:00:58. > :01:02.Good evening. A young woman has broken down in tears recalling how
:01:02. > :01:05.a man groomed her and forced her to have sex with groups of men. She's
:01:05. > :01:08.the third alleged victim to give evidence at the trial of nine men
:01:08. > :01:11.accused of abusing girls in Oxford. Our reporter Joe Campbell has been
:01:11. > :01:15.following the hearing at the Old Bailey. A little earlier he told me
:01:15. > :01:19.more about what the woman had said. The jury was hearing from a person
:01:19. > :01:23.only describe as Guthrie. She had met Mohammed Karrar when she was 12
:01:23. > :01:26.and walking by the River Thames. He invited her to join him for a drink
:01:26. > :01:30.and then she began a relationship with him, meeting on several
:01:30. > :01:37.occasions. She said he treated her like an adult and made her feel
:01:37. > :01:41.special. Tell us what the girl said about
:01:41. > :01:46.how the relationship changed. She was 12 when she first met him.
:01:46. > :01:49.By the time she reached 13, they had been having a sexual
:01:49. > :01:55.relationship despite the fact that her mother had made it plain to
:01:55. > :01:58.Mohammed Karrar what her young age was. She said about spade -- about
:01:58. > :02:03.stage there was a dramatic change in the way he began to wards are.
:02:03. > :02:07.She was called to one of the flats where they used to be before the
:02:07. > :02:12.first sexual activity. Two other men arrived and one began to touch
:02:12. > :02:15.her leg and she complained. She says the Mohammed Karrar to go into
:02:15. > :02:18.the kitchen and said they were her friends and that she had to be a
:02:18. > :02:22.good girl and gave her some crack cocaine which she had to smoke. She
:02:22. > :02:25.said she was involved in sexual activities with two other men which
:02:25. > :02:34.but Mohammed Karrar was said to have belonged. Over the next few
:02:34. > :02:38.days, another a similar event said. -- similar event happened. She said
:02:38. > :02:41.similar things took place over the next couple of years where she
:02:41. > :02:45.engaged in sexual activities with various men at Mohammed Karrar's
:02:45. > :02:49.request. All of the men deny the charges against them and the gold
:02:49. > :02:52.will continue to give evidence at the Old Bailey tomorrow.
:02:52. > :02:55.A man's been arrested and held under the Mental Health Act
:02:55. > :02:58.following the murder of a 53-year old man in Aylesbury. Mark Austin
:02:58. > :03:01.died last Friday, a day after he was attacked in the Harcourt Green
:03:01. > :03:04.area of the town. A 49-year-old, who was initially held on suspicion
:03:04. > :03:09.of causing grievous bodily harm, has now been sectioned. Police have
:03:09. > :03:13.appealed for witnesses. It's a city well known for its
:03:13. > :03:16.bikes, but a campaign group says not enough money is being spent to
:03:16. > :03:18.help cyclists. The Bike Safe group has discovered that over the past
:03:18. > :03:23.three years, Oxfordshire County Council spent just 0.2% of its
:03:23. > :03:25.transport budget directly on cycling facilities. It says the
:03:25. > :03:31.authority is not interested in improving or expanding cycling
:03:31. > :03:33.infrastructure. Allen Sinclair reports.
:03:33. > :03:37.With more than 20,000 people regularly cycling in and around
:03:37. > :03:39.Oxford, there's clearly demand for safe biking routes. But new
:03:39. > :03:41.information obtained by cycling campaigners makes it clear that the
:03:41. > :03:48.amount channelled specifically into cycle paths and associated
:03:48. > :03:50.infrastructure is a tiny fraction of the overall budget. Over three
:03:50. > :03:58.years, Oxfordshire County Council spent �230 million on highways and
:03:58. > :04:08.transport. In that time, less than half a million went towards cycling
:04:08. > :04:10.
:04:10. > :04:14.infrastructure - or 0.2%. doesn't sound like very much. If
:04:14. > :04:18.you go further out of the city, there are fewer cycle lanes. The it
:04:18. > :04:21.is quite a risky thing to do, cycling. It does not sound very
:04:21. > :04:24.much at all. The figures were obtained by Bike Safe - a group
:04:24. > :04:27.formed to campaign for a cycle- friendly pathway on the busy B4044
:04:27. > :04:29.between Eynsham and Botley. 2,000 people have signed a petition in
:04:29. > :04:39.support - but organisers say the county Highways Department ignored
:04:39. > :04:40.
:04:40. > :04:43.its offers to mount a joint bid for extra government funding. There is
:04:43. > :04:49.very little investment in schemes to encourage cycling around the
:04:49. > :04:53.county. If you happen to live in Banbury, Bicester, abandoned and
:04:53. > :04:55.other areas, you frankly do not get any of that money. Oxfordshire's
:04:55. > :04:58.Highways Department has said that the figures present a distorted
:04:58. > :05:01.picture, because cyclists also travel on the roads, and money
:05:01. > :05:04.spent on general maintenance benefits them as well as other road
:05:04. > :05:14.users. It also rebutted claims that not enough is done to attract extra
:05:14. > :05:16.funding to improve cycleways. In a Meanwhile the Bike Safe campaigners
:05:16. > :05:19.hope a planned meeting with the Prime Minister will move their
:05:19. > :05:21.campaign up a gear. Builders of dry stone walls say
:05:21. > :05:25.they're being inundated with work following recent poor weather. Rain,
:05:25. > :05:29.snow and ice have all taken their toll on the traditional hedging in
:05:29. > :05:32.the Cotswolds and across Oxfordshire. With thousands of
:05:32. > :05:34.miles of walls to be maintained, its upkeep is an expensive business.
