:00:00. > :00:12.Good evening. A man from channel. Now it's time to
:00:13. > :00:15.Good evening. A man from Oxfordshire, who was one of the
:00:16. > :00:18.senior bosses at Oxfam, has been jailed for nearly two and half years
:00:19. > :00:21.after pleading guilty to defrauding the charity. Edward McKenzie`Green,
:00:22. > :00:27.from Chipping Norton, took nearly ?65,000 in 2011. He used a fake
:00:28. > :00:34.name, false invoices and invented companies. Charlotte Stacey reports.
:00:35. > :00:39.It's a global charity with a reputation for fighting poverty and
:00:40. > :00:43.campaigning for justice. But here at the headquarters in the Cowley area
:00:44. > :00:46.of Oxford, Oxfam's own anti`fraud chief was scamming them out of tens
:00:47. > :00:52.of thousands of pounds from the inside. All money donated for
:00:53. > :00:54.charitable work. Edward McKenzie`Green, from Chipping
:00:55. > :01:02.Norton, took almost ?65,000 between February and December 2011. Earlier
:01:03. > :01:05.this month, the Old Bailey heard the 34`year`old had used the name Keith
:01:06. > :01:11.Prowse, he made up companies and handed in fictitious invoices. He'd
:01:12. > :01:14.also paid money into the accounts of his father and friend before
:01:15. > :01:21.transferring the cash into his own account and spending it. A charge
:01:22. > :01:25.against his father, accusing him of helping to launder more than
:01:26. > :01:29.?35,000, was dropped. Oxfam says it's now introduced strict measures
:01:30. > :01:35.to try to stop this happening again. We've taken a very hard look at our
:01:36. > :01:39.controls. In particular, we've focussed on segregation of duties.
:01:40. > :01:42.As you can imagine, it's an important element of our control
:01:43. > :01:46.that the person requesting a payment of an invoice shouldn't be the same
:01:47. > :01:51.person approving it. In this case, Eddie was abusing that. We issued
:01:52. > :01:54.fresh guidance and are really taking a very close interest in that part
:01:55. > :01:57.of our controls. Today, Edward McKenzie`Green was sentenced to two
:01:58. > :02:02.years and five months for defrauding the charity. Oxfam say they have now
:02:03. > :02:05.reinforced strict background checks for future employees and will look
:02:06. > :02:12.to recover the money. Charlotte Stacey, BBC South Today.
:02:13. > :02:18.A man's been released on bail after a body was found at a flat in
:02:19. > :02:21.Oxford. Michael Broadway, who was 33, was discovered at his home in
:02:22. > :02:25.South Bridge Row on Sunday. Post`mortem results have come back
:02:26. > :02:32.inconclusive. A 55`year`old man, arrested on suspicion of murder, has
:02:33. > :02:35.been bailed until July. The UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, says he'll be
:02:36. > :02:39.targeting Aylesbury in the run up to next year's general election. It's
:02:40. > :02:43.one of several areas in England where there's strong support for the
:02:44. > :02:46.party. UKIP, which wants the UK to leave the EU, topped the European
:02:47. > :02:52.polls after a campaign calling for lower levels of immigration from
:02:53. > :02:55.Europe. Police are still looking for a prisoner who walked out of an open
:02:56. > :02:59.jail in Buckinghamshire over the weekend. Wayne McLeod, who's 36,
:03:00. > :03:06.escaped from Springhill Prison in Grendon Underwood on Sunday evening.
:03:07. > :03:10.Officers believe he may be in Reading, but haven't said why he's
:03:11. > :03:13.serving a jail sentence. A child is arrested every four minutes in
:03:14. > :03:20.England and Wales, yet the number arrested in the Thames Valley is
:03:21. > :03:23.falling. In 2008, more than 12,000 children, under the age of 17, were
:03:24. > :03:26.arrested in our region. But last year, fewer than 4,000 were
:03:27. > :03:29.questioned by officers. National trends suggest the majority of these
:03:30. > :03:36.young people held in custody are boys. The most common offence is
:03:37. > :03:40.theft. Earlier, I spoke to Frances Crook from the Howard League for
:03:41. > :03:43.Penal Reform, the group behind these figures. I asked her how authorities
:03:44. > :03:47.tackle this issue of crimes committed by children. This is a
:03:48. > :03:52.great success story by Thames Valley, who have reduced the child
:03:53. > :03:54.arrests. It's not a question of arresting children who have
:03:55. > :04:01.committed crimes. Actually, what they were doing was hitting targets.
:04:02. > :04:05.It's much easier to arrest a child who is kicking a football about,
:04:06. > :04:09.than a professional burglar. What the police are doing now is much
:04:10. > :04:13.more intelligent policing. They are using professional discretion. They
:04:14. > :04:18.are resolving issues locally. That is better for children, better for
:04:19. > :04:21.victims. Bet are fot taxpayer and better for community relations.
