19/06/2014 BBC Oxford News

Good evening. Channel but now,

Two men have been cleared of a double murder in Milton Kdynes.

Brahim Haji and Ahmed Ahmed had admitted being

at the scene of the shooting on the Fishermead estate three years ago.

But they told the jury that they had not known it was going to happen.

They were teenage friends who lost their lives in a row about drugs.

19`year`old Mohammed Abdi Farah and Amin Ahmed Ismail, who was 8,

The prosecution described it as an execution.

This is the chilling 999 call that alerted police.

There's someone laying in the alleyway

The gunman Fuad Awale and his accomplice Sharmake

Abdulkadir were convicted of the murders in January last year.

But the prosecution alleged others were actively involved.

Among them, Dutch national Brahim Hajji and Ahmed Ahmed.

Both men admitted being at the scene on the night

of the murders but denied any knowledge of the shootings.

The jury accepted their version of events and cleared them

I think it's very important, both for the interests of justicd that

all five people were brought to account and made to answer for their

actions, and also for the families involved to be able to hear the

words of those two people and to have a full understanding

of exactly how their two sons came to tragically lose their lives.

Three years on, justice has finally run its course.

For the victims' families, though, it can never heal their pain.

They've often fled the horrors of conflict and persecution

at home and arrive in the UK to an uncertain ftture.

For many refugees, that new life begins in Swindon.

It's one of four places in the UK designated by the government

as dispersal towns ` places where refugees are sent upon

This is no ordinary Swindon resident.

At the age of 23, Mohamed Abdo has led resist`nce to

Hidden in a mountain cave for days in an unknown country.

And helped save the lives of hundreds of his fellow asylum

seekers when their overloaded boat got lost in the Mediterrane`n.

And he didn't even want to leave Syria in the first pl`ce.

I leave Syria because my life was in danger.

If I stay in Syria, I would die and this is the first reason.

My political activities pushed me to go outside.

How dangerous was it for you to leave?

It was very dangerous because the way how I came to the UK

demonstrations against President Assad in Aleppo in 2012.

He's here in the white coat on the left.

This re`enactment shows doctors being killed by soldiers.

2,000 miles away in Swindon, Mohamed finds shelter at The Harbour,

Single asylum seekers only get five pounds a day

from the government until they hear whether they can stay.

Here they can access legal `dvice, English classes, friendship.

In actual Home Office accomlodation, it can be six men in one house, all

You know, you've come from ` new country, you don't know anybody.

In Swindon, there are around 100 asylum seekers.

Refugees say when they come to this country,

Places like this give them a voice and a future.

A bike hire scheme has been relaunched in Oxford after it was

started last year but folded within a few months when the company

Thornhill Park and ride is one of seven locations where

It's hoped more people will choose to cycle rather than take

their car into the city to reduce congestion on the roads.

It's a pound to join the scheme and the first 30 mins

Music is just as important as any medicine, according to residents

They are taking part in a ten week long project looking

at the power of music to increase happiness and reduce anxiety.

Memories aren't always clear for some of these residents

# You can always hear me singing my song. #.

I've lost a lot but not all of it, so that's something, isn't it?

Specially`trained musicians are running a ten`week course

in this care home and it's `lready having an impact on residents.

If we can listen to a piece of music, it allows them to express

their emotions and then aftdr that there is no anxiety and that's

The residents really seem to get a lot out of it

and we had some lovely moments with singing along, particularly singing

We had a lovely moment where myself and a resident were singing

The main thing is that they enjoy it and they certainly seemed to today.

The results will be analysed by researchers at Essex University.

Staff here say the music sessions are already having

a long lasting impact, striking a chord with a variety of reshdents.

A building at Oxford Brookes University has been recognised

The low`carbon John Henry Brookes building was commended

Judges from the Royal Institute of British Architects said it also

has a personality which is evident throughout.

It's now been shortlisted among 56 developments being considerdd

Alexis is on the way with the weather forecast.

Slightly cooler tomorrow and slightly fresher overnight

tonight with perhaps one or two mist patches but staying dry through

the course of the night with temperatures in our towns and cities

Slightly lower in the countryside, eight or nine degrees.

A mild but dry start to the day tomorrow.

A cloudy start but we will start to see that cloud

thin and break in places to allow for some sunshine and temperatures

won't be as high as today, reaching around 19, possibly 20 Celshus.

In some spots for a lucky few of us in the sunshine,

a high of 22 degrees but the pollen levels tomorrow are high and they

High pressure is in charge of our weather.

It stays settled but up next is the national weather forecast.

dry. With the national details, here is Darren Bett.

Hello there, my blood pressure has been high for the past few hours. I

don't think it has anything to do with the air pressure! The high

pressure is shaping our weather. It pressure is shaping our weather It

is sat there all week. Here we are seaing the weak weather front. The

warmth has been in the south-west, 26 Celsius. The temperatures in

Scotland yesterday, today nearer 20 Celsius. Still pleasant. There is

slightly cooler air from the