11/04/2014 BBC Oxford News


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That is all from us. There is a first look at the

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That is all from us. There is a Good evening. A new report claims

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air pollution is a factor in the deaths of around 500 people in

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Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire every year. Nationally, Public

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Health England says poor air quality plays a part in one in 20 ddaths. It

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wants councils to do more to cut pollution in towns and citids `

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including creating more gredn spaces.

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They've been called the invhsible killers. Dangerous gasses lhke

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nitrogen dioxide pumped frol vehicles. Now the government agency

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Public Health England says `lmost 6% of deaths in Oxfordshire and

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Buckinghamshire were caused by air pollution ` that's 490 lives lost.

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Your pollution is a contribtting factor, it is not a single factor.

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It will exacerbate respiratory or cardiac conditions. The findings

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come from analysis carried out in 2010, so what do people makd of it?

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It's quite staggering, really surprising. You can see the dust,

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everyday, it's on the windowsill is.

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Green campaigner Elise Benj`min is also worried by the news and says

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not enough is being done by the council she sits on to protdct

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people. Years of monitoring with no action

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is not going to change anything It is absolutely shameful that 25, 00

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deaths a year are being ignored Something needs to be done now.

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The air in Oxford is getting cleaner partly because there are more

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eco`friendly busses and cars are on the road and the council saxs it

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won't stop making improvements to air quality.

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We've got to take this seriously, we should not be alarmist, but we have

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two steadily pared down on pollution of all sorts. If we can takd some of

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the big lorries out of the centre, that'll be a step in the right

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direction. Air pollution isn't just down to

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cars, but green campaigners say banning them in large parts of the

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city will improve air quality. Tom Turrell, BBC South Today.

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A man from Abingdon has been jailed for 15 years for a series of sexual

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assaults on two children. 71`year`old Terry Haynes has been

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convicted of 12 counts of r`pe, 11 indecent assaults and one attempted

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rape. An operation to crack down on rogue

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traders in Oxfordshire is under way, targeting builders and other workers

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charging hugely inflated prhces for completing substandard jobs. Last

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year nearly a million pounds was paid out to rogue traders, often by

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elderly people. Stuart Tinworth has the story.

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Operation spring clean in action. Officers out in West Oxfordshire

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looking for traders who are seeking to con on the doorstep. It's not

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long before known rogues ard identified on the team's colputer.

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With a number being spotted making their way to Witney, en route our

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team pick up on a suspicious trader in nearby Charlbury.

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We're just having a look around and having a chat to some peopld. Have

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you got any paperwork? Although his paper work is in order, he hs in

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breach of regulations. Any carries any waste, they need a

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licence. This person is aware of that, so we have given him ` verbal

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warning. He is aware that if he does not get registered he could be

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prosecuted. Back on the road, a second team have identified another

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suspect. He's driven from Bloxham to Witney with a lorry of gravdl. He's

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been brought to this weigh bridge where he's going to be inspdcted.

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It one of the vehicles that was of interest to us, so they havd rotted

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to the weighbridge. I have waited, he will now be prohibited from going

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back on the road until he h`s reduced that load.

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Rogue trading is big business. On a day of action like this, officers

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need to move quickly becausd once one trader has been alerted, they

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will often tell the others they are being watched. There were ndarly 700

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complaints over doorstep crhme last year. It's hoped operations like

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this will send out a clear lessage to rogues that they will be caught.

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Sutton Courtney in South Oxfordshire is under threat ` according to

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villagers campaigning against plans to expand a waste recycling plant

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and build 200 new homes there. They say without improvements in the

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infrastructure, building more houses can't be an option. Sinead Carroll

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reports Something's been dolinating parts of the Sutton Courtnex skyline

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for years. But now residents say plans to

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expand this waste recycling plant and build new homes will threaten

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their village even more. We are seeing the village bding

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turned from a medieval vill`ge with rural atmosphere into a township,

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and it is overloading the f`cilities in the village.

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The company who own the landfill site are building a waste transfer

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station. They say that will mean fewer journeys across Oxfordshire to

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the incinerator. They also reject allegations that this landfhll site

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is closing flooding. They s`id that factoring in the recent floods, they

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helped out victims by pumping water from their homes. Residents believe

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floods like these earlier this year will be repeated if the sitd

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expands, and if plans to buhld 00 new homes in Sutton Courtnex are

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approved, many of the homes would be on this field.

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I just foresee this Arben conurbation spreading from dedicated

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to Abingdon, and green spacds being subsumed under different types of

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development. We don't have the infrastructure to handle all the

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development that is here let alone what might be planned. Todax Sutton

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Courtney residents put their grievances to MP Ed Vaisey.

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We don't want to change the character of the village. While

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there are young people here who want to stay in the village with

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affordable housing, they also want to stay in a village like this, you

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just have to look around. Whth planned expansions in nearbx Harwell

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and Milton, plus the destruction of Didcot Power Station, the skyline in

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Sutton Courtney will change dramatically over the next two

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decades. Residents say whatdver happens they need assurances the

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infastructure will change as well. The Bishop of Oxford, the Rhght

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Reverend John Pritchard, has announced he'll be retiring later

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this year, The 66`year`old will retire at the end of October after

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more than seven years in post. He says it was a very difficult

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decision but he believes it's time for a new chapter.

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Alexis has the weekend weather forecast in a moment. That's all

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from us for tonight. Goodnight. from us for tonight.

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Good evening, we have clear skies overnight, so the risk of some fog.

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More likely to have missed, with variable amounts of cloud. To

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produce could fall as low as two or three degrees in the countrxside.

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The good news is lots of sunshine to start the day tomorrow. Through the

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middle part of the morning the sunshine will turn his aid with

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increasing cloud from the North and West bringing the odd shower for

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northern and western areas. Most places will stay dry and ten bridges

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will rise to 12 or 13 Celsits. UK, Alex Deakin has the National

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forecast for you. Good night. Good evening. This weekend should be

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a little brighter

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