21/07/2014 BBC Oxford News

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A recycling plant in Swindon is on fire.

People living nearby have been told to stay indoors.

Firefighters have protected and nearby storage site so what does not

catch fire. Meanwhile, in Oxfordshire and the

A418 was closed between Tiddington and Tame after a barn caught fire at

around five o? clock this evening. It's not yet known what started

the blaze, but firefighters say they were forced to shut

the main road for around fotr hours so they could connect

their hoses to a water supply. The emergency services say

they'll stay at the farm ovdrnight More than 500 mentally ill people

have been held in police cells in the Thames Valley in

the last two years ` becausd there Figures obtained by the BBC show

some were locked up for mord than Police have the power to telporarily

detain people with mental hdalth If nowhere else is availabld

then the safe place they ard Claire was 19 when police wdre

called to her college in Banbury It was uncomfortable

and it was loud. There were people shouting,

there were people drunk. It was not the right place

for someone who was already Between May 2012

and December 2013 559 peopld in the Thames Valley found thelselves

in a similar position to Cl`ire Seven people spent more

than 24 hours in a cell. Historically it has been

a problem for other forces too. The year

before that 640 mentally ill people The Government and the Care Quality

Commission have been trying to improve access to health`based

places of safety across the country but across the Thames Vallex there

are still only a handful av`ilable. Thames Valley Police and

Oxford Health NHS Trust say the Looking back 12, 24 months, probably

30`40% of all 136 detentions would Now in the last couple of months or

more it is down to less than 10 . They say they have now got

psychiatric nurses working together with officers to ddcide

who actually needs to be detained. The jury in the Jayden Parkhnson

murder trial has been stood down for the day and won't resume considering

a verdict until Thursday. Jayden's body was found two weeks

after she disappeared last December. She'd been strangled,

and her remains were hidden Her former boyfriend, Ben Blakeley

from Reading, has admitted killing Meanwhile the jury has begun

considering its verdict in the trial of a woman acctsed of

being involved in an arson `ttack The house fire in Cowley in Oxford

in 1997 killed 15`year`old Majid Khan

and his eight year old sistdr Anum. Five men and a woman have already

been convicted over their ddaths. But

the court has been told that Fiaz There's been criticism

of the promotion of a Swindon MP Robert Buckland, who's also

a barrister, was appointed Now it's emerged that three years

ago he was found to have brdached He'd wrongly asked another barrister

for confidential information. Labour say the Prime Ministdr

should reconsider his appointment. Earlier, our reporter Paul Barltrop,

told me how significant it could be. This all dates back to 2008 and a

very nasty incident that happened at the Ridgeway School in Swindon where

Robert Buckland was a governor. A pupil was very badly injured

in an attack involving a halmer Robert Buckland, as governor,

wanted to investigate it. He approached

the barrister who was involved with the trial and asked if he could see

some of the documentation that was That was later referred to

the barrister's disciplinarx body. They ruled that he was guilty

of misconduct. Did the Prime Minister know

about that? When the Prime Minister appointed

Robert Buckland as Solicitor General last week he was not aware,

not least because it has dropped This is something that

Labour has jumped upon. They say it makes a mockery

of Robert Buckland's position. The fact of the matter is that

Buckland was seen to be somdbody who was convicted of bringing the bar

into disrepute only two years ago. And then he thinks that it hs not

relevant to tell the Prime Linister that he has been convicted

of bringing the bar into disrepute. Robert Buckland has not been

doing interviews today. His office has been referring people

to the Attorney General's office, They put out a statement saxing this

was a minor breach of the code As a result Robert Buckland was

neither suspended nor fined. He continued to practice afterwards

as both a barrister and indded They are giving very strong backing

to their man and I would im`gine they are expecting that this is

a storm that will blow over. The funeral has taken place of a

14`year`old person who was knocked down by a car but mounted the

pavement. The victim was described as beautiful and caring. Two other

people were also taken to hospital after the incident two weeks ago. A

man has been questioned by police on suspicion of causing death H

dangerous driving. Parents in a village have one the

case to keep the school bus after an appeal. The council had assdssed the

route to be safe. A review panel has allowed the service to conthnue for

another year. That is all for now. Here is the

weather. A very humid night. It will stay

dry. Feeling amounts of clotds. The nights get warmer as we head through

the week, as do the days. Towards the end of the week there is the

possibility of thunderstorms. Good evening. If you were

unfortunate enough to be at the sharp end of the weekend storms

you'll be pleased to know that the atmosphere is less volatile now

Temperatures of 28 Celsius on the Sussex coast today. Most places were

fine and warm. In Scotland it was cool with the

breeze off the sea. Some eastern coasts will be cooler. They will be

the exception. Most of us very warm and the vast majority will stay dry.

That is the way overnight. A lot of low cloud drifting to eastern