04/06/2014 BBC Oxford News

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Guilty of sexually assaulting a pregnant teenager.

A third was convicted of perverting the course of justice.

Taking their campaign against fracking to the

Greenpeace target David Cameron's Oxfordshire home

over plans to change the law around drilling for gas.

Remembering the code`breaker who helped crack

Raymond "Jerry" Roberts had been the last surviving member

Drivers campaign for traffic lights NOT to be fixed

at a renowned bottleneck after journey times improve.

Two men have been jailed in connection with a sexually assault

27`year`old Bilal Ahmed and his cousin 28`year`old

Zeeshan Ahmed were arrested as part of Operation Bullfinch, the police

Jeremy Stern is outside Oxford Crown Court.

Jeremy, one of the men has already been jailed

Zeeshan Ahmed was one of seven men convicted last year of dozens of

Today he was found guilty of perverting the course of justice.

He threatened to have a teenage girl shot if she told police that

The victim told the court that she was attacked at a house in

Bilal Ahmed, seen here in a police interview, trapped her

She asked him to stop but he refused.

Today's convictions have all come about as part of

a huge police investigation into the exploitation of children in Oxford.

The convictions today very clearly demonstrate that Operation Bulfinch

is an ongoing investigation that we're working closely with

the other agencies, particularly with social services.

And I would encourage anyone who may have been a victim, anyone who may

know of a victim or may know of an offender to come forward

What was the reaction to the verdicts in court?

Zeeshan Ahmed showed no emotion and his seven`year sentence was

Bilal Ahmed, who we filmed outside court last month, lost control

when he heard his guilty verdict, swearing at the court.

He shook his head as he was sentenced to

A third man, Mustapha Ahmed from London, pleaded guilty to

sexual assault last week and is due to be sentenced tomorrow.

David Cameron's home in West Oxfordshire has been targeted

by Greenpeace members protesting about fracking.

The group is opposed to a new law which will allow fracking companies

to drill for gas under people's homes without their permission.

The stunt was timed to coincide with legislation outlined in the

The fracking debate landed on David Cameron's doorstep today with

this mocked`up drilling site outside his home in the hamlet of Dean

Campaigners are angry at a new law which will mean

drilling can take place under their properties without permission

Over half the UK is currently possibly going to be fracked.

Licenses exist for millions of homes.

Right now, you can say, "No, I don't want that to happen," but

At least, that's Mr Cameron's plan, but I'm afraid this is

Today's protest was timed to coincide with a new bill

in the Queen's speech designed to speed up the fracking process.

The shale gas industry's welcomed the move and is keen to start

That could include parts of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire,

although no licenses have been applied for as yet.

For those living near potential drilling sites,

protests like this one in West Sussex last year have added to

feelings of unease but experts say there's been too much scaremongering

There's a long track record, a very good safety record.

They're the thickness of a toenail, the height

And they are formed several thousand metres below the groundwater supply,

so the chances of them ever actually polluting the

The stunt may be over but the debate on how best to meet Britain's future

Shocking footage showing trespasses on train lines near Milton Keynes

has been released by transport police.

The CCTV footage shows two people walking on train lines

between Woburn Sands and Bow Brickhill in April then the woman

Transport police are searching for the pair who could be fined up

There were 11 trespassing reports on this line last year.

just across a line is dangerous enough but the place in question was

a foot crossing. quick solution. I can't cover it.

Every time I walk past a or family photos, my knees's wedding,

The life of one of the last Bletchley Park

code`breakers has been remembered at a service in London.

Raymond Jerry Roberts worked on the Tunny machine, intercepting

Friends and family gathered in Central London this morning.

In a week of wartime memories, this was a chance to remember one of the

backroom boys. I would like to express our sincere gratitude for

everyone coming today to pay their last respects to daddy. Jerry

Roberts touched the lives of many more than just friends and family.

This was intelligence gold dust. Imagine the person who received the

message. So secret was his role in bringing about Germany's defeat, not

even closest family could know. He was incredibly discreet and low

profile. If anybody could do that sort of thing, you certainly could!