:04:22. > :04:26.Children in England and Wales can be arrested from the age of 15. That is
:04:27. > :04:31.the lowest age of criminal responsibility in Europe. Do you
:04:32. > :04:34.think that age is about right? It's absolutely be screen who police have
:04:35. > :04:39.to deal with children who are in primary school. More than 1,000
:04:40. > :04:43.primary school`aged children were arrested in England and Wales last
:04:44. > :04:49.year. We should raise the age of criminal responsibility so it is not
:04:50. > :04:52.the police who deal with 10, 11 or 12`year`olds. It should be social
:04:53. > :04:55.services or children services who deal with them, not the police, or
:04:56. > :04:59.parents. Police are taking responsibility away from parents. I
:05:00. > :05:04.think that is wrong too. Thank you very much. Police are looking for a
:05:05. > :05:07.man from Oxfordshire who's gone missing with his three`year`old
:05:08. > :05:11.daughter. Ewan Powell, who's 42 and from Benson, hasn't been seen since
:05:12. > :05:15.Saturday. His daughter, Tanith Powell from Worcestershire, is
:05:16. > :05:17.thought to be with him. A new anti`smoking campaign has started in
:05:18. > :05:24.Buckinghamshire asking people to avoid smoking in parks or children's
:05:25. > :05:27.play areas. Signs will be put up and the county council will be working
:05:28. > :05:31.with schools to increase awareness of the ban. Peter Cooke reports.
:05:32. > :05:36.Will these signs stop this common problem? Bucking hamshire County
:05:37. > :05:42.Council and Aylesbury District Council certainly hope so. Children
:05:43. > :05:46.see people smoking they think it's socially acceptable. We don't agree
:05:47. > :05:50.with that. We think we must do everything we can to prevent them
:05:51. > :05:52.from starting up habits early on which could develop into more
:05:53. > :05:58.serious smoking later in their lives. A six`month pilot across five
:05:59. > :06:02.parks in the town will be assessed before being expanded. If it's not
:06:03. > :06:09.enforceable, will it make any difference? A good idea, even though
:06:10. > :06:13.my son smokes. You will never stop people smoking in public areas like
:06:14. > :06:19.this, unfortunately. It would help if there are ashtrays provided and
:06:20. > :06:24.stuff like that. A UK`wide ban has been law since 2007. Lighting up in
:06:25. > :06:28.cars with children is likely to be made illegal next year. Research
:06:29. > :06:34.shows more than 300,000 children visit the GP every year suffering
:06:35. > :06:38.the affects of second hand smoke. Councils here hope this small poster
:06:39. > :06:48.will have some impact on this very big health issue. Peter Cooke, BBC
:06:49. > :06:51.South Today. That's it from us for now. We're back in BBC Breakfast
:06:52. > :06:54.tomorrow morning, but for now I'll hand you over to Alexis Green for
:06:55. > :06:54.the weather. Have a very good evening.
:06:55. > :06:57.tomorrow morning, but for now Unsettled start to the week. High
:06:58. > :07:00.pressure will build just in time for the weekend. Over night tonight we
:07:01. > :07:03.will see outbreaks of rain. There could be heavy bursts in a few
:07:04. > :07:07.places lasting through much of the day. There will be a respite for
:07:08. > :07:12.some by dawn tomorrow. Temperatures down to nine or ten Celsius. Rain or
:07:13. > :07:17.showers to start the day tomorrow. It will become dryer as we head
:07:18. > :07:22.through the day. A risk of one or two showers and rain to northern
:07:23. > :07:27.parts of the region. Elsewhere brightness to be had, but a lot of
:07:28. > :07:31.cloud. Unsettled right up to the start of Friday when we will see
:07:32. > :07:33.high pressure building. More settled less in the way in
:07:34. > :07:39.Thursday and then it becomes drier with sunshine by the weekend.
:07:40. > :07:45.If you've been sat at home with miserable Mayweather today wondering
:07:46. > :07:50.why on earth we didn't go abroad for half term week, we are just going to
:07:51. > :07:55.add insult to injury because people have been basking in some sunshine
:07:56. > :07:59.across southern Spain. Fairly overcast skies in Paris but
:08:00. > :08:04.nevertheless, still 17 degrees. Across eastern England it was cold,
:08:05. > :08:08.13 degrees with persistent rain. Better across the north-west
:08:09. > :08:12.Highlands. The reason for the cloud and rain was this frontal system,
:08:13. > :08:15.rather breezy as well. The rain continues through the night, some a
:08:16. > :08:21.bit heavy to the east of the Pennines. Another miserable day in
:08:22. > :08:24.prospect particularly for eastern England. Cloudy, grey and breezy.
:08:25. > :08:25.Pretty wet to