:00:11. > :00:16.$:/STARTFEED. Hello and welcome to BBC Oxford
:00:16. > :00:21.News. In tonight's programme: A former primary school teacher has
:00:21. > :00:27.appeared before magistrates. Almost two months later and almost
:00:27. > :00:37.�3 million, was the cost for Swindon station worth it?
:00:37. > :00:38.
:00:38. > :00:48.impression is very good. Police -- please sir, can we have
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:00:49. > :00:53.some more? The man behind at school meals in the area.
:00:53. > :00:58.A former primary school teacher has appeared before magistrates in
:00:58. > :01:04.Oxford accused of sexually assaulting a number of pupils. The
:01:04. > :01:07.case is highly sensitive due to the age and numbers of children
:01:07. > :01:11.involved - with legal restrictions on what we can say at this stage.
:01:11. > :01:15.The charges relate to a school in south Oxfordshire.
:01:15. > :01:20.The defendant faces charges relating to sexual assaults on 10
:01:20. > :01:25.children. We are limited on what details we can see in this case to
:01:25. > :01:33.protect the identity of the legend rectums. Recant broadcast the name
:01:33. > :01:38.of the accused, the school or its look back -- or its exact location.
:01:38. > :01:42.We understand a man who appeared before Oxford magistrates this
:01:42. > :01:49.morning is a former primary school teacher in his early 50s.
:01:49. > :01:53.The charges against him are: �17 and assaulting a girl under 13 by
:01:53. > :01:59.touching, 10 counts of taking indecent photographs of a child.
:01:59. > :02:06.One count of possessing indecent photographs and one charge of wires
:02:06. > :02:14.and - recording a private Act. -- voyeurism. These offences are
:02:14. > :02:18.alleged to have taken place between 2004 and 2010. Thames Valley Police
:02:18. > :02:21.say they had been working with Oxfordshire County Council several
:02:21. > :02:26.months on this case. As yet the former teacher has not submitted a
:02:26. > :02:31.plea for any of these offences. He has been remanded in custody and
:02:31. > :02:36.will appear at Oxford Crown Court on 9th November.
:02:36. > :02:43.The cafe honouring Jimmy Savile at Stoke Mandeville Hospital is to be
:02:43. > :02:47.redeemed -- remained. It was opened by the presenter in 2005, following
:02:47. > :02:52.his years of fundraising for the Spinal injuries Unit. But there
:02:52. > :02:56.have been calls to change its since the allegations of sexual assault
:02:56. > :02:59.against him came to light. It will be changed from Jimmy's to
:02:59. > :03:04.Cafe@WRVS after the charity which runs it.
:03:04. > :03:09.A man jailed for life for killing a couple from Witney has applied to
:03:09. > :03:12.appeal against his conviction. 66- year-old man -- John Cooper was
:03:12. > :03:20.jailed in May for the murder of Peter and Gwenda Dixon and two
:03:20. > :03:23.other people in Wales in net -- in the 1980s. A large sheet Justice
:03:23. > :03:27.Lord Judge said he will reserve judgement on the appeal application
:03:27. > :03:32.until the end of the month. The Princess Royal has been an
:03:32. > :03:37.Oxford. Princess Anne arrived at the Kassam Stadium by helicopter to
:03:37. > :03:40.attend a conference organised by Victim Support. She is President of
:03:40. > :03:44.the charity. The conference was looking at ways to improve our
:03:44. > :03:48.young victims of crime and witnesses are helped. The charity
:03:48. > :03:54.says it is important that young people are taken seriously when
:03:54. > :03:59.they reported crime. A scheme to improve the front of
:03:59. > :04:04.Swindon railway station has finally been completed, more than 12 months
:04:04. > :04:09.after it has started. The work has cost nearly �2 million and suffered
:04:09. > :04:12.long delays. The company behind it, Forward Swindon, says the area as
:04:12. > :04:15.one of the first place is many people see when they visit the town
:04:15. > :04:20.and it is absolutely delighted with the result.