Trafalgar Square commemorate one of Britain's most famous military

leaders. Captain Jerry Roberts and the team he worked with probably

never went near a battlefield but they probably contributed more to a

British victory than any Admiral. I don't think there has been any such

remarkable achievement. When the veil of secrecy was finally lifted,

he campaigned tirelessly. Today it was his time to be remembered for

his wartime role. I'll have the headlines at 8

and a full bulletin at 10:25. Now more of today's

stories with Dani Sinhar. was only later that we took on board

how serious it was. This weekend, The Marine

The A27 through Worthing is one of our most notorious bottlenecks

but for the last two weeks, drivers have been amazed to find the traffic

The dramatic improvement was because a set of traffic lights

Motorists want them switched off for good but pedestrians say the lights

Working again, but they have been out of action for a week, and now

many motorists want them to be switched off for good. Footage

posted online shows speeded up video from when the traffic lights were

not working, and I won my we spent journey took five minutes at an

average speed of 40 mph. It shows a comparable journey with the traffic

lights working. It was three times longer, or almost 15 minutes at an

average speed of just five miles an hour. The traffic lights are working

once again so we have got some hefty traffic queues. BBC traffic

presenter Stephen Cranford says that they have noticed the absence of

traffic jams with the lights off. It can take 40 minutes queueing through

Worthing. With the lights off that has been knocked down to ten

minutes. There is a big difference. Traders say that improve journey

times have helped us this. It has helped us because the flow of

traffic does not get held up and it sorts itself out. And it is easier

without them on. The loss of the traffic lights was bad news for

pedestrians. I had to wait for five minutes because I had to rely on the

traffic to stop for me. It meant that nobody knew what was going on.

The cars would not let me go. It was taking forever. I was taking ten

minutes to cross. Contractors were working on the lives today. The

highways agency says that they are a necessary safety measure. They will

monitor the operation of the traffic lights to try and improve traffic

flow. Now it's 50 days until the

Commonwealth Games start in Glasgow. As part of the build up, the Queen's

Baton has been travelling the globe It's one of only 16 locations

in England to host the relay. Let's join Ben Moore live

in Southampton's Guildhall Square. It looks like a big turnout so far.

Yes, the Queen's Baton arrived ten minutes ago. The attention is now on

the divers, team England doing a display featuring one diver from the

South. And the band seems to have hit the spot, with the people in

Southampton today. A special passenger on board, the Queen's

Baton visiting the Queen Elizabeth. Olympic medallist Ewan Thomas

starting the relay through his home city, and where else but at the

docs? What does it actually say? On July 23 it be read out the opening

ceremony. The Queen's Baton has been around the world. There is only one

and England as a 69th, zero territory that it has visited. One

tour of the bridge and a quick doodle, and it was on the move

again. A rapturous welcome from 600 schoolchildren at the outdoor sports

Centre. This is what the Glasgow 2014 organisers want to see, the

Queen's Baton really inspiring kids. I have seen the Olympic torch, it is

like the same thing but it is better. She came down the hell and

everyone was kind of like screaming. Southampton had six bearers for the

Queen's Baton, all of them involving grass`roots sport. It is a fantastic

thing about the Commonwealth Games. It recognises able`bodied sport and

disability sport. Another 600 children are here to play sport

tomorrow. The message of the Queen's Baton has certainly hit home, here

in Southampton. One lady who knows a lot about diving is Annie Clulow.

What is it that you have done that has given you a deserved spot as a

bearer of the Queen's Baton? I have been involved in the diving

programme in Southampton and in the wider world of diving over the last

14 years. It is the dedication to what I have done and the time that I

have spent volunteering that has been a huge pleasure. It must have

been a real honour. It has been absolutely amazing. It is almost

unreal. Lovely to talk to you. The diving continues here. Pete

Waterfield is going to make a huge dive from that top border bit later.

