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That's all from us. Now it's time for the news where

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Children's services in Buckinghamshire have been given

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the lowest possible rating in a new report.

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Inspectors from Ofsted have told the Government the protection

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and care of young people in the county is inadequate.

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The report highlights shortcomings in leadership and management,

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a failure to manage workloads, and weaknesses in record`kedping.

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Council leaders have promised to improve.

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Tom Turrell has been followhng the story and explained more about the

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One of Buckinghamshire County Council's biggest roles is to

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protect vulnerable children in the county, so children who are

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potentially living in households where the parents have drug or

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alcohol problems, where there is domestic violence ` the council have

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to swoop in and sometimes rdscue the child, placing them into care.

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Now, Her Majesty's inspectors have been into Buckinghamshire County

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Council, had a look around and don't like what they saw.

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They said the service they are providing is inadequate.

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And the council concede that there are problems.

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My primary concern is around our staffing and havhng the

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right calibre and numbers of staff to deliver the quality of sdrvices

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that we must deliver for vulnerable children in Buckinghamshire.

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I don't intend to, because I have a plan to deliver.

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It is going to be very hard work and rigorous.

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In terms of why there may bd problems there, well,

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There's a shortage of resources and they are very stretched.

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They say they are having problems recruiting social workers

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at the moment and there is `n increasing caseload at the loment.

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More and more of us are reporting issues

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of child protection after rdcent high`profile cases in the mddia

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There are some good things that the council are doing.

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They say apparently social workers are very caring and are tryhng

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their best for the children who are at risk in Buckinghamshire,

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but this evening, I'm afraid, there are some big questions that the

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A conman from Swindon has bden jailed after being extraditdd back

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Christopher Baines set up a furniture store

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Sir to of fraud after peopld ordered goods which never arrived. `` he was

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charged with 54 counts of fraud There's a fresh warning abott the

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dangers of trespassing on r`ilway lines, as electrified tracks are

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laid in Wiltshire and Oxfordshire. There have been

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around than 1,600 reported cases of trespassing in

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our region in the past thred years. Network Rail says the

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the new lines are potentially more dangerous than existing ones.

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Sinead Carroll reports. She's only a schoolgirl,

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and, as if walking across these tracks in Milton Keynes

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wasn't shocking enough, she then does this.

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This trespassing case from last April isn't the only one.

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In the past three years there have been

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1600 cases of people walking across the lines in our region alone.

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Since April this year, that number is 174.

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British Transport Police sax half the cases they have dealt

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with across the UK involve teenagers between the ages of 15 and 25.

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Electrified train lines will reach Oxfordshire by 2016.

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Trains will be quieter, faster ` all great for commuters,

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but with the current in tracks of 650 volts, trespassing whll be

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even more deadly. They say, I will be OK,

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I know I can beat the train, I can hear it before it comds.

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Unfortunately, we know that is not true, with the number of de`ths

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and incidents in the last fdw years. Around 40 people are killed in train

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lines every year and that does not include sticides.

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It can have a devastating ilpact on train drivers.

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It can cause drivers to suffer stress.

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Many find it hard to sleep `t night. It affects their home life.

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So the impact can be far wider than perhaps the people who trespass

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can possibly think. Network Rail says people of all ages

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should respect the warnings, as once electrified the tracks are

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potentially even more dangerous Firefighters will begin eight days

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of strike action a midday tomorrow. There have been

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a series of walk`outs this xear as staff protest against pl`ns to

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change to their pensions. The Government says the deal is fair

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and that firefighters have one of the most generous pensions

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in the public sector. Repairs have started

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on a community centre in Swhndon when the crash happened yesterday,

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and the driver wasn't hurt. The front part

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of the building is being rebuilt Joanna Lumley, Bill Nighy and

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Alan Rickman are helping to tell the story of a church

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in the Costwolds. St Mary's in Fairford has the

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country's only complete set of medieval stained glass whndows

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to be housed in a church. There are 28 of them and

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after a painstaking restoration taking more than 23 years, ` new

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audio tape to explain their history behind them has been producdd.

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Here's Fiona Lamdin. The very careful shaping

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of the class and delicate ldading You will recognise Joanna Ltmley's

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voice but it is not her who is star This production is all

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about the glass... souls into its mouth by an hntake

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of its flaming breath.' 500 years ago to tell biblical

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stories to A subject worthy

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of the red`carpet treatment. A few years ago, Alan Rickm`n came

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to stay and I showed him around this church, looking at the magnhficent

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stained glass, and he fell hn love with it and out of his visit was

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born the idea of getting a number of very well`known actors to do

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a window each. It felt that with knowing

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the voice you knew the person and it made it sound friendly

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and authoritative at the sale time. When we heard about this new system,

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we thought it such a good idea we had to come and try it out

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for ourselves. Visitor numbers have doubled

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in the last week. The weather forecast for tonight and

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into the weekend. That is all from us. Good night.

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Hello and a very good evening to xou.

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We've had some spells of rain through this evening.

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A few more to come, maybe the odd downpour,

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but that rain is clearing through the course of the night, becoming

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Feeling a little fresher than recent nights.

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Saturday, first thing good brightness.

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A little on the breezy side perhaps but

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The clouds thickening into the afternoon.

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One or two showers, they might just line up,

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but equally you could dodge them altogether and enjoy some stnshine.

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Yellow weather warning in place come Sunday for an area

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of low pressure with some vdry heavy rain and strong wind, too

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Now it's time to take a look at your weather forecast.

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Good evening. We saw some torrential thunderstorms earlier today.

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Tomorrow looks like a better day for most places. It will go downhill

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into Sunday. This is heading our way. This is a couple of day's worth

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of satellite imagery. This is what was the hurricane. Moving from North

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America, heading towards the United Kingdom, pushed along by the jet

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stream. Heading towards the United Kingdom for Sunday. A lot of

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thunderstorms today. The worst was this afternoon and the evening over

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the north of

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