:04:20. > :04:26.It has been a long time coming, but finally work to give Swindon's
:04:26. > :04:32.station a facelift as fine -- has been finished. The revamp started
:04:32. > :04:37.in the summer of 2011, is three months overdue and cost �1.8
:04:37. > :04:43.million. But Forward Swindon, the company responsible for a improving
:04:43. > :04:49.economic growth in the borough, claims it is a huge important --
:04:49. > :04:54.improvement over the old layout. The firm has blamed heavy rain for
:04:54. > :05:00.the delays. Now it has finished, taxi drivers say the new layout or
:05:00. > :05:04.only helps close walking. We have a confusing system where drivers are
:05:04. > :05:09.in a different order. The customer does not know which taxi is next.
:05:09. > :05:15.It is up to a high standard, but from our point of view it is not
:05:15. > :05:19.that good. Around 3 million people pass
:05:19. > :05:29.through the station each year, so what were some of the first
:05:29. > :05:29.
:05:29. > :05:33.impressions? Phillips very modern and new. -- it looks. There were
:05:33. > :05:39.taxis everywhere before. welcomes London in the way we would
:05:39. > :05:44.like to welcome people. It is really good. Forward Swindon has
:05:44. > :05:49.already undertaken its next project with the �30 million upgrade of the
:05:49. > :05:55.town's commercial centre. If you have taken a tour of Oxford,
:05:55. > :06:01.you may have done it on a bus or what it, but in future visitors may
:06:01. > :06:03.have the option to see the city on electric tricycles. This evening,
:06:03. > :06:13.the City Council is discussing whether the vehicles could be
:06:13. > :06:16.
:06:17. > :06:23.licensed. The busy streets of Oxford, buses, taxis, bicycles and
:06:23. > :06:27.pedestrians in the city centre. Now these could be added - Electrical
:06:27. > :06:32.tricycles which a company wants to use for tours. It is almost
:06:32. > :06:36.impossible to walk through the city centre without being approached
:06:36. > :06:41.about it tour. The operators of these electric tricycle say they
:06:41. > :06:46.are adding another option to tourists. People stop and look at
:06:46. > :06:51.tourists. People stop and look at these vehicles and smiled. They
:06:51. > :06:57.smile when the look at them and they are full of delight when the
:06:57. > :07:01.ride in them. I hope the council long do not say no, it is not far
:07:01. > :07:07.or Oxford. We are about history and nothing else. I think all cities
:07:07. > :07:13.have to move with it sounds. Her as the law stands at the moment, the
:07:13. > :07:17.tricycles will not be allowed. It will not a lot be allowed because
:07:17. > :07:22.private hire vehicles have to have four wheels. But Oxford City
:07:22. > :07:31.Council says it is cautiously interested simply because they are
:07:31. > :07:35.environmentally friendly. What is not to like? Bicycles are part of
:07:35. > :07:40.the problem I think. How asked that tends to bring different modes of
:07:41. > :07:45.transport to Oxford a field. Rickshaws and horse-drawn carriage
:07:45. > :07:49.is have never been allowed. But with taxi laws currently under
:07:49. > :07:54.review, these hybrid vehicles could one day be peddled around the
:07:54. > :08:00.city's streets. Banbury's annual Michaelmus fair is
:08:00. > :08:10.underway. It is the time's biggest reader event and has been intrusion
:08:10. > :08:11.
:08:11. > :08:15.in Banbury for more than 400 years. -- biggest street event. Thousands
:08:15. > :08:24.of people are expected to visit over the next three days. Sinead
:08:24. > :08:34.Carroll went to see it. It is attracting a lot of attention.
:08:34. > :08:35.
:08:35. > :08:43.I have this lady here who is from the company that runs this event.
:08:43. > :08:48.It is the second generation of the family running the affair. It is
:08:48. > :08:51.also our children and grandchildren here so there will be five
:08:51. > :08:58.generations here today. This there is quite special and it started
:08:58. > :09:03.with an unusual opening ceremony, a traditional one. It involved a
:09:03. > :09:09.golden key. Tell me about that. golden key is presented by our
:09:09. > :09:13.company to the raining beer and chairman of the council. They'd do
:09:13. > :09:20.a tour of the fair and whatever write a touch, then the children
:09:20. > :09:25.have a free ride. You run these across the country, what makes
:09:25. > :09:31.Banbury's so special? It is the last one of the big Street fears of
:09:31. > :09:36.the year. So everybody comes out. Wet and very fair, it finishes on
:09:36. > :09:42.Friday evening, winter is nearly here. It is not quite here yet.
:09:42. > :09:45.Despite the rain, a lot of people have turned out already. It is here