:05:34. > :05:38.Brennan Nicholls has been to find out more.
:05:38. > :05:40.Keeping up with repairs to the dry stone walls at Blenheim Palace is a
:05:40. > :05:44.big ask. With nine miles of perimeter walls alone, it usually
:05:44. > :05:49.costs the stately home up to �50,000 a year just to keep the
:05:49. > :05:54.walls standing. So much so, Natural England has given Blenheim a grant
:05:54. > :06:02.to help it keep up. 2012, though, has proven to be a tough year for
:06:02. > :06:05.its walls. We have had one of the worst years in our history last
:06:05. > :06:11.year. A lot of water has been getting in, inside the walls. If
:06:11. > :06:16.you add in the recent snow and frost, a lot of expanding and
:06:16. > :06:20.contraction and degrading of the inside of the wall. This method of
:06:20. > :06:28.making walls dates back to 2000BC and the 4000 miles of walls in the
:06:28. > :06:33.Cotswolds alone are as long as the Great Wall of China. It just falls
:06:33. > :06:39.into shape after a while. It is like a jigsaw but with my picture
:06:39. > :06:44.to work from. Yes, basically. Winter normally takes its toll on
:06:44. > :06:48.dry-stone walls and this one has created a clamour for craftsmen.
:06:48. > :06:54.lot busier. I would say compared to this time last year, the amount of
:06:54. > :06:58.phone calls I have been getting to repair walls has tripled. A good
:06:58. > :07:02.dry-stone wall is expensive to build but can last for centuries.
:07:02. > :07:12.With the weather creating more demand, it looks set to be a busy
:07:12. > :07:13.
:07:13. > :07:17.few months ahead. In football, Swindon Town are up to
:07:17. > :07:19.third in League One - just two points behind the leaders - after a
:07:20. > :07:22.1-0 win at Colchester last night. Substitute James Collins scored the
:07:23. > :07:26.goal eight minutes after half-time - to extend the team's unbeaten run
:07:26. > :07:28.to ten games. Paolo Di Canio refused to take questions about his
:07:28. > :07:31.future after the match, but today the prospective new owners of
:07:31. > :07:34.Swindon have denied a newspaper report that they planned to replace
:07:34. > :07:38.Di Canio with a new manager. Oxford's brain surgeons are the
:07:38. > :07:41.focus of a new series beginning on BBC Two tonight. Brain Doctors is a
:07:41. > :07:44.documentary filmed over nine months at the John Radcliffe Hospital and
:07:44. > :07:49.shows the reality of life for both those working and being treated
:07:49. > :07:52.there. There's a hundred-strong team of
:07:52. > :08:02.consultants here at the JR, who perform almost 4,500 operations
:08:02. > :08:05.
:08:05. > :08:07.every year. And it's the focus of tonight's programme. Jay Jahamohan
:08:07. > :08:14.is one of four paediatric neurosurgeons working here. Earlier
:08:14. > :08:18.I asked him what it was like to be watched by cameras. I cannot
:08:18. > :08:22.remember them not being here, they have been here so long, irritating
:08:22. > :08:25.us constantly, coming to ask us what we are doing all the time. It
:08:25. > :08:30.got quite quiet when they left because you did not get harassed
:08:30. > :08:34.all the time. But they fitted into the team really well. Brain surgery
:08:34. > :08:39.is seen as the ultimate clever person's job but watching this
:08:40. > :08:44.series, we came across very down- to-earth people. Is that something
:08:44. > :08:48.you were aware of? The way I put it to the guys that I am training is
:08:48. > :08:52.that we are not extraordinary people. We are ordinary people
:08:52. > :08:58.doing an extraordinary job and we are lucky to be able to do it. We
:08:58. > :09:01.do not take for granted what trust people have to put in us. We still
:09:01. > :09:06.put our underpants on one leg at a time so we are just like everyone
:09:06. > :09:12.else. Theatres here are on standby 24/7 and the pressure of the busy
:09:13. > :09:16.ward is another focus of the series. We have no emergency bed. We are
:09:16. > :09:20.juggling somebody in an somebody out. We have two patience that
:09:20. > :09:24.could go to the ward but there are no ward beds. It is going to be a
:09:24. > :09:28.bit tight because we have more patience coming in. We are like
:09:28. > :09:31.dogs - very calm on top but paddling like mad underneath.
:09:31. > :09:35.all hope that we'll never have to need the services of Jay Jahamohan
:09:35. > :09:40.and his team here so for many of us this documentary may be the only
:09:41. > :09:47.insight we ever get into this highly specialised and unique ward.
:09:47. > :09:51.The first episode of Brain Doctors is on BBC Two tonight at 9pm.