But the Queen's Baton is going to continue as to the south coast but

it has enjoyed itself here in Southampton. If you want to catch up

on all the colour of the day as the Queen's Baton made his way around

the city, you can have a look on our website. We have heard a lot about

Southampton football club and who might the next manager Dave. Back to

the grassroots, it is a team that we have been following.

Orchard Junior School from Dibden Purlieu fought

off strong opposition from across England, to secure the silverware.

And I went along to join the school's celebration this morning.

This morning, these were the most shiny apples in the orchard, who

have seen off the best that England had to offer. The girls from Orchard

Junior School battled through the Hampshire and south`west

competitions before a final stay at the Aston Villa training complex. It

was amazing because a couple of years ago when I was in the team, we

only managed to get to the semifinal, but this is my last year,

so it wins `` it means a lot to win it. I do not want to put pressure on

them to have to win it, but it is a great thing to do. When you are

playing sport, you want to win, really. I am chuffed with how far

they have got. Even if they had not won it would have been an even `` it

had been an amazing achievement to get there. Two goals from Ella

Morris helped them to a 2`1 victory and the prestigious title of

champions of England. We stepped onto the pitch and they were looking

confident, so be had to try and beat them and prove them wrong. It was

very good to beat them. We had to defend so much. It was very tough in

that last couple of minutes. The girls will leave Orchard Junior

School on a high, but what about the future of coach, Mr Hastings. I have

had that Southampton are looking. I will put my phone number on and they

can take it from there! And what the goal that was congratulations to

Ella Morris. One of the biggest T20 cricket stars

in the world has touched down at Hampshire, to begin

his second stint with the club. Australian Glenn Maxwell will play

against Kent tomorrow, fresh from reaching the final

of the multi`million dollar Maxwell was previously at the Ageas

Bowl in 2012, and played for Surrey last year, but it was Hampshire who

kick`started his career. I was not in great nick

domestically, and then I stayed with Hampshire and turn my career around.

It was amazing and it got me playing for Australia. I owe Hampshire quite

a lot coming back this summer. There was a remarkable bowling

effort from Hampshire in the They needed ten wickets in a session

and a half to beat Derbyshire. But rain held them up, and Hampshire

ended two wickets short of the win. Staying in Division Two,

Surrey saved their game against Worcestershire,

after being forced to follow on. the final day against Notts,

helped by 86 from Chris Nash. Good luck to London Welsh, who are

based in Oxford, in the second leg of the championship promotion

play`off with a place in the Premiership at the grabs tonight.

It was one of the greatest engineering achievements of the

Second World War ` and the invasion of France would have been impossible

Mulberry harbours were built on the south coast. The giant concrete

blocks were ` would you believe ` floated and taken across the Channel

to Normandy, to construct a temporary port after D`Day.

Clifton has gone in search of the remains of these harbours ` as his

father was part of the team which helped to design the structures.

These pictures show a process that has revolutionised modern warfare.

Built in the greatest secrecy, two harbours were created in hundreds of

separate pieces. Hundreds of skilled and unskilled workmen were recruited

to speed the job along to completion and seemingly impossibly short time.

Shortly after D`Day, the giant concrete blocks were towed to the

French coast. In a fortnight, a court bigger than Dover was up and

running in a sleepy village. 70 years later, much of it remains.

Although most of it is on the water and no longer visible. Across the

channel, in Langstone Harbour, a broken piece was left behind. It is

still there today. The slump of concrete is one piece of the

Mulberry Harbours. It developed a crack in it and it had to be pulled

out of the way. They have picked it up and put it on the bank just over

a year. And, in a way, why move it? After the war, part of the Mulberry

Harbours was brought back to Portland in Dorset. Two pieces are

still there today, each the size of a ship. They are now listed

buildings. After the end of the war, the harbour was no longer needed so

in 1946 it was refloated and brought back to Portland to provide shelter

for the destruction of the spear that we are standing on now. These

are the most complete examples we have of the largest elements. No

wonder the rumour started that a bridge was being built across the

Channel. One of these floating roads was also brought back from France.

