to BBC Oxford News. Tonight: a well-cut called for drug

dealers. -- a welcome call. Police say it will dent Swindon's drug

trade. The people we have gone after of people who cause misery.

Rising from the ashes, the businessman who refused to be

beaten by arsonists. As we were standing there watching it burn, we

thought there is no way back from Ness. Later in South Today,

Tinysaur. Palaeontologists think that this tiny bone could have come

Good evening. It has been described as the biggest drugs bust in

Swindon for a decade. More than 120 police officers were involved in

rates this morning. 14 people were arrested in a crackdown on the

supplier of heroin and cocaine. A door opens on Swindon's illegal

and violent class A drugs trade. This one of 16 suspected dealers

targeted by 130 police officers. They have to break in quickly using

what they call the Big Red Key. creates a shock but also, they will

get rid of evidence, they were flush it, swallow it -- they will

flush it, distribute it to other people in the house. For officers

find a set of weighing scales, an estimated �6,000 in this bundle,

and backs buried in the back garden. It a lot of dealers bury their

drugs because then they are not in the house. The operation was

launched after a series of stabbings in Swindon are linked to

drug dealing. It is known that dealers from London, Reading and

Birmingham are now targeting the town. On this estate, neighbours

were glad that something is being done. They should make life safer

for everyone, less hassle. Syringe is, I have found them in my garden.

With three young children, it is a bit worrying. I do not think they

get stiff enough penalties. If you do not really stamp down on them,

the next one will come along. Officers admit they will only

disrupt the drugs trade in for 24 hours. Soon, someone else will be

supplying. They say it is worth of the months of surveillance. This

case is not just about supply, it is about reducing violence

associated with drug supply. It will have a significant impact

because the people we have gone after our people who cause misery.

14 arrests were made, including one in London and two of inmates

already doing time in Bristol prison.

There has been an increasing the number of people arrested for

drink-driving in Thames Valley. Police carried out a five-day

campaign last week arrested 78 motorists. 14 were from Oxfordshire

and 28 from Buckinghamshire. Nearly all of those caught were men.

Youth offending work in Buckinghamshire is being carried

out to a high level of quality according to the latest report by

the probation service. Why have to stop reoffending was done well

enough 82% of the time -- work to stop reoffending, compared to a

national average of 70%. Police have re-arrested a prisoner

who failed to return to Spring Hill Prison in Grendon Underwood near

Aylesbury. 22-year-old David Gowing has spent a day working as part of

his rehabilitation when he went missing. He is serving a seven-year

sentence for GBH. Two years ago, it was destroyed in

an arson attack and at one point, the owners of a tyre business in

Buckinghamshire thought their houses would be repossessed and

several staff laid off. Their customers stuck by them and this

week the firm in Waddesdon has reopened.

Hopes and dreams gone up in smoke. All that this business had worked

for over years disappeared one April might two years ago. It has

been hard. It has been five years of hard work to build the business

back there. To see it gone in minutes, it hard work. The fire had

been started deliberately. It forced the 90 people to be

evacuated from their homes in the middle of the night as gas bottles

exploded. This was the first of several arson is around Waddesdon

at the time for which no one has ever been convicted. It left his

business facing financial ruin. we were standing there watching it

burn, we thought, there is absolutely no way back from this.

Seven people resting on our shoulders for employment. That is

what hit me the hardest. Would we have to tell the lads, Surrey,

there is no job for you. -- Surrey. They started from scratch in a

temporary unit found for them by the local aperitif. That has now

become permanent and has helped to secured every one's jobs -- found

for them by the local authority. has worked. Everyone has been kept

on. Team work, I suppose. Customers rallied round and are now the

retail and commercial arms of the business will operate out of

separate premises. The old workshop is set to reopen, 800 days after

the fire. It is a joy to work on the new premises. Immense relief.

We are up and running and will be able to offer the same service as

we used do. Even in austere times, this business says that it goes to

prove that if you look after your customers, your customers will look

after your business. If a woman and her two children

have had a lucky escape after being in a rose -- road accident. The

accident happened on the higher non-. Fire crews freed the driver.

-- on the A4260 Banbury Road. County council's planning to charge

for taking children to school has been put on hold. The councils are

going to take more time to listen to parents. We have no ability to

make savings other than this. Having made savings all over the

ploughs within the education budget, I now have do say to parents, why

am sorry but I have got to do something like this. Swindon Robins

are speedway fans have been asked to support Leigh Adams at this week.

He suffered horrendous injuries after a motorbike crash in

Australia last week. Proceeds from the event on Thursday will go

towards helping him and his family. And Animal Centre in Oxfordshire

has been forced to partly close its doors after an outbreak of illness.

Two horses at Burford Animal Centre are worried that the -- vets are

worried that they may spread the disease to other animals.

Vets were worried that the horse had caught up Streptococcus

zooepidemicus. He is fine but the equine centre remains closed.

have not been rehome in horses recently. If we cannot get horses

out into new homes, we cannot take more in. The knock-on effect is

huge. The illness affects the breeding of horses and a that

animals like breeding -- guinea pigs. It does not make humans bill

but they can spread it. We closed everything down to prevent cross-

infection. That was temporary and there was no cross-infection.

two sit courses are now getting better. Staff are hoping the centre

will reopen soon. -- two is sick courses.

Imagine getting a year at supply of chocolate, All in one go and for

free. That is exactly what happened to pupils at Matthew Arnold School.

They have been presented with the fair trade bars for saving the most

energy during an environmental competition. The children managed

to shave 67% off their electricity bill by turning off unused

appliances. Nine schools took part in the Eco friendly Switch Off Day.

I think they did really well to save so much energy, it goes to

show how much energy can be saved and also how much is wasted.

Because of global warming, it is really did to save energy. It felt

really nice to know that we were the top school in Oxfordshire for