It was designed to last only a few weeks. But, for decades, it was used

as a ramp for car ferries from Southampton to the Isle of Wight.

Here it is today, alongside the modern red funnel terminal. No

longer used and a little bit rusty. But this area is due to be

redeveloped. So the future of the small part of Second World War

history is uncertain, at best. Once the tanks and lorries had landed

using the Mulberry Harbours, they had to be supplied with petrol. A

secret pipeline was built. This pipeline makes engineering history.

It is a lifeline which carry petrol to the Aligarh armies in Europe and

it is a web of genius. `` the Allied armies. It was called Pluto, the

pipeline under the ocean. It ran from Hampshire to the Isle of Wight

and then 70 miles across the Channel. The pipeline is only work

in 12 days. A second route from Kent was more successful. But this small

section at Shanklin China remains. `` `` Chine.. The next development

was the construction of large floating drums. These were known as

the giant cotton mills, if you like, and these were jointed sections

which went round and round, these conundrums, the giant drums, and

they were towed by an oceangoing tug. On the northside of the

island, researchers are documenting what remains of Pluto, decaying

slowly at, and visible only at low tide. We believe we know whether

pipeline went but it has not been recorded in the past, so there might

be some extant remains in other parts of the Solent that we do not

yet know about. The last match of a long journey. On the south coast of

England there was not much left of two of the greatest military

engineering achievements, but 70 years on, it is surely remarkable

that there is anything left at all. There is a special programme this

weekend looking at some of those wartime inventions, the science of

D`Day is on BBC One at 430 on Saturday and 7:30pm on Sunday on BBC

Four. Staying with D`Day, as you may have seen on the national news,

eight Dakota Transport planes have recreated the original D`Day

invasion flights from the airfield at Lyon Solent. More than 100

parachutists had been due to drop over Normandy to start the

commemorations of the 70th anniversary, but the parachute jump

had to be cancelled because of strong winds. What a shame. I know

that a lot of planning had gone into that. I know that we are having some

stormy weather ourselves because on Saturday we have got some bad news.

We will have some potential thunderstorms on Saturday. Let's

have a look at those weather pictures. A splash of colour in open

in Hampshire. This picture was taken by Jimmy Boxall. And this is a Robin

in`flight in a garden in Ashley Heath. Through the course of the

night we will see some rain at times. It will slowly clear.

Thunderstorms will clear North with a band of rain and there will be

some clear skies behind. Temperatures not as high as they

have been on recent nights. Dropping into single figures, around 10

Celsius in towns and cities, around five Celsius in the countryside. A

damp and cloudy start for some tomorrow but it is an improving

picture. A much better day with some lovely sunny spells. And in the

sunshine, temperatures will recover nicely. Today, we only beast high

temperatures of 12 Celsius, and tomorrow, perhaps up to 18 Celsius.

The winds are light and pleasant in the sun. Tonight, the odd shower, he

went there, and the risk of the odd shower tomorrow, but under those

clearing skies temperatures will fall into single figures again. It

will be a dry start on Friday. And the bulk of Friday will stay mainly

dry. We are looking at this area of low pressure swinging towards the

evening on Friday. That will introduce more cloud and give us

potential thunderstorms overnight on Friday into Saturday and through

Saturday daytime as well. The showers and thunderstorms will clear

through Saturday fairly quickly. But there will be very heavy during the

day, so the Met office have issued a yellow weather warning, so there

could be some localised flooding. It is another old story with the

weather, so things can change, and we might see a change to who could

be affected by these thunderstorms over the weekend. It is because of

humid air coming up from France, and meeting this cold air, that will

trigger thunderstorms through Friday night and Saturday during the day.

It should stay mainly dry with lots of sunshine, warming up nicely as we

head through to the weekend, which could trigger those thunderstorms. I

think we will all be staying in, won't we? That is all from us this

evening. We will have more at 8pm and 10:25pm. Tomorrow, we will be

meeting the man who has been dubbed the next Sir Ben Ainslie. Thank you

for watching. Good night. When the first travellers crossed

America, they were faced with this -